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Matano

Cloud Native SIEM (alternative to Splunk/Elastic)

Y CombinatorWinter 2023ActiveB2BSecurityDevSecOpsAnalyticsOpen SourceCybersecurity

What they do

Problem

Cloud-first security teams need a scalable, cost-effective way to collect, store, and analyze security telemetry for threat detection and incident response without relying on expensive legacy SIEMs.

Solution

Matano provides a cloud-native SIEM built on a security data lake to ingest and query security logs as an alternative to Splunk or Elastic.

Who it's for

Cloud-first security teams at organizations that need SIEM capabilities, typically mid-market to enterprise.

Founders

Samrose Ahmed
Founder

Hi I'm Samrose, a software engineer by background. I grew up in NYC, went to CMU, and worked at AWS for a few years before starting Matano. I'm especially interested in big data, cloud, and highly available systems. Outside of work, I'm an avid reader.

Shaeq Ahmed
Founder

Hey! Shaeq is a software engineer who originally hails from New York and loves all things open source, security and big data. He quit his job crunching data for autonomous robots at Amazon to build Matano - an open-source SIEM alternative for security teams on AWS.

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