Eliminating Data Breaches in the Modern Data + AI Stack
Our mission is to enable modern data teams to innovate without compromising on the security and access governance of the enterprise data. The Acante platform provides unified data security observability, access intelligence, and multi-platform data access privilege management for data lakes and warehouses.
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Our Mission

Our mission is to enable modern data teams to innovate without compromising on the security and access governance of the enterprise data.
Our Values
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Empathy
We operate with empathytowards our fellow teammates, our partners and key stakeholders. We seek tounderstand before looking to be understood
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Integrity
We have an unwavering commitment to be truthful and accountable and always operate with transparency.
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Bold Thinking
We challenge ourselves to think big, take risks in the face of uncertainty and continuously innovate as we look to reshape the security industry.
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Collaboration
We follow our convictions and have a bias for action – but strive to collaborate with humility to rapidly adapt and iterate to the right outcome.
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Growth Mindset
We embrace failure as an opportunity to grow and face challenges with relentless perseverance and grit to achieve our goals.
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Customers First
We care intensely about the success of our customers and put them at the center of everything we do.
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Integrity
We have an unwavering commitment to be truthful and accountable and always operate with transparency.
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Growth Mindset
We embrace failure as an opportunity to grow and face challenges with relentless perseverance and grit to achieve our goals.
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Customers First
We care intensely about the success of our customers and put them at the center of everything we do.
Leadership Team
Uday Srinivasan
Founder
Hale Winston
Team Leader
Arden Waverly
Founder
Arden Waverly
Founder
Arden Waverly
Founder
Leadership Team
Arden Waverly
Founder
Hale Winston
Team Leader
Arden Waverly
Founder
Arden Waverly
Founder
Arden Waverly
Founder
Ranga Rangachari
Co-founder, CEO
Uday Srinivasan
Co-founder, Head of Technology
Abhishek Das
Co-founder, Head of Engineering
Ranga Rangachari
Co-founder, CEO
Abhishek Das
Co-founder, Head of Engineering
Dhruv Jain
Co-founder, Head of Product
Advait Dixit
Co-founder, Lead Architect
Dhruv Jain
Co-founder, Head of Product
Advait Dixit
Co-founder, Lead Architect
Nora Denzel
Advisor
Leadership Team
Uday Srinivasan
Founder
Hale Winston
Team Leader
Arden Waverly
Founder
Arden Waverly
Founder
Arden Waverly
Founder
Leadership Team
Arden Waverly
Founder
Hale Winston
Team Leader
Arden Waverly
Founder
Arden Waverly
Founder
Arden Waverly
Founder
Ranga Rangachari
Co-founder, CEO
Uday Srinivasan
Co-founder, Head of Technology
Abhishek Das
Co-founder, Head of Engineering
Dhruv Jain
Co-founder, Head of Product
Advait Dixit
Co-founder, Lead Architect
Ranga Rangachari
Co-founder, CEO
Abhishek Das
Co-founder, Head of Engineering
Dhruv Jain
Co-founder, Head of Product
Advait Dixit
Co-founder, Lead Architect
Dhruv Jain
Co-founder, Head of Product
Advait Dixit
Co-founder, Lead Architect
Nora Denzel
Advisor

Investors

We have partnered with leading Silicon Valley investors, CISOs and advisors that can help us grow, think differently and tackle our mission with clarity and purpose.
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Advisors

We have partnered with leading Silicon Valleyinvestors, AI leaders, CISOs and advisors that are helping us grow, thinkdifferently and tackle our mission with clarity and purpose.
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Business Advisors

Nora Denzel
Advisor
Nora M. Denzel is a retired Silicon Valley technology executive. She is the Lead Independent Director of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD). She also serves on the boards of Gen Digital (NASDAQ: GEN) and the non-profit National Association of Corporate Directors. Prior, she has served on the boards of Ericsson (member of the Technology Committee), SUSE(Compensation Committee Chair), Talend (Compensation Committee Chair) and Redbox’s parent company Outerwall (Compensation Committee Chair).  Before transitioning to board work, she was the interim CEO of Redbox (Outerwall) and held several C-Suite positions in technology companies which encompassed leading big data, consulting, enterprise software and storage businesses.
Jim Whitehurst
Advisor
Jim Whitehurst served as president of IBM until July of this 2021. Prior to IBM, Whitehurst was president and CEO of Red Hat. At Red Hat, Whitehurst grew the company to be the first multi-billion revenue open source software company and led the landmark acquisition of Red Hat by IBM for $34 billion in 2019. Under his leadership, Red Hat was named to Forbes’ World’s Most Innovative Companies list, and Barron’s named him one of the World’s Best CEOs.He currently serves as Special Advisor at Silver Lake and a Senior Advisor to The Boston Consulting Group. He is a member of the Board of Directors of United Airlines, Software AG, Tanium, and Amplitude. He also sits on the Board of Trustees of Rice University and the board of The Conservation Fund.
Alan Boehme
Advisor
Alan has held multiple positions in his career such as H&M Group CTO ,  Global CTO, VP of IT Services & VP IT Innovation at Procter & Gamble, and previously held numerous senior leadership positions in Global 1000 organizations in the areas of information technology and innovation at ING, DHL and Coca Cola, including his role as Global CTO.
Nora Denzel
Advisor
Jim Whitehurst
Advisor
Alan Boehme
Advisor
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