Meet the Team
Founded by serial cybersecurity entrepreneurs, red teamers, and security researchers. The team holds multiple patents in IT security, including a USPTO patent for automated red teaming, and has broken some of the best-known security products, including McAfee, Microsoft BitLocker, Sophos, and AVG.
Our story
Organizations test some of their assets some of the time. Attackers test all of them, all of the time, and with AI they now find and exploit weaknesses in days. That gap is why we built FireCompass AI.
FireCompass AI is an agentic AI platform for continuous offensive security. Autonomous AI agents discover your real attack surface, including shadow IT, safely exploit it with proof, and chain findings into full attack paths across web apps, APIs, and infrastructure. It replaces one-off tests and stacks of tools with continuous, evidence-backed testing. Our mission is simple: help every security team hack themselves before AI does.
Meet our team
Bikash Barai
Founder & CEOBikash is credited for several innovations in the domain of Network Security and Anti-Spam Technologies and has multiple patents in USPTO. Fortune recognized Bikash among India’s Top 40 Business Leaders under the age of 40 (Fortune 40-under-40). Bikash is also an active speaker and has spoken at various forums like TiE, RSA Conference USA, TEDx, etc.
Earlier he founded iViZ an IDG Ventures-backed company that was later acquired by Cigital and now Synopsys. iViZ was the first company in the world to take Ethical Hacking (or Penetration Testing) to the cloud.
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Bruce Schneier
Advisor, Security TechnologistBruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of over one dozen books, including his latest, A Hacker’s Mind, as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and his blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people.
Arnab Chattopadhayay
Co-founder & Distinguished ScientistArnab’s expertise lies in providing solutions to complex problems in the area of IT Security. He has 23+ years of experience in leadership roles at large organizations like British Telecom, Tech Mahindra, iViZ (part of Synopsys), Metric Stream, Capgemini, IBM & more.
Arnab was one of the key members to have worked in the BT21CN, one of the largest transformation projects in the telecom world aimed at the complete transformation of BT’s telecom network to Next Generation Network (NGN).
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Priyanka Aash
Co-founder & VP of MarketingPriyanka Aash is credited with building global communities for cybersecurity leaders and shaping enterprise marketing strategies for over a decade.
She has been nominated for the Cybersecurity Excellence Award for her leadership & AI innovations in cybersecurity and honored with the NetApp Excellerate HER award. She is also the author of “The AI Divide,” which explores how artificial intelligence is quietly rewiring human minds and influencing decisions.
Earlier, she co-founded CISO Platform, the world’s first online platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing among senior information security executives. Through this, she worked with the marketing teams of IBM, VMware, F5 Networks, Barracuda Networks, Check Point, and others, driving inbound marketing and enterprise growth.
Priyanka is passionate about entrepreneurship, enterprise marketing strategy, and building communities that empower CISOs worldwide.
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Shirish Sathaye
Shirish is a managing director and partner at Cervin. Prior to Cervin, he was a partner at Formation 8, Khosla Ventures, and Matrix Partners. Shirish’s venture career was preceded by several years as an engineering leader across industry-leading startups. He earned a BS in Electronics Engineering from IIT, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon.
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Preetish Nijhawan
Preetish is a co-founder and partner at Cervin. Previously, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Neon, BMC, and iVita, an asset management software startup he co-founded. Preetish was also a co-founder of Akamai Technologies. He earned a BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the BITS, Pilani, India, an MS in Computer Engineering from USC, and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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Som Choudhury
Partner at Bharat Innovation Fund, focused on creating Deeptech and IP driven startups. Also Board Member of USISTEF, Advisor to IoT startups, co-founded India’s IoT ecosystem building thinktank, IoTForum and chairs India’s top IoT conference, IoTNext.
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Rutvik Doshi
Rutvik refers to himself as an “Accidental Venture Capitalist”, coming from a Product management & Software Engineering background. He’s an IIT Kharagpur alumni and later did his MBA from INSEAD. During his early career, he worked at Broadcom Inc. & Google.
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Khiro Mishra
Currently the Global Head, Strategic Growth, Global Cybersecurity Business for NTT Ltd. An Experienced CEO in the cybersecurity industry. Handled global and diverse responsibilities in the ever-evolving IT industry.
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One agentic AI platform for continuous offensive security
Start with web app and API pen testing. Expand to full red teaming and CTEM on the same platform.
AI web application pen testing
Authenticated and unauthenticated testing, business logic, and proof-of-exploit.
PrimaryAI API pen testing
Shadow API discovery, authorization testing, and chained API attack paths.
PrimaryContinuous automated pen testing
Web apps, APIs, networks, and cloud, tested every week and every release.
ExpandContinuous Automated Red Teaming
MITRE ATT&CK-aligned attack trees, lateral movement, and privilege escalation.
ExpandAttack surface management
Discover known and unknown assets, shadow IT, and leaked credentials.
ExpandCTEM and exposure validation
Continuous exposure monitoring, validation, and risk prioritization.
Trusted by Fortune 500. Recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and more.
30+ analyst reports
- Gartner 30+ reports, 5 technology maturity cycles, pen testing and CTEM
- Forrester Notable vendor, automated security testing
- IDC Innovator, cybersecurity
- GigaOm Radar Fast Mover, Platform Play (2024 to 2026)
- RSAC 365 Innovation Showcase
Fortune 500 customers
- Top 3 global telecom companies
- Top 10 IT companies
- Top 10 manufacturing firms
- Mid-sized banks and financial services
- Mid-sized automobile companies
Global presence
Trusted by Avid Technology
Maker of tools used across Hollywood, broadcast and music
“The platform helps identify potential attack paths and highlight those that are exploitable.”
“FireCompass AI Agents have been valuable in supporting our continuous security assessment program. The platform helps identify potential attack paths and highlight those that are exploitable. It significantly reduces the time required for attack-surface discovery, initial testing, and evidence collection compared with a manual penetration-testing approach. This gives our Application Security team more time to focus on fixing and retesting. The FireCompass team has also been collaborative and responsive throughout the process.”
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