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Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) has acquired 1touch to directly address one of enterprise AI’s most urgent barriers: making GenAI and Agentic AI secure enough for real-world, large-scale deployment. The acquisition strategically expands Everpure’s platform beyond infrastructure performance into intelligent data governance, embedding security, visibility, and AI accountability at the core of enterprise data environments.
1touch already serves the world’s most regulated industries, with clients including Cigna, American Express, BNP Paribas, AmerisourceBergen, Prudential Financial, NatWest Group, and others.
Charles Giancarlo, CEO of Everpure, said: “With 1touch, we are taking the next step in helping organizations not only gain control of their most valuable asset—data—but also understand, enhance, and contextualize that data for actionable intelligence.
Ashish Gupta, CEO and President of 1touch, said: “Data is the lifeblood of the AI era, but without the proper controls and semantic context, it remains an untapped resource,” said Ashish Gupta, CEO and president, 1touch. “By joining forces with Everpure, we can eliminate the barriers that have kept enterprises from realizing the true ROI of their data. Together, we will further expand the Everpure platform to provide a level of contextual intelligence that is unmatched in the industry—giving customers the foundation they need to move AI projects from pilot to production at record speed and trust.”
Under the leadership of CEO Ashish Gupta and founders Itzhak Assaraf, Dimitry Shevchenko, and Zak Rubinstein, 1Touch is headquartered in North America and was originally founded in JVP’s Cyber Labs in Be’er Sheva, under the leadership of Yoav Tzruya, as part of JVP’s founder and chairman Erel Margalit’s mission to advance Israel’s cybersecurity in southern Israel to a global scale. Other investors in the company include National Grid, one of the largest energy companies in the U.S. and Europe, represented by Pradeep Tagare, alongside NeoTribe. The company also benefited from the significant contributions of Bernard Gavagni, former Global CIO of BNP Paribas, and Sam Balaji, former Vice Chairman of Deloitte US, among others.
Yoav Tzruya, General Partner at JVP and a founding board member of 1Touch, said: “We are happy to have worked with trusted partners. Their leadership and collaboration were instrumental in building the company. We are proud to see the global recognition it has earned for its thought leadership in this category, serving some of the world’s largest enterprises across financial services, insurance, healthcare, and government. 1Touch.io’s unique technology delivers multiple layers of value, from data discovery and classification to security, privacy, and a semantic catalog. Together, these capabilities enable the offering of a solution that brings enterprise data into the AI era in a scalable, governed, and compliant manner across both legacy and cloud environments.”
JVP’s renowned Cyber Lab in the city of Be’er Sheva has produced world-leading cybersecurity companies. 1Touch’s milestone, announced today, reflects JVP’s commitment to investing in exceptional talent emerging beyond the country’s traditional tech hubs and to helping these technology leaders become true international market leaders, time and again.
JVP has built and shaped cyber market leaders such as CyberArk (JVP held 47% just prior to the IPO; the company was recently acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $25bn), alongside strategic exits including CyActive, Scadafence, Loom Systems, and MagniFire, as well as current category leaders such as Appdome, Morphisec, Vicarius, and others.
