Data comes from everywhere now, especially on the battlefield. Warfighters are now faced with the prospect of managing information from drones, satellites, and autonomous vehicles and traditional cloud and enterprise systems are showing their limits. Kinnami, a startup led by co-founders Sujeesh Krishnan and Christopher Chandler, is building a solution tailored to these emerging challenges.
CEO Sujeesh Krishnan has spent over two decades in the high-tech sector, with roles spanning strategy, product management, and sales. Before Kinnami, he co-founded PeerAspect, a platform focused on supply chain analytics. His career includes work at Ernst & Young, i2 Technologies, the Carbon Trust, and the United Nations. He also serves on the board of CLASP, which supports global energy efficiency. Sujeesh holds degrees from BITS Pilani, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and MIT.
“Our software solution is fundamentally different from other solutions in the market,” said Krishnan. “It was conceived and purpose-built for the digital edge.”
Their platform, AmiShare, is designed for environments where networks are unreliable, power is scarce, and size constraints rule out standard systems.
“AmiShare ensures continuous data availability, integrity, and security, even when networks are intermittent or unavailable,” Chandler said. The system operates across a wide range of platforms, supporting low-SWaP (Size, Weight, and Power) devices common in aerospace, defense, and remote industrial operations.
Chandler, a veteran of Veritas with six U.S. patents to his name, spent over 30 years in commercial software development. After the Veritas/Symantec merger, he left to explore the impact of distributed data on privacy and security—work that would become the core intellectual property for Kinnami.
The founders have grown the company with angel investment and customer revenue, and say they are preparing for a funding round later this year.
“The traction we have in the market is proof of demand and validates product-market fit,” said Krishnan. Their focus now is scaling commercial operations without compromising on the resilience and specificity of their technology.
Kinnami’s architecture reflects a shift in how organizations think about data protection and access.
“AmiShare enhances mission resilience by enabling secure, autonomous data synchronization across assets, data centers, cloud and networks,” Krishnan explains. Its AI-driven policy engine handles access controls and optimizes storage across a dynamic mesh of devices and environments.
The company positions itself as a platform-agnostic, zero-trust infrastructure designed for real-world constraints.
“That is what Kinnami does uniquely,” Krishnan said. Where other systems falter in the field, Kinnami aims to keep information flowing—reliably and securely.
