Kloudle

Kloudle is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) tool built around a specific objection many small engineering teams have to conventional CSPM products: sending a full inventory of IAM policies, security groups, encryption keys, and network topology to a third-party SaaS vendor. Kloudle’s scanner instead runs on the customer’s own infrastructure and writes results to the customer’s own database, checking AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, and Kubernetes environments against a large library of misconfiguration rules (the company cites roughly 1,800-1,900 checks) without the cloud inventory ever leaving the customer’s network.

The company was founded by Akash Mahajan, a longtime offensive-security practitioner and Black Hat/DEF CON trainer who previously co-founded the cloud penetration testing firm Appsecco, alongside co-founder and CTO Riyaz Ahemed Walikar. Kloudle has raised a small pre-seed round (reported at roughly $700K from Upekkha) and operates as a lean, developer-focused team rather than a venture-scale platform play.

Kloudle is a small, early-stage vendor competing in a CSPM market dominated by much larger cloud security platforms. Its differentiation — a self-hosted, no-data-egress model aimed at developers and small teams who want CSPM without a SaaS subscription or a dedicated security team to run it — is a real and coherent positioning, but the company has limited public traction data (no disclosed customer counts, revenue, or case studies), so this profile scores it as a credible niche tool rather than an established category leader.