We are excited to announce Forbes has recognized Immuta as one of America’s Best Startup Employers. Our inclusion in this annual ranking acknowledges Immuta’s record annual growth, as well as our commitment to providing the support and resources employees look for in a modern employer. To compile this list, Forbes evaluated 2,500 American businesses with at least 50 employees on the following criteria:
- Reputation as an employer, measured by social listening and brand reception
- Employee satisfaction, measured by tenure and employee reviews
- Growth, measured by increases in headcount, traffic, and job openings
We believe that our success across these three categories is a direct result of the strength of our company culture and values. In this post, I’ll discuss Immuta’s company values and mission, employee wellbeing, and record annual growth to illustrate why Forbes recognized us as a top startup employer.
Reputation as an Employer
Immuta offers the opportunity to work on new, innovative solutions and make a difference in an industry expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 22% for the next seven years. Our shared mission empowers us to provide uniquely personalized services to our customers and motivates us to consistently create new value for our partners.
Born out of the US Intelligence community, our leadership team founded Immuta as a solution for the complex and sensitive data governance problems they faced in the public sector. Since our inception, Immuta has remained mission focused and built a reputation on enabling ethical and valuable data use.
Immuta’s foundation inspired our company values and formed a strong basis for an enduring culture. At Immuta, employees commit to being:
- Mission Focused, ensuring that data is accessible to only those who need it, for the right reasons, and in the proper form.
- Independent Achievers, taking initiative to get things done yet knowing when to ask for help.
- Humble Intellects, always learning and adapting in pursuit of true expertise.
- Helpful and Caring, operating with respect and consideration of our peers and acting with empathy, honesty, transparency, and integrity.
These qualities empower all teams––from engineering to customer service and marketing––to act as dependable and collaborative resources for customers and partners, which in turn has helped build Immuta’s strong reputation.
At Immuta, we go out of our way to find new solutions for our customers’ unique challenges. Fueled by our desire to empower data teams to fully leverage cloud-based data analytics and data sharing on the most sensitive data, we continuously innovate and expand our best-in-class technology, service, and collaboration resources. In the past 12 months, we introduced new privacy and security automation capabilities that build upon our centralized data access and control hub, including privacy starter policies for native cloud integrations, k-anonymization, and external masking capabilities. Our reputation for innovation has been recognized and celebrated by Credit Suisse and Databricks.
Employee Satisfaction
We believe that it is a company’s responsibility to ensure that employees feel supported, healthy, and happy to be working at Immuta. Therefore, we provide our employees with the best educational resources, mental and physical healthcare, and professional training available. All Immuta employees are entitled to:
- Free access to courses on Udemy to encourage continued education and growth
- “Lunch & Learns” presentations run by Immuta team members on Immuta-related topics or personal hobbies and experiences
- 100% employer paid healthcare premiums
- Mental health resources and support via Modern Health supporting mental health
- WHOOP fitness trackers and membership to support physical health and wellness
Not only are we firmly committed to supporting the productivity, health, and success of our employees, particularly while working remotely, but we also refuse to sacrifice our office camaraderie and culture. Communication between our three offices and remote teams is easier than ever with Slack channels for music (#immuta-mixtape), food and drink (#baking-and-shaking), and fitness (#immuta-fit). We also add our own unique flair to virtual happy hours and lunches by hosting data-themed scavenger hunts and mixology lessons. And, I can confidently say that Immuta is the only tech company with its own brewery — don’t worry, all employees can enjoy samples of the brews and get Immuta Brewing Co. t-shirts.
But, don’t take our word for it! 100% of Immuta employees recommend working at Immuta and the majority of our offices are also rated 5 stars on Glassdoor.
Growth
In 2020, Immuta experienced record demand for data access control and automated data access governance. During a turbulent and unprecedented year, we more than doubled our customer base, which now includes three top U.S. banks, two leading U.S. health insurance companies, two preeminent global automotive manufacturers, and several global consumer product and entertainment companies. To meet this demand-driven business expansion, we invested in hiring, expanded our partner ecosystem and business footprint overseas, and launched new product capabilities.
Immuta’s full-time headcount increased by 115% in 2020, including key positions on our European go-to-market and leadership teams. We also continued to expand our partner network and build out our integrations with top cloud data platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, Starburst, Azure Synapse, Google BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift. These new features include native integrations with Starburst and Presto, enhanced privacy and collaboration features for Databricks, and privacy and security automation capabilities for Snowflake. Finally, Immuta’s successful integration with Amazon RDS earned us the Amazon RDS Ready designation.
Successful collaboration with leading data analytics companies and cloud data providers has enabled us to make a bigger impact on more people. We are more prepared than ever to help improve the data access and privacy capabilities of global organizations and unlock their data’s true potential.
We are proud of our team’s mission, achievements, and values and honored that Forbes recognized Immuta as one of the Best Startup Employers. If you are interested in partnering or joining our team, I encourage you to reach out to us to learn more. Please feel free to explore open positions, chat with the team, or contact us at [email protected].
