Scuba
AcquiredYC W13Mountain View, US · Founded 2013 · 51 employees · 5 known investors
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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.
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Ann JohnsoninCo-founder · Member Board of DirectorsAnn Johnson is co-founder and former CEO of Scuba Analytics (formerly Interana), which provides event data analytics and behavioral intelligence platforms. She previously worked as a product manager and integration engineer at Intel and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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Bobby JohnsoninFounder/CTO
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Tony AyazinCo-Founder (CEO)Tony Ayaz is co-founder and CEO of Scuba (formerly known as VoiceBrain), which builds operational intelligence platforms for enterprises. He previously held senior leadership roles at Splunk, Cisco, Zoomdata, Logi Analytics, BEA Systems, Oracle, Wily Technology, and CA, with experience in AI, data infrastructure, cybersecurity, and privacy-sensitive markets.
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Chris DolanCo-Founder (CTO)
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Lior AbrahaminFounder, Head of Product2013–2025Lior Abraham is founder and head of product at Scuba Analytics (formerly Scuba), a behavioral intelligence platform for AI monitoring and governance. He previously worked on large-scale data infrastructure and lived feed systems at Facebook.
Investors · 5
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountseed fundingApr 2020
Wavemaker Partners (lead)
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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 overlap
Netezza50 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.