Nira
5 known investors
Nira provides visibility and control over external access to company documents, allowing organizations to identify, manage, and automate the removal of external account access across shared documents and folders. The platform helps companies manage security risks associated with document collaboration at scale.
Founders & leadership
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Nira is a data access governance product that gives organizations visibility into and control over how files stored in cloud collaboration applications are shared. It integrates with cloud file applications including Google Drive, Microsoft 365 and Dropbox, and presents access permissions across large document sets in a single interface, where administrators can filter permissions, identify security risks, and update permissions on large numbers of documents at once.
The company frames the problem as the security risks created by link-based collaboration: organization-wide internal oversharing, standing third-party access by outside users, public links that expose files or SharePoint pages to anyone with the URL, personal-account access that survives standard employee offboarding processes, undetected downloading and copying of data by employees and third parties, and unassessed inbound documents. Beyond one-time remediation, Nira supports automated data access governance policies that run continuously in the background, and describes itself as an automated real-time access control system.
Founding story
Nira's founders state that the volume of company information spread across cloud applications has made it increasingly difficult to keep that information secure, and that they built Nira as an automated real-time access control system to give businesses visibility, management and control over access to company information.
Business model
Nira sells software to organizations, with website conversion routed through a demo request form requiring a work email address rather than self-serve sign-up.
Traction
Public customer testimonials come from IT and security leaders at SurveyMonkey, HackerOne, CoinDesk, Mixbook, EssenceMediacom, ProducePay, RapidSOS, SnapCare, Ampush, Sand Technologies, Ad Hoc, Energage, findhelp and StreamSets, with one customer describing bulk link-type changes across almost a million documents.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Nira competes in the data access governance and SaaS data security category serving IT and security teams that administer Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Dropbox environments.
Nira positions on breadth of permission visibility across multiple cloud file applications, speed of implementation, and the ability to remediate access at large scale — customers cite changing link types on close to a million documents within hours and one-click setup of ongoing automation. The company also emphasizes a formal compliance and security posture, including SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certification.
Technology
Nira connects to multiple cloud file applications and aggregates their access permissions into one interface, supporting bulk permission changes across large volumes of documents and automated policy enforcement. The service is hosted on US-based Amazon Web Services infrastructure; data is encrypted in transit with TLS v1.2 and at rest with AES-256, with additional layers of encryption for high-risk data. Servers and databases sit within a VPC with minimum access policies, employee access to AWS resources requires VPN and multi-factor authentication, and all access to systems is logged and audited. Nira runs daily automated container and application security scans, weekly package dependency security advisory scans, annual third-party penetration testing, security review of every code change, and maintains separate production and testing environments.
Go-to-market
Nira markets directly to IT and security leaders through demo requests on its website and publishes customer testimonials from IT, security and engineering managers describing implementation speed and remediation at scale.
IT, security and compliance teams at companies of varying sizes that use cloud collaboration suites such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Dropbox. Named users in customer testimonials include SurveyMonkey, Mixbook, EssenceMediacom, ProducePay, HackerOne, RapidSOS, SnapCare, Ampush, Sand Technologies, CoinDesk, Ad Hoc, Energage, findhelp and StreamSets.
Geography
The Nira team has been fully remote since the company's founding and is distributed globally. Customer data is hosted in US-based AWS facilities, and the company offers EU and UK Data Processing Addenda for GDPR purposes.
History
Nira was founded by Hiten Shah and Marie Prokopets, who serve as CEO and COO respectively, with Steve Cox as CTO. The team has operated as a 100% remote, globally distributed organization since day one. The company has since obtained SOC 2 Type 2 certification across the Security, Availability and Confidentiality trust service criteria with annual audits, and ISO 27001 certification.
Risks & controversies
Nira maintains a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement for customers supplying regulated health data and is GDPR compliant as a data processor, with a documented policy set covering areas such as data classification, data deletion, incident response, business continuity, disaster recovery and vendor management.
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Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsNira states it has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification for the Security, Availability and Confidentiality trust service criteria, audited annually, and has also attained ISO 27001 certification.
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In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Nira do?
- Nira is a data access governance platform for managing file permissions across Google Drive, Microsoft 365 and Dropbox.
- Who founded Nira?
- Nira was founded by Marie Prokopets.
- Who are Nira's investors?
- Nira's investors include A.Capital Ventures, Aviso Ventures, Decibel Partners, Earl Grey Capital, Energize Capital.