Founders
Damien Toledo
Jim Bugwadia
Ritesh Patel
Co-Investors
Dallas Venture Capital
Dreamit Ventures
Uncorrelated Ventures
Z5 Capital
Angels*
Nirmata provides an AI Platform Engineer that helps teams overcome complex DevSecOps challenges with policy as code. Purpose-built for engineers, Nirmata is also the creator of Kyverno, the open-source Kubernetes policy engine which has over 3.2 billion downloads.
About 99% of cloud failures are chalked up to misconfigurations, says Gartner. Nirmata’s AI agents are designed to automatically detect, remediate, and prevent misconfigurations and continuously manage compliance. It also simplifies governance, ensures compliance, mitigates risk, and accelerates secure innovation. Its dossier of clients includes Yahoo!, Bloomberg, LinkedIn, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, RazorPay, Robinhood, Duke Energy, and Coinbase.
Headquartered in California, Nirmata was founded by Jim Bugwadia, Ritesh Patel and Damien Toledo.
Jim, Ritesh, and Damien are seasoned leaders in enterprise operations and telecom software, with experience at Cisco, Trapeze Networks, Pano Logic, Jetstream, Lucent Bell Labs, Brocade, Nortel, Meru Networks, and Motorola. Together, they bring decades of experience leading engineering teams in startups and large-scale organizations.
*Angel investors: Bill Heil, BV Jagdeesh, Saqib Syed, and others.