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GAC 2026 Networking Dinner | Tursio

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Good food, great drinks, even better company.

Credit union leaders, let’s eat, chat, and laugh!

“AI is advancing so rapidly that it will soon reshape jobs, industries, and global power structures, and the biggest mistake people can make right now is treating it as a slow, incremental technology rather than an immediate structural shift.”

— Matt Shumer

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When 🗓 March 1, 2026 ⏰ 5:30 PM EST Onwards 📍 Washington, D.C. Where G.O.A.T. Room 1010 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington, DC 20001, USA

Tursio + Azure VMs: Bringing Database Search to Microsoft Cloud

Tursio Editorial

A decade and a half ago, cloud computing rewired enterprise infrastructure. Companies that moved early gained agility; those that waited played catch-up for years. Today, a similar shift is underway. Except this time, it is about applying AI to the data that already lives inside organizations. Unfortunately, most enterprise data sit in operational databases and data warehouses, which is tightly governed, remains stubbornly hard for business users to access without expert intervention from an already-stretched data team. Tursio exists to close that gap. We provide structured data search across enterprise databases, SQL Server, Azure SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Symitar, and others, as well as data warehouses like Fabric, Snowflake, and Databricks. Business users search in plain language, and Tursio returns accurate, governed answers by leveraging an automatically inferred context graph that understands the relationships within the data. The Tursio search tool further connects to popular agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and others, to infuse search throughout the organization.

What's new: Tursio is now available as a VM extension on Azure

Today, we are excited to announce that Tursio is available as a VM extension on Microsoft Azure. Enterprises running on Microsoft Cloud can now deploy Tursio Search directly within their Azure environment, no additional infrastructure, no data leaving their security boundary. Spin up a VM, enable the Tursio extension, connect your databases, and your team can start searching in minutes.

Deep integration across the Azure ecosystem

This is not surface-level integration. Tursio now supports the broader Azure stack:

Databases and data warehouses: Connect to SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, alongside non-Azure sources like Oracle and Snowflake.

Azure AI Foundry for LLMs: Use your organization's Azure-managed language models with full control over prompts, content filtering, and cost governance. Tursio also supports custom LLM endpoints for organizations with in-house model governance.

Azure Entra for authentication: Plug into your existing identity provider. Role-based access controls in Tursio map to your organizational policies seamlessly.

Microsoft Teams and Copilot via MCP: Business users and AI agents can search internal data from the tools already embedded in enterprise workflows, i.e., no context switching or new interfaces to learn.

The net result is that people (and AI agents) can search for internal data and improve how they operate, right from where they already work.

Why this matters now

Enterprise data access has a new consumer. The next wave of agentic applications is hungry for data: fast, accurate, and access-controlled data that can power automations and business outcomes. Consider this: agents were already spinning up more databases than humans in 2025. In 2026, they are likely to run more queries than humans. When an agent needs to look up a member's loan history, validate a claim status, or pull out a portfolio summary, it needs a reliable search layer that is consistent and trustworthy. Tursio provides that layer. The context graph we automatically infer from the database gives both humans and agents a governed, accurate path to their internal data, without months of manual guardrail setup. This is what makes data truly accessible to all.

Get started

Tursio is available today on the Azure portal. If your organization runs on Microsoft Cloud and wants to make its databases searchable - securely, accurately, and without a multi-month implementation - we would love to talk. → Try Tursio on Azure → Read the documentation → Contact us

TechPlus Media covers Murali Mahalingam for his new role

Tursio Editorial

July 29, 2025 — Bellevue, WA — Congratulations to Murali Mahalingam on his new role as Vice President of Sales, GTM at Tursio Inc! Murali’s career journey is a testament to innovation and leadership—starting as a technologist, transitioning to a CIO, and later venturing into entrepreneurship, where he successfully built AI products and led them to market through founder-led sales. With a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Technology from BITS Pilani, Murali’s blend of technical expertise and sales leadership makes him an excellent fit for his new role at Tursio Inc. Wishing Murali all the best as he takes on this exciting new chapter!

Tursio Co-Founders Feature in Microsoft Alumni Network

Tursio Editorial

June 5, 2025 — Bellevue, WA — Microsoft Alumni Network, a popular group of former Microsoft employees, recently featured behind-the-scenes stories of Alekh, Shi, and Rony, co-founders at Tursio. Titled “Automating analysis: Alumni marry friendship, database obsession to build startup Tursio,” the featured story by Brad Broberg shares insights based on interviews with the three co-founders. “While they enjoyed their time at Microsoft, the trio felt a mutual desire to spread their wings,” says Brad, succinctly capturing how Tursio combines deep expertise in tech with deep bond between the key people involved. Tursio is a generative AI company based in Bellevue. Their flagship product helps knowledge workers search for information and get quick insights on structured databases. It serves customers in regulated industries, where it reduces the risk and manages the costs associated with modern AI.

Tursio features in GeekWire Startup Radar

Tursio Editorial

April 18, 2025 — Bellevue, WA — Tursio featured in GeekWire startup coverage that documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene. The list includes a spectrum of early-stage startups in the region. “From AI to crypto, to voice agents and pregnancy apps — our latest startup radar features another intriguing batch of early stage tech companies with roots in Seattle.”, writes Taylor Soper, Editor at GeekWire. Tursio helps workers to quickly analyze their structured data, and it recently launched version v1 of the product for the enterprise market, with focus on regulated industries such as BFSI and healthcare. Customers use Tursio via SaaS or on-premises deployments. Tursio trains small models without moving customer data or building tedious data pipelines. Customers get a search interface to ask questions in natural language and see responses that are accurate and explainable. Tursio’s enterprise customers span insurance, digital health, supply chain, and technology sectors. It is backed by deep tech investors based across Seattle, Bay Area, and overseas.

Tursio Appoints Murali Mahalingam as Head of GTM

Tursio Editorial

October 4, 2024 — Bellevue, WA — Tursio, a Bellevue-based company that speeds up business operations with Generative AI, is pleased to announce the appointment of Murali Mahalingam as the head of Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy. Murali brings over two decades of experience in technology and financial services, will lead Tursio’s market expansion efforts and drive the company’s growth initiatives. With significant experience in the banking and financial services sector, including his tenure as General Manager and Technology Head of ICICI Bank, one of India’s largest financial institutions, Murali Mahalingam has a proven track record of helping credit unions and banks adopt advanced AI-driven solutions. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President and Head of AI & GTM at Eltropy, leading AI initiatives that streamlined operations and enhanced customer experiences for community financial institutions. His ability to identify use cases and establish strong customer relationships will be key to Tursio’s growth strategy in these sectors. The Tursio platform enables AI workloads to be run with zero data movement, thus enhancing privacy and security, and significantly reducing cost and complexity. Using Tursio, customers can build and deploy LLM powered applications for dynamic reporting, semantic search, predictive analytics, among many others.