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The Company That Tried to Put One Lock on Every Data Door
Okera sold a deceptively simple idea: write the rule for sensitive data once, then make it follow the data everywhere. Databricks bought the company in 2023, just as AI made the old permission problem larger and stranger.
AI One
AI One is a New York-based enterprise software company that builds an Enterprise Context Management (ECM) platform - a lightweight layer that sits beneath enterprise AI and agentic applications. Rather than forcing companies to migrate data into a new lake or warehouse first, AI One connects directly to the systems large organizations already run (Salesforce, Workday, on-premise databases, APIs and documents), resolves entities across fragmented data, and enforces security and permissions so AI operates with real business context instead of guessing. Founded in 2024 by Conor Twomey and Fergus Keenan, the company targets Fortune 500 firms in financial services, healthcare, insurance, energy and private equity, and raised $11M total including a $7M Series A led by Vestigo Ventures.