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Hilt builds data-movement security software for security teams at regulated and performance-sensitive companies, watching data at the kernel to detect and stop unusual transfers.
- Founders
- William Cielen · co-founder and CEOBefore Hilt, he attended Concordia University in Montreal and worked as an algorithmic trading intern at the National Bank of Canada.
- Alexandre Genest · co-founder and CTO
- Zin Bitar · co-founder and founding engineer
- William Cielen · co-founder and CEO
- Business model
- Hilt sells annual subscriptions priced per data collector rather than per seat or by data volume; its site also describes a 20% browser-extension surcharge and hourly billing for short-lived workloads.
- Total raised
- $4.7 million · as its sources put it, more than the rounds on record
- Competitors
- Cyberhaven, Microsoft Purview, Cyera, Nightfall AI, Varonis, CrowdStrike Falcon, Zscaler DLP, DTEX, Broadcom / Symantec DLP, Forcepoint DLP, Fortra / Digital Guardian, Proofpoint Enterprise DLP, Trellix DLP, Netskope, Cisco Umbrella DLP, Palo Alto Prisma SaaS, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Google Cloud DLP, Amazon Macie, SentinelOne, BigID, Symmetry Systems, Securiti.ai, DoControl, Strac, Exabeam, Securonix, Splunk UBA, Concentric.ai
WHY IT MATTERS
Hilt addresses a gap its site and investors describe: normal-looking, permitted activity by insiders, vendors, or AI agents can move sensitive data past EDR, gateways and SIEMs, while Hilt watches the movement at kernel level and can alert or quarantine it in real time. The $4.2 million seed round, bringing total funding to $4.7 million, is intended to fund hiring and market expansion for a product already used by a hedge fund and a high-frequency trading firm, with reported customer count doubling after its go-to-market push and interest from neobanks, healthcare and professional-services companies.