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Laminar found the cloud data everyone forgot
A forgotten database can be a perfectly useful copy and a perfectly dreadful liability. Laminar built a business around finding it, then joined Rubrik to connect that knowledge with recovery.
Lepide Turns Permission Sprawl Into a Shorter To-Do List
The British cybersecurity company spent two decades turning raw change logs into answers. Now it is betting that permissions cleanup - not another wall of alerts - is what lean security teams will pay for.
Theom
Theom is a San Jose-based data security company building what it calls an AI-native Data Operations Center - a platform that discovers, classifies, tracks and protects enterprise data across cloud data lakes, warehouses, SaaS and generative-AI environments. Rather than guarding infrastructure or access alone, Theom takes a data-first approach: it maps who can touch which data, scores the financial value and risk of that data, detects breach behavior mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, and enforces policy in real time. Founded in December 2020 by former Cisco/Tetration and Google engineers, it raised a $20M Series A in May 2025 led by Wing VC with strategic backers Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures and SentinelOne's S Ventures, and counts Fiserv, Grammarly, Tradeweb and JetBlue among its customers.