This explosion of SaaS has created massive headaches around management, security, and compliance. Within enterprises, administrators struggle to keep up, leading to a host of problems for the CIO suite. Misconfigurations creep in, security vulnerabilities go unnoticed, and compliance risks multiply. It’s spawned entire industries of consultants just to keep things running — Salesforce alone estimates it’s created 9.3 million jobs around its ecosystem.
Rather than proactively managing IT, administrators react to problems and manually plow through configuration checklists. It’s clear that modern software should be able to do better than this — for both the IT teams and the enterprises they support.
Wait, we have millions of people doing repetitive tasks? Enter Valo.ai
Unlike many SaaS security posture management solutions that simply wait for admin misconfigurations and then inform the admin, Valo takes a proactive approach by automating the identification and remediation of these misconfigurations at their root cause.
Valo’s AI technology monitors of metadata non-stop to proactively optimizes these configurations in SaaS services. The big goal here is to increase application adoption, optimize performance, and validate security and compliance — in short, make SaaS really work for enterprises.
Currently Valo is in early access and is planning a big announcement this September at Dreamforce, as they first target the Salesforce ecosystem.
What got us excited to join forces with Valo in pre-seed? The team.
At Inventure, we’re always on the lookout for founders who have deep domain expertise and the ability to build category-defining companies. The Valo.ai team fits this profile perfectly.
The Valo.ai team of industry experts comes from Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google, Snap, Spotify, Nokia, and F-Secure. At the Salesforce Platform product team, CEO and co-founder Jari Salomaa was behind several successful products opening Salesforce for billion dollar enterprise markets including Salesforce Shield, Event Monitoring, Transaction Security, Security Health Check and Big Objects. Meanwhile, CTO and co-founder Mika Ståhlberg served as Group CTO of F-Secure, where he managed multiple security products and launched Cloud Protection for Salesforce into the Salesforce AppExchange marketplace.
This combination of enterprise software expertise and cybersecurity knowledge is exactly what’s needed to tackle the massive challenge of SaaS administration and security. The days of SaaS chaos may be numbered — and that’s great news for enterprises everywhere.
