# Ohalo

> Ohalo is a London-headquartered enterprise software company whose Data X-Ray platform discovers, classifies, enriches, monitors and remediates unstructured files across cloud, on-premise and hybrid systems. Its bet is that documents, emails and shared-drive debris need a content-aware intelligence layer before organizations can secure them, satisfy regulators or safely use them in AI workflows.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** London, United Kingdom
- **Founders:** Kyle DuPont (Co-Founder and CEO), Alistair Jones (Co-Founder and CTO)
- **Team size:** 34 employees in supplied company data; LinkedIn lists 11-50 employees.
- **Products:** Data X-Ray, Discovery and Classification, Data Redaction and Remediation, AI Readiness, Data Access Governance and DSPM
- **Notable:** Selected in 2019 as one of eight companies from more than 200 applicants for the GCHQ/NCSC/Wayra cybersecurity program., In an HSE-linked project, processed 600,000 safety records in 1.4 days versus an estimated 12.5 years manually, with 99% accuracy reported by Discovering Safety., A formal early HSE evaluation found a 97% reduction in sensitive records while documenting residual risk and specific under-redaction failures.

## Products & services

- **Data X-Ray** — Enterprise platform for discovering, classifying, enriching, monitoring and remediating unstructured files across cloud, on-premise and hybrid sources.
- **Discovery and Classification** — Content and metadata scanning using rules, dictionaries, OCR, named-entity recognition, machine learning and large language models.
- **Data Redaction and Remediation** — Bulk redaction, archiving, migration, deletion and policy actions for sensitive files.
- **AI Readiness** — Relevance tagging, entitlements auditing, regulatory controls and unstructured ETL for data used in prompting, retrieval or fine-tuning.
- **Data Access Governance and DSPM** — Continuous visibility into file contents and permissions, with integrations that pass classification context into security and governance systems.

## Achievements

- Selected in 2019 as one of eight companies from more than 200 applicants for the GCHQ/NCSC/Wayra cybersecurity program.
- In an HSE-linked project, processed 600,000 safety records in 1.4 days versus an estimated 12.5 years manually, with 99% accuracy reported by Discovering Safety.
- A formal early HSE evaluation found a 97% reduction in sensitive records while documenting residual risk and specific under-redaction failures.
- Helped Suncor Energy automate discovery and classification across an estate of roughly 110 million files and multiple petabytes.
- Company-reported bank case study says Data X-Ray expanded from 19 million files to a 330-million-file scope and avoided $22 million in manual consulting costs.
- ISO 27001 certified, according to Ohalo.
- More than 950 million files secured, according to Ohalo's 2026 company page.

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — Ohalo and Collibra showcased Data X-Ray for unstructured-data governance at Data Citizens 2024 and described a reseller agreement.
- **2024-07** — Ohalo announced $3.5 million in growth capital from YFM Equity Partners and existing investors for global expansion.
- **2025-06** — Kyle DuPont framed Ohalo's strategy around the convergence of compliance, security and AI-era data access governance.
- **2025-09** — Ohalo published an updated Data X-Ray platform overview covering Discover, Classify, Monitor and Remediate modules.
- **2025-11** — Ohalo published expanded detail on a global-bank divestiture deployment that scanned more than 100 million files.
- **2026-06** — A BARC study sponsored by Ohalo examined unstructured data as infrastructure for AI innovation.

## Links

- Website: https://www.ohalo.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ohalo-limited
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ohalo_tech
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlieqFWIvp0

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Last updated: 2026-08-20