Blu Venture Investors

Blu Venture Investors is a venture capital investment company that supports early stage entrepreneurs in the Mid-Atlantic Region – Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC and North Carolina. Their investors are experienced, successful operating executives with experience in a broad range of industries and business models. Each of their investors has successfully launched new companies, products or services.

Eric Adler

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Bikram Bakshi

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Lily Bengfort

Partner

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Keith Bozeman

Partner

Joe Callanan

Partner

Mike Denning

Partner

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Benjamin Ebenezer

Managing Principal

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Matt Gittleman

Principal

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Joshua Miller

Associate

Dendy Young

Partner

81 past transactions

The CommSafe AI software measures virtual communications for negative sentiment and automatically flags keywords and phrases that are related to instances of workplace conflict and violence. This includes instances of sexual harassment, bullying, and other forms of discrimination. Once a communication is flagged, CommSafe AI sends an alert to the customer's CHRO regarding the incident and recommended next steps and web-based training for affected employees.

ThreatQuotient

Debt Financing in 2021
ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. ThreatQ is also the first TIP to provide Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators of compromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by two former security operations analysts to provide organizations the ability to correlate with confidence.

aiden

Seed Round in 2023
aiden is a fully-automated software deployment, patch management, and compliance solution that enables our team to provide intelligent packaging-as-a-service in a highly-scalable manner. As an IT empowerment solution, aiden enables IT teams to cut down the time and resources it takes to maintain every Windows computer (server, desktop, laptop or Windows mobile) by 75% or more. Adding aiden to your arsenal is like employing a team of top-of-the-line packaging engineers at a fraction of the cost, increasing ROI, and making Windows devices safer from cyber-attacks in less time with greater consistency and reliability. Our intelligent packaging-as-a-service completely eliminates the need for mastering complex packaging software like Flexera. We also help overloaded IT departments and IT service businesses (MSPs & MSSPs) avoid hiring and continually training expensive engineering resources on the tedious work associated with packaging, targeting and task sequencing that goes along with maintaining advanced tools like Microsoft’s Endpoint Manager, HCL’s BigFix, or Tanium. Rather than replace those tools entirely, aiden is designed to work in tandem with any of those tools where they become the scheduling software to run aiden and aiden handles everything else on the endpoint configuration for automated continuous compliance.

PacketSled

Series A in 2016
MixMode is a Cybersecurity platform powered by a cloud-native, self-learning AI with next generation anomaly detection and predictive capabilities. MixMode ingests and monitors large data volume environments (e.g. Cloud, Enterprise, 5G) in real time to discover zero-day threats and attacks with no signature, including those from ransomware, supply chain attacks and insider threats on Zero Trust Architecture. MixMode can be used in the cloud or on premise to deliver increased productivity and efficiency. MixMode’s platform is powered by its patented self-supervised AI, which includes contextual reasoning to explain why threats are highlighted for investigation. This AI is unique in requiring no rules, no intel feeds, and no historical training data in order to operate, avoiding the bias and blindspots that impact legacy systems. MixMode AI is capable of high speed consumption of numerous big data feeds for processing in real-time and is the only DARPA-defined Third Wave AI in Cybersecurity.

ThreatQuotient

Venture Round in 2021
ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. ThreatQ is also the first TIP to provide Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators of compromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by two former security operations analysts to provide organizations the ability to correlate with confidence.

Emu Technology

Series A in 2017
EMU Solutions, Inc. develops and delivers hardware and software technology for enhancing memory utilization. Its technology enables users to eliminate data bottlenecks on microprocessors. EMU Solutions, Inc. has strategic partnerships with Graham Allen Partners, LLC; Aunalytics, Inc.; Data Realty, LLC; and Qumulus Solutions. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in South Bend, Indiana.

Huntress

Seed Round in 2017
Huntress is an information technology company that provides threat detection and actionable cybersecurity intelligence. It empowers IT Departments and Managed Service Providers (MSP) to expand their capabilities and confidently address their customers’ most complex cybersecurity challenges. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Maryland, United States.

Vigilance Risk Solutions, Inc.

Venture Round in 2022
The CommSafe AI software measures virtual communications for negative sentiment and automatically flags keywords and phrases that are related to instances of workplace conflict and violence. This includes instances of sexual harassment, bullying, and other forms of discrimination. Once a communication is flagged, CommSafe AI sends an alert to the customer's CHRO regarding the incident and recommended next steps and web-based training for affected employees.

Trip Tribe

Seed Round in 2014
Trip Tribe offers a community-based platform that enables travelers to connect with each other and travel together for yoga and fitness retreats. It provides its services in Latin America, Europe, the United States, Canada, Asia, and Africa. The company enables individuals and businesses to promote accommodations and tours. Trip Tribe was founded by Dave & Meg Aidekman in 2013. It is based in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Todyl, Inc.

Series A in 2022
Todyl's Secure Global Network was built with security baked in, not bolted on, helping channel partners address some of the toughest challenges facing businesses today. Todyl consolidates multiple security products, features integrated SIEM and GRC, reduce the attack surface area and leverages our patent-pending ZeroTrust technology to stop threats like ransomware and Fileless Malware from spreading. With Todyl, partners can deliver world-class, cost-effective security programs to businesses of any size.

SENTIO

Series A in 2022
Sentio, Inc. develops software solutions for franchises that offers hiring assessments to evaluate each applicant, before reviewing the resume. It also provides applicant matching system technology that discovers the shared mental makeup characteristics of employees in a given position and allows HR and hiring managers to compare all candidates to that profile. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

cybera. global

Seed Round in 2022
Fintech platform to prevent cybercrime and online fraud.

Ostendio

Seed Round in 2017
Ostendio’s MyVCM™ streamlines the way companies build, manage and demonstrate their information security framework. The MyVCM platform provides an enterprise view of an organization’s cybersecurity program. MyVCM’s unique bottom-up security approach provides a workflow solution which engages every employee and manages all aspects of security and compliance which allows organizations to easily report their security posture to internal and external stake-holders. With MyVCM, customers can ensure they are secure and compliant. Ostendio is headquartered in Arlington, VA and has customers in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia.

Trilogy Mentors

Venture Round in 2022
Trilogy Mentors, LLC, doing business as Trilogy Mentors.com, operates as a mentorship company that provides tutoring and mentoring services. The company offers a SaaS (software-as-a- service) platform for tutors and educators to have access to a relationship-based online learning platform. Its platform connects families and parents to local university students for academic tutoring and athletic training to help their child achieve their goals. It has a strategic partnership with Tuscany Strategy Consulting. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Richmond, Virginia.

Zeeve

Seed Round in 2022
Deploying and managing a Blockchain Network is complex and error-prone. We learned the hard way. No More.... Zeeve is a Blockchain as a Service platform that provides no-code automation capabilities for Blockchain deployments. Zeeve supports all major Blockchain protocols like HyperLedger Fabric, HyperLedger Sawtooth, Ethereum, R3 Corda, Fluree, and Credits Blockchain. Zeeve features heterogeneous cloud deployments across all major cloud provides like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Digital Ocean, and on-premise infrastructure. Zeeve also features advanced analytics and pro-active monitoring of both cloud resources and Blockchain resources with alerts and notifications.

Strados Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Strados Labs is a medical technology company that innovates respiratory monitoring using smart biosensors and artificial intelligence. The company specializes in advancing respiratory health management using clinical-grade biosensors and intelligent software. It connects people with real-time respiratory monitoring using a wearable device and connected mobile platform so they can quantify their health and make more informed decisions. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Racktop Systems

Series A in 2019
RackTop was founded by intelligence community veterans who have been solving the most complex data and security problems for over two decades. Today, RackTop develops innovative software products that are revolutionizing the data storage industry by combining high-performance network attached storage with advanced security to solve the most difficult compliance and cyber security challenges facing the modern enterprise. RackTop’s products are unified under a single platform, offering reduced complexity, improved security, and significant cost savings over traditional solutions.

Vagabond Vending

Series A in 2016
Vagabond is a real-time and mobile-focused vending management software service. Their Insight telemetry hardware enables vending operators to have live views of all their machines. No more purchasing bulky vending-only handhelds; customers use their own Apple, Android and Kindle devices to manage the vending operation using Vagabond's OS-native mobile app. Their simple and intuitive mobile app and web interface are designed so self-described "non tech savvy" vending operators and drivers can immediately start using Vagabond

Sensics

Venture Round in 2012
Sensics is a head-mounted panoramic virtual reality display company. The company offers an augmented reality solution that combines high-quality video feeds with computer-generated imagery motion trackers that track user's movements and change the images; and eye trackers that measure the point of gaze, which allows a computer to sense where the user is looking. It describes itself as a leader in professional-grade virtual reality displays, also known as head-mounted displays as well as in open-source virtual reality products. Sensics was established in 1999 and is based in Columbia, Maryland, United States.

ETHIX360, Inc.

Series A in 2021
ETHIX360, Inc. provides compliance as a service software, which offers employee ethics communication and case management. It provides CaseTrac, a risk management software; TrakEnterprise, an on-premises case management solution; CSone, a case management portal for schools and teachers; and Reflections, an online exit interview solution. ETHIX360, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

GlobalWonks, Inc.

Series A in 2021
GlobalWonks is currently a tech-enabled marketplace evolving toward a comprehensive knowledge platform encompassing content automation and a SaaS application. Our team has extensive experience in international business, technology, and government, while our Advisory Council includes some of the world’s leading authorities in the same fields working with or among major consultancies including Ernst & Young, Eurasia Group, Control Risks, McKinsey & Co. in London, New York, and Washington. GlobalWonks’ value proposition is to provide high-quality global business and policy insights to clients quickly and cost-effectively in order to reduce the current industry wide pain of finding, engaging, and contracting top experts around the world at short notice. Our clients include Fortune 500 firms, ‘Big 4’ consultancies, hedge funds, and mid-sized financial institutions, among others, who connect with our organically grown network of over 1,500 experts in more than 100 countries across a variety of industries. This network is growing exponentially every month through our unique expert recruitment and retention framework. Our vision is to become the world’s premier knowledge management and acquisition platform combining human judgment, robotic process automation (RPA), and data analytics. It is our strong belief that this vision will bring with it the scope to fundamentally alter the future of work by providing top talent across the world with opportunities to consult with leading businesses, and do so on much improved terms.

Trip Tribe

Seed Round in 2016
Trip Tribe offers a community-based platform that enables travelers to connect with each other and travel together for yoga and fitness retreats. It provides its services in Latin America, Europe, the United States, Canada, Asia, and Africa. The company enables individuals and businesses to promote accommodations and tours. Trip Tribe was founded by Dave & Meg Aidekman in 2013. It is based in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

HAAS Alert

Seed Round in 2021
HAAS Alert is the leading mobility and smart city data service provider keeping emergency crews, drivers and the public safe through Cellular V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) communication. Drivers and emergency crews use the information to avoid collisions and reduce traffic delays. The HAAS Alert Safety Cloud is a real-time data stream connecting first responders, commercial, municipal, and slow moving fleets with motorists, connected and autonomous vehicles. Connected "smart"​ communities use the service to inform infrastructure, planning and real-time traffic management. The company is currently working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on advanced solutions and has support from leading safety organizations including NSC (National Safety Council), TSR (Together for Safer Roads), FAMA (Fire Apparatus Manufacturers' Association) and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association).

Cloudtamer

Series A in 2021
cloudtamer.io is comprehensive cloud governance software that allows you to manage your cloud presence at scale. With cloudtamer.io, your team can easily request and manage cloud resources that are aligned with your budget, security, and compliance policies.

Talkatoo

Venture Round in 2021
Talkatoo is reinventing speech to text software by making it easy to use and cross-platform. We are a fast-growing, funded startup. Our SaaS software works on Android, iOS, PC, Mac, and digital assistants.

Dark Cubed

Seed Round in 2017
Dark Cubed brings security to the more than 99% of companies that do not have the resources to implement security today. Our SaaS solution augments existing firewalls to provide enterprise-grade security capabilities at a fraction of the cost and complexity of other solutions. We partner with MSPs and service providers to secure their customer base, increase revenue, and capture new customers.

MedStack

Series A in 2021
For developers of healthcare applications in startups, enterprises and agencies, MedStack provides industry-specific data APIs and automated cloud hosting designed to achieve privacy compliance, healthcare security and data interoperability with Electronic Health Record systems out of the box. Built from the ground-up on proven high security standards and for flexibility across a wide range of application, database and deployment stacks, MedStack is the most secure, flexible and capable healthcare app hosting platform in the industry, now powering a wide range of applications from chronic disease management, healthcare workflow, monitoring and billing, leveraging AI, mobile, blockchain and VR/AR.

Urgent.ly Roadside Assistance

Convertible Note in 2014
Urgent.ly’s Roadside is a digital roadside assistance platform that features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands, roadside assistance professionals, and consumers. Its solution delivers the quickest, safest, and most innovative roadside assistance service, products and technology by combining location-based services, real-time data, AI, and machine-to-machine communication.

ID.me

Series A in 2014
The mission of ID.me is to make the world a more trusted place by enabling transparent interactions between people and organizations. ID.me is a digital identity network that empowers consumers to prove their identity via a digital medium in contexts where it would benefit the consumer to be known. For relying parties, ID.me provides a single API endpoint through which partners can verify the identity of users attempting to access a website or to unlock an exclusive benefit. The United States Department of Commerce selected ID.me as one of the top five identity companies in America in 2013 and awarded the company a $2.8M grant to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). ID.me was a Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013. Entrepreneur Magazine selected ID.me as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014 in their June 2014 edition. Key customers include SeaWorld, Overstock.com, Under Armour, Dell, Sears Holding Corporation, and 129 additional retailers and brands.

3CLogic Inc.

Series B in 2014
3CLogic Inc. develops cloud-based contact center solutions. Its platform enables to manage internal and external communication as well as customer engagements with interactive voice response (IVR) and multi-channel automatic call distribution (ACD) for call routing and a predictive dialer. It offers inbound, outbound, and blended solutions for finance, real estate, insurance, E-Commerce, healthcare, and education sectors. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Rockville, Maryland.

Ostendio

Series A in 2021
Ostendio’s MyVCM™ streamlines the way companies build, manage and demonstrate their information security framework. The MyVCM platform provides an enterprise view of an organization’s cybersecurity program. MyVCM’s unique bottom-up security approach provides a workflow solution which engages every employee and manages all aspects of security and compliance which allows organizations to easily report their security posture to internal and external stake-holders. With MyVCM, customers can ensure they are secure and compliant. Ostendio is headquartered in Arlington, VA and has customers in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia.

LATISTA

Series A in 2011
An estimated 95% of construction project dollars are spent in the field. Isn’t it time you take control of these costs? From punch list and inspections to commissioning, Latista Field offers you complete construction quality control and field management in a mobile app that is proven to reduce costly rework, delays and paperwork.

PFP Cybersecurity

Series A in 2015
PFP is an agile (cloud-based or on-premise) platform that uses dynamic power behavior analysis to detect dangerous implant-based attacks in hardware, firmware, and configuration. PFP constantly monitors the power behavior of devices/IoT in data centers, critical infrastructure, and more; then, data is sent to the cloud where PFP detects malicious actors; dashboards display continuous monitoring and/or are alerted. Remediation occurs with or without human interaction. PFP then has continuous monitoring 24/7 which authenticates, detects, and remediates.

NS8 Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
NS8 is a comprehensive fraud prevention platform that combines behavioral analytics, real-time scoring, and global monitoring to help online businesses minimize risk. Its patented scoring technology provides actionable data about the type, quality, and trustworthiness of transactions, which businesses leverage to automate fraud management workflows to suit their individual needs.

Immuta

Seed Round in 2015
Immuta provides a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security and privacy compliance, ensuring each user who queries data sees only the data they’re supposed to see, for their approved purpose or role. The platform aims to create trust across data engineering, security, legal, compliance, and business teams so they can work together to ensure timely access to critical data with minimal risk, while adhering to global data privacy regulations including the GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA.

3CLogic Inc.

Series B in 2020
3CLogic Inc. develops cloud-based contact center solutions. Its platform enables to manage internal and external communication as well as customer engagements with interactive voice response (IVR) and multi-channel automatic call distribution (ACD) for call routing and a predictive dialer. It offers inbound, outbound, and blended solutions for finance, real estate, insurance, E-Commerce, healthcare, and education sectors. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Rockville, Maryland.

Machfu

Seed Round in 2017
Machfu Inc. develops and maintains applications and infrastructure in industrial Internet of Things enabling data, analytics, and visualization on mobile tablets and computers. It offers MachFU, a smartphone for machines that helps industrial enterprises to communicate and connects industrial assets to legacy systems and cloud-based platforms. The company also provides Mach-IT that allows multiple pieces of equipment or hardware to communicate directly with an information processing system, such as a computer or backend system. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Rockville, Maryland.

Atomicorp

Seed Round in 2016
Atomicorp Ltd. develops security solutions for the protection and support of cloud, virtual, shared, and dedicated Web hosting environments. It offers Atomic Secured Linux, a security solution for Linux Web servers that provides solutions for site defacement and comment spams, Web application vulnerabilities, PCI-DSS and other regulatory compliance, rootkits and malware, denial of service attacks, XML attacks, SQL injections and cross site scripting, CSRF attacks, file and code injections, cookie and credential thefts, persistent threats, recursion attacks, data thefts and information leakages, malware uploads, and more. The company also offers Atomicorp GotRoot ModSecurity Rules, a Web server module that allows users to build a Web application firewall to protect Web applications; Atomicorp Nucleus Repository, a commercial archive that provides PHP 5.3 and related legacy support packages; and Atomicorp Repository, a Linux/MySQL/PHP archive. In addition, it offers a database of signatures, rules, and countermeasures against metacharacter attacks, remote code inclusion, XML schema attacks, buffer overflows, LDAP injection, dangling pointer attacks, and other application and Web based attacks. The company serves commercial enterprises and government agencies. It also sells its products online. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Chantilly, Virginia. Atomicorp Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Prometheus Global, Inc.

SocialToaster, Inc.

Series A in 2012
SocialToaster, Inc. provides an enterprise-level fan engagement platform that uses social media to a brand’s message. It offers SocialToaster, a custom platform that allows the users to identify, recruit and activate best supporters and vocal enthusiasts who are proud to share a brand’s content. The company’s SocialToaster is a web-based social media networking software application that is used in connection with establishing, managing, and optimizing social media networks and online marketing activities that enables companies to connect with their fans. SocialToaster, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

LATISTA

Venture Round in 2013
An estimated 95% of construction project dollars are spent in the field. Isn’t it time you take control of these costs? From punch list and inspections to commissioning, Latista Field offers you complete construction quality control and field management in a mobile app that is proven to reduce costly rework, delays and paperwork.

TCARE

Series A in 2020
TCARE, Inc. develops a caregiver support SaaS solution. It offers TCARE, a cloud-based technology suite to help care professionals intervene before a family caregiver burns out. The company’s TCARE enables care professionals the means to assess for risk factors for family caregiver burnout and prescribe the right interventions, at the right time to prevent burnout. TCARE, Inc. was formerly known as Tailored Care Enterprises, Inc. Its solution is used by organizations, care professionals, and family caregivers in the United States. TCARE, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.

ThreatQuotient

Series A in 2015
ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. ThreatQ is also the first TIP to provide Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators of compromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by two former security operations analysts to provide organizations the ability to correlate with confidence.

Blue Triangle

Venture Round in 2014
Blue Triangle provides digital teams with a connected view of their marketing, web performance, and third-party tag analytics while constantly monitoring website code for security vulnerabilities. With Blue Triangle, teams can track the experience of every web and mobile app visitor in real time and identify specific web performance, third-party tag, and purchase path issues measurably impacting revenue. This data empowers teams to improve and secure their digital experiences along the most critical areas of the customer journey. Blue Triangle is trusted by Fortune 500 companies including The Home Depot, Marriott, and Carnival Cruise Line, and was named a Gartner "Cool Vendor"​ in 2017. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

AxonAI(ConvergentAi)

Seed Round in 2016
Inspired by natural self-organizing systems like ant colonies and bee hives, we engineer intelligent products for major markets. Our products include big data analysis tools, UAV and sensor asset command and control software, threat modeling applications, and behavioral prediction models.

PFP Cybersecurity

Series A in 2017
PFP is an agile (cloud-based or on-premise) platform that uses dynamic power behavior analysis to detect dangerous implant-based attacks in hardware, firmware, and configuration. PFP constantly monitors the power behavior of devices/IoT in data centers, critical infrastructure, and more; then, data is sent to the cloud where PFP detects malicious actors; dashboards display continuous monitoring and/or are alerted. Remediation occurs with or without human interaction. PFP then has continuous monitoring 24/7 which authenticates, detects, and remediates.

Avizia

Series A in 2016
Avizia is delivering on the vision of collaborative care for patients by connecting medical experts across distance through innovative, leading-edge telemedicine solutions. Supported by Cisco technology, Avizia delivers telemedicine that is as powerful as it is easy to use. The Avizia end-to-end solution includes telemedicine devices, workflow management software, store-and-forward capabilities with EHR integration and a line of peripherals, such as digital stethoscopes and examination cameras. Whether medical professionals are performing remote medical consultations or teaching a new procedure, Avizia makes the experience feel as if everyone is present.

Shevirah

Convertible Note in 2016
Shevirah, Inc. designs and develops mobile security testing software. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Herndon, Virginia.

NewConnect

Venture Round in 2017
NewConnect LLC provides fixed wireless broadband services. The company offers high speed Internet access to various enterprise businesses, non-profit organizations, associations, and government agencies throughout the Washington, D.C. Metro market. Its services include dedicated Internet access, Ethernet private line, wireless fiber, and multi-ISP network. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

NS8 Inc.

Series B in 2019
NS8 is a comprehensive fraud prevention platform that combines behavioral analytics, real-time scoring, and global monitoring to help online businesses minimize risk. Its patented scoring technology provides actionable data about the type, quality, and trustworthiness of transactions, which businesses leverage to automate fraud management workflows to suit their individual needs.

DeepSig Inc.

Series A in 2020
DeepSig is an early-stage startup that develops deep learning software to reinvent wireless communications. By replacing core wireless technology with deep learning, DeepSig makes communication systems faster, more cost-efficient, more secure, and able to excel in complex environments. It uses machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to learn optimized models directly from data rather than manually designing specialized algorithms, transforming wireless for 5G, IoT, and security.

PATHSENSORS

Convertible Note in 2012
PathSensors Inc., a bioscience company headquartered in Baltimore Maryland, has developed and commercialized (CANARY) enabling the highly reliable identification of airborne and liquid-based pathogens. PathSensors currently offers three systems that provide more rapid and highly reliable identification of airborne, liquid, and surface-based pathogens. Government organizations and major companies use their systems for monitoring, detection, and identification in biosecurity, food processing, agriculture, and environmental testing. PathSensors has received funding from Blue Venture Investors, Empower Baltimore Management Corporation (EBMC), Chesapeake Emerging Opportunities Club, Virginia Active Angel Ntwork (VAAN) and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic and Development.

Machfu

Series A in 2019
Machfu Inc. develops and maintains applications and infrastructure in industrial Internet of Things enabling data, analytics, and visualization on mobile tablets and computers. It offers MachFU, a smartphone for machines that helps industrial enterprises to communicate and connects industrial assets to legacy systems and cloud-based platforms. The company also provides Mach-IT that allows multiple pieces of equipment or hardware to communicate directly with an information processing system, such as a computer or backend system. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Rockville, Maryland.

NS8 Inc.

Convertible Note in 2016
NS8 is a comprehensive fraud prevention platform that combines behavioral analytics, real-time scoring, and global monitoring to help online businesses minimize risk. Its patented scoring technology provides actionable data about the type, quality, and trustworthiness of transactions, which businesses leverage to automate fraud management workflows to suit their individual needs.

Bandura, LLC

Seed Round in 2018
Bandura uses simple, innovative technology and best-in-class threat intelligence to secure your networks, data and users in real time - wherever they are. Whether it’s from data we provide out of the box, data from one of our Partner Integrations - or any other data source you have - we block attacks from up to 150 Million malicious IPs and domains in real-time, with no latency. At Bandura, we believe nothing scales like simplicity. We make blocking threats smart and simple - at scale - everywhere.

StreamLink Software

Venture Round in 2016
StreamLink Software-is a Software-as-a-Service company that develops grant management software for nonprofits and the public sector. Ther grants management solution, AmpliFund, is designed for managing every stage of the grant lifecycle and is at the forefront of automating grant compliance and data standardization in the public sector. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Huntress

Seed Round in 2019
Huntress is an information technology company that provides threat detection and actionable cybersecurity intelligence. It empowers IT Departments and Managed Service Providers (MSP) to expand their capabilities and confidently address their customers’ most complex cybersecurity challenges. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Maryland, United States.

PacketSled

Series A in 2020
MixMode is a Cybersecurity platform powered by a cloud-native, self-learning AI with next generation anomaly detection and predictive capabilities. MixMode ingests and monitors large data volume environments (e.g. Cloud, Enterprise, 5G) in real time to discover zero-day threats and attacks with no signature, including those from ransomware, supply chain attacks and insider threats on Zero Trust Architecture. MixMode can be used in the cloud or on premise to deliver increased productivity and efficiency. MixMode’s platform is powered by its patented self-supervised AI, which includes contextual reasoning to explain why threats are highlighted for investigation. This AI is unique in requiring no rules, no intel feeds, and no historical training data in order to operate, avoiding the bias and blindspots that impact legacy systems. MixMode AI is capable of high speed consumption of numerous big data feeds for processing in real-time and is the only DARPA-defined Third Wave AI in Cybersecurity.

Cybrary

Seed Round in 2016
Cybrary is the fastest growing, fastest-moving catalog in the industry. By working with an elite community of instructors, experts, and thought leaders, as well as cutting edge hands-on learning providers, we deliver relevant and high-quality content that is accessible anytime, anywhere. Cyber security and IT companies on Cybrary can play a role in the learning by contributing courses and content. Companies can also use their presence to recruit talent. Finally, companies looking to train their employees can use Cybrary's "Teams" product, to manage the training that their employees are taking on the platform. The product also provides hands-on CTF style challenges, practical labs and skill assessments.

ThreatQuotient

Series B in 2016
ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. ThreatQ is also the first TIP to provide Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators of compromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by two former security operations analysts to provide organizations the ability to correlate with confidence.

Emu Technology

Series A in 2017
EMU Solutions, Inc. develops and delivers hardware and software technology for enhancing memory utilization. Its technology enables users to eliminate data bottlenecks on microprocessors. EMU Solutions, Inc. has strategic partnerships with Graham Allen Partners, LLC; Aunalytics, Inc.; Data Realty, LLC; and Qumulus Solutions. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in South Bend, Indiana.
Urgent.ly’s Roadside is a digital roadside assistance platform that features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands, roadside assistance professionals, and consumers. Its solution delivers the quickest, safest, and most innovative roadside assistance service, products and technology by combining location-based services, real-time data, AI, and machine-to-machine communication.

ID.me

Series A in 2011
The mission of ID.me is to make the world a more trusted place by enabling transparent interactions between people and organizations. ID.me is a digital identity network that empowers consumers to prove their identity via a digital medium in contexts where it would benefit the consumer to be known. For relying parties, ID.me provides a single API endpoint through which partners can verify the identity of users attempting to access a website or to unlock an exclusive benefit. The United States Department of Commerce selected ID.me as one of the top five identity companies in America in 2013 and awarded the company a $2.8M grant to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). ID.me was a Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013. Entrepreneur Magazine selected ID.me as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014 in their June 2014 edition. Key customers include SeaWorld, Overstock.com, Under Armour, Dell, Sears Holding Corporation, and 129 additional retailers and brands.

TrackOFF, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
TrackOFF, Inc. develops software to protect users' identities and personal data available online. The company operates as a cyber security and privacy company. The company's software solution includes TrackOFF Elite and TrackOFF Standard. The company's product TrackOFF Standard enables its users to detect and stop tracking threats, search privately, and wipe user's browser history. It also offers TrackOFF Elite, which can be used on public Wi-Fi networks, used to hide user’s location, and for virtual private network (VPN) data encryption. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. As of May 31, 2019, TrackOFF, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Avast Plc.

PATHSENSORS

Debt Financing in 2013
PathSensors Inc., a bioscience company headquartered in Baltimore Maryland, has developed and commercialized (CANARY) enabling the highly reliable identification of airborne and liquid-based pathogens. PathSensors currently offers three systems that provide more rapid and highly reliable identification of airborne, liquid, and surface-based pathogens. Government organizations and major companies use their systems for monitoring, detection, and identification in biosecurity, food processing, agriculture, and environmental testing. PathSensors has received funding from Blue Venture Investors, Empower Baltimore Management Corporation (EBMC), Chesapeake Emerging Opportunities Club, Virginia Active Angel Ntwork (VAAN) and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic and Development.

Senseware, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Senseware, Inc. develops a facility monitoring and controls platform for the commercial and industrial building market. Its platform wirelessly monitors performance across various mechanical, electrical, environmental, and plumbing systems to help building managers and energy consultants run their facilities more cost-effectively. The company’s platform includes hardware and software that enable a range of applications from energy management, equipment-level asset management, HVAC control solutions, gas and water management, auditing, critical facilities management, facility maintenance and optimization, and workspace optimization. Senseware, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Fairfax, Virginia.

ID.me

Convertible Note in 2013
The mission of ID.me is to make the world a more trusted place by enabling transparent interactions between people and organizations. ID.me is a digital identity network that empowers consumers to prove their identity via a digital medium in contexts where it would benefit the consumer to be known. For relying parties, ID.me provides a single API endpoint through which partners can verify the identity of users attempting to access a website or to unlock an exclusive benefit. The United States Department of Commerce selected ID.me as one of the top five identity companies in America in 2013 and awarded the company a $2.8M grant to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). ID.me was a Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013. Entrepreneur Magazine selected ID.me as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014 in their June 2014 edition. Key customers include SeaWorld, Overstock.com, Under Armour, Dell, Sears Holding Corporation, and 129 additional retailers and brands.
Urgent.ly’s Roadside is a digital roadside assistance platform that features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands, roadside assistance professionals, and consumers. Its solution delivers the quickest, safest, and most innovative roadside assistance service, products and technology by combining location-based services, real-time data, AI, and machine-to-machine communication.

Gallop.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Gallop is an AI assistant that saves employees time and money. We’ve been there. Planning a trip late at night after a long day. How much time should you leave for traffic? Should you risk connecting through O’Hare? Which airline will you get status on this year? Which hotel? Is there an option that gets you home in time to put the kids to bed? Wouldn’t it be great if someone could just figure out the best trip and plan it for you? That’s what Gallop does. We’re using AI to make planning business travel frictionless. The more you work with us, the more our software will learn how to build the perfect trip for you. Our software to gives everyone their own personal travel assistant. So, take a load off! And take your time back. We’ll get you on your way.

Interfolio, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Interfolio is the provider of the most advanced workflow and shared governance technology for faculty and universities. Interfolio offers the first holistic Faculty Information System to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—from hiring to annual review, service, activity reporting, scholarly data collection and validation, and more. Interfolio defines and leads the market for faculty-first technology. As the higher education market transitions from legacy, on-premise technology to the cloud, Interfolio is quickly becoming a critical part of the enterprise IT stack by providing agile, scholar-centric SaaS solutions. Currently, Interfolio works with hundreds of institutions, including Johns Hopkins, Brown, Dartmouth, the University of Virginia, and Stanford.

Bright Greens, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Bright Greens, Inc. produces fruits and vegetables-based smoothies. The company provides blueberry, mintergreen, peaches and green, and pineapple flavored smoothies. It markets and sells its products through stores. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Rockville, Maryland.

Avizia

Seed Round in 2014
Avizia is delivering on the vision of collaborative care for patients by connecting medical experts across distance through innovative, leading-edge telemedicine solutions. Supported by Cisco technology, Avizia delivers telemedicine that is as powerful as it is easy to use. The Avizia end-to-end solution includes telemedicine devices, workflow management software, store-and-forward capabilities with EHR integration and a line of peripherals, such as digital stethoscopes and examination cameras. Whether medical professionals are performing remote medical consultations or teaching a new procedure, Avizia makes the experience feel as if everyone is present.

TroopSwap

Seed Round in 2012
Daily Deals Exclusively For The Military Community. Because A Life Of Service Should Have Its Perks! Founded by veterans, TroopSwap.com provides a channel for business to give back to the military community. We only employ military spouses and veterans for our local community outreach. 10% of profits are donated to the Wounded Warrior Project. Sign up today at http://www.troopswap.com

Citelighter

Seed Round in 2014
Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. Citelighter offers functionality to assist in creating project outlines, aggregating personalized content, as well as automates the reference or bibliography process. Additionally, captured facts are indexed and offered to users via Citelighter's fact-recommendation system.

SocialToaster, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
SocialToaster, Inc. provides an enterprise-level fan engagement platform that uses social media to a brand’s message. It offers SocialToaster, a custom platform that allows the users to identify, recruit and activate best supporters and vocal enthusiasts who are proud to share a brand’s content. The company’s SocialToaster is a web-based social media networking software application that is used in connection with establishing, managing, and optimizing social media networks and online marketing activities that enables companies to connect with their fans. SocialToaster, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

ThreatQuotient

Seed Round in 2015
ThreatQuotient is a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual, operationalized intelligence in a single pane of glass. ThreatQ is also the first TIP to provide Indicator Nurturing, which goes beyond enrichment to help customers tailor indicators of compromise (IOCs) more specifically to their infrastructure. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by two former security operations analysts to provide organizations the ability to correlate with confidence.

Blue Triangle

Series A in 2015
Blue Triangle provides digital teams with a connected view of their marketing, web performance, and third-party tag analytics while constantly monitoring website code for security vulnerabilities. With Blue Triangle, teams can track the experience of every web and mobile app visitor in real time and identify specific web performance, third-party tag, and purchase path issues measurably impacting revenue. This data empowers teams to improve and secure their digital experiences along the most critical areas of the customer journey. Blue Triangle is trusted by Fortune 500 companies including The Home Depot, Marriott, and Carnival Cruise Line, and was named a Gartner "Cool Vendor"​ in 2017. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

ID.me

Venture Round in 2012
The mission of ID.me is to make the world a more trusted place by enabling transparent interactions between people and organizations. ID.me is a digital identity network that empowers consumers to prove their identity via a digital medium in contexts where it would benefit the consumer to be known. For relying parties, ID.me provides a single API endpoint through which partners can verify the identity of users attempting to access a website or to unlock an exclusive benefit. The United States Department of Commerce selected ID.me as one of the top five identity companies in America in 2013 and awarded the company a $2.8M grant to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). ID.me was a Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013. Entrepreneur Magazine selected ID.me as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014 in their June 2014 edition. Key customers include SeaWorld, Overstock.com, Under Armour, Dell, Sears Holding Corporation, and 129 additional retailers and brands.

StreamLink Software

Series A in 2014
StreamLink Software-is a Software-as-a-Service company that develops grant management software for nonprofits and the public sector. Ther grants management solution, AmpliFund, is designed for managing every stage of the grant lifecycle and is at the forefront of automating grant compliance and data standardization in the public sector. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Link Labs

Series A in 2015
Based in Annapolis, Maryland, Link Labs is a leading innovator in low­ power, wide-­area network technologies that power the Internet of Things (IoT). The company was founded in 2014 by a group of veteran engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, who had worked together on a variety of projects for the U.S. Department of Defense, telecommunications industry, and Intelligence Community. We believe that unique solutions built by solving hard technical problems can transform businesses of any scale, and through them the world we live in. We pursue answers to hard technical challenges without bias, innovating ourselves and leveraging the innovations of others. We further embrace the challenge of making these innovations easy to use and cost-effective, creating an ever-expanding set of possible applications and impact. Our flagship product offering, AirFinder makes locating and monitoring anything, anywhere easy, affordable, and impactful. AirFinder breaks the compromise between solution cost and performance. AirFinder achieves this through the seamless integration of breakthrough intelligent RFID and low-power IoT network technologies.

Avizia

Convertible Note in 2015
Avizia is delivering on the vision of collaborative care for patients by connecting medical experts across distance through innovative, leading-edge telemedicine solutions. Supported by Cisco technology, Avizia delivers telemedicine that is as powerful as it is easy to use. The Avizia end-to-end solution includes telemedicine devices, workflow management software, store-and-forward capabilities with EHR integration and a line of peripherals, such as digital stethoscopes and examination cameras. Whether medical professionals are performing remote medical consultations or teaching a new procedure, Avizia makes the experience feel as if everyone is present.

Interfolio, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Interfolio is the provider of the most advanced workflow and shared governance technology for faculty and universities. Interfolio offers the first holistic Faculty Information System to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—from hiring to annual review, service, activity reporting, scholarly data collection and validation, and more. Interfolio defines and leads the market for faculty-first technology. As the higher education market transitions from legacy, on-premise technology to the cloud, Interfolio is quickly becoming a critical part of the enterprise IT stack by providing agile, scholar-centric SaaS solutions. Currently, Interfolio works with hundreds of institutions, including Johns Hopkins, Brown, Dartmouth, the University of Virginia, and Stanford.