Bedrockdata

Bedrock Data (operating company Bedrock Labs, Inc., d/b/a Bedrock Data; also referred to as 'Bedrock Security' in earlier and some ongoing press materials) is a Menlo Park, California-based cybersecurity startup building an AI-native data security and governance platform. It should not be confused with the earlier, unrelated company also called 'Bedrock Data' — a Boston-based cloud data-integration/CRM-sync startup founded around 2012 that raised a ~$3.11M Series A (reported by FinSMEs in April 2015) and was later acquired. Note: the research task brief suggested that older company was 'acquired by Aptean in 2018,' but independent cross-referencing here (Owler and Crunchbase) instead found that the older Bedrock Data was acquired by Formstack, LLC (around 2019) and its product was rebranded 'Formstack Sync' — this contradicts the Aptean claim, and neither acquirer detail could be triple-confirmed with a primary source in this session, so readers should treat the old company's acquirer with some caution, but in any case it is clearly a distinct, unrelated entity from the .ai company profiled here (different HQ - Boston vs. Menlo Park/Silicon Valley; different founding era - 2012 vs. ~2022; different product - CRM/marketing data sync vs. AI-era DSPM/data security; different domain - the old company used bedrockdata.com-style branding pre-dating the modern bedrockdata.ai site).

The modern Bedrock Data was co-founded by Pranava Adduri (CTO), who according to a professional profile (theorg.com) has been 'Co-Founder and CTO at Bedrock Security since January 2022' and previously was a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services, a founding engineer/engineering manager at Rubrik, Inc. (data protection), and — notably — an Entrepreneur in Residence at Greylock immediately before founding the company, which is the direct link to Greylock's 'incubation' of the business. Adduri holds a BS and MS in Computer Science/Industrial Engineering from UC Berkeley. Co-founder Ganesha Shanmuganathan (Chief Architect) previously was a Principal Engineer/Senior Technical Director at Cohesity (scale-out file systems) and a Staff Engineer at VMware (distributed resource scheduling); he holds over 50 USPTO patents and has pursued an MS in Computer Science at UT Dallas. Bruno Kurtic joined as the third co-founder and as President & CEO; per Crunchbase, Kurtic has held the 'Co-Founder, President, and CEO' role at Bedrock Data 'since July 23, 2024' — i.e., several months after the company's March 2024 seed announcement (at which time SiliconANGLE and FinSMEs reporting identified Pranava Adduri as CEO and co-founder). This indicates a leadership transition in mid-2024 in which Kurtic (a well-known industry figure, previously Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Sumo Logic, holding an MBA from MIT and a BS in Quantitative Methods/Computer Science from the University of St. Thomas) took over as CEO while Adduri moved to CTO. All three (Kurtic, Adduri, Shanmuganathan) are listed as 'Co-founders' on the company's official 'Who We Are' page as of mid-2026. A crowd-sourced org chart (theorg.com) also lists a 'Former Executives (6 people)' bucket, consistent with turnover during this period, and separately lists Dj Patil (former U.S. Chief Data Scientist under the Obama administration) associated with the company's org chart, though his exact current role (likely advisor) could not be independently confirmed from a primary source.

Bedrock launched publicly in March 2024 alongside a $10 million seed round led by Greylock Partners (announced March 26-27, 2024, reported by SiliconANGLE and FinSMEs), introducing an 'AI Reasoning Engine' (AIR) for automated, non-rules-based data classification aimed at preventing sensitive/regulated data and IP from leaking into generative AI and RAG pipelines. The company (then branded 'Bedrock Security') was named a finalist in the RSA Conference 2024 Innovation Sandbox competition and was featured by Cyber Defense Magazine at Black Hat USA 2024 ('Publisher's Spotlight: Bedrock Security,' Aug 2024) and shortlisted as an SC Awards 2024 finalist in the 'Most Promising Early-Stage Start-Up' category. In April 2025 the company appointed George Gerchow — a security veteran with roughly nine years as CSO/SVP IT at Sumo Logic (where he helped lead Sumo Logic's IPO and FedRAMP authorization) and prior experience as interim CISO at MongoDB and founder of VMware's Center for Policy & Compliance — as its own Chief Security Officer. Around March 2025 the company debuted its 'Metadata Lake' technology publicly, and through 2025 it announced product/GTM partnerships with cloud/security vendors including Sysdig (July 2025, bringing Bedrock's agentless data-security findings into Sysdig's CNAPP/Secure), and integrations referenced with Wiz and Panther. The company also began rebranding from 'Bedrock Security' to 'Bedrock Data' during 2025-2026 (its website, press boilerplate and legal d/b/a now read 'Bedrock Data,' though some 2025 press quotes still refer to Bruno Kurtic as 'CEO of Bedrock Security').

Business model

B2B SaaS / enterprise software sold to security, data and governance teams; agentless platform deployed into customer cloud/SaaS/on-prem environments (analyzes data in place rather than ingesting it), with API-first and MCP/GraphQL integrations into SIEM, DLP, CNAPP and AI/agent platforms.

Enterprise subscription/license (DSPM and AI-governance platform), plus co-sell/technology partnerships (e.g., with Snowflake, Sysdig, Wiz, Panther) and a limited free tier ('Bedrock Free for Snowflake').