CtrlB Secures Pre-Seed Funding to Transform IT Security Data Management

CtrlB has secured pre-seed funding to innovate IT and security data management. Founded by IIT alumni, it offers a cost-effective unified data lake solution for businesses. With a groundbreaking dual-component architecture, CtrlB addresses crucial observability challenges, gaining traction among startups. The market is projected to grow significantly.

CtrlB, a groundbreaking company in the realm of IT security and observability, has announced securing a pre-seed funding round from Campus Fund. This financial boost is poised to accelerate CtrlB's mission to revolutionize the way developers monitor and debug code in production environments.

Founded by IIT Kanpur's Adarsh Srivastava and IIT Bombay's Balasubramanian, CtrlB positions itself as a unified data lake for IT and Security data, aiming to reduce the massive costs companies incur for log management and SIEM solutions. According to CEO Adarsh Srivastava, current spending patterns—a substantial 30-40% of total cloud budgets—underscore the growing need for efficient observability strategies tailored for developers, security teams, and compliance officers.

CtrlB's dual-component architecture is at the core of its offering, featuring an innovative indexing strategy for sub-second data lookups and a proprietary serverless hybrid search engine supporting intricate searches. This technology is gaining attention, not just for its current capabilities but also for future developments like vector search. Campus Fund's Rohit A highlights CtrlB's strategic role in resolving significant observability and security data management issues across industries.

(With inputs from agencies.)