C5 Capital

C5 Capital is a London-based private equity and venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments in the secure data ecosystem and the transformation of critical infrastructure. Established in 2014, it focuses on sectors such as cybersecurity, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and aerospace. C5 Capital aims to build long-term relationships with innovative companies across Europe, the Middle East, and North America, providing them with growth capital and strategic support. The firm also operates C5 Accelerate, which invests in startups through programs like the PeaceTech Accelerator, offering funding for equity stakes in promising ventures. With offices in Washington, D.C., Bahrain, and other locations, C5 Capital is dedicated to fostering a secure digital future while contributing to public good through its investments.

Zulfe Ali

Managing Partner

Janna Ayoub

Senior Associate of Global Partnerships

Marcos Battisti

Managing Partner

Grahame David Cook

Former Director

Christopher Cooke

Managing Partner and Head of Investor Relations

Paul Owsianowski

Partner

Melanie Peploe

Director of Fund Operations

André Pienaar

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Kurt Scherer

Managing Partner, C5 Impact Partners

27 past transactions

Cassava Technologies

Venture Round in 2022
Cassava Technologies is Africa's first continental-scale integrated technology company, transforming the lives of individuals and businesses across the continent by enabling social mobility and economic prosperity. Its product segments are guided by the vision of an experienced, founder-led management team committed to advancing Africa's economic future. Its business includes fiber broadband networks, data centers, and renewable energy, as well as cloud & cybersecurity, fintech, and digital platforms.

Enveil

Series B in 2022
Enveil, Inc. is a data security company that specializes in developing solutions for secure data interactions, allowing enterprises to operate on both encrypted and unencrypted data across various environments, including cloud and on-premises. Founded in 2016 and based in Fulton, Maryland, Enveil offers a platform known as ZeroReveal Compute Fabric, which consists of the ZeroReveal Client and Server applications. This two-party system ensures data remains secure throughout its processing lifecycle. The company also provides ZeroReveal Search and ZeroReveal Machine Learning, enabling secure searches and the application of machine learning models to derive insights from data across different jurisdictions and organizations. Enveil's technology supports applications such as secure data collaboration, regulatory compliance, and cloud security, and serves industries including financial services, healthcare, and government. By leveraging homomorphic cryptography, Enveil enables users to engage with data privately and securely, unlocking new opportunities without compromising sensitive information.

Kevala

Series A in 2021
Kevala, Inc. specializes in providing analytical solutions tailored for solar developers, facilitating informed decision-making regarding investments and projects through its advanced analytics software. The company's offerings include the Grid Assessor, which identifies and evaluates potential locations for solar and storage resources, and the Impact Assessor, which measures the environmental, social, and economic implications of various policies and programs. Kevala leverages proprietary analytics and detailed grid mapping to deliver insights about grid infrastructure, market dynamics, and environmental factors. Established in 2014 and headquartered in San Rafael, California, the company aims to support the transition to a cleaner energy future by making energy-related data transparent and actionable for developers and investors.

Oomnitza

Series C in 2021
Oomnitza, Inc. is an enterprise software company specializing in IT asset management solutions. Based in San Francisco with additional offices in Minsk and Los Altos, Oomnitza provides a cloud-based platform that enables organizations to effectively track and manage a wide range of assets, including end-user hardware, SaaS applications, and networking infrastructure. The platform facilitates the entire asset lifecycle, from procurement to deployment and maintenance, offering features such as inventory management, reporting, workflow automation, and mobile access. Oomnitza's solutions cater to various sectors, including finance, retail, technology, education, healthcare, construction, and government, helping clients optimize resources, enhance security, and streamline processes. Incorporated in 2012, the company aims to deliver comprehensive visibility and control over an organization's digital estate.

Primo Energy

Seed Round in 2020
PrimoEnergy designs and manufactures hybrid wind/solar solutions for a variety of applications. PrimoEnergy is the culmination of many years of development, testing, and redesigning alternative energy systems. Today it has powerful products that incorporate wind, solar, and batteries for a complete nanogrid operation. It was founded in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.

4iQ

Series C in 2020
4iQ, Inc. is an identity intelligence company focused on preventing fraud, identity theft, account takeover, and cyber espionage. Founded in 2016 and based in Los Altos, California, the company offers a range of products including IDHunt, a web application for analyzing identities and their attributes, and IDTheft, which helps clients assess identity risks and monitor individuals. Additionally, 4iQ operates IDLake, a tool that scans deep and dark web sources for stolen or leaked login credentials and other personal identifiable information. With a proprietary data lake containing over 14 billion records, 4iQ provides valuable insights to intelligence analysts, security researchers, and criminal investigators, enabling them to assess risk exposure and disrupt cyber threats effectively.

Ionir

Series A in 2020
Ionir offers a cloud-native software-defined storage and data management platform designed to support Kubernetes production workloads across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The platform features Data Teleport, which allows for the instant copying or movement of stateful applications between Kubernetes clusters. By combining high-performance, container-native storage with enhanced data mobility, Ionir enables customers to create a unified data cloud for their applications across diverse infrastructures. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Ionir was previously known as Reduxio Systems Ltd.

Haven Cyber Technologies

Venture Round in 2020
Haven Cyber Technologies is an industrial holding which is focused on creating a European champion in Managed Security Solution Providers (MSSP) for enterprise customers. Haven brings together a network of organisations onto its platform, enabling it to offer a bespoke product suite to each client. Companies within Haven maintain their own brands and management and benefit from innovation across the platform, which focuses on cloud computing, machine learning and automation and also provides companies with world-class talent and mentorship.

RapidSOS

Series C in 2020
RapidSOS, Inc. operates an emergency response data platform that delivers critical information from over 350 million connected devices directly to 9-1-1 and first responders during emergencies. The platform enhances public safety by providing rich multimedia, health profiles, and real-time incident data, supporting more than 4,800 Emergency Communications Centers and protecting over 90% of the U.S. population during approximately 250 million emergencies each year. Key offerings include the Clearinghouse, which enables emergency requests from RapidSOS-enabled devices, and an Emergency API suite that transmits user data to emergency services. Additionally, the RapidSOS Portal provides public safety agencies with secure access to life-saving data. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, RapidSOS collaborates with certified partners to improve emergency response times and outcomes, ultimately aiming to create a safer future through the integration of technology and public safety efforts.

Enveil

Series A in 2020
Enveil, Inc. is a data security company that specializes in developing solutions for secure data interactions, allowing enterprises to operate on both encrypted and unencrypted data across various environments, including cloud and on-premises. Founded in 2016 and based in Fulton, Maryland, Enveil offers a platform known as ZeroReveal Compute Fabric, which consists of the ZeroReveal Client and Server applications. This two-party system ensures data remains secure throughout its processing lifecycle. The company also provides ZeroReveal Search and ZeroReveal Machine Learning, enabling secure searches and the application of machine learning models to derive insights from data across different jurisdictions and organizations. Enveil's technology supports applications such as secure data collaboration, regulatory compliance, and cloud security, and serves industries including financial services, healthcare, and government. By leveraging homomorphic cryptography, Enveil enables users to engage with data privately and securely, unlocking new opportunities without compromising sensitive information.

Hazelcast

Series D in 2020
Hazelcast, Inc. develops an open source clustering and scalable data distribution platform for Java. The company offers Hazelcast, an in-memory data grid solution that allows its users to share and partition their application data across their clusters; Hazelcast Jet, a stream processing engine that ingests, categorizes, and processes data to support continuous intelligence practices; and Hazelcast Management Center, a web-based tool that enables its users to monitor and manage Hazelcast clusters, check cluster health, track system throughput, and update cluster configurations. Its solutions are used by developers and companies worldwide. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Palo Alto, California with a research and development office in Istanbul, Turkey.

Satelles

Series C in 2019
Satelles, Inc., a satellite communication company, provides timing and location services that are delivered over the Iridium constellation of 66 low-earth-orbiting satellites. It offers solutions to improve authentication and identity management that include signal-in-space, which provides a location-specific signature location of a mobile device or other equipment. The company also provides services in the areas of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), such as GPS that include precision real-time kinematic GPS; various augmentation systems to enhance performance; indoor GNSS signal reception; GNSS and other satellite signal authentication; GNSS and inertial navigation integration; autonomous vehicle control; high-precision measurement and control; ultra-low noise electronic design; satellite-system design and prototyping; embedded system design and analysis; algorithm prototyping, development, and implementation; and agile embedded software development. In addition, it offers commercial services that include real-time delivery of ranging signals from space, calculation of orbit and clock bias corrections, delivery of corrections via signals from space, and out-of-band-delivery of corrections via Internet; and time and location user equipment software that delivers time and location measurements in a user device. The company’s products are used in IoT/machine-to-machine applications, including asset tracking, law enforcement, and time synchronization of distributed networks; authentication and identity management; and indoor and urban canyon locations. The company serves state and local government related service providers. It offers products through value added resellers. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Reston, Virginia. Satelles, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of iKare Corporation.

Shape Security

Series F in 2019
Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications. Shape has deflected over $1B in fraud losses for major retailers, financial institutions, airlines, and government agencies. Shape Security is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Venrock, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, WING VC and a host of other prominent investors. Shape was founded in 2011 to disrupt automated attacks on web and mobile applications.

Hazelcast

Series D in 2019
Hazelcast, Inc. develops an open source clustering and scalable data distribution platform for Java. The company offers Hazelcast, an in-memory data grid solution that allows its users to share and partition their application data across their clusters; Hazelcast Jet, a stream processing engine that ingests, categorizes, and processes data to support continuous intelligence practices; and Hazelcast Management Center, a web-based tool that enables its users to monitor and manage Hazelcast clusters, check cluster health, track system throughput, and update cluster configurations. Its solutions are used by developers and companies worldwide. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Palo Alto, California with a research and development office in Istanbul, Turkey.

Blue Cedar

Series B in 2019
Blue Cedar is the leading no-code mobile app security integration platform that saves organizations significant time and money, by eliminating the need for developer resources to secure custom and third-party mobile apps.

4iQ

Series B in 2018
4iQ, Inc. is an identity intelligence company focused on preventing fraud, identity theft, account takeover, and cyber espionage. Founded in 2016 and based in Los Altos, California, the company offers a range of products including IDHunt, a web application for analyzing identities and their attributes, and IDTheft, which helps clients assess identity risks and monitor individuals. Additionally, 4iQ operates IDLake, a tool that scans deep and dark web sources for stolen or leaked login credentials and other personal identifiable information. With a proprietary data lake containing over 14 billion records, 4iQ provides valuable insights to intelligence analysts, security researchers, and criminal investigators, enabling them to assess risk exposure and disrupt cyber threats effectively.

Pinkaloo Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Pinkaloo is on a mission to modernize charitable giving through our Modern Giving account, which merges the best of an HSA + Venmo for managing donations. In partnership with Employers and Financial Institutions, Pinkaloo’s software-as-a-service platform enables donors to better budget for their giving, helps donors discover charities and projects that match their passions, donate to any charity wherever and whenever they want, and come tax time centralizes all of their tax receipts in one place. For our customers, it is a turn-key solution that allows them to maximize engagement with their employees and customers and to power the philanthropy in the communities that they serve via our white-labeled giving accounts.

Neuralys

Seed Round in 2018
Neuralys is a cybersecurity platform that allows businesses to overcome security issues faster and easier than ever before. We simplify the risk mitigation process by providing enterprises transparency, accountability, and governance to improve collaboration between security teams and business units, leveraging on existing tools, making them better, and drastically reducing risk mitigation times.

IronNet Cybersecurity

Series B in 2018
IronNet Cybersecurity is uniquely positioned the gap between traditional cybersecurity approaches and this rapidly evolving threat grows wider. Its mission is to deliver the power and resources of Collective Defense so that any company, organization, or public entity can defend better as part of a collaborative ecosystem with shared knowledge and vetted alerts in real-time. IronNet was founded in 2014 by General (Ret.) Keith Alexander- former head of the NSA and Commander U.S. Cyber Command.

Panoply

Series A in 2017
Panoply automates all of the data management tasks associated with running big data on the cloud, freeing up engineers and data scientists to focus on exploring data to discover and drive business value

OneGCC

Seed Round in 2017
OneGCC is a Bahrain-based digital platform dedicated to enhancing job opportunities for GCC nationals by facilitating the nationalization of jobs within the Gulf Cooperation Council. The platform provides a comprehensive range of tools for both job seekers and employers, including skill matching, cloud-based interviews, online courses, and gamified assessments. By utilizing advanced algorithms, OneGCC effectively matches candidates with job opportunities tailored to their skills and personalities. Additionally, the platform offers human resources technology solutions, such as HR management systems and applicant tracking systems. OneGCC also ranks job seekers based on their industry expertise and provides valuable market insights, aiming to streamline the hiring process and address unemployment issues in the region.

Reduxio

Series C in 2017
Since 2012 Reduxio has redefined data management and data protection, and the company has evolved its mission to deliver the first microservices-based storage and data platform for stateful applications. Reduxio’s cloud data platform for Kubernetes pairs high performance software-defined container-native storage and data management with data mobility to enable customers to build a single data cloud for their applications across all their infrastructure, anywhere. Reduxio is backed by Intel Capital, C5 Capital Cloud Partners and Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP).

ITC Secure

Acquisition in 2016
ITC Secure Networking provides organisations with assured IT. We design and integrate secure cloud based and on premise IT Network.

Suavei

Pre Seed Round in 2016
The rapid growth of internet-connected wireless devices (i.e. IoT devices) is leading to increased exposure of corporate networks to cyber-attack through device vulnerabilities. In addition, scanning IoT devices for threats is very manual, costly and complex with incumbent options. As a result, nearly half of businesses are unaware of what devices are connected to their networks or when they suffer costly breaches. Founded in 2016 by cybersecurity veterans, Suavei has deployed the only self-configuring threat management solution available for wirelessly connected devices. Suavei’s SaaS solution uses machine learning algorithms to dynamically automate both device identification and ongoing scan calibrations. Suavei protects IoT devices over 500 times faster than incumbent methods! The Suavei leadership team brings decades of experience in cybersecurity, wireless, and software development to the company. Suavei is an EvoNexus portfolio company, nominee for the Most Disruptive Technology SPIFFY Award, a finalist in Pepperdine's Most Fundable Company & finalist for the John G.Watson Quick Pitch.

Panaseer

Seed Round in 2015
Panaseer Limited develops a cloud-based cybersecurity intelligence platform that assists enterprise security teams in making informed risk decisions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, with an office in New York, the company offers the Panaseer Security Data Lake, which provides real-time insights into an organization's assets, applications, users, and data sets. This platform identifies gaps in security controls and aligns them with industry standards while facilitating regulatory compliance. By ingesting data from various sources, both cloud-based and on-premises, Panaseer enables organizations to monitor and analyze their cybersecurity posture effectively. The platform automates reporting processes, tailoring insights for stakeholders at different levels, thereby enhancing decision-making across the organization. Security leaders utilize Panaseer’s capabilities to prioritize risks based on their potential impact on the business and optimize overall cyber hygiene practices.

Balabit

Series A in 2014
Balabit, a subsidiary of One Identity, specializes in Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Log Management solutions aimed at mitigating the risks of data breaches linked to privileged accounts. The company's integrated PAM offerings, which include Privileged Session Management and Privileged Account Analytics, enable organizations to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats from both insiders and external attackers using compromised credentials. Balabit's solutions complement existing security infrastructure, allowing for a more adaptable and user-friendly security approach. Established in 2000, Balabit serves over 25 Fortune 100 companies and has more than one million corporate users globally. The company maintains a presence in the United States and Europe, supported by a network of reseller partners.

Metrasens

Private Equity Round in 2013
Metrasens Ltd. is a company based in Malvern, United Kingdom, specializing in the development of security and detection equipment focused on enhancing safety in healthcare settings. Founded in 2005, Metrasens offers a range of products including Cellsense, a contraband detector, and Cellsense Plus, which enhances contraband detection capabilities. Its Prescreen 900 Plus device identifies casualty threats, while the Ferroguard Screener detects risks that may be overlooked by other systems. A key feature of Metrasens's technology is its ferromagnetic detection system, designed to alert staff about the presence of ferromagnetic objects before they enter MRI suites, thereby preventing potentially hazardous incidents. Additionally, the company provides devices that assist in locating metallic objects within patients, contributing to improved safety protocols in medical environments. Metrasens also serves various sectors beyond healthcare, addressing security challenges in complex environments.