# DataBahn

> DataBahn is an AI-powered, security-native data pipeline and fabric platform that helps enterprises collect, enrich, orchestrate and optimize telemetry across security, observability, application and IoT/OT systems. Its agentic products - Cruz, Reef and Phantom agents - automate data engineering work, cut noise and reduce SIEM/telemetry costs by more than 50% while preserving visibility for security and IT teams.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** Plano, Texas, United States
- **Founders:** Nanda Santhana (Co-Founder & CEO), Nithya Nareshkumar (Co-Founder & President)
- **Team size:** ~100 employees
- **Products:** DataBahn Platform, Cruz, Reef (Data Reef), Phantom Agents
- **Notable:** Raised $17M Series A led by Forgepoint Capital in June 2025 (total funding ~$19M)., Reports helping customers cut SIEM/telemetry processing costs by more than 50%., Reports automating 80%+ of customers' data engineering workloads.

## Products & services

- **DataBahn Platform** — An AI-powered, security-native data pipeline and fabric platform with 500+ connectors that collects, enriches, orchestrates and optimizes telemetry across security, observability, application and IoT/OT systems.
- **Cruz** — An agentic AI 'data-engineer-in-a-box' that automates log discovery, onboarding, normalization, transformation, optimization and operational monitoring, and detects issues like schema drift.
- **Reef (Data Reef)** — An AI insight layer built on an MCP server that filters, contextualizes and prioritizes high-volume telemetry in real time, enables federated search, and writes to enterprise-owned data lakes.
- **Phantom Agents** — Agentless telemetry collectors that gather data without deploying traditional agents, avoiding footprint bloat and preserving compute resources.

## Achievements

- Raised $17M Series A led by Forgepoint Capital in June 2025 (total funding ~$19M).
- Reports helping customers cut SIEM/telemetry processing costs by more than 50%.
- Reports automating 80%+ of customers' data engineering workloads.
- Launched Cruz, described as the industry's first agentic AI 'data-engineer-in-a-box'.
- Launched Data Reef, an industry-first MCP-based AI insight layer for security data.
- Built a platform with 500+ out-of-the-box connectors.

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Raised $17M Series A led by Forgepoint Capital with S3 Ventures and GTM Capital to expand its AI-driven data pipeline platform and agentic roadmap.
- **2025-04** — Unveiled Data Reef, an MCP-server-based AI insight layer that turns raw telemetry into context-aware security intelligence.
- **2025** — Launched Cruz, an agentic AI data-engineer-in-a-box, and Phantom agentless collectors.

## Links

- Website: https://databahn.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/databahn-ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@databahn-ai

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Last updated: 2026-07-21