At Operant our mission is simple: We’re in business to secure the modern world.
Operant AI is the only Runtime AI Application Defense Platform that actively protects every layer of live cloud and AI applications from infra to APIs. Operant's unique 3D approach brings discovery, detection, and defense into one platform, actively securing the entire "cloud within the cloud" including all APIs, services, and identities beyond the firewalls. Operant's platform blocks 80% of the most critical and common runtime attacks ranging from data exfiltration to AI supply chain attacks, model theft, prompt injection and many more. Within minutes of Operant's single-step helm deployment, security and platform teams gain a completely new level of real-time visibility and cloud-native defense for their entire cloud application stacks bringing frictionless security to dev, sec, and ops so that teams can deploy products and AI faster without security holding them back.
Built by a team from
Our Founders
Vrajesh Bhavsar
Co-Founder and CEO
An engineer with a Masters in Computer Science from USC and over 20 years of experience building hardware and software products, Vrajesh built core technologies for iOS & macOS including Dynamic Tracing, Data Protection and Secure Enclave at Apple. Vrajesh went on to build the ML/AI business unit for Arm. He holds eight patents in distributed systems, data and security. He is passionate about building technology-first businesses that drive positive human impact at scale.
Priyanka Tembey
Co-Founder and CTO
A technologist with a PhD in computer science from Georgia Tech, Priyanka has spent over 10 years as a software engineer at the forefront of cloud-native technologies. Priyanka was one of the foundational engineers to build out VMware's hybrid cloud product architecting its distributed policy control plane and analytics layers. She is passionate about building products that simplify the operational experience of managing complex systems at scale.
Ashley Roof
Co-Founder and CMO
A marketing leader with 15 years of experience, Ashley started her career in sales and marketing at Google. Since then, she has built successful GTM orgs, from startups to the Fortune 500. Most recently, she served as CMO of Transposit. She holds a BA with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University and is a proud advocate of bringing the humanities to tech.
