Insight Partners leads a $40 million round for the Dallas startup's "agentic data control plane," a bet that enterprises will pay to filter and enrich telemetry before it hits the cloud bill rather than just move it there.
For most security and IT teams, onboarding a new data source has meant the same slog for years: a custom integration, weeks of engineering time, and no real way to confirm the logs are actually flowing until something breaks. That’s the workflow DataBahn says it wants to retire, and investors just backed the pitch with real money. The Dallas-based startup has closed a $40 million Series B led by Insight Partners, with existing backers Forgepoint, GTM Capital and S3 Ventures returning, bringing total funding to $59 million, according to Pulse 2.0.
The money is earmarked for R&D and new capabilities across what CEO and co-founder Nanda Santhana calls an “agentic data control plane” — software that sits between the systems generating enterprise telemetry and the tools consuming it, deciding in transit what to keep, enrich and route rather than copying everything downstream, as SiliconANGLE reported.
Before and after, in customer words
The before-state is the point of the sales pitch. Ricardo Henry, who leads security architecture and engineering at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, told SiliconANGLE that onboarding a new log source used to require custom integrations and considerable engineering time, with little visibility into whether critical systems were sending logs at all — DataBahn, he said, gave the fund a “standardized, repeatable way to onboard security data” and made coverage gaps easier to identify. Parrish Gunnels, chief information security officer at MVB Bank, described a similar shift: the platform pulled the bank’s regulatory requirements, audit controls and validation processes into a “single, cohesive solution,” cutting costs and freeing staff for governance work instead of plumbing.
That reframes the category. Traditional pipelines — the incumbent architecture DataBahn positions itself against — were built to move data from a source to a destination in one direction, a design that made sense before AI agents and copilots joined security platforms and data warehouses as consumers of enterprise telemetry, per the PR Newswire release. DataBahn’s answer is to filter and enrich in transit — ingesting from more than 600 sources without locking customers into a specific destination or AI model, according to SecurityWeek.
the money and the math
This is DataBahn’s second institutional round in a little over a year: the company closed a $17 million Series A led by Forgepoint Capital in June 2025, per SiliconANGLE, meaning the new round more than doubles its capital base. Founding dates diverge across coverage — SiliconANGLE puts the company’s founding in 2024, SecurityWeek in 2023 — a discrepancy the record doesn’t resolve.
By the company’s own account, the growth case is striking, if hard to independently verify: more than 400% year-over-year revenue growth, 180% net revenue retention, zero customer churn, and a 97% proof-of-concept win rate, figures repeated across Pulse 2.0, PR Newswire, SiliconANGLE and FinSMEs without independent audit cited in any of them. DataBahn says that growth has come primarily through channel and strategic partners rather than a large direct sales force, serving Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 customers in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and transportation.
what changes for Insight, and for mid-market buyers
For Insight Partners, the bet is that data infrastructure built for AI consumption becomes as durable a category as the pipeline tools it’s replacing. “The next generation of enterprise infrastructure won’t be defined by where data is stored, but by how intelligently it can be orchestrated for AI,” said Max Wolff, managing director at Insight Partners, adding that enterprise leaders describe DataBahn as “foundational to their future security architecture” — a characterization that, notably, comes from the company’s own investor and isn’t independently sourced here.
Operationally, the funding is meant to push the platform down-market: SiliconANGLE reports the new capital goes toward extending DataBahn from large global enterprises into mid-market businesses, with additions to the platform previewed at Black Hat USA 2026. If DataBahn can hold its retention numbers while selling to smaller IT teams with thinner budgets — rather than just Fortune 100 security operations centers — that’s the real test of whether “agentic data control plane” becomes a category incumbents like traditional SIEM and pipeline vendors have to answer, or just a well-funded pitch deck phrase.
Traditional data pipelines were built to move data. AI is changing every enterprise application, and AI is only as good as the enterprise data it can understand.
