AI-native data security startup Matters.AI has raised ₹55 crore in a funding round co-led by Kalaari Capital and Endiya Partners, with additional participation from Better Capital, Carya Venture Partners, and several prominent cybersecurity angel investors. The new funding will be directed toward advancing R&D in predictive detection, expanding go-to-market operations in India and the United States, and strengthening engineering and customer success teams focused on regulated industries under India’s DPDP framework.
Positioning itself at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, Matters.AI aims to address one of the industry’s most persistent challenges — the growing complexity of securing data in an AI-driven world. Its platform leverages reasoning-based intelligence to detect, predict, and autonomously respond to potential misuse across hybrid environments.
“India has built rockets, payments, and softwares for the world, now we’re building to protect it,” said Keshava Murthy, CEO & Co-Founder of Matters.AI. “The world doesn’t need another dashboard screaming alerts; it needs a system that can think. That’s Matters.AI, the AI Security Engineer that never sleeps.”
Echoing this vision, Harsh Sahu, CTO & Co-Founder, added, “Our system reasons like a human engineer, learning from how people and data interact, predicting misuse, and responding autonomously.”
Investors believe the startup is well-positioned to lead a new generation of intelligent data protection. Sateesh Andra, Managing Director at Endiya Partners, remarked, “Security teams tell us their biggest gap is between visibility and enforcement. Matters unifies discovery, lineage, and intent-aware controls into a single policy plane so organizations can prevent data exfiltration across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and AI tools.”
Adding to this, Sampath, Partner at Kalaari Capital, noted, “As privacy regulations tighten worldwide and AI adoption accelerates, enterprises face an urgent need for intelligent, autonomous data protection. Matters.AI is building the control layer for this new reality.”
With this fresh round of funding, Matters.AI is set to deepen its AI-driven security capabilities, focusing on real-time reasoning, adaptive protection, and self-correcting data defense systems—ushering in a new era of proactive, autonomous cybersecurity.
