As of today, Kandji is now Iru. Having evolved from Kandji, a leading Apple endpoint platform, the Miami- and California-based tech company has a new identity, product suite, audience and mission.
The result is an AI-powered IT and security platform used by fast-growing enterprises to secure all their users, apps, and devices.
“Iru is a complete transformation – we’re fundamentally reimagining how IT and security teams work. We’re launching six integrated products and expanding from Apple-only to cross-platform support. The new name signals that this is a new company with a broader mission,” CEO and founder Adam Pettit told Refresh Miami.
“With Iru, we are taking our vast knowledge of how IT and security teams work and building a unified platform that enables teams to manage the things they care about most – users, apps, and devices – in order to drive efficiency and security,” added Pettit [pictured above].
Pettit is betting that AI-powered consolidation can replace the dozens of overlapping point tools IT teams currently juggle, positioning directly against incumbent platforms like Microsoft. The reality is nearly half of teams cite overlapping tools as a top operational challenge, leading to fractured workflows, constant tab switching, and dropped handoffs, the company says.
“IT and security teams are stuck using stitched-together point solutions that don’t talk to each other, which means there’s no shared context and work slows down while risk increases. Iru offers an antidote by consolidating point solutions into a unified platform,” Pettit said. “We’re collapsing the stack by unifying identity & access, endpoint security & management, and compliance automation into one AI-powered platform.”
Indeed Kandji’s customers had been asking for unified solutions that work across their entire environment, not just Apple devices, Pettit said. “We’ve spent years building deep expertise in endpoint management and automation, and we now have the resources to expand our vision. The convergence of AI capabilities and the growing complexity of IT and security stacks created the perfect moment to reimagine how these teams should work.”
The Iru platform with six new products – Workforce Identity, Endpoint Management, Endpoint Detection & Response, Vulnerability Management, Compliance Automation, and a Trust Center – is available today for new customers, and Kandji customers will transition to the new platform.
Iru, which raised a $100 million Series D on an $850 million valuation last year, is a fast-growing tech employer in South Florida, a region that has attracted more than a dozen tech HQs over the past year. This past February, Iru, when it was Kandji, announced the company’s new East Coast HQ in the new Plaza Coral Gables office building; Kandji only had a handful of employees in South Florida before that.
“We see Miami as this new frontier of tech growth and innovation and development, and that’s in our culture, that’s where we want to be,” Sylvia LePoidevin, Iru’s CMO, said at the time.
By the mid-February HQ announcement, the company scaled up to about 70 employees in the Miami area, with plans to hire dozens more in coming months. Today, more than 150 employees of the 300-member global Iru team are based in South Florida, says Pettit, who is also here.
“And we are still hiring,” adds Pettit. Among the Miami Iru job openings are engineering and engineering leadership roles. “We believe in Miami as a great market for tech talent.”
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