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title: "Asaf Kochan"
description: "Asaf Kochan is founder of Sentra, according to sentra.io. That source is dated November 4, 2026 and announces $150 million Series C."
canonical: "https://presspool.ai/founders/asaf-kochan-sentra"
last-updated: "2026-11-08"
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# Asaf Kochan

Founder record · Updated November 8, 2026 · founder of Sentra · Presspool · https://presspool.ai/founders/asaf-kochan-sentra

Asaf Kochan is founder of [Sentra](https://presspool.ai/companies/sentra-io), according to [sentra.io](https://sentra.io/news/sentra-raises-150-million-agentic-data-security).

That source is dated November 4, 2026 and announces $150 million Series C.

## Company

Agentic data security company protecting data at rest and controlling which human and AI identities can reach it.

## Founders recorded here

No other founder from Sentra is recorded here. This is not a complete founding team.

## Funding evidence

Sentra announced a $150 million Series C on November 4, 2026. Led by Capital One Ventures. The $150 million investment includes a small secondary component for employees; the primary/secondary split was not disclosed. The round is listed in the [AI startup funding roster for November 2–7, 2026](https://presspool.ai/ai-startup-funding/week-of-2026-11-02). Source: [Sentra announcement](https://sentra.io/news/sentra-raises-150-million-agentic-data-security), [Sentra CTO](https://sentra.io/blog/why-we-raised-150m-series-c-data-security), [SecurityWeek](https://www.securityweek.com/agentic-data-security-firm-sentra-raises-150-million/), [CTech](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1jextotml).

Of the 14 Series C rounds with exactly stated amounts in dollars on Presspool's weekly rosters since September 21, 2026, Sentra's $150 million is the joint 5th largest; their median is $143 million.

## Who-is sample

Asked “who is Asaf Kochan”. ChatGPT returned 1 response in 1 attempt; Claude returned 1 response in 1 attempt; Gemini returned 1 response in 1 attempt; Google AI Mode returned 1 response in 1 attempt; Google AI Overviews returned 1 response in 1 attempt. Sample date: November 8, 2026. These counts measure responses collected, not whether the founder was recognized. An attempt here means a request recorded as reaching the app, not every provider request. Provider failures and apps without such a record are left out; missing is not zero. Those answers cited cybertechconference.com (2), google.com (1), harrywalker.com (1), openai.com (1), scworld.com (1), sentra.io (1) and zoominfo.com (1). How each app is asked is on the [method page](https://presspool.ai/method).

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## Source

- [https://sentra.io/news/sentra-raises-150-million-agentic-data-security](https://sentra.io/news/sentra-raises-150-million-agentic-data-security)

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