July 29, 2026

SVCI Backs Scanner

Today we're announcing a milestone we're especially proud of: Silicon Valley CISO Investments (SVCI) has invested in Scanner. SVCI's members represent the CISO persona we strive to build Scanner for, and we're thrilled to have their support as Scanner enters an exciting phase of growth.

Agents are transforming security operations, and they need a data layer built to keep up with it: one that lets them query petabytes in seconds and run detections continuously across the full stream. AI agents already generate more than 80% of query volume on Scanner, and that share keeps growing. This investment from SVCI sharpens our focus on that future, making it possible for every security team to search years of logs instantly, whether the analyst asking the question is human or an agent.

SVCI is an angel syndicate made up entirely of CISOs who run security programs at some of the most demanding organizations in the world. Several members were running Scanner against real workloads long before they invested, telling us where it fell short, and pulling our roadmap toward the most pressing problems security teams face. We're deeply grateful for their belief in Scanner during our early days, and Scanner is a sharper product because of them.

We spent real time in the architecture and the roadmap before committing, and we came away convinced this is infrastructure our industry needs.
John Donovan and Paul Guerra, SVCI members

Building alongside dozens of CISOs who live these problems every day is an enormous advantage. We couldn't ask for better partners on the next stretch of the journey.

If you're building an agentic SOC, let's talk. We'd love to show you what agents can do when every log in your environment is searched instantly. And if you want to see how Scanner works under the hood, start with our docs.

Cliff Crosland
CEO, Co-founder
Scanner, Inc.
Cliff is the CEO and co-founder of Scanner.dev, which provides fast search and threat detections for log data in S3. Prior to founding Scanner, he was a Principal Engineer at Cisco where he led the backend infrastructure team for the Webex People Graph. He was also the engineering lead for the data platform team at Accompany before its acquisition by Cisco. He has a love-hate relationship with Rust, but it's mostly love these days.