VanishID
Venture Round in 2025
Picnic is a cybersecurity firm that proactively protects people and companies against the biggest threat vector in cyber today: attacks by social engineers. Social engineers are hackers who use public information about you, your family, and your company to craft attacks that include phishing scams, ransomware, impersonation, identity theft, malware, elder fraud, and many others. Picnic proactively finds and removes the information about businesses and people that can be harvested by social engineers. Our technology works automatically, seamlessly, and continuously to protect you, your organization, and also your family. We make you less visible and reduce your attack surface. This is next-generation security—security at the human level.
Get in touch to learn more about how we preemptively safeguard enterprises and individual employees from social engineering attacks.
Axiado Corporation is a cybersecurity company based in San Jose, California, founded in 2018. It specializes in designing and developing hardware security processors aimed at securing digital infrastructure by addressing fundamental security vulnerabilities. Axiado's flagship product features a trusted control/compute unit (TCU) that includes a Zero-Trust Secure Vault™ for boot and authentication, as well as Secure AI™ engines. These technologies provide robust protection against internal and external digital threats across various sectors, including enterprises, industries, and governmental organizations. By integrating advanced hardware-based security measures, Axiado aims to safeguard sensitive data, ensuring stability and security in the management of heterogeneous infrastructures, such as cloud environments, 5G networks, and IoT devices.
Bolster Inc. specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions, protecting brands from online scams, account takeovers, and counterfeit activities across various channels like the open web, social media, app stores, and dark web. Its platform offers real-time detection, automated takedowns, continuous monitoring, and rich threat intelligence, serving clients across finance, technology, and retail sectors.
Founded in 2018, Britive is a cloud security company headquartered in Glendale, California with an additional office in Bengaluru, India. It provides a cloud-native solution for privileged access administration across multi-cloud environments, empowering teams to implement best practices like just-in-time access and zero standing privileges. The platform offers rapid discovery of privileged access blind spots and increases operational efficiency.
Bolster Inc. specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions, protecting brands from online scams, account takeovers, and counterfeit activities across various channels like the open web, social media, app stores, and dark web. Its platform offers real-time detection, automated takedowns, continuous monitoring, and rich threat intelligence, serving clients across finance, technology, and retail sectors.
Picnic is a cybersecurity firm that proactively protects people and companies against the biggest threat vector in cyber today: attacks by social engineers. Social engineers are hackers who use public information about you, your family, and your company to craft attacks that include phishing scams, ransomware, impersonation, identity theft, malware, elder fraud, and many others. Picnic proactively finds and removes the information about businesses and people that can be harvested by social engineers. Our technology works automatically, seamlessly, and continuously to protect you, your organization, and also your family. We make you less visible and reduce your attack surface. This is next-generation security—security at the human level.
Get in touch to learn more about how we preemptively safeguard enterprises and individual employees from social engineering attacks.
Bolster
Venture Round in 2022
Bolster Inc. specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions, protecting brands from online scams, account takeovers, and counterfeit activities across various channels like the open web, social media, app stores, and dark web. Its platform offers real-time detection, automated takedowns, continuous monitoring, and rich threat intelligence, serving clients across finance, technology, and retail sectors.
Founded in 2018, Britive is a cloud security company headquartered in Glendale, California with an additional office in Bengaluru, India. It provides a cloud-native solution for privileged access administration across multi-cloud environments, empowering teams to implement best practices like just-in-time access and zero standing privileges. The platform offers rapid discovery of privileged access blind spots and increases operational efficiency.
Bolster Inc. specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions, protecting brands from online scams, account takeovers, and counterfeit activities across various channels like the open web, social media, app stores, and dark web. Its platform offers real-time detection, automated takedowns, continuous monitoring, and rich threat intelligence, serving clients across finance, technology, and retail sectors.
ProtectWise
Series B in 2015
ProtectWise is a Denver-based company that specializes in cloud-powered network detection and response (NDR) solutions. Founded in April 2013, it provides organizations with advanced analytics capabilities for cloud, hybrid, and enterprise traffic, enabling real-time and retrospective threat detection. The platform captures and indexes full-fidelity packets indefinitely, creating a searchable network memory that enhances incident response and threat hunting. By utilizing machine learning and flow-based traffic algorithms, ProtectWise allows security professionals to identify threats as they occur and to uncover previously unknown threats through retrospective analysis. The company is led by a team of experienced professionals from the security and SaaS sectors, having launched the Immersive Security movement in 2017 to innovate within the security industry.
ProtectWise
Series A in 2014
ProtectWise is a Denver-based company that specializes in cloud-powered network detection and response (NDR) solutions. Founded in April 2013, it provides organizations with advanced analytics capabilities for cloud, hybrid, and enterprise traffic, enabling real-time and retrospective threat detection. The platform captures and indexes full-fidelity packets indefinitely, creating a searchable network memory that enhances incident response and threat hunting. By utilizing machine learning and flow-based traffic algorithms, ProtectWise allows security professionals to identify threats as they occur and to uncover previously unknown threats through retrospective analysis. The company is led by a team of experienced professionals from the security and SaaS sectors, having launched the Immersive Security movement in 2017 to innovate within the security industry.
ProtectWise
Seed Round in 2013
ProtectWise is a Denver-based company that specializes in cloud-powered network detection and response (NDR) solutions. Founded in April 2013, it provides organizations with advanced analytics capabilities for cloud, hybrid, and enterprise traffic, enabling real-time and retrospective threat detection. The platform captures and indexes full-fidelity packets indefinitely, creating a searchable network memory that enhances incident response and threat hunting. By utilizing machine learning and flow-based traffic algorithms, ProtectWise allows security professionals to identify threats as they occur and to uncover previously unknown threats through retrospective analysis. The company is led by a team of experienced professionals from the security and SaaS sectors, having launched the Immersive Security movement in 2017 to innovate within the security industry.
Validity Sensors
Series E in 2012
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity Sensors specializes in Natural ID authentication technology, primarily offering advanced fingerprint sensor solutions. The company is recognized as a leader in this field, delivering high-performance, secure, and cost-effective authentication methods that cater to the growing demand for mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Validity's Natural ID solutions address the limitations of traditional passwords and PINs, which are often vulnerable to hacking or difficult for users to remember. By leveraging unique human characteristics such as fingerprints, voice, and facial recognition, Validity provides a robust platform for identity verification and secure wireless transactions. Among these, fingerprint authentication is noted for its effectiveness, usability, and affordability, making it an optimal choice for enhancing security across various applications, including corporate network security and portable data protection.
Validity Sensors
Series D in 2010
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity Sensors specializes in Natural ID authentication technology, primarily offering advanced fingerprint sensor solutions. The company is recognized as a leader in this field, delivering high-performance, secure, and cost-effective authentication methods that cater to the growing demand for mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Validity's Natural ID solutions address the limitations of traditional passwords and PINs, which are often vulnerable to hacking or difficult for users to remember. By leveraging unique human characteristics such as fingerprints, voice, and facial recognition, Validity provides a robust platform for identity verification and secure wireless transactions. Among these, fingerprint authentication is noted for its effectiveness, usability, and affordability, making it an optimal choice for enhancing security across various applications, including corporate network security and portable data protection.
Validity Sensors
Series C in 2009
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity Sensors specializes in Natural ID authentication technology, primarily offering advanced fingerprint sensor solutions. The company is recognized as a leader in this field, delivering high-performance, secure, and cost-effective authentication methods that cater to the growing demand for mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Validity's Natural ID solutions address the limitations of traditional passwords and PINs, which are often vulnerable to hacking or difficult for users to remember. By leveraging unique human characteristics such as fingerprints, voice, and facial recognition, Validity provides a robust platform for identity verification and secure wireless transactions. Among these, fingerprint authentication is noted for its effectiveness, usability, and affordability, making it an optimal choice for enhancing security across various applications, including corporate network security and portable data protection.
Validity Sensors
Series B in 2007
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity Sensors specializes in Natural ID authentication technology, primarily offering advanced fingerprint sensor solutions. The company is recognized as a leader in this field, delivering high-performance, secure, and cost-effective authentication methods that cater to the growing demand for mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Validity's Natural ID solutions address the limitations of traditional passwords and PINs, which are often vulnerable to hacking or difficult for users to remember. By leveraging unique human characteristics such as fingerprints, voice, and facial recognition, Validity provides a robust platform for identity verification and secure wireless transactions. Among these, fingerprint authentication is noted for its effectiveness, usability, and affordability, making it an optimal choice for enhancing security across various applications, including corporate network security and portable data protection.
Validity Sensors
Series A in 2006
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity Sensors specializes in Natural ID authentication technology, primarily offering advanced fingerprint sensor solutions. The company is recognized as a leader in this field, delivering high-performance, secure, and cost-effective authentication methods that cater to the growing demand for mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Validity's Natural ID solutions address the limitations of traditional passwords and PINs, which are often vulnerable to hacking or difficult for users to remember. By leveraging unique human characteristics such as fingerprints, voice, and facial recognition, Validity provides a robust platform for identity verification and secure wireless transactions. Among these, fingerprint authentication is noted for its effectiveness, usability, and affordability, making it an optimal choice for enhancing security across various applications, including corporate network security and portable data protection.
Yipes is a data communications services provider. It was acquired in 2007 by Indian telecommunications service provider Reliance Communications.
Yipes delivers scalable business-to-business and business-to-Internet IP networking services. Their regional IP network Yipes MAN seamlessly extends your company's LAN to other business locations or to business partner locations.
Their Yipes NET Internet service brings the Web to your LAN at breakaway speeds.
Yipes NET customers can also take advantage of Yipes' industry-leading security offering Yipes WALL managed firewall service, to safeguard their private information from the dangers of the public Internet.
Yipes NAN replaces private line and frame relay services with the simplicity of Ethernet.
Yipes WEB offers a full portfolio of Internet management services.
Yipes TOUGH enables customers to extend the redundancy on their customer premise to the Yipes Network.
IMlogic, Inc. specializes in enterprise software that facilitates secure instant messaging across various sectors, including financial services, energy, healthcare, government, media, telecommunications, technology, consumer products, and manufacturing. The company's solutions are designed to enable organizations to effectively manage and deploy instant messaging and presence technology for real-time business communications. Additionally, IMlogic's software provides tools to control and secure both public and enterprise instant messaging networks, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and corporate governance policies.
Brightmail
Series C in 2000
Brightmail was an e-mail filtering company in the United States. The company specialized in anti-spam products designed to protect email networks of businesses, government agencies, and service providers, by blocking unsolicited bulk email.
The company was [acquired](http://www.symantec.com/press/2004/n040519.html) by [Symantec](/organization/symantec) on May 9, 2004.