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Teramind sells employee monitoring, data loss prevention and productivity analysis software to security and HR teams. It also monitors workplace AI use. Founded in 2014, Teramind reports serving over 10,000 customers across 125 countries with its software. Its founder says it has taken no outside funding. Company tracker Tracxn lists 219 employees as of June 30, 2026. Teramind says it earned Leader status in over 50 categories on software review site G2. It competes through screen recording, behavior detection and rules that block unauthorized uploads. Microsoft offers overlapping data protection within its Microsoft 365 workplace software, so Teramind competes with tools customers may already license.
| Description | Teramind sells a behavioral analytics platform for insider risk management, data loss prevention, workforce analytics, and AI governance that monitors user activity across endpoints. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | [f2] |
| HQ | Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States | [f3] |
| Latest funding | Bootstrapped (founder states the company has taken no outside funding) | [f2] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Teramind Platform | Behavioral analytics platform combining insider threat detection, data loss prevention, user activity monitoring, workforce analytics, and oversight of employee AI tool use from endpoint telemetry. |
Cyber Defense Matrix
| Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware. | |||||
| Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices. | |||||
| Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths. | |||||
| Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks. | |||||
| Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data. |
Teramind collects endpoint and application activity to baseline user behavior, score insider risk, and enforce DLP controls on sensitive data. It applies AI to defend conventional workforce and data assets, so it is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f4]
How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.
| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. | 3/5 | Teramind names the security and HR owners who watch user activity and states the insider-data problem those teams carry, and its published Arrivia case study describes an employee building secret databases of customer information at night. Nothing in the cited record quantifies that pain outside Teramind's own pages and its own customer story, so the problem statement is clear and vendor-asserted rather than independently sized. [s1, s3, s6] |
| Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs and third-party validation. | 3/5 | Teramind's solution page documents specific mechanisms: machine-learning baselines, dynamic risk scoring, session replay with OCR keyword indexing, and rule engines that block uploads and file movement in real time. Teramind Inc. is also the assignee of a granted United States patent on reading text off a screen image and applying rules to it. The cited record carries no third-party benchmark, audited evaluation, or open implementation of the scored capability, so the depth stands on vendor documentation beside that patent. [s3, s11, s7] |
| Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. | 3/5 | Insider risk and data-loss prevention are established budget lines Teramind has sold into since 2014, and it announced an AI Governance product that a SiliconANGLE article describes as behavioral oversight for AI agents and tools. The cited sources contain no dated account of buyers seeking this product. The launch announcement is an indirect demand signal. [s7, s3, s1] |
| Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. | 3/5 | Founder Isaac Kohen came to the problem from quantitative finance, and a March 2026 SiliconANGLE article quotes him as Teramind's chief product officer. The About page names a leadership bench spanning finance, engineering, marketing, worldwide sales, and customer success. The cited record shows no prior exit, no named research program, and no sustained independent recognition for that bench. [s8, s7, s1] |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 3/5 | Arrivia is Teramind's named reference customer, and the published case study names its VP of Revenue Integrity and Operational Compliance and states the deployment catches 10 to 15 insider threats a year. The 10,000-organization and 125-country figures are Teramind's own measurements, and the G2 leader placement is shown on Teramind's own homepage rather than sourced to G2, so the cited record carries one named reference customer and no independent corroboration of scale. [s6, s1, s2] |
| Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. | 3/5 | Founder Isaac Kohen states on the record that Teramind has never taken outside funding, and a Tracxn profile records the company as having raised none, against a CB Insights stage field reading Angel that carries no amount, date, or investor. Tracxn lists 219 employees as of June 30, 2026, and no party in the cited record discloses revenue, margin, or a growth rate, so capital efficiency remains unconfirmed. [s8, s9, s10] |
| Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. | 4/5 | Tracxn describes Teramind as a cloud-based end-user activity monitoring and data theft prevention solution. CB Insights calls it a monitoring and security company and lists ActivTrak, DTEX, and Aware among its competitors. A SiliconANGLE article describes its AI Governance product. Insider risk, data-loss prevention, and employee monitoring are established budget lines, so a buyer knows which one this fills. [s9, s10, s7] |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 2/5 | Microsoft includes Insider Risk Management in Purview's data loss prevention. It lists the Purview Suite at $12.00 per user per month, paid yearly, with qualifying Microsoft licenses required. Buyers who already hold those licenses could consider this overlapping offering. Teramind's counterweight in the cited record is the breadth of its endpoint capture and a granted patent Teramind Inc. holds over a screen-text method, which raises the cost of copying that method without stopping a suite vendor from building its own. [s13, s3, s11] |
Teramind sells against insider risk, the case where a person with legitimate access moves data they should not. It names the security and HR owners who carry that exposure and frames behavioral analytics as the layer between seeing activity and acting on it.
Its own Arrivia case study puts a shape on the problem: a travel company found an employee building secret databases of customer information at night, and its earlier tool had missed credit card data sent through chat and email. The cited record quantifies the pain through Teramind's own materials rather than through independent research, so the problem is well described and vendor-sized. [s1, s3, s6]
Teramind runs an endpoint agent that watches user activity. Its solution page names machine-learning baselines, dynamic risk scoring, session replay with OCR keyword indexing, and rule engines that block uploads, risky file access, and suspicious data movement in real time. Teramind integrates with security monitoring, endpoint detection, IT service management, and ticketing tools.
Teramind Inc. is the assignee of a granted United States patent describing how to obtain an image of a screen display, convert it to text, and apply rules to decide whether to act on the endpoint. The cited record does not say which parts of the shipping product implement that method. A SiliconANGLE article describes the new product as capturing prompts, responses, and autonomous behavior from ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini without additional infrastructure. [s3, s11, s7]
Teramind competes on breadth of endpoint capture in a market a CB Insights profile populates with InnerActiv, ActivTrak, InsiderSecurity, Aware, and DTEX. Its published licensing terms let a buyer start on five seats with a monthly or annual subscription.
The pressure comes from suite vendors. Microsoft includes Insider Risk Management in Purview's data loss prevention. It lists the Purview Suite at $12.00 per user per month, paid yearly, with qualifying Microsoft licenses required. Buyers who already hold those licenses could consider this overlapping offering. The cited record does not quantify Teramind's customer mix, segment win rates, or how it fares against those rivals in competitive deals. [s10, s4, s13]
Teramind reports more than 10,000 organizations across 125 countries, and those figures are its own measurements rather than third-party findings. Its homepage carries one named customer story, Arrivia, whose VP of Revenue Integrity and Operational Compliance is named in it, and the study states the deployment catches 10 to 15 insider threats a year.
In the founder's 2024 account the company had historically done almost no sales or marketing, and large firms and government organizations approached it directly. The About page now names a senior vice president of worldwide sales and a senior vice president of customer success. Teramind also displays G2 leader placements on its own homepage, which records what Teramind shows rather than what G2 published. [s1, s6, s8, s2]
Isaac Kohen founded Teramind in 2014 after a career in quantitative finance building trading algorithms for a Wall Street hedge fund, and a March 2026 SiliconANGLE article quotes him as the company's chief product officer.
The About page names a leadership bench beyond the founder, with a chief financial officer, a chief business officer, vice presidents of engineering, marketing, AI transformation, and HR, and senior vice presidents of worldwide sales and customer success. The cited record carries no prior exit, no named research program, and no sustained outside recognition for that group. [s8, s7, s1]
Teramind states its attestations in a public knowledge base FAQ, which says the company has achieved ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II compliance. The same FAQ says the Oracle Cloud data center hosting its cloud deployments carries certifications including SOC 1-3, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and FedRAMP, and it points government customers to an Enterprise tier on AWS GovCloud or Azure Government. Those are certifications of the hosting environment and deployment options rather than an authorization Teramind itself holds.
A fetch of trust.teramind.co on 2026-09-16 returned the standard Teramind homepage rather than a trust portal, and the FAQ links neither a certificate nor a report. A regulated buyer would therefore request the current SOC 2 report and ISO certificate from the company. Because the product records screens, keystrokes, and file transfers, that request carries more weight here than for a tool watching infrastructure, and the Arrivia account describes departments asking about privacy and scope during rollout. [s5, s12, s6, s3]
| Company | Relationship | Note | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|
| DTEX Systems | competes with | A CB Insights profile lists it among Teramind's competitors for the same insider-risk buyer. | |
| ActivTrak | competes with | A CB Insights profile lists it among Teramind's competitors in workforce monitoring. | |
| Varonis | adjacent | Adjacent competitor for the data-security budget the same buyer owns. | |
| Proofpoint | competes with | Competes for the enterprise insider-threat budget line. | |
| Microsoft | competes with | Microsoft's page states that Purview's Insider Risk Management is built into its data loss prevention and prices the Purview Suite per user per month. | N/AMicrosoft is scored by product line, not as a whole company, so there is no company-wide column to compare. Open its profile to compare a specific product. |
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Teramind, founded in 2014, sells employee monitoring and data protection software to security and HR teams. Its software records screens and uses configurable rules to block unauthorized uploads. Its founder says it has taken no outside funding. Teramind reports over 10,000 customers and Leader status in over 50 categories on software review site G2. Company tracker Tracxn lists 219 employees as of June 30, 2026. Teramind has a patent on extracting text from screen images and applying rules to decide whether to act. It reports ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II security attestations, which competitors can also obtain. Teramind takes work to replace after customers tune detection rules and connect its activity records to security monitoring and ticketing tools.
| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. | 1/3 | Teramind sells software the customer installs, configures, and runs, priced per seat with the license, support, and updates bundled into the subscription. The machine-learning scoring and forensic tooling are output the product produces, not a service in which Teramind accepts accountability for the customer's outcome, so the customer is paying for features. |
| Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. | 2/3 | A customer that leaves reabsorbs real work: uninstalling an endpoint agent, rebuilding tuned detection rules, and rewiring the SIEM, EDR, and ticketing feeds Teramind pushes into. That is data history, integrations, and learned workflows. The cited record does not size the migration, naming no exit duration, no parties involved, and no non-portable artifact, so the documented friction is meaningful rather than genuinely expensive. |
| Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. | 1/3 | Teramind states ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II compliance in a knowledge base FAQ, and both are attestations a funded competitor can obtain through ordinary enterprise-market preparation. The FedRAMP and FIPS references in the same FAQ attach to the Oracle Cloud data center that hosts Teramind's cloud deployments, and AWS GovCloud and Azure Government are deployment options rather than an authorization Teramind holds, so nothing in the cited record blocks a replacement. |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 3/3 | Teramind's own documentation describes machine-learning baselines built for individual users, peer groups, and system entities, dynamic risk scoring across applications, and rule engines that block an upload or a file transfer while it is happening. Teramind also indexes session replay using optical character recognition. Teramind Inc. separately holds a granted United States patent on extracting text from a screen image and applying rules to it. Machine-learning baselines and real-time blocking require expertise in behavior modeling and endpoint enforcement. |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 2/3 | The named buyer in the cited record is Arrivia, a PCI Level One-compliant travel company, and Teramind's published five-seat minimum lets a small team buy a subscription. Government interest is the founder's 2024 account of inbound approaches, and the AWS GovCloud and Azure Government tiers are options Teramind offers rather than a government buyer the record names. The evidenced buyer carries compliance obligations, and the cited record describes no procurement process standing between that buyer and a replacement. |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 2/3 | Teramind pushes identity-linked behavioral telemetry into the SIEM, EDR, ITSM, and ticketing systems a customer already runs, which makes it more than an end-user application for one use case. The cited record names no public API marketplace and no third-party developer program, and nothing shows other software depending on Teramind to function, so it sits as a platform with application features. |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 2/3 | Teramind Inc. is the assignee of a granted United States patent over its method for reading text off a screen and acting on the endpoint, and a CB Insights profile records that patent as the company's one filing. That is an intellectual-property asset the record evidences rather than infers, held by the vendor rather than per tenant. The cited record names no cross-customer corpus that Teramind retains and learns from, and its certification FAQ describes both vendor-hosted cloud and customer-hosted on-premise deployments, so the patent carries this score and the behavioral telemetry does not. |
Teramind sells insider-risk, data-loss prevention, and workforce analytics software to the security and HR owners who watch how people use company systems. It reports more than 10,000 organizations across 125 countries, a figure it publishes itself, and its published licensing lets a buyer start on five seats with a monthly or annual subscription, with quantity discounts above 250 licenses.
The named buyer evidence sits with a company carrying compliance obligations. Arrivia, a PCI Level One-compliant travel company, is the customer Teramind names, and the case study describes its VP of Revenue Integrity and Operational Compliance using the product for fraud detection and compliance evidence.
In the founder's 2024 account, large firms and government organizations approached Teramind without a sales push, and its certification FAQ points government customers to an Enterprise tier on AWS GovCloud or Azure Government. The cited record does not quantify how much of the customer base sits in each segment.
Teramind's capability is the breadth of what its endpoint agent records. The solution page names machine-learning baselines, dynamic risk scoring, session replay with OCR keyword indexing, and rule engines that block unauthorized uploads and suspicious data movement in real time, with native integration into SIEM, EDR, ITSM, and ticketing platforms.
Teramind Inc. is the assignee of a granted United States patent describing how to obtain an image of a screen display from an endpoint, convert it to text, and apply rules to decide whether to act on that machine. The cited record does not say which parts of the shipping product implement that method.
A SiliconANGLE article describes the AI Governance product as capturing prompts, responses, and autonomous behavior from ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini without additional infrastructure, using text capture, screen recording, and optical character recognition.
Teramind's growth account is product-led by its founder's telling. In 2024 Isaac Kohen said the company had historically done almost no sales or marketing and that large firms and government organizations started approaching it directly.
The About page names a senior vice president of worldwide sales and a senior vice president of customer success, and Teramind publishes seat-based licensing a buyer can evaluate before talking to anyone.
Teramind's homepage carries a single named customer story, Arrivia, which names its VP of Revenue Integrity and Operational Compliance and states the deployment catches 10 to 15 insider threats a year, beside anonymized testimonials. The G2 leader placements Teramind cites are shown on its own homepage, so they record what Teramind displays rather than a placement sourced to G2.
Teramind publishes licensing terms in its knowledge base. The Starter, UAM, and DLP plans have monthly or annual subscriptions with a five-seat minimum. Quantity discounts begin above 250 licenses. The subscription includes the software license, technical support, and updates for the term. Teramind charges per seat for visibility into each monitored person. That unit matches how a security team scopes an insider-risk population, and a five-seat floor lets a small team start small. In the 2024 Pulse 2.0 interview, Isaac Kohen gave a starting price of $12 per seat per month. The cited licensing article contains no current per-seat rate.
Teramind delivers as an endpoint agent feeding a behavioral analytics backend, with cloud deployments hosted in an Oracle Cloud data center and an Enterprise tier available on AWS GovCloud or Azure Government.
What the agent records sets the operating burden. Session replay, OCR keyword indexing, and activity timelines mean an operations team holds screen and keystroke data, and Teramind ties that to access-control governance in its own description of the forensic evidence it produces.
Rollout carries a communications job as well as a technical one. Teramind's case study describes Arrivia communicating openly about privacy, scope, and monitoring work activities on company devices.
Teramind states its attestations in a public knowledge base FAQ, which says the company has achieved ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II compliance. The same FAQ says the Oracle Cloud data center hosting its cloud deployments carries certifications including SOC 1-3, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and FedRAMP, which are certifications of the hosting environment rather than an authorization Teramind itself holds.
A fetch of trust.teramind.co on 2026-09-16 returned the standard Teramind homepage rather than a trust portal. A regulated buyer would still request the current SOC 2 report and ISO certificate directly.
Employee privacy matters because the product records what employees see and type. Teramind says it runs the visible version of its own agent on its own remote workforce, and the self-hosted option leaves collected data inside the customer's environment.
Teramind integrates with security monitoring, endpoint detection, IT service management, and ticketing tools. Its solution page describes identity-linked behavioral telemetry in security monitoring dashboards. The AI Governance product monitors workplace AI tools. A SiliconANGLE article describes it as requiring no additional infrastructure and covering ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and unapproved AI tools. The cited sources contain no description of a public API marketplace or third-party developer program.
Isaac Kohen founded Teramind in 2014 after building trading algorithms for a Wall Street hedge fund, and a March 2026 SiliconANGLE article quotes him as the company's chief product officer discussing the AI Governance launch.
The About page names a leadership bench beyond the founder: a chief financial officer, a chief business officer, vice presidents of engineering, marketing, AI transformation, and HR, and senior vice presidents of worldwide sales and customer success. Teramind also says its teams are fully remote and that it runs its own agent internally.
The cited record carries no prior exit, no named research program, and no sustained outside recognition for that group.
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | Teramind: About Us | official | 2026-09-16 |
| f2 | Pulse 2.0: How Teramind Mitigates Insider Threats And Data Loss | press | 2026-09-16 |
| f3 | Teramind company page on LinkedIn, Headquarters field | official | 2026-09-16 |
| f4 | Teramind: About Us | official | 2026-06-21 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Teramind: About Us page | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s2 | Teramind homepage | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s3 | Teramind: Insider Threat Detection solution page | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s4 | Teramind Knowledge Base: how Teramind is licensed | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s5 | Teramind Knowledge Base: certification FAQ | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s6 | Teramind case study: Arrivia | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s7 | SiliconANGLE: Teramind launches agentic AI visibility and policy platform for AI tools | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s8 | Pulse 2.0: interview with Teramind founder Isaac Kohen | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s9 | Tracxn: Teramind company profile | research | 2026-09-16 |
| s10 | CB Insights: Teramind company profile | research | 2026-09-16 |
| s11 | Google Patents: US10853508B2, Method and system for reactive mining of computer screens | research | 2026-09-16 |
| s12 | Probe 2026-09-16 (curl): trust.teramind.co returns the standard Teramind homepage, not a trust portal | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s13 | Microsoft: Purview data security product page | official | 2026-09-16 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Teramind: About Us page | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s2 | Teramind homepage | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s3 | Teramind: Insider Threat Detection solution page | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s4 | Teramind Knowledge Base: how Teramind is licensed | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s5 | Teramind Knowledge Base: certification FAQ | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s6 | Teramind case study: Arrivia | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s7 | SiliconANGLE: Teramind launches agentic AI visibility and policy platform for AI tools | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s8 | Pulse 2.0: interview with Teramind founder Isaac Kohen | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s9 | Tracxn: Teramind company profile | research | 2026-09-16 |
| s10 | CB Insights: Teramind company profile | research | 2026-09-16 |
| s11 | Google Patents: US10853508B2, Method and system for reactive mining of computer screens | research | 2026-09-16 |
| s12 | Probe 2026-09-16 (curl): trust.teramind.co returns the standard Teramind homepage, not a trust portal | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s13 | Microsoft: Purview data security product page | official | 2026-09-16 |
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