Relyance AI is the first AI-native data security platform purpose-built for today’s CISOs who are tasked with protecting sensitive data in increasingly complex environments. While traditional DSPM solutions provide static visibility into data at rest, Relyance AI offers real-time, end-to-end insight into how data actually moves—across source code, runtime infrastructure, SaaS applications, and AI systems—closing dangerous visibility gaps that lead to breaches, compliance failures, and operational disruption.
The platform addresses a growing challenge: CISOs today are expected to secure data flows that evolve faster than their tools can track. Engineering teams release AI-powered features rapidly, shadow SaaS usage continues to grow, and fragmented DevOps pipelines make it nearly impossible to maintain consistent security postures. Meanwhile, regulators and boards demand evidence of compliance and resilience. Relyance AI bridges this gap through the company’s 2025 breakthrough innovations: Data Journeys™ and Data Defense Engineer (DDE).
Data Journeys™ and DDE represent a shift from reactive security to proactive defense. Data Journeys provides unparalleled visibility by mapping real-time causality across code, cloud, AI models, and third-party systems—illuminating the 89% of cloud services enterprises typically can’t see. DDE builds on this comprehensive visibility foundation, autonomously observing, learning, and enforcing policies across thousands of sensitive data flows.
Security teams benefit from dramatically shortened response times and improved incident prevention. Customers using Data Journeys™ have reported a 70–80% reduction in time spent on compliance documentation and evidence gathering—what Relyance calls reducing “time to certainty.” This means CISOs can now answer urgent questions about data usage or exposure within minutes, not hours or days.
This visibility-first approach addresses the AI era’s most pressing challenge: enterprises track only 108 of their 975 on-average cloud services, while 65% of SaaS apps operate without IT approval and shadow data causes 35% of breaches. With 76% of enterprises concerned about AI data privacy, Relyance’s platform transforms this opacity into transparency, securing millions of data assets for category leaders including Coinbase, Canva, ClickUp, and Bolt.
Strategic integrations with AWS, Google Cloud, Snowflake, and leading legal partners enable enterprises to embed trust directly into their infrastructure layer. Market validation came through Relyance’s $32.1M Series B in October 2024, led by Thomvest Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund)—bringing total funding to over $50M.
As AI adoption accelerates and data regulations evolve, Relyance becomes a foundational layer—making it not just a tool, but critical infrastructure.
