A Cloud Hacker and Cloud Defender Come Together

Built For Engineers. Built by Security Experts

Vast majority of security products are made for security experts. These products assume the users have knowledge of security or the user will spend a ton of time learning. Engineers don't have a lot of free time. Their KPI is about shipping features. This is the disconnect we saw in the industry. Kloudle automates away all the grunt work eliminating toil and hence saving time. It does all the heavy lifting of using our extensive security experience in the background, so that secure cloud accounts don't require hundreds of hours of tribal knowledge but is a simpe workflow to be adopted.

Founders
Akash Mahajan - Founder & CEO of Kloudle

Akash Mahajan

Founder & CEO

Leads product development and global sales at Kloudle. He is committed to making Kloudle the best of the best. Akash is passionate about chess, reading science fiction and trying out exotic teas.

Riyaz Walikar - Founder  & Chief Hacker

Riyaz Walikar

Founder & Chief Hacker

Takes care of all research and development for each and every cloud provider Kloudle supports. Riyaz is passionate about photography, space and science fiction.

Akash & Riyaz have 35+ man years of experience of hacking into cloud accounts and guiding teams on security. All of that experience has been poured into the product.

In 2016, Riyaz and I started a cyber security services business focusing on the security of Apps and APIs hosted in the public cloud. We saw a repeated pattern, our customers' cloud accounts were badly configured and vulnerable to hackers while their apps and APIs were designed to withstand hacks. It became clear that application security has made rapid strides in the previous decade, cloud security hasn't kept up.

Initially, we figured that we could solve this by offering more services. Even then we were building for security teams. While this makes sense there are two truths we uncovered on this journey. First, there are nearly not enough security folks in the world today, let alone for the coming decade. Some estimates say 3 Million folks are needed. Almost in all teams who manage public cloud are engineering teams and security folks are at most advisors.

The public cloud opportunity is just about to take off πŸš€. From current usage of about $268 Billion per year it is likely to go up to $1.2 Trillion by 2030! It became clear to us that if we ever hope to scale, we need to build the product for engineering teams who take care of cloud infra for their teams.

Some call themselves Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), DevOps (Developer Operations),platform engineers. and cloud admins.

Whatever is the role they identify themselves they need a product that has embedded security experience and best practices and will integrate with their workflow. There is a common misconception that this should only be done by shifting left. The truth is humans err, so while building security in at the early stage of development is useful we need to ensure that whatever is running in production is as secure as it was when it was first setup. This is what Kloudle does for engineers.

Meet The Kloudlers
Sandeep Medisetty - Sales Leader at Kloudle

Sandeep Medisetty

Sales Leader

Sandeep brings over 8 years of sales experience for global technology and SaaS companies. He is entrepreneurial and enjoys building repeatable, scalable revenue engines for businesses

Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan - Board Member at Kloudle

Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan

Board Member

Thiyagarajan (Rajan) is co-founder & Managing Partner at Upekkha, a SaaS Accelerator where he has worked with over 100 early stage startups. He was a product leader at Intuit where he worked on Quickbooks Online. He is an alumnus of IIIT-H.

Professional Credentials

Kloudle has the top certifications from the industry

The only cloud security SaaS that automates visibility and security process automation.

Kloudle is SOC2 certified.
Center for Internet Security CIS Membership
We are certified OSCP
We are certified CKA and CKAD

Values guiding us 🧭

Our core values that we live and breathe everyday.

  • πŸ‘‰ Genchi Genbutsu

    Go see for yourself. We go to the real place and see for ourselves. Everything we build, share we have tried ourselves.

  • πŸ‘‰ Own our truth

    We don’t pretend what we are not. We share authentically, what we are and what we are not.

  • πŸ‘‰ Work Life balance

    Health > Family > Job.
    When you are healthy and your family is taken care of you will do your best at work.

  • πŸ‘‰ Relentless Incremental Improvements

    We release early, we release often. Incrementally improving every single day.

  • πŸ‘‰ Customer Centric

    We solve for our customers needs. In a growing market we don't need to worry too much about the competition, just yet.

Our Supporters

Supported by the most incredible ecosystem

Upekkha Startup Accelerator
Kube VC is a global venture firm that backs exceptional founders and category-defining businesses.
Google for Startups
AWS Activate Program for Startups
Founder Friendly Labs (FFL) is the equity-free startup accelerator for experienced professionals

Remote from the start

Kloudle started in the middle of the pandemic. Some of the team members haven't met in real life ever. But the rapport and the bonding is strong. Everyone appreciates the freedom that comes with working remotely while taking their resposibilities seriously and staying accountable. While we build a product our customers will put their trust in, our team do so daily.

Kloudle remote team over zoom

Your team's cloud security powered by Kloudle

Built by security experts for modern engineering teams. Cloud-native, serverless, 2x coverage of misconfigurations. AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, Kubernetes, GitHub Teams, Cloudflare, Mongo Cloud supported.

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