C5 Capital

C5 Capital a family capital-backed investment firm, they build long-term relationships with committed investors, innovative founder teams and global companies keen to maintain their edge. Operating out of London, Luxembourg, Cape Town, Washington D.C. and Manama, they identify, nurture and support partners, whether they’re just starting out, or embarking on the next phase of their growth. Given their specialist industry knowledge and execution capability throughout EMEA, they are able to offer a powerful combination of expertise, funding and growth opportunities, all the while ensuring that they are contributing to the public good.

Zulfe Ali

Managing Partner, C5 Impact Washington

Janna Ayoub

Investor Relations, C5 Capital London

Marcos Battisti

Managing Partner

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Grahame David Cook

Former Director

Christopher Cooke

Head of Investor Relations, C5 Capital London

Daniel Freeman

Managing Partner

William Kilmer

Managing Partner, C5 Capital Washington

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Paul Owsianowski

Partner

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Melanie Peploe

Director of Fund Operations

Andre Pienaar

Founder and Chief Executive, C5 Capital London

Kurt Scherer

Managing Partner, C5 Impact and C5 Accelerate Washington

Past deals in Cyber Security

Satelles, Inc.

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.

Panaseer

Seed Round in 2015
Panaseer is the first Continuous Controls Monitoring platform for enterprise cybersecurity. Our platform shows you every asset, application, user and data set across your IT estate in real-time. This identifies gaps in controls coverage, aligns security with framework standards and substantiates regulatory compliance. Our automated reports significantly reduce reporting time and tailor insights to stakeholders at every level, enhancing decision-making from the boardroom to the analyst. These reports can also be mapped to the organisation’s structure, so you can prioritise risk based on impact to the business. Enterprise security leaders around the world trust our platform to help them make better security decisions.

Oomnitza, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Oomnitza is an information technology company that provides SaaS-based IT asset management solutions. The company's cloud-based asset tracking software is a connected, automated, and visualized solution providing a single place to track and optimize everything that powers their business. It secures and manages a corporation’s digital estate–end-user hardware, SaaS, networking infrastructure, virtual cloud services, retail devices, health care machines, etc - that they utilize. Oomnitza tracks assets from procurement to receiving to imaging to deployment to maintenance to end-of-life. Its robust features include inventory, reporting, workflow, agents, mobile apps, customization, automation, integrations, APIs, import manager, user management, location management, and more.

Oomnitza, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Oomnitza is an information technology company that provides SaaS-based IT asset management solutions. The company's cloud-based asset tracking software is a connected, automated, and visualized solution providing a single place to track and optimize everything that powers their business. It secures and manages a corporation’s digital estate–end-user hardware, SaaS, networking infrastructure, virtual cloud services, retail devices, health care machines, etc - that they utilize. Oomnitza tracks assets from procurement to receiving to imaging to deployment to maintenance to end-of-life. Its robust features include inventory, reporting, workflow, agents, mobile apps, customization, automation, integrations, APIs, import manager, user management, location management, and more.

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.

RapidSOS, Inc.

Series C in 2020
RapidSOS, Inc. provides an emergency platform that sends rich life-saving multimedia, health profile, and real-time incident data from connected devices directly to 9-1-1 and first responders. The company offers Clearinghouse, a solution that allows users to send emergency request from a RapidSOS-enabled device and receive life-saving emergency data from such devices. It also offers Emergency API suite, a solution to send user data directly to emergency services; RapidSOS Portal that allows public safety agencies to access life-saving NG911 data through a secure and web-based tool; and integration services. The company serves public safety agencies worldwide. RapidSOS, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Synack, Inc.

Series D in 2020
Synack, Inc. provides a crowdsourced security platform for penetration testing. It offers Synack that enables customer data integrity, privacy, and confidentiality. The company’s military-grade virtual private testing environment platform allows the global security community accessible to enterprises and engages global security researchers to test systems in virtual private testing environments, as well as provides secure manual security assessment. Synack, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Shape Security, Inc.

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.

ITC Secure Networking

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

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

Balabit

Series A in 2014
Balabit, a One Identity business, is a leading provider of Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Log Management solutions that help businesses reduce the risk of data breaches associated with privileged accounts. Balabit’s integrated PAM solution protects organizations in real-time from threats posed by the misuse of high risk and privileged accounts. Solutions include Privileged Session Management and Privileged Account Analytics, which together help organizations prevent, detect, and respond to cyber attacks involving privileged accounts, including both insider threats and external attacks using hijacked credentials. Working in conjunction with existing security tools, Balabit Privileged Access Management enables a flexible and people-centric approach to improving security without adding additional constraints to working practices. Founded in 2000, Balabit has a proven track record, with 25 Fortune 100 customers and more than 1,000,000 corporate users worldwide. The company operates globally with offices across the United States and Europe, together with a network of reseller partners. For more information, visit www.balabit.com, read the Balabit blog, or follow on Twitter via @balabit, LinkedIn or Facebook.

Kevala

Series A in 2021
Kevala, Inc. provides analytical solutions to solar developers enabling them to make decisions about their investments and projects through its analytics software. The company’s products include grid assessor that enables users to find and value new locations for solar, storage, and other energy resources and impact assessor that quantifies environmental, social, and economic impact of policies and programs. It provides data and analytics about evolving grid infrastructure, load, market prices, behavior, and environment. It also develops street-level view of the distribution grid from city appraisers, federal regulatory agencies, and private sources. Kevala, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Rafael, California.

Enveil

Series B in 2022
Enveil uses homomorphic crypto to protect data interactions including search and analytic. The company allows enterprises to securely operate on both encrypted and unencrypted data in the Cloud, on-prem, or anywhere in between. Users can interact with data at scale in a completely private and secure manner, opening the door to untapped opportunities. Enveil was founded by Ellison Anne Williams in 2016 and it is headquartered in Fulton, Maryland.

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).

4IQ, Inc.

Series B in 2018
Whether you are protecting people, companies, and assets; or identifying adversaries and investigating cyber crime, 4iQ can help reduce impact and financial losses. 4iQ technology and team have spent years diving into the surface, social, deep and dark web for openly exposed leaked, lost, or stolen identity records. Our proprietary, curated datalake of 14+ Billion records helps organizations assess risk exposure for clients or use the data and other 4iQ tools to disrupt nefarious cyber activities.

Metrasens

Private Equity Round in 2013
Metrasens Ltd. develops, markets, and installs medical devices that improve safety in hospitals. It provides a ferromagnetic detection system that alerts staff to the presence of ferromagnetic objects before they are inadvertently taken into the MRI suite; and a device to locate metallic objects within a patient. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Malvern, the United Kingdom.

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.

Enveil

Series A in 2020
Enveil uses homomorphic crypto to protect data interactions including search and analytic. The company allows enterprises to securely operate on both encrypted and unencrypted data in the Cloud, on-prem, or anywhere in between. Users can interact with data at scale in a completely private and secure manner, opening the door to untapped opportunities. Enveil was founded by Ellison Anne Williams in 2016 and it is headquartered in Fulton, Maryland.

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.

Omada

Private Equity Round in 2015
Omada IT provides IT security solutions for identity management & access governance that help organizations to use identity for businesses.

Ionir

Series A in 2020
Ionir provides a cloud native software defined storage and data management platform to support Kubernetes production workloads in private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud deployments. Its enterprise software defined storage platform delivers Data Teleport that allows stateful applications to be copied or moved instantly between Kubernetes clusters. Ionir was formerly known as Reduxio Systems Ltd. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Blue Cedar Networks, Inc.

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.

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.

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.

4IQ, Inc.

Series C in 2020
Whether you are protecting people, companies, and assets; or identifying adversaries and investigating cyber crime, 4iQ can help reduce impact and financial losses. 4iQ technology and team have spent years diving into the surface, social, deep and dark web for openly exposed leaked, lost, or stolen identity records. Our proprietary, curated datalake of 14+ Billion records helps organizations assess risk exposure for clients or use the data and other 4iQ tools to disrupt nefarious cyber activities.