Built at the seam where detection ends and remediation begins.
Emphere exists because two people, one who wrote the code and one who filed the ticket, decided that handoff had to stop being someone else's problem.
Detection is a solved business. Remediation isn't.
The security industry has spent a decade building better scanners. Better dashboards. More alarming backlogs. We know what's broken. We can quantify it, categorize it, assign it a severity score, and route it to the right team. The tools for finding vulnerabilities are excellent.
But the moment a CVE leaves the security team and lands in an engineering ticket is where the work actually falls apart. Engineers context-switch. Sprint priorities compete. Dependencies conflict. The backlog doesn't shrink; it compounds. And the gap between “we found it” and “we fixed it” stays measured in weeks.
That gap is where breaches happen. That's the gap Emphere was built to close.
Founded by the two sides of the same broken handoff.
Pallav and Ankit met as roommates at Northeastern University and spent the next decade working the same problem from opposite ends. Pallav built large-scale systems at CarGurus and Twitter, watching security tickets consume engineering cycles that were never budgeted for them. Ankit spent six years at Uber securing cloud infrastructure across Uber and every company it acquired, opening the tickets Pallav was trying to close, at global scale.
Between them, they'd seen both sides of a handoff that the industry had accepted as friction. They founded Emphere in 2025 to eliminate it, not by improving the process but by automating past it.
Ankit Kumar
Co-founder
A decade in cybersecurity, six years of it at Uber securing cloud infrastructure across Uber and its acquired companies. He's seen vulnerability management operate at global scale, and seen exactly how much of that work never reaches resolution.
Cybersecurity · Northeastern
Pallav Gupta
Co-founder
Software engineer who spent his career building large-scale systems at CarGurus and Twitter. He knows intimately what it costs an engineering team to absorb a security backlog: in velocity, morale, and the work that never got built.
Computer Science · NortheasternPrinciples that shape how we build.
Don't make engineers do security work twice
The moment a CVE requires a human decision is a process failure. Remediation should be automatic, not a queue someone manages.
Own the supply chain, not just the image
A patched image is a moment in time. A tracked, verified supply chain is a guarantee that every rebuild stays clean, today and six months from now.
Security that respects how engineers actually work
Bring your Dockerfile. Keep your workflow. We map to your stack, not the other way around.
Beyond CVEs, because attackers are too
Malicious code doesn't always have a CVE number. We run SAST analysis and supply chain integrity checks on every package promotion, every time.
Zero CVEs. No backlog. No exceptions.
See what it looks like when remediation is something your team never has to think about.