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Sravish Sridhar

Founder of TrustCloud

Greater Boston

Overview 

Sravish Sridhar is the CEO and Founder of TrustCloud, where he focuses on helping CISOs translate security into business impact with observable GRC. With a background in software development and entrepreneurship, he has successfully founded and led multiple startups, including Kinvey, which was acquired by Progress. Sridhar's career highlights include founding and leading successful startups, such as Kinvey, and his current role as the CEO of TrustCloud, where he aids CISOs in connecting security practices to business outcomes through observable GRC.

Work Experience 

  • Founder and CEO

    2020 - Current

    TrustCloud is the AI platform for GRC Transformation. We deliver Observable GRC for CISOs in 1000+ companies all over the world. We are growing quickly (3x YoY consistently), have a fantastic ecosystem of #CustomersForLife (very low churn, >120% NRR), and a passionate team committed to making it effortless for businesses to earn trust.

TrustCloud turns GRC into a profit center with AI to complete security questionnaires & programmatic compliance automation.

Raised $22,000,000.00 from OpenView and Tola Capital.

  • Angel Investor / Advisor

    2010 - 2024

  • VP and General Manager, Kinvey

    2017 - 2018

    Helped Global 2000 enterprises think through and implement their digital transformation strategies on our platform. They delivered numerous business-critical mobile, web, tablet, wearable, bot and IoT apps on the only open, full-stack JavaScript platform that was rated the leader by Gartner and Forrester. Deep expertise and customer network in healthcare, life sciences, and insurance verticals.

Progress is a global software company that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business applications.

Raised $400,000,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates.

  • Founder/CEO Kinvey (Acquired by Progress)

    2011 - 2017

    Kinvey was successfully acquired by Progress in 2017, generating significant returns for all our investors and employees. We invented and coined the term Backend as a Service at Kinvey. Our BaaS was used by 10s of 1000s of developers and global enterprises to power mission-critical web, mobile and tablet applications, and we were rated as the #1 product in "The Forrester Wave" for both - Mobile Development Platforms and Enterprise Health Cloud. Our customers were spread across a range of vertical markets, including healthcare, pharma, insurance, manufacturing, energy and construction. We raised capital from institutional VCs (Avalon Ventures and Accomplice) and strategic investors (Salesforce, Verizon, VMware and NTT)

Kinvey is a BaaS provider that makes it easy for developers to set up, use, and operate a cloud back-end for their mobile apps.

Raised $17,892,000.00 from Avalon Ventures, Verizon Ventures, Atlas Venture and NTT DOCOMO Ventures.

  • Co-founder and President

    2008 - 2014

    We Flap is a social non-profit business aimed at creating a vibrant online philanthropic community to learn about, interact with and help Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) across the world.

  • Cloud Business Unit - Product Manager

    2010 - 2011

    Responsible for product management and evangelism marketing in Red Hat's Cloud Computing business unit. Owned the road map for Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid product and its use in Red Hat's cloud offerings.

Red Hat is a software company that offers enterprise open source software solutions.

  • Co-founder

    2008 - 2011

    Cloud / Virtualization / Mobile Development / Green IT consulting

  • Vice President of Business Development and Product Management

    2007 - 2008

    International channel strategy and sales growth. Product re-organization around open source application virtualization and cloud computing solutions.

Univa provides optimization and management software for traditional, dynamic and cloud data centers.

Raised $54,777,627.00 from Hatteras Funds, ARCH Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners, RC Capital, Appian Ventures and Pritzker Group Venture Capital.

  • Director, EMEA

    2004 - 2007

    #1 revenue generator. Grew and managed sales, consulting and product teams in UK, France and Switzerland. Designed, brought to market and sold managed services and public/private cloud computing solutions.

  • Director of Sales and Services - APAC

    2003 - 2004

    100% revenue growth in APAC. Created, managed and grew a team of 30 engineers in our India operations.

  • Lead Engineer / Professional Services Manager

    2000 - 2003

    - Part of the founding team that created the best-of-breed grid computing solution. - Single-handedly designed and developed Microsoft Windows based grid client application that has been used by more than 3.5 million people in 190 countries.

United Devices, Inc. was a privately held, commercial distributed computing company that focused on the use of grid computing.

Raised $31,200,000.00 from GE Equity and Constellation Technology Ventures.

  • Software Engineer

    1999 - 2000

    Part of the founding engineering team at a start-up company that designed and developed a Windows based online trading application

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