Matters.AI, an AI-native data security company, has raised ₹55 crore in its seed funding round. The ₹42 crore seed round was co-led by Kalaari Capital and Endiya Partners, with participation from Better Capital, Carya Venture Partners, and leading cybersecurity angels. The earlier ₹13 crore pre-seed round was led by Better Capital and Carya Venture Partners.
The funds raised will be used to accelerate R&D in predictive detection, expand go-to-market operations in India and the US, and strengthen engineering and customer success teams serving regulated industries under the DPDP framework.
Founded in 2024 by Keshava Murthy and Harsh Sahu, Matters is an AI-native data security platform that thinks like an AI Security Engineer. It protects sensitive data wherever it lives or travels, across Cloud, SaaS, Endpoints, and On-Prem systems. By combining semantic intelligence, behavioral context, and real-time enforcement, Matters doesn’t just flag issues. It understands what your data means, who’s interacting with it, and why. It detects threats in motion and stops them before they become incidents.
Tt unifies DSPM, insider risk, data detection and response, exfiltration defense, and DLP into one intelligent layer that sees, understands, and secures what matters most.
Keshava Murthy, CEO & Co-Founder, Matters.AI, said, “India has built rockets, payments, and software for the world, now we’re building to protect it. The world doesn’t need another dashboard screaming alerts; it needs a system that can think. That’s Matters.AI, the AI Security Engineer that never sleeps.”
Harsh Sahu, CTO & Co-Founder, Matters.AI, said, “Our system ‘reasons’ like a human engineer, learning from how people and data interact, predicting misuse, and responding autonomously.”
Sateesh Andra, Managing Director, Endiya Partners, said, “Security teams tell us their biggest gap is between visibility and enforcement. Matters unifies discovery, lineage, and intent-aware controls into a single policy plane so organisations can prevent data exfiltration across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and AI tools—while cutting alert noise. We’re delighted to co-lead this round with Kalaari Capital, and back Keshava, Harsh, and Dhiraj as they execute on this AI-native architecture.”
Sampath, Partner, Kalaari Capital, said, “As privacy regulations tighten worldwide and AI adoption accelerates, enterprises face an urgent need for intelligent, autonomous data protection. Matters.AI is building the control layer for this new reality, a system that learns, adapts, and secures data while ensuring continuous compliance in an AI-driven world.”
