Capital One Ventures

Capital One Ventures is the venture capital arm of Capital One Financial Corporation, focusing on early-stage investments primarily in financial technology companies. Established in 2014 and based in the United States, Capital One Ventures utilizes the parent company's balance sheet to fund its investments. While it specializes in fintech, the firm also supports exceptional companies across various industries and stages, reflecting a broader commitment to fostering innovation and growth.

Jay Emmanuel

Partner

Julian van Giessen

Senior Associate

Nathan Krishnamurthy

Partner

Bill McNulty

Operating Partner

Aman Sharma

Partner

Jaidev Shergill

Managing Partner

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Securonix

Venture Round in 2021
Securonix is working to radically transform all areas of data security with actionable security intelligence. Our purpose-built, advanced security analytics technology mines, enriches, analyzes, scores and visualizes customer data into actionable intelligence on the highest risk threats from within and outside their environment. Using signature-less anomaly detection techniques that track users, account and system behavior, Securonix is able to detect the most advanced insider threats, data security and fraud attacks automatically and accurately. Globally, customers are using Securonix to address the most basic and complex needs around advanced persistent threat detection and monitoring, high privileged activity monitoring, enterprise and web fraud detection, application risk monitoring and access risk management.

Eightfold AI

Series E in 2021
Eightfold.ai® delivers the Talent Intelligence Platform™, the most effective way for organizations to retain top performers, upskill and reskill the workforce, recruit top talent efficiently, and reach diversity goals. Eightfold.ai's deep learning artificial intelligence platform empowers enterprises to turn talent management into a competitive advantage. Eightfold was founded by world experts in deep learning and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Aqua Security

Venture Round in 2021
Aqua Security helps enterprises secure their cloud native, container-based and serverless applications from development to production. Aqua bridges the gap between DevOps and security, promoting business agility and accelerating digital transformation. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform provides full visibility and security automation across the entire application lifecycle, using a modern zero-touch approach to detect and prevent threats while simplifying regulatory compliance. Aqua customers include some of the world’s largest financial services, software development, internet, media, hospitality and retail companies, with implementations across the globe spanning a broad range of cloud providers and on-premise technologies. Aqua’s Container Security Platform provides full visibility into container activity, allowing organizations to detect and prevent suspicious activity and attacks, providing transparent, automated security while helping to enforce policy and simplify regulatory compliance.

Eightfold AI

Private Placement in 2020
Eightfold.ai® delivers the Talent Intelligence Platform™, the most effective way for organizations to retain top performers, upskill and reskill the workforce, recruit top talent efficiently, and reach diversity goals. Eightfold.ai's deep learning artificial intelligence platform empowers enterprises to turn talent management into a competitive advantage. Eightfold was founded by world experts in deep learning and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Iterable

Series E in 2021
Iterable is the growth marketing platform that enables brands to create, execute and optimize cross-channel campaigns with unparalleled data flexibility. Leading brands, like Zillow, SeatGeek, and Box, choose Iterable to power world-class customer engagement throughout the entire lifecycle.

Prime

Seed Round in 2022
Taking care of someone? You're not alone—60 million Americans do. We've got your back. Prime pulls all the family members and health data you need, in one place.

Goodr

Seed Round in 2021
Goodr Inc. develops a real time food rescue application that engages in sustainable waste management activities. The company's dashboard allows businesses to track and account for their donations, see their real time tax savings, and analyze waste trends. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

ThoughtSpot

Series F in 2021
ThoughtSpot, Inc. provides search-driven analytics for enterprises. It allows users to search and analyze data, get instant charts, ask questions, analyze company data, build reports, and share and collaborate data; and offers dashboards. It serves retail, communication, healthcare and life science, financial service, and manufacturing sectors. The company has strategic partnerships with TribolaTech Inc. and Hayes. ThoughtSpot, Inc. was formerly known as Scaligent Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. It has locations in Bellevue, Washington; London, United Kingdom; Duisburg, Germany; Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; Bengaluru, India; and Tokyo, Japan.

Source Defense

Series B in 2022
In an industry focused on detection, Source Defense provides websites with the first ever prevention technology for attacks of third-party origin. We are the first ever SAAS platform that allows a site owner to set and enforce permissions, receive real-time alerts and monitor third-party vendors' behavior on their site. By removing the security considerations from third-party integrations, we can save countless man-hours spent on tests and integrations, allowing sites to focus on generating revenues and new opportunities while keeping the site visitors safe and the site in high performance.

Incode

Series B in 2021
Incode Technologies Inc. develops Incode Omni, an omnichannel biometric identity platform, that offers services, such as opening accounts, authenticate identity, and making payments. The company offers incode hello, a chat and video conference solution; incode welcome, it enables to apply for a new bank account or credit card; incode facepay, a face powered transaction verification system; incode talk, a face authentication for apps; and incode greet. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Europe and Latin America.

Workboard

Series D in 2021
WorkBoard Inc. provides an OKR software and expertise platform to help organizations and the people in them to achieve better results. It offers WorkBoard Enterprise Results Platform, which enables companies to localize company objectives to teams, align on outcomes, measure results, coordinate actions, manage meetings, and align execution across the business. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Source Defense

Private Placement in 2020
In an industry focused on detection, Source Defense provides websites with the first ever prevention technology for attacks of third-party origin. We are the first ever SAAS platform that allows a site owner to set and enforce permissions, receive real-time alerts and monitor third-party vendors' behavior on their site. By removing the security considerations from third-party integrations, we can save countless man-hours spent on tests and integrations, allowing sites to focus on generating revenues and new opportunities while keeping the site visitors safe and the site in high performance.

Socure

Venture Round in 2021
Socure's predictive analytics platform applies artificial intelligence and machine-learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, phone, address, IP, device, velocity, and the broader internet to verify identities in real-time. Socure powers financial inclusion by approving as much as 40% more millennial and other thin-file consumers. It also reduces fraud for online new account openings by up to 95% with false positives of better than 1:1 and cuts manual review rates by as much as 90%. It was founded in 2012 by Johnny Ayers, Chief Product Officer, and is led by CEO Tom Thimot. The company is based in New York City, with offices in San Diego, San Jose, and Chennai, India.

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.

Socure

Series D in 2021
Socure's predictive analytics platform applies artificial intelligence and machine-learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, phone, address, IP, device, velocity, and the broader internet to verify identities in real-time. Socure powers financial inclusion by approving as much as 40% more millennial and other thin-file consumers. It also reduces fraud for online new account openings by up to 95% with false positives of better than 1:1 and cuts manual review rates by as much as 90%. It was founded in 2012 by Johnny Ayers, Chief Product Officer, and is led by CEO Tom Thimot. The company is based in New York City, with offices in San Diego, San Jose, and Chennai, India.

Groove

Series B in 2021
Groove Labs, Inc. develops a sales engagement and acceleration platform. It offers Groove, a solution for email and calendar integration; Groove Flow, a solution that enables users to create custom multi-step campaigns, which help reps and account managers to send personalized emails and make informed phone calls. The company also provides Groove Dialer, a solution that helps user to close more deals by eliminating manual tasks and making reps and account managers more strategic and better informed; and performance tracking and analytics solutions. It serves organizations, divisions, and teams ranging from sales leaders, AEs, SDRs, and sales opps to account management leaders and CSMs. Groove Labs, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in San Diego, California; and Bellevue, Washington.

CodeSignal

Private Placement in 2020
CodeSignal, Inc. develops and operates a cloud-based coding and recruiting platform to discover, develop, and promote technical talent. It applies game mechanics that offer developers online computer programming for both instructional and recruiting purposes. The company’s platform creates custom tests for employers that are calibrated with interview process and creates assessments that test more than data structures and algorithms. CodeSignal, Inc. was formerly known as BrainFights, Inc. and changed its name to CodeSignal, Inc. in October 2020. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Trove

Series D in 2021
Trove builds technology that allows brands to take control of their resale marketplaces, deepening customer loyalty and generating new profits. The company provides white-label technology and end-to-end operations that power circular shopping for premium and luxury brands such as Levi’s, Patagonia, REI, Eileen Fisher and Arc’teryx. Trove enables brands to take back items from customers’ closets while maintaining control of their brand equity and owning their customer experience, data and relationships. Rooted in a commitment to sustainability, Trove aims to create a world where all consumers have access to better products with less waste.

Styra

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

StrongDM

Series C in 2024
strongDM manages and audits access to servers and databases. It provides a single platform to control access to any database for employees, vendors, and cloud-based tools. The company was awarded in the Strata+Hadoop World Audience Favorite in 2016. It was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Burlingame, California.

Observe

Series B in 2024
Observe Inc. develops an online platform for log analytics, infrastructure monitoring, and application performance management. The company’s platform observes and manages data; creates landing pages to provide top issues and the overall health of the system; structures and relates the data to ingest; and investigates service incidents using worksheets. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Inspirato

Post in 2023
Inspirato LLC operates as a luxury hospitality company that owns and operates a private club that provides luxury vacation options for travelers. It allows its club members to access a collection of luxury vacation residences and signature residences across various beach, mountain, metropolitan, and lifestyle destinations worldwide. The company offers access to private vacation homes, luxury villas, luxury vacation residences, luxury hotels, and resorts for its members. Inspirato LLC was formerly known as Best of 52, LLC and changed its name to Inspirato LLC in March 2013. Inspirato LLC was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Tessi Consulting

Debt Financing in 2022
Tessi Consulting is a boutique consultancy that offers training and coaching services.

OvationCXM

Series C in 2022
Boomtown is a product support platform that makes selling, activating, and servicing of technology products simple. It focuses on developing the modern toolset needed to ensure that the product support experience is nothing short of exceptional. Boomtown leverages rich data and AI to help users predict product problems before they occur and ensure teams have the right answers at the very moment they need them. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Tiburon, California.

Veza

Series C in 2023
Cookie.AI is a stealth-mode startup based in the Silicon Valley / Bay Area. We are building SaaS based security products in a dynamic and fast moving world of cybersecurity with ideas rooted in the era of privacy for the cloud. We are well-funded and backed by top-tier VCs and CEOs as angel investors. The founders are serial entrepreneurs who have experience in the full 0-to-1 journey with a successful exit with an acquisition. We are looking for founding engineers (summer interns also welcome!) with strong interests in security / cloud-native systems / identity / SaaS.

Aero

Convertible Note in 2022
Aero Technologies, Inc. operates as an online reseller of flight tickets for registered air carriers. It offers online flight booking and ticketing services; and provides information about news, offers, and flight destinations. Aero Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as FlightTech, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Enveil

Private Placement 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.

WaitWhat

Series B in 2021
WaitWhat is a media invention company that invents boundary-breaking and profitable media properties that change the cultural landscape. It creates and owns premium, original, genre-defining content. The company also creates media properties that can scale horizontally beyond its first format. By contrast, WaitWhat creates new categories with their content, at production values that have become the reference point for quality. The company develops, produces, and distributes wholly-owned media properties with the specific purpose of creating new genres, categories, and formats of content that scale.

Lev

Series B in 2022
LEV is a tech-enabled commercial real estate broker for capital markets advisors. They use machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify the best financing scenarios and lenders for every deal, based on historical data and lender activity. The company technology quickly and automatically organizes deal- and property-related documents, while digitizing them for easier management and storage. LEV was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.

Securonix

Private Equity Round in 2022
Securonix is working to radically transform all areas of data security with actionable security intelligence. Our purpose-built, advanced security analytics technology mines, enriches, analyzes, scores and visualizes customer data into actionable intelligence on the highest risk threats from within and outside their environment. Using signature-less anomaly detection techniques that track users, account and system behavior, Securonix is able to detect the most advanced insider threats, data security and fraud attacks automatically and accurately. Globally, customers are using Securonix to address the most basic and complex needs around advanced persistent threat detection and monitoring, high privileged activity monitoring, enterprise and web fraud detection, application risk monitoring and access risk management.

SnapLogic

Series H in 2021
Connects big data, cloud, and on-prem applications

Observe

Series A in 2022
Observe Inc. develops an online platform for log analytics, infrastructure monitoring, and application performance management. The company’s platform observes and manages data; creates landing pages to provide top issues and the overall health of the system; structures and relates the data to ingest; and investigates service incidents using worksheets. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Evinced

Series B in 2022
Evinced - built with advanced rule-sets, computer vision and other AI algorithms - automatically detects and pinpoints accessibility problems and suggests fixes. Leading enterprises use Evinced to weave accessibility into their software development process - including design, development, automated testing and production/compliance monitoring.

Fauna

Series A in 2018
Fauna is a data api for modern applications that facilitates rich clients with serverless backends by providing a web-native interface with support for GraphQL and custom business logic, frictionless integration with the serverless ecosystem, a no compromise multi-cloud architecture you can trust and grow with and total freedom from database operations. Innovators like Nextdoor and NVIDIA trust Fauna to power their applications. Backed by premier venture investors Madrona Venture Group, Addition Capital, and GV, Fauna is a 100% remote organization with an experienced leadership team hailing from Microsoft, Okta, Twitter, Elastic, and Oracle. For more information visit fauna.com or follow us at @fauna.

EquipmentShare

Debt Financing in 2021
EquipmentShare creates proprietary technology and end-user applications that empowers contractors and optimizes for productivity across the commercial construction sector. Fleet managers, general contractors, service techs, heavy equipment mechanics, drivers, operators, safety managers are all experiencing new ways to work along with the benefits of a connected jobsite with EquipmentShare's tech-enabled product suite.

Bowery Valuation

Series B in 2021
Bowery Real Estate Systems, Inc. designs and builds a software for real estate appraisers. It offers Bowery, a cloud based commercial appraisal writing software and mobile application that allows appraisers to write full appraisal reports. The company serves national banks, regional banks, mortgage originators, and private lenders. Bowery Real Estate Systems, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Washington, District of Columbia.

Trovata

Series B in 2022
Trovata is a computer software company that features a data-driven enterprise fintech platform that specializes in cash flow analysis, automation, and data science. Its software helps businesses automate the work it takes to gather and normalize all of its financial data. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Diego, California.

SimpliSafe

Debt Financing in 2022
SimpliSafe, Inc. manufactures home protection products. The company offers security systems with sensors, security cameras, personalized security systems, wireless security alarm systems, and monitoring services for houses, apartments, and commercial properties. The company sells its products through stores and online. SimpliSafe, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

FanRally

Seed Round in 2022
FanRally is a subscription membership enablement platform for sports and live entertainment. Its product suite enables teams, events, and venues to launch and manage privilege-based subscription memberships that resonate with modern consumers and unlock lifetime customer value. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Pleasanton, California.

Aero

Series B in 2022
Aero Technologies, Inc. operates as an online reseller of flight tickets for registered air carriers. It offers online flight booking and ticketing services; and provides information about news, offers, and flight destinations. Aero Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as FlightTech, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lightico

Series B in 2021
Lightico Ltd develops a cloud based mobile customer communication platform. The platform brings customers into a virtual private room in the browser where the customers can view catalogs, fill-in forms, verify identity, exchange documents and photos, pay for goods and services, and sign contracts in real time. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Corelight

Series D in 2021
Corelight, Inc. provides network visibility solutions for information security professionals. It offers Corelight sensors; Corelight fleet manager; software products; and solutions to secure networks for enterprises, government, and higher education sectors. The company also provides open-source Bro, an open source network analysis framework that generates actionable, real-time data for various security teams worldwide. Corelight, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in San Francisco and Santa Clara, California; and Columbus, Ohio.

Snowflake

Private Placement in 2018
Snowflake Inc. provides cloud-based data platform in the United States and internationally. The company’s platform enables customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful business insights, build data-driven applications, and share data. Its platform is used by various organizations of various sizes in a range of industries. The company was formerly known as Snowflake Computing, Inc. and changed its name to Snowflake Inc. in April 2019. Snowflake Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Button

Private Placement in 2019
Button (usebutton.com) is the mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet. As the leading mobile commerce enablement platform, Button powers mobile growth for the world's largest brands and publishers, while offering consumers more seamless, enjoyable experiences. With each action taken, brands make sales, publishers earn revenue, and consumers get exactly what they want at the tap of a button. Founded in 2014, Button has driven over $3 billion in spending to date and has raised over $64 million in venture capital.

Credit Sesame

Private Placement in 2019
Credit Sesame, Inc. owns and operates a credit and loan management platform. Its platform analyzes loans, existing home mortgages, and credit card debts. The company also offers credit score, credit monitoring, credit report card, and identity theft protection. Additionally, it provides personalized recommendations for refinancing home mortgage. Credit Sesame, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Prove

Venture Round in 2023
Payfone provides businesses with Identity Certainty - the ability to confirm that their customers are who they say they are to create easy, secure and frictionless experiences across PCs, mobile phones and tablets. They do for digital security what Uber does for hailing taxis and what Amazon does for online shopping. They make authenticating your customers easy for you and effortless for them. They're backed by leading banks, venture firms and wireless carriers, and are based in New York City.

HiddenLayer

Series A in 2023
HiddenLayer is a provider of security solutions for machine learning algorithms and models. They offer threat modeling, ML risk assessment training, and red team assessment services, as well as AI and ML model scanning. They also offer ML detection and response implementation services.

Bowery Valuation

Series B in 2023
Bowery Real Estate Systems, Inc. designs and builds a software for real estate appraisers. It offers Bowery, a cloud based commercial appraisal writing software and mobile application that allows appraisers to write full appraisal reports. The company serves national banks, regional banks, mortgage originators, and private lenders. Bowery Real Estate Systems, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Washington, District of Columbia.

Securiti

Venture Round in 2023
SECURITI.ai is an innovator of AI-Powered cybersecurity and data protection infrastructure. Our product suite is the world's first PrivacyOps platform that helps automate all major functions needed for privacy compliance in one place. It enables enterprises to give rights to people on their data, be responsible custodians of people’s data, comply with global privacy regulations and bolster their brands. The AI-Powered PrivacyOps platform is a full-stack solution that operationalizes and simplifies privacy compliance using robotic automation and a natural language interface. These include: - DSR (Data Subject Requests) Robotic Automation - People Data Grapher - Data Mapping Automation - Consent Management - Assessment Automation - Vendor Risk Management - AUTI, Expert Bot Assistance

Hopper

Venture Round in 2022
Hopper Inc. develops a mobile application that uses big data to predict and analyze airfares. The company provides travel recommendations on flights and notifies the travelers when the prices of flights are at their predicted lowest points. Hopper Inc. was formerly known as Openplaces Inc. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Montreal, Canada with additional locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York; and Sofia, Bulgaria.

EcoCart

Series A in 2022
EcoCart is on a mission to make fighting climate change simple, cost-effective, and accessible for everyone. Every time you shop at one of our 10,000+ partner stores with the EcoCart browser extension and click "Make My Order Carbon Neutral," we’ll offset the environmental impact of your order—all at no additional cost to you. EcoCart donates to carefully vetted, ethically proven, and scientifically verified carbon offsetting projects that comply with the world’s major carbon standards. Visit ecocart.io to start shopping sustainably today. Own a Shopify store? EcoCart integrates with Shopify to give merchants the ability to offer carbon neutral shipping to their customers. From plug-and-play designs to fully customizable themes, EcoCart allows you to seamlessly bring sustainable shopping to your customers. Get started at ecocart.io/app.

Stacklet

Series B in 2024
Stacklet, Inc. develops and operates a cloud governance platform that provides security, cost optimization, and regulatory compliance services. The company’s platform helps in policy management, policy packs, and data analytics. Its platform features real-time cloud asset inventory and automated operations and analytics, deriving data, and visualizations to understand the health, resource auditing, trends, and anomalies within the cloud. The company serves businesses. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.