Dassana
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Dassana was a San Jose-based cloud security startup founded in 2022 by Gaurav Kumar and Parth Shah, the former co-founder and founding engineer of RedLock (acquired by Palo Alto Networks). It built the industry's first JSON-native, schema-less, index-free cloud log lake, separating storage and compute to make log analytics 5-20x cheaper and queries up to 10x faster, with its own Structured Log Query (SLQ) language. It later pivoted toward AI-powered risk and threat exposure management, including a 'CISO Copilot' for compliance evidence collection.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Stealth launch
Dassana emerged from stealth with $5 million in seed funding led by Dell Technologies Capital, with angel investors including MinIO's Anand Babu Periasamy and Shutterstock's Jon Oringer, and announced the public beta of its cloud log lake.
- Acquired by Deepwatch
Deepwatch, the AI+human cyber resilience platform, acquired Dassana for an undisclosed sum to integrate its AI-powered risk and threat exposure management technology into the Deepwatch Platform.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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