Kriptos

Kriptos offers a cybersecurity platform that leverages artificial intelligence for comprehensive data discovery, classification, and risk management. The company was founded in 2018 by Ecuadorian cousins Christian Torres (CEO) and Alfonso Villalba (COO). Their journey into entrepreneurship began after they both worked at the same startup accelerator in Ecuador, KrugerLabs, and then co-founded their first cybersecurity venture, Yambuu, before pivoting to Kriptos. This background provided them with direct insight into the market's needs.

The firm primarily serves enterprise clients across various sectors, including finance, insurance, and retail, with a strong presence in Latin America and a growing footprint in the United States. Its business model is centered on providing its software platform to these enterprises, likely on a subscription basis, to help them manage data security and comply with regulations. Kriptos has successfully raised capital through multiple funding rounds, including a $1.25M seed round in 2021 and a subsequent round of $3.1 million in 2022, accumulating over $6.8M in total funding to fuel its expansion and product development.

The core of Kriptos' offering is an AI-powered software that automates the process of finding and classifying sensitive data across a company's entire digital landscape, including endpoints, servers, and cloud services like OneDrive, SharePoint, and Google Drive. The platform analyzes unstructured data in various formats to identify and label information based on its sensitivity (e.g., Confidential, PII, PCI). A key feature is its ability to create custom models for each client, adapting its algorithms to the specific vocabulary and policies of the business, ensuring higher accuracy. By providing visual labels and metadata tagging, Kriptos integrates with existing cybersecurity tools such as DLP, CASB, and SIEM, enhancing a company's ability to prevent data leaks, manage risk, and streamline compliance with standards like ISO 27001, GDPR, and PCI DSS.

Keywords: data classification, data discovery, cybersecurity, risk management, data governance, compliance automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, PII protection, PCI DSS compliance, ISO 27001, unstructured data, data leakage prevention, information security, enterprise software, data risk management, metadata tagging, data visibility, regulatory compliance, AI cybersecurity