Iru

Overview

Iru is a private IT and security software company led by chief executive and co-founder Adam Pettit — and it is not, despite what a casual search suggests, a new startup (SiliconANGLE). Iru is the October 2025 rebrand of Kandji Inc., the Apple device-management company founded in 2018 that raised $288 million in disclosed funding before relaunching under the new name (SiliconANGLE). Page-one search results for “Iru” are dominated by company-issued award announcements; the independently verifiable story is the Kandji lineage and the rebrand.

From Kandji to a $288 million funding arc

Kandji was founded in 2018 as a device-management and endpoint-security platform for Apple products, designed to make it easier to deploy hardened devices, update software, resolve vulnerabilities and prevent problems across device fleets (SiliconANGLE). It launched in October 2019 with a zero-touch management product built around roughly 200 one-click compliance policy frameworks (TechCrunch). In October 2020, as pandemic-era remote work drove demand for remote device management, the company announced a $21 million Series A led by Greycroft, with participation from Okta Ventures, B Capital Group and existing investor First Round Capital, bringing its total raised to $28.4 million (TechCrunch).

Growth accelerated sharply. A $60 million Series B followed in April 2021, and that November Kandji raised a $100 million Series C on an $800 million valuation led by Tiger Global, with total funding passing $188 million (TechCrunch). By then more than 1,000 companies were using the platform, headcount had grown from 40 to over 250 in a year, and the company had opened a London office alongside its San Diego base while operating remote-first (TechCrunch). In July 2024 Kandji raised another $100 million — $50 million in Series D equity financing plus $50 million in go-to-market investment — led by General Catalyst at an $850 million valuation, with General Catalyst’s Deep Nishar joining the board (SiliconANGLE). That round brought total disclosed funding to $288 million, with the company reporting 600%-plus growth in annual recurring revenue and fourfold customer growth across more than 40 industries, including Rackspace, Allbirds, Canva and Notion (SiliconANGLE).

The rebrand: collapsing the stack

On October 22, 2025, Kandji announced it had changed its name to Iru and launched an AI-powered IT and security platform unifying identity and access, endpoint security and management, and compliance automation in a single system (SiliconANGLE). The rebrand marked a strategic expansion: the company was no longer only about Apple device management but offered mobile-device-management capabilities for Windows and Android as well, so enterprises could manage mixed fleets from one console (Computerworld). Pettit told Computerworld the company remained committed to Apple management while responding to customers who had been asking for Windows support (Computerworld).

The new platform is organized around what the company calls the Iru Context Model — a unified context layer building a living map across users, apps, devices, posture, policy and events — with Iru AI turning that context into insights, actions and audit-ready evidence (SiliconANGLE). It consists of six integrated products: Workforce Identity (passwordless single sign-on with hardware-backed passkeys), Endpoint Management, Endpoint Detection and Response, Vulnerability Management, Compliance Automation, and a Trust Center portal for sharing certifications and security posture (SiliconANGLE). Existing Kandji customers were to transition to the Iru experience with their configurations intact (Computerworld).

What this profile does not claim

This profile does not state a headquarters city: the company’s own materials place it in Miami, Florida, but no independent source confirms it, so only the United States is given. It does not report post-rebrand customer counts, employee numbers or valuation, which have not been independently covered. It does not repeat the company’s 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards or its Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers listing, since those appear only in company-issued press releases. It does not assert that Iru is a new company — the central verified fact is the opposite: Iru is Kandji renamed, and every funding and product claim in this profile traces to that lineage.