Battery Ventures

Battery Ventures is a technology-focused venture capital firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Silicon Valley and Israel. The firm specializes in investing in innovative and potentially transformative businesses across various sectors, including application software, IT infrastructure, consumer internet and mobile services, industrial technologies, and life science tools. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Battery Ventures aims to support companies that are defining new categories and driving advancements in their respective markets.

Neeraj Agrawal

General Partner

Roland Anderson

Principal

Alex Benik

Partner

Dallin Bills

Principal

Bill Binch

Operating Partner

Karen Bommart

Partner & Head, Investor Relations

Michael Brown

General Partner

Rebecca Buckman

Marketing Partner

Courtney Chow

Investment Team

George Christopher

Investment Team

Danel Dayan

Principal

Chiraag Deora

Vice President

John Dinneen

Director, Finance and Estate Planning

Morad Elhafed

General Partner

Nathan Ellis

Associate

Paz Eshel

Vice President

Zak Ewen

Partner

Zakary Ewen

Partner

Jesse Feldman

General Partner

Russell Fleischer

General Partner

Duncan Gills

Principal

Brandon Gleklen

Principal

Chris Hanson

Chief Operating Partner

Satoshi Harris-Koizumi

Partner

Nikki Hassan

Investor

Antonia Heiss

Investment Team

Grace Hermes

Investor

Michael Hoeksema

Investor

Maximilian Jessen

Investor

Becca Jones

Investment Team

Dillon Joyce

Principal

Max-Julian Kaye

Principal

Kelly Kinnard

VP of Talent

Megan Larmann

Investor

Kenneth P. Lawler

General Partner

Roger Lee

General Partner

Brian Lieber

Partner

Lior Mallul

Investor

Jack Mattei

Investor

Jack McGuinness

Investor

Jason Mendel

Investor

Paul Morrissey

Principal

Aaron Neil

Investment Team

Viraj Parmar

Associate

Matt Penney

Partner

Adam Piasecki

Investor

Aaron Rinberg

Vice President

Justin Rosner

Principal

Collier Searle

Principal

Shiran Shalev

Partner

Juliette Silvain

Investor

Scott B. Simpson

Associate

Zack Smotherman

General Partner

Isabel von Stauffenberg

Investor

Chelsea Stoner

General Partner

Dave Tabors

Private Equity Partner

David Tabors

Private Equity Partner

Gavin Tasker

Investment Team

Dharmesh Thakker

General Partner

Lauren Wedell

vice_president

Jordan Welu

Partner

Enzo Wiener

Associate, Investments

Dawit Workie

Investment Team

Past deals in Cyber Security

Bitwarden

Series B in 2022
Bitwarden is an open-source password management solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations.

Normalyze

Series A in 2022
Normalyze is a provider of cloud data security solutions that focuses on protecting data, applications, identities, and infrastructure in public cloud environments. The company has developed an agentless scanning platform that prioritizes data security by enabling the discovery of sensitive data and its access routes across various cloud resources. This platform allows security teams to visualize their cloud data attack surface quickly and gain real-time insights into their security posture, including access controls, configurations, and sensitive data management. By offering these capabilities, Normalyze enhances the ability of organizations to analyze, prioritize, and respond to data threats, effectively preventing sensitive data leakage at scale across public clouds.

Ordr

Series C in 2022
Ordr is a technology company that specializes in Internet of Things (IoT) security solutions designed for hyper-connected enterprises. Founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, Ordr develops an AI-based systems control engine that maps the device flow genome at scale. The company's platform employs machine learning to continuously inspect, classify, and establish baseline behaviors for each device within an organization. This unique software architecture enables real-time processing of large data volumes, allowing for closed-loop security. By generating tailored security policies for various device classes, Ordr integrates these measures with existing multi-vendor network and security infrastructures, helping organizations effectively manage and protect their business-critical devices and systems.

Theta Lake

Series B in 2022
Theta Lake provides security and compliance for modern collaboration platforms. Empowering enterprises to manage compliance, data exposure, security, and acceptable use risks in what is shared, shown, spoken, and typed during video conferences, collaboration chat, audio calls, and any other unified communications from Cisco Webex, Zoom, RingCentral, Microsoft Teams, Slack, BlueJeans, and more.

Bionic

Series B in 2022
Bionic, Inc. is an application intelligence company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. The company provides a platform designed to help enterprises manage the complexities arising from the rapid deployment of new and updated applications. Bionic’s agentless platform enables organizations to efficiently handle application management, security, and compliance, offering tools such as comprehensive asset inventory, dependency and dataflow mapping, and continuous control. By streamlining these processes, Bionic allows teams to achieve results in minutes that previously took months, thereby enhancing operational effectiveness and security in application management.

CHEQ

Series C in 2022
CHEQ is a global cybersecurity company and the leader in Advertising Security. With offices in New York, Tel-Aviv, Sydney and Tokyo, the company protects many of the world's leading advertisers from ad-fraud, click fraud and other forms of malicious activity affecting their campaigns and user acquisition funnels. CHEQ has been named (2x) Ad Fraud Solution of the Year by The Drum (2019, 2020) and has been chosen by CNBC as one of the 100 hottest startups in the world (2019) among many other accolades.

Atmosec

Seed Round in 2021
Atmosec provides continuous security for your hyperconnected SaaS ecosystem as fast as it evolves. Our unique platform understands the contextual security settings of third-party SaaS services, monitors their behavior as they interact with each other, and automates the mitigation of actual and potential risks to protect your company’s data.

Contrast Security

Series E in 2021
Contrast Security, Inc. develops security software that enables applications to protect themselves against cyberattacks. The company’s technology includes sensors that work inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches, and secure enterprise assets. Its solutions include Contrast Assess, an application security testing solution that infuses software with vulnerability assessment capabilities for security flaws identification; Contrast Protect, a runtime application self-protection solution that uses security instrumentation to gain insight into exactly how attacks behave; and bug tracker and integrated development environment (IDE) integrations to enable development teams to deliver secure applications without disrupting productivity. Contrast Security, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Los Altos, California.

Styra

Series B in 2021
Styra, Inc. develops a clod tool for security and compliance. It offers Styra Declarative Authorization Service, a solution that provides context-based admission control policy to mitigate risks, reduce human errors, and accelerate Kubernetes deployments. The company’s solution is also used for policy design and validation, policy distribution, policy monitoring and auditing, Compliance-as-Code, and shift security. Its solutions include applications, multi-cloud, micro services, containers, databases, and servers. Styra, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Privacera

Series B in 2021
Privacera, Inc. specializes in helping enterprises discover, manage, and monitor sensitive data across various systems. The company's flagship solution integrates data-centric behavioral monitoring, collecting access history from multiple sources and utilizing machine learning to evaluate this data. This enables the generation of alerts for security and compliance teams. Privacera's tools include a dashboard that correlates access histories and a discovery tool that scans both big data environments and traditional databases to identify sensitive information. The company aims to facilitate secure data sharing across on-premises and cloud services while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations, thus promoting data democratization without sacrificing individual privacy rights. Founded in 2016 and based in Fremont, California, Privacera was previously known as Global Tenet, Inc. before rebranding in October 2019.

Cypress.io

Series B in 2020
Cypress.io develops a front-end automated testing application for running unit and integration tests in a browser. The company offers The Cypress Test Runner, a test engine that combines existing testing tools with a graphical user interface to monitor and debug tests. The company's dashboard service is an optional web-based companion that records test runs in continuous integration to understand failures and share results with the team, allowing a more powerful way of writing and running tests. Cypress.io was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bionic

Series A in 2020
Bionic, Inc. is an application intelligence company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. The company provides a platform designed to help enterprises manage the complexities arising from the rapid deployment of new and updated applications. Bionic’s agentless platform enables organizations to efficiently handle application management, security, and compliance, offering tools such as comprehensive asset inventory, dependency and dataflow mapping, and continuous control. By streamlining these processes, Bionic allows teams to achieve results in minutes that previously took months, thereby enhancing operational effectiveness and security in application management.

DomainTools

Acquisition in 2020
DomainTools, LLC operates an online platform that assists users in locating domain names through various identifiers such as email addresses and phone numbers. The company offers comprehensive information on domain names, including their history, as well as trademark and brand protection services. DomainTools also provides desktop applications that monitor name server activity and allow users to view historical IP addresses and registrars. Its advanced auction services help users identify domains that may have been overlooked or are not being renewed. The company develops several tools, including the Iris Investigation tool for threat intelligence, the PhishEye tool for monitoring suspicious domains, and a DomainTools API that supports cybersecurity solutions and online fraud investigations. Its offerings facilitate threat intelligence, forensics, incident response, phishing detection, and compliance with regulatory standards. Established in 2009 and based in Seattle, Washington, DomainTools serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies, thus playing a crucial role in the field of cybersecurity.

Mine

Series A in 2020
Mine enables people worldwide to discover, and control their personal data online. We believe that data ownership is a basic human right that must be accessible to everyone. Mine puts you in the driver's seat. With a simple and friendly app, and in less than 30 seconds, you can discover all the companies that hold your sensitive data such as personal, financial, identity, health, and more. Then, with a click of a button, we put you in control, to exercise your right-to-be-forgotten from any company, and we will make it happen for you.

RiskIQ

Series D in 2020
RiskIQ, Inc. is a cybersecurity firm specializing in cloud-based Software-as-a-Service solutions designed to help organizations identify and mitigate online security threats, such as phishing, fraud, and malware. The company's key offerings include RiskIQ Illuminate, which automates the mapping and monitoring of an organization's digital attack surface; RiskIQ Digital Footprint, which visualizes and protects this surface; and RiskIQ PassiveTotal, which enhances investigation processes by linking internal activities to external threats. Additionally, RiskIQ provides RiskIQ External Threats for detecting targeted digital threats across various channels and RiskIQ Executive Guardian, which monitors online information about company executives to prevent leaks. The firm serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, retail, healthcare, and technology, and is recognized for its advanced threat management capabilities, which are powered by proprietary technology and a global proxy network. Established in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, RiskIQ also has offices in Kansas and London.

Expel

Series D in 2020
Expel, Inc. is a managed security software company that specializes in providing SOC-as-a-service, which includes security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Founded in 2016 and based in Herndon, Virginia, Expel leverages existing security signals from its customers to enhance the value of their current security investments. By connecting to customer technology remotely via APIs rather than agents, Expel can initiate monitoring within hours, allowing internal teams to concentrate on their unique security priorities. The company aims to streamline and improve the security operations of organizations, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging threats.

Mine

Seed Round in 2020
Mine enables people worldwide to discover, and control their personal data online. We believe that data ownership is a basic human right that must be accessible to everyone. Mine puts you in the driver's seat. With a simple and friendly app, and in less than 30 seconds, you can discover all the companies that hold your sensitive data such as personal, financial, identity, health, and more. Then, with a click of a button, we put you in control, to exercise your right-to-be-forgotten from any company, and we will make it happen for you.

Ordr

Series B in 2019
Ordr is a technology company that specializes in Internet of Things (IoT) security solutions designed for hyper-connected enterprises. Founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, Ordr develops an AI-based systems control engine that maps the device flow genome at scale. The company's platform employs machine learning to continuously inspect, classify, and establish baseline behaviors for each device within an organization. This unique software architecture enables real-time processing of large data volumes, allowing for closed-loop security. By generating tailored security policies for various device classes, Ordr integrates these measures with existing multi-vendor network and security infrastructures, helping organizations effectively manage and protect their business-critical devices and systems.

CHEQ

Series B in 2019
CHEQ is a global cybersecurity company and the leader in Advertising Security. With offices in New York, Tel-Aviv, Sydney and Tokyo, the company protects many of the world's leading advertisers from ad-fraud, click fraud and other forms of malicious activity affecting their campaigns and user acquisition funnels. CHEQ has been named (2x) Ad Fraud Solution of the Year by The Drum (2019, 2020) and has been chosen by CNBC as one of the 100 hottest startups in the world (2019) among many other accolades.

Expel

Series C in 2019
Expel, Inc. is a managed security software company that specializes in providing SOC-as-a-service, which includes security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Founded in 2016 and based in Herndon, Virginia, Expel leverages existing security signals from its customers to enhance the value of their current security investments. By connecting to customer technology remotely via APIs rather than agents, Expel can initiate monitoring within hours, allowing internal teams to concentrate on their unique security priorities. The company aims to streamline and improve the security operations of organizations, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging threats.

Guardicore

Series C in 2019
GuardiCore Ltd. is a data center and cloud security company founded in 2013 and based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in providing solutions that enhance the protection of critical applications from potential threats. GuardiCore's offerings include advanced visualization, micro-segmentation, and real-time threat detection and response capabilities. By focusing on delivering accurate and effective security measures, GuardiCore aims to improve overall security for its clients' digital environments.

Contrast Security

Series D in 2019
Contrast Security, Inc. develops security software that enables applications to protect themselves against cyberattacks. The company’s technology includes sensors that work inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches, and secure enterprise assets. Its solutions include Contrast Assess, an application security testing solution that infuses software with vulnerability assessment capabilities for security flaws identification; Contrast Protect, a runtime application self-protection solution that uses security instrumentation to gain insight into exactly how attacks behave; and bug tracker and integrated development environment (IDE) integrations to enable development teams to deliver secure applications without disrupting productivity. Contrast Security, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Los Altos, California.

Guardsquare

Series A in 2019
GuardSquare is the global reference in mobile application protection. We develop premium software for the protection of mobile applications against reverse engineering and hacking. Our products are used across the world in a broad range of industries, from financial services, e-commerce and the public sector to telecommunication, gaming, and new media. GuardSquare is based in Leuven (Belgium) and San Francisco (USA).

Agari

Series E in 2018
Agari Data, Inc. specializes in email security solutions, utilizing a secure email cloud platform powered by artificial intelligence. The company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to identify and counter advanced email threats, including consumer phishing, spear phishing, account takeover, data breaches, ransomware, social engineering, and business email compromise. Agari serves a variety of sectors, including financial institutions, government entities, and healthcare organizations. By employing data science and multiple security signals, Agari aims to protect organizations from inbound threats and prevent the spoofing of outbound emails, thus enhancing deliverability and maintaining brand integrity. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Agari was previously known as Authentication Metrics, Inc.

CHEQ

Series A in 2018
CHEQ is a global cybersecurity company and the leader in Advertising Security. With offices in New York, Tel-Aviv, Sydney and Tokyo, the company protects many of the world's leading advertisers from ad-fraud, click fraud and other forms of malicious activity affecting their campaigns and user acquisition funnels. CHEQ has been named (2x) Ad Fraud Solution of the Year by The Drum (2019, 2020) and has been chosen by CNBC as one of the 100 hottest startups in the world (2019) among many other accolades.

Expel

Series B in 2018
Expel, Inc. is a managed security software company that specializes in providing SOC-as-a-service, which includes security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Founded in 2016 and based in Herndon, Virginia, Expel leverages existing security signals from its customers to enhance the value of their current security investments. By connecting to customer technology remotely via APIs rather than agents, Expel can initiate monitoring within hours, allowing internal teams to concentrate on their unique security priorities. The company aims to streamline and improve the security operations of organizations, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging threats.

Plixer

Acquisition in 2018
Plixer provides a security and network intelligence platform that supports fast and efficient incident response. The solution allows you to gain visibility into cloud applications, security events, and network traffic. It delivers actionable data to guide you from the detection of security and network events all the way to root-cause analysis and mitigation. Network and security incidents are inevitable. When they occur, Plixer is there to help you quickly return to normal and minimize business disruption. Thousands of organizations rely on Plixer solutions to keep their IT infrastructure running efficiently. Learn more at plixer.com, stay connected with the Plixer blog, and follow us @Plixer.

HackerRank

Series C in 2018
HackerRank is a skills-based tech hiring platform that assists businesses in attracting, evaluating, and hiring top technical talent globally. With over 2,000 clients across various industries, including a significant portion of the Fortune 100, HackerRank aims to enhance the hiring process. The platform specializes in automated skill assessments, allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate candidates at each stage of recruitment. More than 11 million developers utilize HackerRank to learn and practice coding skills, with developers completing assessments every eight seconds. The company's focus on skill-based evaluation positions it as a valuable resource for organizations seeking to improve their technical hiring processes.

Contrast Security

Series C in 2017
Contrast Security, Inc. develops security software that enables applications to protect themselves against cyberattacks. The company’s technology includes sensors that work inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches, and secure enterprise assets. Its solutions include Contrast Assess, an application security testing solution that infuses software with vulnerability assessment capabilities for security flaws identification; Contrast Protect, a runtime application self-protection solution that uses security instrumentation to gain insight into exactly how attacks behave; and bug tracker and integrated development environment (IDE) integrations to enable development teams to deliver secure applications without disrupting productivity. Contrast Security, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Los Altos, California.

Guardicore

Series B in 2017
GuardiCore Ltd. is a data center and cloud security company founded in 2013 and based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in providing solutions that enhance the protection of critical applications from potential threats. GuardiCore's offerings include advanced visualization, micro-segmentation, and real-time threat detection and response capabilities. By focusing on delivering accurate and effective security measures, GuardiCore aims to improve overall security for its clients' digital environments.

JASK

Series A in 2017
JASK is modernizing security operations by delivering an advanced SIEM platform that provides better visibility, better automation and a better architecture. Built on cloud-native technologies, the JASK ASOC platform streamlines security analyst workflows by automating many of the repetitive tasks that restrict productivity, freeing them for higher-value roles like threat hunting and vulnerability management, while addressing the escalating talent shortage.

Vera

Series B in 2017
Vera enables organizations to secure, track, and revoke access to confidential data, across any platform or device. Vera encrypts and protects critical enterprise data while still allowing collaborators to create, access, edit, store, and share data easily using the apps, web services (e.g. Box, Dropbox), and devices they prefer. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

RiskIQ

Series C in 2016
RiskIQ, Inc. is a cybersecurity firm specializing in cloud-based Software-as-a-Service solutions designed to help organizations identify and mitigate online security threats, such as phishing, fraud, and malware. The company's key offerings include RiskIQ Illuminate, which automates the mapping and monitoring of an organization's digital attack surface; RiskIQ Digital Footprint, which visualizes and protects this surface; and RiskIQ PassiveTotal, which enhances investigation processes by linking internal activities to external threats. Additionally, RiskIQ provides RiskIQ External Threats for detecting targeted digital threats across various channels and RiskIQ Executive Guardian, which monitors online information about company executives to prevent leaks. The firm serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, retail, healthcare, and technology, and is recognized for its advanced threat management capabilities, which are powered by proprietary technology and a global proxy network. Established in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, RiskIQ also has offices in Kansas and London.

Expel

Series A in 2016
Expel, Inc. is a managed security software company that specializes in providing SOC-as-a-service, which includes security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Founded in 2016 and based in Herndon, Virginia, Expel leverages existing security signals from its customers to enhance the value of their current security investments. By connecting to customer technology remotely via APIs rather than agents, Expel can initiate monitoring within hours, allowing internal teams to concentrate on their unique security priorities. The company aims to streamline and improve the security operations of organizations, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging threats.

HackerRank

Series B in 2016
HackerRank is a skills-based tech hiring platform that assists businesses in attracting, evaluating, and hiring top technical talent globally. With over 2,000 clients across various industries, including a significant portion of the Fortune 100, HackerRank aims to enhance the hiring process. The platform specializes in automated skill assessments, allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate candidates at each stage of recruitment. More than 11 million developers utilize HackerRank to learn and practice coding skills, with developers completing assessments every eight seconds. The company's focus on skill-based evaluation positions it as a valuable resource for organizations seeking to improve their technical hiring processes.

Guardicore

Series B in 2016
GuardiCore Ltd. is a data center and cloud security company founded in 2013 and based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in providing solutions that enhance the protection of critical applications from potential threats. GuardiCore's offerings include advanced visualization, micro-segmentation, and real-time threat detection and response capabilities. By focusing on delivering accurate and effective security measures, GuardiCore aims to improve overall security for its clients' digital environments.

LightCyber

Series B in 2016
LightCyber Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in identifying and preventing cyber-attacks, including advanced persistent threats. Founded in 2011 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, LightCyber develops behavioral attack detection solutions that enhance security visibility, enabling organizations to monitor and respond to abnormal network behavior. Its flagship product, LightCyber Magna™, integrates user, network, and endpoint contexts to provide comprehensive insights into various attack activities. The company also offers an incident response management solution that automates workflows and a network behavior analysis tool that visualizes changes and anomalies in a user-friendly manner. LightCyber's solutions serve multiple sectors, including finance, legal, telecommunications, government, media, and technology, and have been successfully implemented by prominent clients worldwide. In 2017, LightCyber became a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks.

Agari

Series D in 2016
Agari Data, Inc. specializes in email security solutions, utilizing a secure email cloud platform powered by artificial intelligence. The company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to identify and counter advanced email threats, including consumer phishing, spear phishing, account takeover, data breaches, ransomware, social engineering, and business email compromise. Agari serves a variety of sectors, including financial institutions, government entities, and healthcare organizations. By employing data science and multiple security signals, Agari aims to protect organizations from inbound threats and prevent the spoofing of outbound emails, thus enhancing deliverability and maintaining brand integrity. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Agari was previously known as Authentication Metrics, Inc.

Vera

Series B in 2016
Vera enables organizations to secure, track, and revoke access to confidential data, across any platform or device. Vera encrypts and protects critical enterprise data while still allowing collaborators to create, access, edit, store, and share data easily using the apps, web services (e.g. Box, Dropbox), and devices they prefer. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

JASK

Seed Round in 2016
JASK is modernizing security operations by delivering an advanced SIEM platform that provides better visibility, better automation and a better architecture. Built on cloud-native technologies, the JASK ASOC platform streamlines security analyst workflows by automating many of the repetitive tasks that restrict productivity, freeing them for higher-value roles like threat hunting and vulnerability management, while addressing the escalating talent shortage.

Fastly

Series D in 2015
Fastly operates an edge cloud platform that processes, serves, and secures applications for its customers. This platform is designed to enhance the delivery of digital experiences by enabling developers to build and manage applications closer to end-users, thereby improving speed and reliability. Fastly's approach differs from traditional content delivery networks (CDNs) by focusing on fewer, strategically located servers in network-dense data centers, allowing for dynamic content delivery and edge computing capabilities. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Fastly serves a diverse range of industries, including digital publishing, media and entertainment, technology, online retail, travel, and financial services. The company is committed to helping businesses meet customer expectations through fast, secure, and scalable online experiences.

Vera

Series A in 2014
Vera enables organizations to secure, track, and revoke access to confidential data, across any platform or device. Vera encrypts and protects critical enterprise data while still allowing collaborators to create, access, edit, store, and share data easily using the apps, web services (e.g. Box, Dropbox), and devices they prefer. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Agari

Series C in 2014
Agari Data, Inc. specializes in email security solutions, utilizing a secure email cloud platform powered by artificial intelligence. The company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to identify and counter advanced email threats, including consumer phishing, spear phishing, account takeover, data breaches, ransomware, social engineering, and business email compromise. Agari serves a variety of sectors, including financial institutions, government entities, and healthcare organizations. By employing data science and multiple security signals, Agari aims to protect organizations from inbound threats and prevent the spoofing of outbound emails, thus enhancing deliverability and maintaining brand integrity. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Agari was previously known as Authentication Metrics, Inc.

Fastly

Series C in 2014
Fastly operates an edge cloud platform that processes, serves, and secures applications for its customers. This platform is designed to enhance the delivery of digital experiences by enabling developers to build and manage applications closer to end-users, thereby improving speed and reliability. Fastly's approach differs from traditional content delivery networks (CDNs) by focusing on fewer, strategically located servers in network-dense data centers, allowing for dynamic content delivery and edge computing capabilities. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Fastly serves a diverse range of industries, including digital publishing, media and entertainment, technology, online retail, travel, and financial services. The company is committed to helping businesses meet customer expectations through fast, secure, and scalable online experiences.

LightCyber

Series A in 2014
LightCyber Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in identifying and preventing cyber-attacks, including advanced persistent threats. Founded in 2011 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, LightCyber develops behavioral attack detection solutions that enhance security visibility, enabling organizations to monitor and respond to abnormal network behavior. Its flagship product, LightCyber Magna™, integrates user, network, and endpoint contexts to provide comprehensive insights into various attack activities. The company also offers an incident response management solution that automates workflows and a network behavior analysis tool that visualizes changes and anomalies in a user-friendly manner. LightCyber's solutions serve multiple sectors, including finance, legal, telecommunications, government, media, and technology, and have been successfully implemented by prominent clients worldwide. In 2017, LightCyber became a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks.

Guardicore

Series A in 2014
GuardiCore Ltd. is a data center and cloud security company founded in 2013 and based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in providing solutions that enhance the protection of critical applications from potential threats. GuardiCore's offerings include advanced visualization, micro-segmentation, and real-time threat detection and response capabilities. By focusing on delivering accurate and effective security measures, GuardiCore aims to improve overall security for its clients' digital environments.

RiskIQ

Series B in 2014
RiskIQ, Inc. is a cybersecurity firm specializing in cloud-based Software-as-a-Service solutions designed to help organizations identify and mitigate online security threats, such as phishing, fraud, and malware. The company's key offerings include RiskIQ Illuminate, which automates the mapping and monitoring of an organization's digital attack surface; RiskIQ Digital Footprint, which visualizes and protects this surface; and RiskIQ PassiveTotal, which enhances investigation processes by linking internal activities to external threats. Additionally, RiskIQ provides RiskIQ External Threats for detecting targeted digital threats across various channels and RiskIQ Executive Guardian, which monitors online information about company executives to prevent leaks. The firm serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, retail, healthcare, and technology, and is recognized for its advanced threat management capabilities, which are powered by proprietary technology and a global proxy network. Established in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, RiskIQ also has offices in Kansas and London.

Cyvera

Series B in 2013
Cyvera specializes in cyber-defense products aimed at protecting Microsoft-based servers and endpoints from remote attacks. The company shifts the security paradigm from identifying malicious activities to preventing exploit techniques, offering a unique approach that addresses vulnerabilities not covered by traditional security suites and next-generation firewalls. Cyvera's solutions empower organizations to safeguard against various cyber-attack campaigns, including mass and targeted attacks, as well as Zero-Day threats and risks associated with unpatched systems. Through its innovative technology, Cyvera provides comprehensive protection, enhancing the overall security posture of its clients.

Fastly

Series A in 2012
Fastly operates an edge cloud platform that processes, serves, and secures applications for its customers. This platform is designed to enhance the delivery of digital experiences by enabling developers to build and manage applications closer to end-users, thereby improving speed and reliability. Fastly's approach differs from traditional content delivery networks (CDNs) by focusing on fewer, strategically located servers in network-dense data centers, allowing for dynamic content delivery and edge computing capabilities. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Fastly serves a diverse range of industries, including digital publishing, media and entertainment, technology, online retail, travel, and financial services. The company is committed to helping businesses meet customer expectations through fast, secure, and scalable online experiences.

Agari

Series A in 2011
Agari Data, Inc. specializes in email security solutions, utilizing a secure email cloud platform powered by artificial intelligence. The company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to identify and counter advanced email threats, including consumer phishing, spear phishing, account takeover, data breaches, ransomware, social engineering, and business email compromise. Agari serves a variety of sectors, including financial institutions, government entities, and healthcare organizations. By employing data science and multiple security signals, Agari aims to protect organizations from inbound threats and prevent the spoofing of outbound emails, thus enhancing deliverability and maintaining brand integrity. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Agari was previously known as Authentication Metrics, Inc.

VSS Monitoring

Series A in 2010
VSS Monitoring is the world leader in Network Intelligence Optimization, providing a visionary, systems-approach for optimizing and scaling the connectivity between network switching and the entire network intelligence ecosystem of analytics, inline security, and WAN acceleration tools. Visionary Approach Based on its unique IntelliScale Architecture, VSS's highly scalable solutions provide superior system-fault tolerance and true modular expansion across all critical performance and security functions that are the central nervous systems of today's IP networks and data centers. In addition, VSS helps control the CAPEX and OPEX related to the deployment, utilization and maintenance of the myriad of tools required, particularly as IP convergence grows in size and complexity. Product Quality VSS designs and manufactures over 180 innovative products to the highest standards for in reliability and performance. By making network intelligence more scalable, VSS makes networks more scalable. This simplifies complexity, increases efficiencies and delivers higher ROI in terms of greater, accelerated cost savings. Global Presence Since 2003, thousands of customers in over 120 countries from the telecom, enterprise, government and financial sectors have benefited from VSS Monitoring's advanced systems-based solutions. The company has the industry's largest and most knowledgeable team of customer support engineers and resellers in the Americas, Asia and Europe. Its products are designed and manufactured in California's Silicon Valley.

SafetyWeb

Series A in 2010
SafetyWeb is a company that specializes in cloud-based personal security products aimed at protecting privacy, identity, reputation, and safety. Founded in 2009, it offers a subscription service designed to assist parents in monitoring their children's activities on social networking sites. The company's tools empower parents to discuss safe online interactions with their children. By monitoring the web, SafetyWeb provides reports and immediate alerts regarding any irregularities or potential dangers associated with kids' and teens' online behavior.

cVidya

Series D in 2010
cVidya is a leading supplier of Big Data Analytics solutions for communications and digital service ‎providers. cVidya provides operators with a complete solution, encompassing a Big Data technology ‎platform and analytical applications designed to optimize profits and support operational and strategic ‎decisions.‎ cVidya’s Business Protection offering, which includes Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management ‎solutions, enables operators to quickly identify risks and prevent revenue loss. cVidya’s Business ‎Growth offering, which encompasses Marketing Analytics and Data Monetization solutions, enables ‎operators to optimize their base management activities and leverage new opportunities to monetize ‎data through 3rd parties.‎

SafetyWeb

Seed Round in 2009
SafetyWeb is a company that specializes in cloud-based personal security products aimed at protecting privacy, identity, reputation, and safety. Founded in 2009, it offers a subscription service designed to assist parents in monitoring their children's activities on social networking sites. The company's tools empower parents to discuss safe online interactions with their children. By monitoring the web, SafetyWeb provides reports and immediate alerts regarding any irregularities or potential dangers associated with kids' and teens' online behavior.

Neocleus

Series B in 2008
Neocleus' solutions address IT's most pressing endpoint concerns. The solutions operate IT resources outside of a Windows environment while still offering complete access to all the capabilities offered by the underlying endpoint hardware. The approach Neocleus provides offers IT departments a virtual endpoint environment that is easy to control and gives users the flexibility to gain secure access to critical corporate assets from any endpoint regardless of its location or state of security. To achieve breakthrough results, Neocleus enhanced the Xen Open Source hypervisor and transformed it into an endpoint-oriented hypervisor. Neocleus contributes this platform to the open source community to facilitate the growth of an ecosystem of endpoint virtualization partners and collaborators. These open source contributions enable software developers to focus on building high-performance applications without worrying about the underlying architecture.

IgniteTech

Series E in 2008
Addamark Technologies is a software security company based in Villaverde, Madrid.

cVidya

Series C in 2008
cVidya is a leading supplier of Big Data Analytics solutions for communications and digital service ‎providers. cVidya provides operators with a complete solution, encompassing a Big Data technology ‎platform and analytical applications designed to optimize profits and support operational and strategic ‎decisions.‎ cVidya’s Business Protection offering, which includes Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management ‎solutions, enables operators to quickly identify risks and prevent revenue loss. cVidya’s Business ‎Growth offering, which encompasses Marketing Analytics and Data Monetization solutions, enables ‎operators to optimize their base management activities and leverage new opportunities to monetize ‎data through 3rd parties.‎

IgniteTech

Series D in 2007
Addamark Technologies is a software security company based in Villaverde, Madrid.

Neocleus

Series A in 2007
Neocleus' solutions address IT's most pressing endpoint concerns. The solutions operate IT resources outside of a Windows environment while still offering complete access to all the capabilities offered by the underlying endpoint hardware. The approach Neocleus provides offers IT departments a virtual endpoint environment that is easy to control and gives users the flexibility to gain secure access to critical corporate assets from any endpoint regardless of its location or state of security. To achieve breakthrough results, Neocleus enhanced the Xen Open Source hypervisor and transformed it into an endpoint-oriented hypervisor. Neocleus contributes this platform to the open source community to facilitate the growth of an ecosystem of endpoint virtualization partners and collaborators. These open source contributions enable software developers to focus on building high-performance applications without worrying about the underlying architecture.

SenSage

Series D in 2007
SenSage offers patented event data warehouse solutions that provide actionable results from massive amounts of log and event data. More than 400 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce security, fraud and compliance risks at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses and log management solutions.

SenSage

Series C in 2005
SenSage offers patented event data warehouse solutions that provide actionable results from massive amounts of log and event data. More than 400 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce security, fraud and compliance risks at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses and log management solutions.

IgniteTech

Series C in 2005
Addamark Technologies is a software security company based in Villaverde, Madrid.

CipherTrust

Series B in 2004
As of August 31, 2006, CipherTrust, Inc. was acquired by Secure Computing Corp. CipherTrust, Inc. provides messaging security solutions to stop inbound and outbound messaging threats. It offers layered security solutions for corporate messaging systems to stop inbound threats, such as spam, viruses, intrusions, spyware, zombies, and phishing, as well as for protecting against outbound policy and compliance violations. The company also provides solutions to protect various messaging protocols, including email, instant messaging, Web mail, file transfers, and other HTTP- and FTP- based activities. In addition, it offers consulting and education services. The company serves blue chip customers, including federal and national government organizations, and small-to-medium sized businesses. CipherTrust, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The company also has offices in the United States, Hong Kong, Oxon, France, Tokyo, Singapore, the Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Australia, and the Peopleâ€:tm:s Republic of China.

IgniteTech

Series B in 2003
Addamark Technologies is a software security company based in Villaverde, Madrid.

IgniteTech

Series A in 2003
Addamark Technologies is a software security company based in Villaverde, Madrid.

SenSage

Series B in 2003
SenSage offers patented event data warehouse solutions that provide actionable results from massive amounts of log and event data. More than 400 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce security, fraud and compliance risks at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses and log management solutions.

Arbor Networks

Series B in 2002
Arbor Networks specializes in providing comprehensive DDoS and advanced threat protection solutions for both enterprise and service provider networks. The company offers a suite of products that deliver detailed insights into network security, leveraging its ATLAS threat intelligence infrastructure to aggregate and analyze global Internet traffic and emerging threats. With contributions from over 330 service provider customers, Arbor Networks can develop effective threat protections that are integrated directly into its products, enhancing their ability to combat DDoS attacks and malware campaigns. Their solutions include flexible deployment options, such as virtual and network-embedded solutions, as well as appliances for enterprises and carrier-class scrubbing centers. Arbor Cloud further enhances their offerings by providing a combined on-premises and cloud-based DDoS defense service. Additionally, Arbor’s Advanced Threat Solutions utilize integrated Netflow and Packet Capture technology to provide situational awareness and visibility across networks, facilitating real-time threat detection and response to safeguard critical assets from both external and internal threats.

Corrent Corp.

Series C in 2002
Corrent Corporation offers virtual private networks, firewall, intrusion prevention/ detection, and appliances/servers that protect network communications and e-commerce transactions.

Cyneta Networks

Series B in 2001
Cyneta Networks will be recognized as the global leader in providing intelligent data networking solutions for next generation wireless networks. Cyneta Networks was established to develop and deploy the Intelligent Packet Control Node™, an innovative new network element that optimizes IP communications, significantly reducing costs and generating new revenues for wireless carriers. Founded with a vision to provide a new form of visibility and control to wireless packet data networks, Cyneta Networks has developed the first "intelligent" monitoring system that provides wireless carriers with deep visibility into the performance of their data services for particular users and user classes. To provide intelligent monitoring, Cyneta Networks has taken an innovative architectural approach to wireless data monitoring. Cyneta’s solution is designed around a centrally located packet-processing platform that provides a comprehensive view of the operator’s services, looking at every packet traversing the mobile core network. Cyneta has incorporated this technology into an advanced network and service monitoring solution that extracts key information about the performance of the network and the applications and services that run on it. This unique approach offers several advantages for end-to-end fault, performance, and service management. It provides operators with the most complete set of network, subscriber, and services information, allowing for the visibility of not just service quality but how that quality relates to the subscriber or classes of subscribers. The result is increased operational efficiencies, improved user experience, enhanced revenue opportunities, and a greater acceptance of wireless data in the business and consumer markets. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas with additional sales and development offices in the Netherlands and India, Cyneta Networks is partnered with leading Operational Support System (OSS), Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), and System Integrator (SI) companies to provide intelligent monitoring solutions to wireless network operators around the world.

Corrent Corp.

Series A in 2000
Corrent Corporation offers virtual private networks, firewall, intrusion prevention/ detection, and appliances/servers that protect network communications and e-commerce transactions.

@Stake

Venture Round in 2000
@stake, Inc. was a computer security professional services company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1999 by Battery Ventures (Tom Crotty, Sunil Dhaliwal, and Scott Tobin) and Ted Julian. Its initial core team of technologists included Dan Geer (Chief Technical Officer) and the east coast security team from Cambridge Technology Partners (including Dave Goldsmith). In January 2000, @stake acquired L0pht Heavy Industries (who were known for their many hacker employees), bringing on Mudge as its Vice President of Research and Development. It was acquired by Symantec in 2004. via: [WP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/@stake)

Akamai Technologies

Series B in 1999
Akamai Technologies is a provider of cloud services that enables enterprises to deliver secure and high-performing user experiences across various devices and locations. The company's extensive content delivery network consists of over 325,000 servers located in more than 4,100 points of presence across over 1,000 cities worldwide. This infrastructure allows customers to access their content quickly and securely, improving the quality of their online interactions. In addition to content delivery, Akamai offers security and cloud computing solutions, which have become increasingly significant compared to its traditional content delivery services. By simplifying complex technologies, Akamai empowers businesses to innovate and capitalize on trends such as mobile and cloud computing while addressing security challenges and expanding their global reach.