
The Cyberhaven CEO has built and sold two companies by noticing where enterprise software was heading. His latest bet is that protecting files is no longer enough when data travels through people, prompts, and autonomous agents.

Before AI could explain itself, someone had to explain the data beneath it. Philip Dutton spent two decades turning institutional spaghetti into a map people can question, test and trust.

For Abhi Sharma, the useful map is never the static one. From a college navigation experiment to Relyance AI's moving graph of enterprise data, his career has followed one question: can software reveal what people cannot see?

Varun Banka is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlan, the active metadata platform and data governance control plane trusted by 200+ enterprise customers across 50+ countries. Originally from Ranchi, India, Varun co-founded SocialCops with Prukalpa Sankar while studying at Nanyang Technological University - a data-for-social-good company that powered India's national data platform used by PM Modi and impacted over a billion lives. When their internal data tooling made their own team 6x more agile, they realized the world's data teams needed the same. Atlan was born, raised $105M Series C in May 2024 at a $750M valuation, and is now building what it calls the 'context layer for the AI-native enterprise.'