# Rohan Sathe

> Rohan Sathe is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nightfall AI, the AI-native data loss prevention platform built for the modern enterprise. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and nationally ranked chess player, Sathe co-founded Nightfall in 2018 after leading backend engineering at Uber Eats, where managing petabytes of sensitive data across fragmented SaaS systems exposed the deep inadequacy of legacy DLP tools. Nightfall has raised $60.3M in total funding and is redefining how enterprises protect sensitive data across SaaS apps, endpoints, browsers, and AI workflows.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Nightfall AI
- **Organizations:** Nightfall AI, Uber Eats (Uber), Voxer
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** High School Diploma, Lynbrook High School, Bachelor's Degree, University of California, Davis, Continuing Studies, Stanford University (SCPD)
- **Known for:** Forbes 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology (2020), Nationally ranked chess player, Co-founded Nightfall AI, raising $60.3M total funding (Series A + Series B)

## Career timeline

- **2014-2015** — Software Engineer at Voxer
- **2015-2017** — Founding Engineer at Uber Eats, building backend ML services for ETA prediction and supply/demand forecasting; helped scale UberEats to $7B revenue and 200+ engineers
- **2018** — Co-founded Nightfall AI (initially Watchtower AI) with Isaac Madan
- **2019** — Nightfall emerged from stealth on November 7 with $20.3M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures and Venrock
- **2020** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology alongside co-founder Isaac Madan
- **2022** — Nightfall raised $40M Series B (August 2022)
- **2024-2025** — Launched Nightfall Nyx, the industry's first autonomous AI-native DLP platform with 95% precision; transitioned to CEO role

## Achievements

- Forbes 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology (2020)
- Nationally ranked chess player
- Co-founded Nightfall AI, raising $60.3M total funding (Series A + Series B)
- Built Nightfall Nyx - described as industry-first autonomous AI-native DLP platform achieving 95% detection precision
- Helped scale Uber Eats from founding to $7B revenue and 200+ engineers as a founding engineer
- Led Nightfall AI to $35.2M annual revenue with 78 employees
- Appeared on CISO Series podcast and The Artificial Intelligence Podcast

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Featured in Unite.AI interview series discussing AI-native DLP and Nightfall Nyx launch
- **2025** — Transitioned to CEO role at Nightfall AI, stepping up from Co-Founder & CTO
- **2024-2025** — Launched Nightfall Nyx, described as industry's first autonomous AI-native DLP platform achieving 95% detection precision
- **2022-08** — Nightfall AI raised $40M Series B round, bringing total funding to $60.3M

## Links

- Website: https://nightfall.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rssathe

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