Veza, the Identity Security Company

Meet our Founders

(left to right) Tarun Thakur, CEO; Maohua Lu, CTO; Rob Whitcher, Chief Architect

Our vision is for organizations to have the power to use and share their data safely

Veza is the authorization platform for data. Built for hybrid, multi-cloud environments, Veza enables organizations to easily understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data. We empower customers to take an identity-first approach to secure data by addressing critical business needs of streamlining access governance, implementing data lake security, managing cloud entitlements, and modernizing privileged access. Our Authorization Graph connects identities and their relationships to data across enterprise systems, enabling analysis, monitoring, and certification of end-to-end access.

Our founding story

In early 2020, Tarun, Maohua, and Rob saw an evolutionary event coming in tech: The world’s data was rapidly, irreversibly transitioning to the cloud. They called dozens of senior tech leaders and asked each one the same question: What is your biggest worry related to the data moving to the cloud? CIOs, CISOs and CDOs shared with them: “I don’t understand who has access to our most sensitive data.” It was shocking to them that no one in the industry has addressed this problem. They knew they had discovered a critical missing piece in securing data: authorization. That insight led to the company vision: to build a platform that is powered by authorization metadata — all to address the toughest data security challenges.

Our Values

The ‘MIGHT‘ of Veza encapsulates our company’s core values, guiding us to embody them in our daily actions and decisions, driving our success and integrity forward.

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Ownership Mindset

Adopting an ownership mindset means that we care about the holistic success of the company, more than our own personal goals. We maintain this mindset, with unwavering commitment to bold actions, even when difficult. Ownership means thinking big.

Act With Integrity

To act with integrity means that we are honest and transparent in our interactions with all Veza stakeholders, including customers, partners, and employees. We follow the golden rule and support each other.

Guardians of Our Customers

We are guardians of our customers, which means that we understand, care about, and exceed the needs of our customers. By demonstrating that we are partners with our customers, we seek to earn their loyalty and endorsement.

Opinionated Humility

We encourage employees to bring a strong point of view but to balance this with an open-mind. By listening to, and learning from, diverse perspectives we’ll arrive at the best decisions.

Build Trust, Earn Trust

Trust is the core ingredient of relationships. It’s also the core ingredient of teams and teamwork. We seek to build trusted relationships with customers, partners, and each other. It means we hold ourselves accountable to our  commitments both internally and externally. If we say we’ll do something, we do it.

We give our customers the confidence to securely adopt cloud data systems

Our Investors

We’re building the future of Identity Security. Will you join us?

We recognize that talent has no boundaries

We’ve been a globally-distributed team from the start. Veza is searching for builders across Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales, and more to join us on our journey. You’ll work alongside highly talented individuals who have helped to shape the success of world-class organizations.