Nirmata, a San Jose, CA-based cloud-native security policy automation and governance solutions company, raised $9.6M in funding.
The round was led by Peak XV Surge, with participation from Dallas Venture Capital, Dreamit Ventures and existing investors Z5 Capital and Uncorrelated Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its presence, scale its go-to-market and accelerate product development to serve as the de-facto hub of security automation, governance, and compliance for all applications and the underlying IT infrastructure from code to cloud.
Led by CEO Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata is a provider of cloud-native policy and governance solutions, empowering enterprises to innovate securely at scale. Empowered by Kyverno, an open-source Kubernetes policy engine with over 3.2 billion downloads, Nirmata enables real-time policy enforcement across multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures, ensuring secure and compliant operations at scale.
Its Policy-as-Code solutions such as Nirmata Control Hub empower customers to automate security across complex cloud environments and enable security and platform teams to operate at greater scale and speed. Nirmata Control Hub automatically generates, tests, and enforces policies and remediates critical issues leading to increased productivity for platform engineering teams, while enabling them to keep pace with AI-driven innovation.
FinSMEs
10/02/2025