“We hoped to solve one of the most pressing data security challenges facing the modern enterprise,” Krishnan told TechCrunch. “That is: identifying and securing business-critical information within structured and unstructured data, stored on-premises or in the cloud, at scale.”

The trio built an MVP and founded Concentric AI to further develop and commercialize it. Today, Concentric has customers in industrial manufacturing, insurance, and higher education, including car insurance carrier Hagerty and DeVry University.