Synopsis
Chennai-born Arvind Nithrakashyap believes Palo Alto-headquartered Rubrik is in the right spot to serve some of India’s cybersecurity needs at a time of rapid digitisation. This means a lot of investments need to go into securing those networks and data sets, he noted.“There’s definitely interest from government organisations on how to build a more cyber-resilient infrastructure,” Nithrakashyap told ET in an interview.
“When health data is digitised and shared across entities, the question becomes—how do you ensure it is not compromised, exfiltrated or deleted in a cyberattack?” he said.
Chennai-born Nithrakashyap believes Palo Alto-headquartered Rubrik is in the right spot to serve some of India’s cybersecurity needs at a time of rapid digitisation. This means a lot of investments need to go into securing those networks and data sets, he noted.
Also, the government is in the process of enforcing the Digital Private Data Protection (DPDP) rules, which are set to impact companies across the spectrum, especially the digital-native firms.
“There's definitely maturity in the ecosystem… Just given the prevalence of digital infrastructure, I think people are concerned about it,” Nithrakashyap said. “But, yes, cost is definitely a point of discussion (among Indian companies).”
India remains a small market for Rubrik in terms of business and revenue. The company primarily gets its business from North America and Europe. It serves around 7,000 customers globally. In India, it has around 900 customers across banking, financial services, information technology and others.
“India is still early for us from a revenue perspective, but we see strong growth potential…with increasing digitisation and regulatory focus, cyber resilience is becoming a boardroom priority,” Nithrakashyap said.
But the country is a key talent market for Rubrik, which set up its India operations in 2017. Roughly a third of its global workforce of 3,500 is based here. The company is actively hiring across engineering, product and design roles. “We’ve always been in the market for top talent, and India is a very strong ecosystem for that,” Nithrakashyap said. “A significant part of our product portfolio is built out of India, across cloud, data security and identity.”
Rubrik has development centres in the US, India and Israel.
The company was founded in 2014 by India-born IIT graduates Bipul Sinha, Soham Mazumdar, Arvind Jain and Nithrakashyap. While Mazumdar went on to start WisdomAI in 2023, Jain founded Glean in 2019. Sinha is the current CEO.
After going public in 2024, Rubrik has actively grown its business. The company closed its FY26 ended January 31, with a subscription revenue of $1.26 billion, a 53% increase compared to $828.7 million in fiscal 2025. Its total revenue stood at $1.32 billion, a 48% increase compared to $886.5 million in fiscal 2025.
The company is currently trading at a market capitalisation of more than $9 billion.
From a business growth perspective, Rubrik is open to growing its business through the acquisition route.
Nithrakashyap said the company has already acquired three Indian startups and their talent and products have been rolled into the NYSE-listed technology major. “It is all related to cyber resilience, cybersecurity,” he said. “They were mainly smaller companies, but it was a combination of some technology and obviously the talent.”
In June 2025, the company acquired San Francisco-headquartered Predibase, which helped deploy AI models for enterprises. Then in August 2025, Rubrik launched its own AI agent to undo mistakes committed by agentic AI.
