Today, Securiti is being acquired by Veeam Software for $1.725 billion, to accelerate safe enterprise AI at scale. Together, they will help organizations understand, secure, recover, and unleash the value of all data for AI – that no other company can provide in a unified way.
Congratulations to Rehan Jalil and the entire Securiti team on this milestone! We have backed Rehan three times over 18 years, and this is his third successful company building journey, which is a rare hat-trick.
In 2007, I met Rehan for the first time. We partnered on his first company, WiChorus (acquired by Tellabs in 2009). We co-created his second, Elastica in 2012 (acquired by Blue Coat in 2015). And in 2017, when he explored multiple ideas with us and finally pitched us the idea behind Securiti, a unified platform that provides intelligence and key controls around all enterprise data, we funded it within a few seconds.
I’ve had a front-row seat to Rehan’s company-building journey, and the lessons are worth sharing. At Mayfield, the best investments aren’t in companies. They’re in people, and we love co-creating with serial entrepreneurs. Companies go up and down. Some founders will have huge wins, others will learn hard lessons. But once you form a relationship, it’s forever. That’s what it’s been with Rehan.
In this video, we discuss:
