Leading Seezo’s Seed Round: Scaling Secure Design for Modern Engineering Teams
I first met Sandesh at one of Accel’s annual security leaders’ dinners, a gathering of practitioners who have lived through the trenches of cybersecurity. Sandesh stood out that evening, and together with Rakshita, whose experience at Pingsafe added a strong product and customer success lens, they made a founding team we were immediately excited to back. Their combined backgrounds across consulting, internal security operations, and customer success give them a rare 360-degree view of how security really functions inside fast-moving engineering teams.
Our conviction was simple: as software development accelerates and AI-assisted code creation becomes standard, application security must move upstream. Yet one of the most foundational steps, the secure design review, is still handled through spreadsheets, calls, and manual checklists. The result is delay, inconsistency, and costly lapses. In one case, a fintech company inadvertently logged sensitive card data for months before discovery, forcing an expensive rebuild. Seezo identifies these gaps before any code is written
The timing for this could not be better. With AI coding assistants becoming integral to the development lifecycle, teams are shipping faster than ever, but often without a proportionate evolution in security workflows. The secure design phase has become the weakest link in many modern SDLCs, creating both risk and opportunity for innovation.
Seezo automates secure design reviews by ingesting architecture documents from tools such as Confluence, Google Docs, or SharePoint, analysing them against custom rules, and returning structured security assessments via Jira or Slack within minutes. What once required multiple architects can now happen continuously, with far greater coverage and consistency.
The impact is already visible. From a leading Indian payments company to a global social network and major financial institutions, teams now rely on Seezo to scale their AppSec workflows. Many have reduced dependence on external consultants, unlocked faster delivery, and achieved a level of visibility that was previously unthinkable.
As AI reshapes the SDLC, every part of the AppSec stack is being reimagined for speed, automation, and reliability. Seezo is emerging as the automation layer for that new world, where secure design becomes a built-in part of engineering rather than a last-minute gate.
We have partnered with Seezo from its earliest days and are proud to lead their $7M seed round. Sandesh and Rakshita are building a category-defining AppSec platform that ensures security evolves with the pace of modern software. As software continues to eat the world, secure design can no longer be an afterthought. Seezo is showing what a future-ready AppSec stack looks like: continuous, automated, and developer-first.
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