Founder & CEO of Keygraph. Previously led engineering for the HRIS product division at Lattice. Co-founder of Semantics3 (YC W13). Education: National University of Singapore.

Executive Team

Varun Sivamani

Founder & CEO

Ex-Lattice engineering leader and serial entrepreneur (YC W13).

Board of Directors

Mar Hershenson

Managing Partner at Pear VC (Investor/Advisor)

Jori Lallo

Co-founder & Former CTO of Lattice (Investor/Advisor)

Jeff Arnold

Founder of Pilot.com (Investor/Advisor)

Founding Story

Founder Varun Sivamani started Keygraph after seeing security teams struggle with 'tool sprawl'—juggling disconnected tools for identity, compliance, and device management.

Business Model

Revenue

Not publicly disclosed (Early stage startup).

Revenue Model

SaaS subscription model for the unified security platform and enterprise versions of the Shannon AI agent.

Pricing Tiers

Shannon Lite (OSS)

Free

Open-source autonomous pentester for developers and curious users.

Enterprise / Scale

Custom

Full AppSec suite with unified IGA, GRC, MDM, and unlimited viewer seats.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

Enterprise Security
Cloud-native Startups
SaaS Companies

Use Cases

Automated security auditing
Continuous compliance monitoring
Offensive security testing
Consolidating security toolstacks

Notable Customers

Open-source community adopters
Early-stage fintech and SaaS startups

Quick Facts

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2024

Entity Type

Corporation

Employees

Total Funding

Raised (Amount not public; includes Pear VC and Authentic Ventures)

Investors

Pear VC, Authentic Ventures

Office Locations

1576 15th St.

Funding History

Pre-Seed / PearX S25Estimated $250K - $2M

Aug 2025

Not disclosed valuation

Pear VC

Seed RoundNot disclosed

Late 2025

Not disclosed valuation

Authentic Ventures

Pear VC

History & Milestones

Feb 2026

Open-sourced Shannon Lite on GitHub, enabling developers to run autonomous security audits.

March 2026

Shannon achieves a 96.15% success rate in autonomous vulnerability exploitation on benchmark tests.

2025

Accepted into Pear VC's PearX S25 accelerator cohort.

Dec 2025

Launched Shannon, a fully autonomous AI pentesting agent for web applications.

2024

Keygraph is founded in San Francisco to address the security tool sprawl problem.

Key Capabilities

Autonomous white-box pentesting

Agentic static analysis

Real exploit execution (not just alerts)

Unified IGA, GRC, and MDM platform

Zero-configuration setup

Open-source AI pentesting (Shannon Lite)

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

GitHub
Nmap
Claude AI
NIST Benchmarks

Key Partnerships

Anthropic (Powered by Claude)

Pear VC (Accelerator)

Connect

Website

GitHub

X / Twitter

Discord

AI Topics

Keygraph focuses on these topics:

Application Security(1)

Security Testing(1)

Autonomous Systems(1)

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Keygraph

Keygraph unifies IGA, MDM, GRC, and AppSec into a single AI-native platform, replacing tool sprawl with an autonomous security engineer.

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At a Glance

San Francisco, CAHeadquarters

2024Est.

20Employees

AI Tools by Keygraph

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Shannon

AI Pentesting Tool for Web Apps

App Security Security Testing Autonomous Systems

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Latest News

05/01/2026

Shannon AI Pentester gains widespread community adoption on social platforms.

instagram.com

03/01/2026

Keygraph reports Shannon achieves 96% success rate in autonomous hacking benchmarks.

x.com

02/01/2026

Keygraph open-sources Shannon Lite to the security community.

github.com

12/01/2025

Keygraph unveils Shannon, the first 'Autonomous Security Engineer'.

keygraph.io

Products & Services

Keygraph Platform

2025

A unified security and compliance platform that integrates IGA, MDM, GRC, and AppSec into a single AI-native dashboard.

Shannon

Dec 2025

An autonomous AI pentesting agent that performs white-box security testing, identifies attack vectors, and executes real exploits.

Market Position

Positions itself as 'The Rippling for Security', unifying disparate tools into one automated, AI-native platform.

Leadership

Founders

Varun Sivamani

Founder & CEO of Keygraph. Previously led engineering for the HRIS product division at Lattice. Co-founder of Semantics3 (YC W13). Education: National University of Singapore.

Executive Team

Varun Sivamani

Founder & CEO

Ex-Lattice engineering leader and serial entrepreneur (YC W13).

Board of Directors

Mar Hershenson

Managing Partner at Pear VC (Investor/Advisor)

Jori Lallo

Co-founder & Former CTO of Lattice (Investor/Advisor)

Jeff Arnold

Founder of Pilot.com (Investor/Advisor)

Founding Story

Founder Varun Sivamani started Keygraph after seeing security teams struggle with 'tool sprawl'—juggling disconnected tools for identity, compliance, and device management.

Business Model

Revenue

Not publicly disclosed (Early stage startup).

Revenue Model

SaaS subscription model for the unified security platform and enterprise versions of the Shannon AI agent.

Pricing Tiers

Shannon Lite (OSS)

Free

Open-source autonomous pentester for developers and curious users.

Enterprise / Scale

Custom

Full AppSec suite with unified IGA, GRC, MDM, and unlimited viewer seats.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

Enterprise Security
Cloud-native Startups
SaaS Companies

Use Cases

Automated security auditing
Continuous compliance monitoring
Offensive security testing
Consolidating security toolstacks

Notable Customers

Open-source community adopters
Early-stage fintech and SaaS startups

Quick Facts

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2024

Entity Type

Corporation

Employees

Total Funding

Raised (Amount not public; includes Pear VC and Authentic Ventures)

Investors

Pear VC, Authentic Ventures

Office Locations

1576 15th St.

Funding History

Pre-Seed / PearX S25Estimated $250K - $2M

Aug 2025

Not disclosed valuation

Pear VC

Seed RoundNot disclosed

Late 2025

Not disclosed valuation

Authentic Ventures

Pear VC

History & Milestones

Feb 2026

Open-sourced Shannon Lite on GitHub, enabling developers to run autonomous security audits.

March 2026

Shannon achieves a 96.15% success rate in autonomous vulnerability exploitation on benchmark tests.

2025

Accepted into Pear VC's PearX S25 accelerator cohort.

Dec 2025

Launched Shannon, a fully autonomous AI pentesting agent for web applications.

2024

Keygraph is founded in San Francisco to address the security tool sprawl problem.

Key Capabilities

Autonomous white-box pentesting

Agentic static analysis

Real exploit execution (not just alerts)

Unified IGA, GRC, and MDM platform

Zero-configuration setup

Open-source AI pentesting (Shannon Lite)

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

GitHub
Nmap
Claude AI
NIST Benchmarks

Key Partnerships

Anthropic (Powered by Claude)

Pear VC (Accelerator)

Connect

Website

GitHub

X / Twitter

Discord

AI Topics

Keygraph focuses on these topics:

Application Security(1)

Security Testing(1)

Autonomous Systems(1)

Back to all developers