Craig Unger, CEO and Founder of Hyperproof: Over $22 Million Raised to Pioneer the Compliance Operations category

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Craig Unger, CEO and Founder of Hyperproof, a security assurance and compliance operations platform that's raised over $22 Million in funding, about the central role of security in developing critical cloud services, and how a trust deficit can derail even the most promising plans for the future. Hyperproof is fully committed to helping companies keep the promises they make to their clients, creating an entirely new business application that makes it easy to gather and re-use evidence, set reminders to complete compliance tasks, and automate tedious manual tasks, all with a level of transparency previously unheard of.

We also speak about Craig’s background in the tech Industry for 31 years, his time working for microsoft and what it taught him about trust in the sector, bridging the gap between security and compliance, and Hyperproof’s vision for the future of enhancing trust and transparency across the board.

Topics Discussed:

• Craig’s decades-long career in the tech space, from some of the industry’s biggest names to experiences in the startup economy


• Lessons learned about trust and transparency as the foundation of critical business decisions and their impact on long-term development


• The Hyperproof value proposition and how they position themselves in a crowded marketplace


• The challenge of educating a market about the importance of compliance operations, and how Hyperproof makes it happen


• Finding a product-market fit after more than a year in operation, and what made Hyperproof feel they’d finally got things right 

Favorite book: 

The Scarlet Letter