THE BUSINESS

Nyansa is a fast-growing innovator of advanced IT infrastructure analytics software. The company is credited with developing the first cloudsourced, vendor-agnostic network analytics platform, called Voyance. Nyansa provides customers operational assurance for users, clients, and IoT devices connected to enterprise networks.

THE TEAM

Founded in September, 2013, by Abe Ankumah, Anand Srinivas and Daniel Kan, Nyansa’s team is comprised of the world’s leading software and networking engineers and PhDs from organizations including MIT, Harvard, Meraki, Aruba Networks and Google.

THE MARKET/PROBLEM

Nyansa competes in the multi-billion dollar enterprise infrastructure management market. As more users, clients, and IoT devices depend on network infrastructure, the need to quantify performance and ensure security has become more critical and increasingly complex. Nyansa provides unique insight to solve this problem, and is purpose built for mission critical network environments and the ever-growing adoption of IoT devices and mobile computing.

THE SOLUTION

Voyance is an AIOps platform – Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations. It is a cloud-based SaaS solution that combines powerful network analytics and IoT security in a single platform. The AI-powered analytics engine analyzes every client and device transaction across the entire network, correlating data from disparate sources to pinpoint problems, detect behavior anomalies, surface root causes, and recommend next steps.

COMPANY

* Founded: September, 2013
* Status: Privately held
* Capitalization: $27 million (series B)
* Investors: Formation | 8, Intel Capital
* Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
* Employees: 50+
* Customers: 100+
* Devices under analysis: 20M monthly

FOUNDERS

Abe Ankumah
Chief Executive Officer
Anand Srinivas
Chief Technology Officer
Daniel Kan
VP of Engineering