Business-to-Business (B2B) software service management platform, Zluri announced that it has raised $20 million in its Series B funding round led by Lightspeed Venture partners, according to moneycontrol report.
Zluri’s funding round also saw participation from its existing backers, MassMutual Ventures, Endiya Partners and Kalaari Capital. With the new funding, the company has now raised $32 million in total venture funding since 2020.
The SaaS firm will utilise the funding to expand generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in enterprise SaaSOps (SaaS Operations) with Zluri’s new product called CoPilot – an intelligent assistant to boost efficiency and productivity across enterprises using no-code workflows.
“We started with core capabilities of SaaS management platform which includes discovery, management, automation and security of applications…and now we have got a demand for automation of access audits so we will be focussing on this area with the new investment,” said Ritish Reddy, cofounder of Zluri.
“We are expanding our go-to-market (GTM) teams like the US and the UK, this is one of the areas where the majority of our investments will go,” said Reddy.
San Francisco and Bengaluru-based Zluri was founded in 2020 by Ritish Reddy Puttaparthi, Sethu Meenakshisundaram, and Chaithanya Yambari. Before teaming up to launch Zluri, the three co-founders worked together at immersive gamification software company Knolskape. Zluri enables a company’s IT teams to discover, manage, secure, and comply with multiple SaaS applications from a single dashboard.
With the new funding, the firm is planning to hire more employees in specific roles.
“We are actively hiring are some roles, we have even made some senior leadership hires in the past few months…We are looking for people in product marketing, sales, data engineering and for our R&D teams,” Reddy said.
Zluri raised its Series A round in January of 2022 led by MassMutual Ventures with participation from existing investors, Endiya Partners and Kalaari Capital. It had previously raised $2M, from Endiya Partners and Kalaari Capital, in its seed round in January 2021.
“We have grown 10X in the last few years and we expect to grow 5X. The reduction in expectation is due to the base and not due to the overall slowdown in the economy…We are very optimistic about the growth of Zluri,” Reddy said.
