Material Security
Material Security sells automated security tools for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. The 85-person company has raised $162M, including a Series C in May 2022.
The growth story
Material Security grew from 27 to 85 employees between 2021 and 2026, raising $162M along the way, most recently a Series C in May 2022.
About
Material Security provides a platform that detects and responds to security threats across email, data, identity, and configurations in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 environments. Its tools are designed for enterprise IT teams managing cloud productivity suites.
The company has raised $162M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Amplify Partners, with its latest Series C closing in May 2022. Its engineering team makes up over a quarter of its 85 employees.
Founders and leadership
Engineering is Material Security's largest function, with 22 engineers accounting for over a quarter of its 85-person workforce. The company's leadership includes founders with backgrounds in security and cloud infrastructure.
The Material Security org chart
Abhishek Agrawal (Co-Founder & CEO) leads 27 mapped leaders with 10 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 27 (-4% YoY), Sales 12 (0% YoY), Business Development 8 (+33% YoY), Product Management 5 (+25% YoY), Customer Success and Support 5 (+67% YoY), Entrepreneurship 4 (0% YoY).
Talent flow
Material Security hires heavily from cloud and security companies, with Dropbox, Okta, Microsoft, and Google being top talent sources. Alumni frequently move to other security startups like Axonius, Harmonic Security, and Wiz.
Most common previous employers of Material Security staff: Dropbox (7), Okta (4), Microsoft (3), Google (3), SCUBA (3), Mixpanel (2). Former Material Security employees most often moved to Cotool (4), Axonius (3), Harmonic Security (3), Anduril Industries (2), Datadog (2), Wiz (2).
Alumni worth knowing
The Material Security mafia
Material Security alumni have founded six companies, most notably Cotool (3 founders, 9 staff) and Clario (1 founder, 6 staff). Other startups include Monstera Consulting, Cualified, and Disrupting Discrimination.
8Max Pollard, was Director, Forward Deployed Engineering until 2025Logan Carmody, was Staff Software Engineer until 2025Eddie Conk, was Senior Machine Learning Engineer until 2025Yousuf Khan, was Advisor until 2025Matt Lewis, was Infrastructure Engineer until 2023Brian Greene, was Enterprise Sales until 2024
Heather Wallander, was Security Architect until 2021
Madeleine Muscari, was Senior Staff Engineer until 2024Web traffic
Traffic mix: 64% direct, 23% search, 6% social, 2% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Material Security: Microsoft Excel (26), Leadership (26), Management (25), Microsoft Office (25), JavaScript (24), Python (Programming Language) (22), Java (22), HTML (21).
Where the team actually sits
Material Security people are concentrated in California, United States (14), San Francisco Bay Area (11), United States (3), Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area (3).
Search footprint
Material Security attracts about 789 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $15K a month if bought through ads. It gained 197 ranking keywords and lost 171 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 3.60 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 2.60 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.00 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.00 / 5
Frequently asked
Material Security has 85 employees as of September 2026.
Material Security has raised $162M in total, most recently a Series C round in May 2022.
Material Security was founded in 2017 by Abhishek Agrawal, Chris Park.
Abhishek Agrawal (Co-Founder & CEO) sits at the top of Material Security's reporting structure, with 10 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Material Security staff are Dropbox (7 people), Okta (4 people), Microsoft (3 people).
Former Material Security employees most often move to Cotool (4), Axonius (3), Harmonic Security (3).
At least 6 companies have a founder who previously worked at Material Security, including Cotool, Clario, Monstera Consulting.
Material Security attracts about 789 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $15K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Material Security staff are Microsoft Excel, Leadership, Management, Microsoft Office, JavaScript.
Material Security staff are concentrated in California, United States (14), San Francisco Bay Area (11), United States (3).
Material Security has about 27 people in Engineering, down 4% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Material Security has about 12 people in Sales, up 0% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 67 current and 113 former Material Security profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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