Scuba
AcquiredYC W13Mountain View, US · Founded 2013 · 51 employees · 5 known investors
Behavure AI provides a behavioral intelligence platform for enterprises to monitor, explain, and control AI systems, agents, and LLMs in real time. The platform offers visibility into how AI systems make decisions across users, infrastructure, and data pipelines, addressing the AI black box problem through event-level intelligence and compliance governance.
Also known as Interana
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareAnalyticsBig DataData EngineeringData VisualizationPartly Remote
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W13)
Scuba was founded in 2013 by Ann Johnson, Bobby Johnson, Tony Ayaz, Chris Dolan, and Lior Abraham.
Investors · 5
The YC application· Winter 2013 batch
What they told YC
- What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
- The founders are building an analytics service with a web interface designed to answer large queries in seconds, positioned as a spreadsheet-like tool for very large datasets or a faster alternative to Hadoop for non-programmers.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
Competitors · 3
by search overlapNetezza50 shared keywordsIBM is a global technology company whose business spans enterprise software (including Red Hat, HashiCorp, and Confluent), IT infrastructure such as mainframes, servers, and storage, and IT consulting services. The company is also investing heavily in quantum computing and AI-based enterprise offerings, including its Lightwell open-source software security clearinghouse and the Anderon quantum wafer foundry.
Skytap34 shared keywordsKyndryl Cloud Uplift (formerly Skytap) migrates IBM Power workloads (AIX, IBM i) and x86 systems to Microsoft Azure without rewriting or refactoring applications, supporting data center exit, disaster recovery, and incremental modernization. It serves enterprises running legacy mission-critical systems, offering consumption-based Azure billing, high availability, and virtual IT labs for training and proofs of concept.
Atomic Object30 shared keywordsAtomic Object is a custom software development firm that designs and builds complex software products for clients, with projects typically running 3-18+ months and budgets from $50k to over $1 million.
Companies competing with Scuba for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Scuba do?
- Behavure AI provides a behavioral intelligence platform for enterprises to monitor, explain, and control AI systems, agents, and LLMs in real time. The platform offers visibility into how AI systems make decisions across users, infrastructure, and data pipelines, addressing the AI black box problem through event-level intelligence and compliance governance.
- Who founded Scuba?
- Scuba was founded by Ann Johnson, Bobby Johnson, Tony Ayaz, Chris Dolan, Lior Abraham in 2013.
- Who are Scuba's investors?
- Scuba's investors include Battery Ventures, DCVC (Data Collective), Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Wavemaker Partners.
- Where is Scuba headquartered?
- Scuba is headquartered in Mountain View, US.





