Funding
Sentra Raises $150 Million Strategic Investment Led by Capital One Ventures
By News Desk ·
Key takeaways
- Capital One Ventures led a $150 million strategic investment in Sentra, joining Bessemer Venture Partners, Zeev Ventures, Standard Investments, Munich Re Ventures and Key1 Capital.
- A Capital One representative will join Sentra's board of directors as part of the investment.
- Sentra reported more than 300% year-over-year growth and will use the capital to expand its agentic data security platform and go-to-market.
Sentra has raised a $150 million strategic investment led by Capital One Ventures, the company said on November 4, 2026. PR Newswire carried the announcement from the New York and Tel Aviv-based agentic data security company.
Capital One Ventures Leads Sentra's Strategic Round
Capital One Ventures led the $150 million strategic capital investment and joins existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Zeev Ventures, Standard Investments, Munich Re Ventures and Key1 Capital. A Capital One representative will join Sentra's board of directors as part of the investment.
Sentra said the investment follows a year of more than 300% year-over-year growth, as enterprises turn to the company to understand their data, control which identities, human and AI, can access it, and keep it governed for AI and autonomous agents. The capital will expand the platform and go-to-market, including scaling field and channel programs, growing brand and marketing, and entering new geographies.
"AI agents are now the busiest consumers of enterprise data, and many of them inherit access to data that hasn't been fully classified or governed," said Yoav Regev, co-founder and CEO of Sentra. "This investment lets us bring agentic data security to every enterprise putting agents to work."
Chaim Sanders, CISO at Lyft, said: "Our teams at Lyft want to move fast with AI, but we need to know what data our agents can reach before we turn them on. Sentra gives us that answer across our whole environment, so security helps the rollout instead of slowing it down."
Sentra's Earlier Funding Rounds
Sentra's disclosed funding before this investment totaled more than $100 million, according to akta.pro company records. The same records list three earlier rounds.
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead investor |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Seed | $23 million | Bessemer Venture Partners |
| January 2023 | Series A | $30 million | Standard Industries, Standard Investments |
| April 2025 | Series B | $50 million | Key1 Capital |
The same records put Sentra's total funding at $103 million at the Series B stage, with a last round dated April 22, 2025.
Sentra's Product Push Before the Investment
Sentra launched its Platform for Continuous AI Data Readiness and Governance in June 2026 to help enterprises address security and governance gaps as they adopt AI assistants and agentic AI systems, PR Newswire reported. In August 2026, Itbrief reported that Sentra launched Shadow AI DLP within its AI Data Readiness Platform, giving security teams visibility into and control over employees' use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot. Sentra and Bold Security announced a strategic partnership in October 2026 combining AI data readiness with real-time endpoint data protection, PR Newswire reported.
Legal Counsel on the Sentra Investment
H-F & Co., Law Offices served as legal counsel to Sentra, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz served as legal counsel to Capital One Ventures.