Dassana Emerges From Stealth With $5 Million in Funding

Dassana, Inc. emerged from stealth with $5 million in seed funding led by Dell Technologies Capital with participation from angel investors, including Anand Babu Periasamy, CEO and founder, MinIO, Inc., and Jon Oringer, CEO and founder, Shutterstock, Inc.

In conjunction with the company launch, the company announced the public beta of the industry’s first JSON-native, schema-less, index-free cloud log lake. 

Led by Gaurav Kumar and Parth Shah, formerly co-founder and founding engineer, RedLock, the company is focused on setting the foundation for next-gen cloud security. Unlike traditional logging solutions, its Cloud Log Lake separates storage and compute, allowing for cost savings of anywhere between 5x to 20x. Using a storage data structure, queries perform 10-100x faster than competing solutions.

“Next gen cloud security is not possible without scalable log analytics specifically designed for security,” said Deepak JeevanKumar, managing director, Dell Technologies Capital. “We are thrilled to be backing Gaurav and team Dassana once again. Based on our experience working with them as early investors in RedLock, which pioneered first-generation cloud security, we know they are best suited to solve this critical problem.”

The need for such a solution is clear – traditional logging systems are optimized for full-text search over unstructured or semi-structured logs. Today’s logs have evolved to be highly structured and voluminous. Moreover, while the JSON format is the de-facto standard of logging, querying JSON data using a ‘pipe’ based logging querying system is frustrating and comes with a steep learning curve. The company invented SLQ (Structured Log Query), pronounced as slick, to solve this problem, allowing users to query JSON data using SQL-like semantics.

Offered as SaaS, the solution can be deployed in minutes and is compatible with existing log forwarders such as Vector and FluentD. Credit cards are not required during sign-up and the company is offering $100 credit for anyone to try out the product.

“Dassana was founded to bring cloud-like thinking to logs. It just doesn’t make any sense to pay through the nose for logging, or to operate complex, self-hosted systems that require the maintenance of indexes and schemas. There has to be a simple solution, but we couldn’t find one. So we took it upon ourselves to build one,” said Gaurav Kumar, CEO, Dassana.

“Dassana is a joy to work with, I have never seen a security logging solution so fast and cost-effective,” said Pathik Patel, leader, cloud security, Informatica.

About Dassana
It is bringing cloud-like thinking to logs. Unlike traditional logging solutions, Cloud Log Lake separates storage and compute, allowing for cost savings of anywhere between 5x to 20x. Using a storage data structure, queries perform 10-100x faster than competing solutions. Led by founding team members of RedLock, the company is backed by Dell Technologies Capital and based in San Jose, CA.

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Dassana Cloud Log Lake public beta