DTEX
Palo Alto, US · Founded 2002 · 7 known investors
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DTEX provides behavioral intelligence software that monitors and analyzes user activity across endpoints and applications to detect insider threats, data exfiltration, and AI-driven risks. The platform serves enterprise security teams seeking to identify malicious, negligent, or compromised user behavior before data loss occurs.
Also known as DTEX Systems
Founders & leadership
DTEX was founded in 2002 by Mohan Koo and Chris Hale.






Board

Investors · 7
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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$62.7M disclosed across 4 rounds · 2015–2020
- $17.5MraisedMay 2020 · 2 sourcesSource ↗
▶$20.7MraisedNov 2020 · 4 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Robert LentzDirector
- William Ronca IIIExecutive Officer
- Rajan KooExecutive Officer
- Jay ManniExecutive Officer
- Mohan Peng Aun KooExecutive Officer, Director
- Gaurav GargDirector
- Promod HaqueDirector
- Bahman MahbodExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $24.7M
- Amount sold
- $20.7M
- First sale
- Apr 2020
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$15.4MraisedSep 2017 · 18 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Bahman MahbodExecutive Officer
- Jeff WilliamsDirector
- Robert LentzDirector
- John RichardsonExecutive Officer
- Christy WyattExecutive Officer, Director
- Rajan KooExecutive Officer
- Promod HaqueDirector
- Gaurav GargDirector
- Mohan Peng Aun KooExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $21M
- Amount sold
- $15.4M
- First sale
- Dec 2015
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2014
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$9.1MraisedSep 2017 · 10 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Robert LentzDirector
- John RichardsonExecutive Officer
- Jeff WilliamsDirector
- Mohan Peng Aun KooExecutive Officer, Director
- Christy WyattExecutive Officer, Director
- Rajan KooExecutive Officer
- Gaurav GargDirector
- Bahman MahbodExecutive Officer
- Promod HaqueDirector
- Offering amount
- $12.5M
- Amount sold
- $9.1M
- First sale
- Apr 2017
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2014
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026DTEX (DTEX Systems) develops a unified security platform that addresses human, data and AI-related risk in enterprises. The platform is built around a behavioral intelligence engine that collects and correlates activity telemetry to surface risk indicators early, with the stated goal of preventing incidents rather than only alerting on them. Core product areas include insider risk management, which combines behavioral context, user activity monitoring (UAM) and visibility into how employees interact with data and AI systems; risk-adaptive data loss prevention, which pairs traditional data controls with behavioral risk signals and dynamically adjusts policies as user behavior, data sensitivity and risk change; and AI risk management, aimed at identifying and stopping risk arising from enterprise AI usage and agentic workflows.
Additional capabilities include an AI Risk Assistant that converts behavioral, data and AI signals into contextual investigative insights; a Triage Guardian agent that supports an autonomous multi-agent workflow with human-in-the-loop review to speed evaluation of security events; and a Threat Hunter agent that automates deep research hunts for risky behavior without manual query building. DTEX also markets a patented pseudonymization capability that strips personal identifiers from activity data to protect employee privacy and reduce inherent bias, and behavior analytics that use high-fidelity metadata and machine learning to consolidate activity across devices into a single risk score. Telemetry collection is organized around 12 human-driven activity groups captured continuously as more than 500 metadata elements.
Alongside its software, DTEX operates Insider Intelligence and Investigations (i³), a services and research group that provides investigation support, insider risk services, and published research and threat advisories, including work on state-linked insider threat activity.
Business model
DTEX sells an enterprise software platform, complemented by investigative and advisory services delivered through its i³ team. The company promotes consolidation of existing security tooling into one platform as a source of efficiency gains, and provides a value calculator to model the financial impact of unmanaged risk and potential return on investment; a Forrester Total Economic Impact study is offered to prospective customers to quantify deployment benefits.
Latest developments
Recent product emphasis is on AI-related risk: monitoring of all AI activities to reduce blind spots, human-AI risk intervention, risk-adaptive DLP, and agentic components such as the Triage Guardian and Threat Hunter agents. DTEX also sponsors the Ponemon 2026 Cost of Insider Risks Global Report, which reports a $19.5M total average annual cost of insider risk incidents, $8.2M in annual savings for companies with an insider risk management program, and an average of 7 incidents avoided.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market
Market position
The company describes itself as recognized as a leader and outperformer in insider risk management, a leader in data loss prevention, and an outperformer in user and entity behavioral analytics, and references analyst material including a Gartner Market Guide for Guardian Agents and a Forrester Total Economic Impact study.
DTEX positions its approach around behavioral intelligence and metadata-based visibility rather than isolated alerts, combining insider risk management, data loss prevention and AI activity monitoring in a single platform, with privacy-preserving pseudonymization and human-in-the-loop agentic investigation workflows.
Technology
A behavioral intelligence engine ingests unified activity telemetry across 12 human-driven activity groups, captured continuously as more than 500 metadata elements. Contextual enrichment and machine learning risk models correlate activities across devices into a single risk score and profile behavior across processes to detect more complex threats. A patented, privacy-by-design pseudonymization function removes personal identifiers from activity data. Agentic AI components (AI Risk Assistant, Triage Guardian, Threat Hunter) support investigation triage and automated threat hunting with human-in-the-loop oversight.
Go-to-market
DTEX markets directly to enterprise security buyers using research and thought-leadership content, including the Ponemon Cost of Insider Risks Global Report that it sponsors, case studies, guides, webinars and videos, and an ROI/value calculator. It also relies on an ecosystem of integrations and technology partnerships that connect the platform to customers' existing security stacks.
Enterprise organizations and security teams responsible for protecting sensitive data, monitoring employee and AI activity, and managing insider risk programs.
Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsDTEX states it is a leader and outperformer for insider risk management, a leader for data loss prevention, and an outperformer for user and entity behavioral analytics.
Platform capabilities marketed include Risk-Adaptive DLP, AI Risk Management, AI Risk Assistant, Triage Guardian Agent and Threat Hunter Agent alongside insider risk management.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 1
primary sources listed
- DTEXdtexsystems.com · web
1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does DTEX do?
- DTEX offers a risk-adaptive security platform unifying insider risk, data loss prevention and AI-activity monitoring.
- Who founded DTEX?
- DTEX was founded by Mohan Koo, Chris Hale in 2002.
- Who are DTEX's investors?
- DTEX's investors include CapitalG, Norwest Venture Partners, Defence Trailblazer, Escalate Capital Partners, Runway Growth Capital, Wing, Four Rivers Group.
- How much funding has DTEX raised?
- DTEX has disclosed $62.7M raised across 4 rounds.
- Where is DTEX headquartered?
- DTEX is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.








