# Essert Inc.

> Essert Inc. is a Silicon Valley software company that builds a Declarative AI platform to automate cybersecurity, privacy, and AI-governance compliance for enterprises. Founded in 2022 by a team of serial entrepreneurs, Essert helps publicly traded companies and regulated organizations navigate frameworks like the SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules, CCPA/CPRA, and emerging AI regulation - auto-generating policies, running materiality and risk assessments, monitoring controls, and producing audit-ready disclosure reports.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, California, United States
- **Founders:** DV Subramanyam Dronamraju (Co-Founder & CEO), JC Reddy (Co-Founder & CTO), Brad Hammer (Co-Founder & CPO)
- **Team size:** ~9 employees
- **Products:** SEC Cybersecurity Rules Compliance, AI Governance, Privacy Compliance, Security Controls Assurance, Declarative AI Platform
- **Notable:** Founding team credited with building India's first antivirus product, Team reports three prior successful startup exits, Developed a Declarative AI engine for generating enterprise applications

## Products & services

- **SEC Cybersecurity Rules Compliance** — Tools to meet the SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules - incident materiality assessments, disclosure automation, tabletop exercises, and audit-ready regulatory reporting.
- **AI Governance** — Automated Responsible AI (RAI) scoring, continuous monitoring of AI systems, customizable governance guardrails, AI risk scoring, and portfolio-management dashboards.
- **Privacy Compliance** — CCPA/CPRA, India DPDP, UAE PDPL, South Africa POPIA and other privacy frameworks, including DSAR processing, consent management, and a consent warehouse.
- **Security Controls Assurance** — Continuous monitoring, testing, mapping and assurance of security controls against frameworks like NIST 800-53, ISO 27001 and SOC 2, with executive dashboards and compliance reports.
- **Declarative AI Platform** — The underlying engine that auto-generates enterprise apps, policies and assessments from declarative rules - the technology that powers Essert's compliance products.

## Achievements

- Founding team credited with building India's first antivirus product
- Team reports three prior successful startup exits
- Developed a Declarative AI engine for generating enterprise applications
- Built one of the early platforms purpose-built for SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule compliance

## Latest updates

- **2024-06** — Expanded into AI Governance with automated Responsible AI scoring and continuous monitoring of AI systems.
- **2023-09** — Reported a Series A / seed-stage raise as it built out SEC cybersecurity compliance tooling.
- **2023-07** — Focused product on the SEC's new Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules, including incident materiality assessment and disclosure automation.

## Links

- Website: https://essert.io
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/essert
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NoDataBreach
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/NoDataBreach

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Last updated: 2026-07-12