# Okera

> Okera built software to discover sensitive enterprise data, define fine-grained access policies, enforce them across analytics systems, and audit who used what. Founded in San Francisco in 2016, it won Capital One as an early named customer, expanded from data lakes to Snowflake and other cloud platforms, and was acquired by Databricks in May 2023 for an undisclosed price.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Amandeep Khurana (Co-founder and original CEO), Nong Li (Co-founder and CTO; later CEO)
- **Products:** Okera Active Data Access Platform, Okera Spotlight for AWS, Okera Dynamic Access Platform, Okera for Snowflake, Okera for Amazon EMR
- **Notable:** Named Capital One as an enterprise customer at its 2018 launch., Raised $29.6 million in announced funding by April 2020., Announced integrations or programs with Collibra, AWS and Snowflake.

## Products & services

- **Okera Active Data Access Platform** — Modular data access, catalog, schema, policy and audit services for fine-grained governance across heterogeneous data environments.
- **Okera Spotlight for AWS** — Data lake usage and access insights using S3 audit information, classification and a dashboard; introduced as a preview.
- **Okera Dynamic Access Platform** — Later branding for the core authorization platform, with dynamic policy enforcement, classification and sensitive-data usage intelligence.
- **Okera for Snowflake** — Announced SaaS edition packaged for Snowflake, with policy authoring, enforcement and auditing; announced for availability in 2022.
- **Okera for Amazon EMR** — Platform-specific edition to protect data stored on Amazon S3 and processed on Amazon EMR.

## Achievements

- Named Capital One as an enterprise customer at its 2018 launch.
- Raised $29.6 million in announced funding by April 2020.
- Announced integrations or programs with Collibra, AWS and Snowflake.
- Acquired by Databricks in May 2023 to strengthen its data and AI governance roadmap.

## Latest updates

- **2023-05** — Databricks announced its acquisition of Okera and plans to bring its governance technology and team into the Unity Catalog roadmap.
- **2022-10** — Nong Li discussed data preparation, access governance and de-identification in a public video interview.
- **2021-11** — Okera announced Okera for Snowflake and an Amazon EMR edition.

## Links

- Website: https://www.okera.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/okerainc
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/okerainc
- GitHub: https://github.com/okera
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/okerainc/

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