Built by Practitioners, for Practitioners
We've spent decades managing third-party risk at Fortune 500 companies. We built TrustGuard to solve the problems we lived every day.
Why We Exist
Third-party risk management is broken. The numbers tell the story.
98%
of organizations have vendor relationships that have been breached
40+ hrs
average time to complete a single vendor security assessment
$4.5M
average cost of a third-party data breach
A Different Approach
We're not building another checkbox tool. We're building intelligent risk analysis.
Depth Over Speed
AI that reads every page of every SOC report, cross-references claims against evidence, and surfaces what actually matters—not just what's easy to find.
Confidence Over Coverage
Every finding comes with evidence citations. Know exactly why something is flagged, with direct links to the source documentation.
Speed That Scales
Reduce assessment time by 90% without sacrificing thoroughness. Process hundreds of vendor documents in the time it takes to review one manually.
Practitioner-Built
Designed by CISOs and risk managers who've assessed thousands of vendors. Every feature exists because we needed it ourselves.
Elena K.
Founder & CEO
"Over my career—from leading cybersecurity at Barclays and Bank of America, to serving as the first Chief Trust Officer at SAP—I've seen firsthand how trust is built, broken, and rebuilt in complex organizations. We built TrustGuard to make trust operational and clear, not theoretical."Read the full letter
Supported by World-Class Investors & Advisors
Leadership
Elena Kvochko
Founder & CEO
Building an AI-first platform to transform third-party risk. Adjunct professor at Cornell. Previously CISO at SAP, led cybersecurity at Barclays and Bank of America.
Subbu Kandikattu
Head of Technology
Leads TrustGuard's technology vision and engineering. Previously VP of Engineering at Hearst, Sr Engineering Manager at Amazon. Built systems at Microsoft and Expedia.
Rajiv Pant
Advisor to CEO & CTO
President at Flatiron Software and Snapshot AI. Practitioner of synthesis engineering — AI-augmented software development. Former CTO of The New York Times, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Hearst and WSJ.
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