Veeam to Acquire Securiti AI; Unifies Data Resilience with DSPM, Privacy and AI Trust
$1.725 billion acquisition will help organizations understand, secure, recover, and unleash the value of all data for AI
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on October 24, 2025 at 2:02 pmVeeam Software Group GmbH, a global player by market share in data resilience, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Securiti AI, a recognized actor in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) that also spans privacy, governance, access, and AI trust across hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS platforms, for $1.725 billion. Veeam and Securiti AI unify data resilience with DSPM, privacy, governance, and AI trust spanning production and secondary data. Together, they will help customers understand their full data estate, while providing security, along with recovery and rollback, to unleash the value of their data for AI.
With the acquisition of Securiti AI, Veeam eliminates the challenge of managing fragmented data across apps, clouds, SaaS, endpoints, and backups. CIOs, CISOs, and CDOs will have a unified command center to fully control and understand all their data, as well as secure it with near-zero data loss or business downtime, recover and rollback data and AI with precision, and safely unleash AI innovation. This single control plane across production and secondary data enables enterprises to uniformly command their entire data estate – combining Veeam’s trusted data resilience capabilities with Securiti AI’s leading DSPM, data privacy, and AI trust capabilities.
Why does this matter now?
Organizations have been unable to harness the value of unstructured data, including emails, documents, and customer interactions, which represent 70-90% of all enterprise data. Meanwhile, cyberattacks are escalating, regulations are tightening, and AI initiatives are stalling because the data feeding them can’t be trusted. Industry studies estimate that 80-90% of AI projects fail, many due to data issues, including accuracy, lineage, permissions, and identity, as well as privacy concerns. Traditional approaches, which involve siloed tools for data security and management, don’t reflect new AI threats and force teams into constant trade-offs between security, risk management, and business agility. The combination of Veeam and Securiti AI dramatically mitigates these trade-offs with a single command center for all data.
“We’ve entered a new era for data. It’s no longer about just protecting data from cyber threats and unforeseen disasters; it’s also about identifying all your data, ensuring it’s governed and trusted to power AI transparently,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO, Veeam. “This is the single most critical factor in failed AI initiatives. By combining the market-leading strengths of Veeam and Securiti AI, we bring those capabilities together in a single solution to help customers understand, secure, recover, and rollback, and unleash their data to drive new business value.”
“Enterprise AI is simply not possible without data security. Securiti AI solves that and enables the safe use of data and AI,” said Rehan Jalil, CEO, Securiti AI. “Bringing together our unique capabilities with Veeam, the global leader in data resilience, creates a new value proposition for customers with one data command center delivering data resilience, DSPM, privacy, governance, and AI trust for your entire data estate. Veeam’s global reach and innovation, combined with our technology and intelligence, will provide customers with unmatched business resilience and security to fully unlock the benefits of AI.”
Securiti AI is the pioneer of the Data Command Center. Powered by a unique knowledge graph, the Data Command Center unifies data intelligence and security controls for data across the hybrid multi-cloud. Its built-in and extensible agentic AI framework automates the key functions for data intelligence, data security, and controls, while its Gencore AI module enables safe enterprise AI search. Securiti AI is recognized as a top leader in DSPM, data access governance, AI security, and privacy.
Following the close of the transaction, Rehan Jalil will join Veeam as president of Security and AI. Before Securiti AI, Jalil previously founded Elastica, which merged with Blue Coat for $280 million, Symantec later acquired the joint company for $4.7 billion. He subsequently ran the fastest-growing cloud security business at Symantec. Before that, Jalil was the founder and CEO of WiChorus, which Tellabs acquired for $180 million. He began his career at Sun Microsystems, where he contributed to the development of the earliest multicore GPUs. Jalil is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, and has earned an MSEE from Purdue University and a BS from NED University.
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter and is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Veeam will continue to offer Securiti AI’s Data Command Center alongside its existing product family and will announce new integrated capabilities very soon. Register for the VeeamON Global Launch virtual event on November 19 for free here.
As part of the transaction, Morgan Stanley served as the financial advisor to Securiti AI. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., provided financing to Veeam.
Comments
It's an impressive transaction for a company like Veeam and obviously a fantastic exit for Securiti AI. To put things in perspective, Securiti AI was founded in 2019 and raised so far $156 million. This transaction represents 11x on VC money but a perfect 3x on post-money valuation as it was $575 million and this value probably grew since that round. But this ratio is interesting, a perfect 3.0 between transaction amount and last round valuation. Is it a bit exaggerated, we let you judge... but Veeam had to react to be consider as a global player solidifying its position in the top data protection landscape with new end-users needs, requirements sand cyberthreats.
This move confirms the real battle among top backups software vendors especially Cohesity, Commvault, Rubrik and Veeam and even with followers like HYCU and Druva according to the last Coldago Map 2024 for Modern Data Protection. They all realize the need to add such services especially ones who leverage AI. It is a real movement in the industry for players, not in classic security segment, to provide new functions in that area.
As independent players "limited" to data protection, it's tough to exist as users wish to consolidate and unify solutions to present a global model. Doing this by merging products, at least combining and integrated within one vendor, simplifies this and invite them at the "table". Does it mean we'll see more M&As in the domain, yes as these players need to move in that direction, rapidly with obviously tactical answers.
We see different waves of services and convergence with players coming from "classic" data management space adding such features organically or via external contribution and integrations. To illustrate these moves, we can consider players like CTERA who comes from unstructured data space on primary storage and backup vendors protecting data by copying hot data from primary to secondary storage, they already added such features or plan to.
To summarize the dynamic here, globally challenges for end-users cover structured and unstructured data, on-prem, cloud and SaaS mode and primary and secondary storage in a sort of urgency pushed by AI in all dimensions. This combination and variety of configurations make this need very difficult to address with a single approach. This is the reason why we predict a few more M&As in the domain, especially ... by ..., sorry we can't tell !!
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