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Over the past year, several key developments have taken shape at Corsha Inc. that have brought significant growth to its workforce and annual revenue figures.
The Vienna cybersecurity startup has added 12 new roles across its customer support, sales and engineering teams, bringing its total workforce to 35 people. Revenue has climbed 96% as the company has moved into new industries, including financial services, health care and telecommunications.
Corsha primarily helps businesses secure machine-to-machine communications across a network, ensuring that servers or other internet-enabled devices can safely talk to each other autonomously and without breaching authorization access. That’s a critical capability for many industries tasked with protecting sensitive data.
According to Corsha, the vast majority of traffic interacting with any given enterprise network is likely some sort of automated agent, not humans. Knowing the identity of these automated systems is critical in helping to determine a harmless internal automated actor from a potential external threat.
CEO Anusha Iyer believes it’s important to create a workplace that inspires employees to always find ways to innovate on their own.
“We have a phrase that’s a core part of our culture: ‘Are your feet moving in the direction you want them to move?’” she said. “I’m a firm believer in being intentional about this. And if we are finding joy in our work and moving in the direction we want to both individually and collectively, only great things can happen.”
Corsha Inc.
- CEO: Anusha Iyer
- Headquarters: Vienna
- Total funding raised: Not disclosed
- Full-time employees: 35
- 2023 revenue: Over $2 million
