Secure Octane

Secure Octane is a venture capital firm established in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California. It focuses on investing in early-stage companies operating in the cybersecurity, data platforms, developer productivity, and enterprise infrastructure sectors across the USA, Canada, Israel, and Europe. The firm aims to support innovative startups by connecting them with leading investors and security experts. Secure Octane's investment strategy emphasizes business productivity and software development applications, reflecting its commitment to driving growth in technology-driven sectors.

Mahendra Ramsinghani

Founder and Partner

20 past transactions

Ghost Security

Series A in 2022
Ghost Security provides the standard in application security for modern enterprises.

Zinc Labs Inc.

Seed Round in 2022
Petabyte scale, high performance, 10x easier, 10x cheaper, open source observability platform for everyone.

Passage

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a user authentication platform designed to help clients keep friction low and conversion rates high. The company's platform provides a fully passwordless authentication system that helps users seamlessly integrate devices, browsers, and other operating systems through biometric security, enabling clients to provide SDKs to make it easy to check session tokens and identify which users are making requests.

Evo Security

Seed Round in 2022
Evo Security is a cybersecurity software-as-a-service company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in identity and access management solutions. The company offers a multi-factor authentication product known as Evo MFA, tailored for managed service providers (MSPs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), value-added resellers (VARs), and distributors. This solution is designed to be re-sold and white-labeled for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and small and medium businesses (SMBs). Evo Security's platform includes features such as multi-cloud authentication, protection against login breaches, single sign-on, privileged access management, and password management, all aimed at safeguarding firms from data breaches and enhancing overall cybersecurity.

Kibsi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kibsi is an end-to-end, fully integrated environment designed for building computer vision applications. Our cloud native, low-code platform democratizes computer vision, allowing customers to focus on their business needs, not the complexity.

Zenduty

Seed Round in 2021
Zenduty is a provider of end-to-end incident alerting, on-call management and response orchestration platform.

Accurics

Seed Round in 2020
Accurics, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that provides a platform designed to secure cloud-native infrastructure in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Accurics focuses on protecting organizations from potential security risks by scanning Infrastructure as Code for misconfigurations and policy violations prior to deployment. The platform not only identifies risks before provisioning but also monitors production environments for changes that could introduce vulnerabilities. This allows organizations to maintain compliance, governance, and security across their cloud infrastructure. Additionally, Accurics offers tools such as Terrascan, which are available for free and support the company's mission of enabling cyber resilience and self-healing capabilities in cloud-native environments.

Polly

Series A in 2019
Polly is a survey platform founded in 2015 by former Microsoft engineers Samir Diwan and Bilal Aijazi. The company specializes in employee engagement software that allows organizations to create enterprise surveys and polls to gather feedback effectively. Polly's platform features a chatbot that can be trained to collect, connect, and analyze data from team members, facilitating informed and data-driven decision-making. Notable clients include Soylent, Auth0, and Grammarly. The company has received backing from various investors, including Amplify Partners, Slack Fund, Fathom Capital, and Madrona Venture Group. Through its tools, Polly aims to enhance workflows and improve both employee and customer experiences.

CloudKnox

Series A in 2018
CloudKnox Security Inc. is a cloud security software company based in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in managing the identity privilege lifecycle across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The company's platform monitors user activity on cloud infrastructure to assess risks and behaviors, providing insights that help organizations track potential threats. By implementing an activity-based authorization model, CloudKnox allows enterprises to manage identities, actions, and resources efficiently, thereby reducing risks associated with compromised credentials, accidental misuse, and insider threats. The software also offers features to restrict activities of suspicious users and facilitates the creation and editing of reports, ensuring robust security for critical infrastructure.

Cobalt

Series A in 2018
Cobalt Labs, Inc. specializes in bitcoin application security solutions and has evolved to offer a modernized platform for penetration testing services. Originally known as CrowdCurity, the company rebranded in 2016 and has since developed a crowdsourced software-as-a-service platform that connects businesses with certified security researchers. Cobalt Central serves as a secure inbox for managing security programs, facilitating bug reports, and enabling interaction with researchers. Additionally, the company provides CrowdCurity, which focuses on bug bounty programs to enhance collaboration between organizations and security experts. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, Cobalt Labs also maintains offices in Berlin and Boston, delivering actionable insights that help organizations identify and remediate software vulnerabilities efficiently.

Tala Security

Venture Round in 2017
Tala provides security solutions to protect enterprise websites against formjacking, magecart, and advanced attacks. It helps websites and web apps enable a completely secure web experience for users. It has developed a completely agent-less solution that leverages new and powerful web standards such as Content Security Policy (CSP). The solution is fully automated and is compatible with all web technologies. This means that any website could use Tala to protect all of their end-users against web layer attacks, in a matter of minutes. Tala is led by industry veterans and successful entrepreneurs and is backed by VCs, angels and former executives at Symantec, and by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Tala Security

Seed Round in 2017
Tala provides security solutions to protect enterprise websites against formjacking, magecart, and advanced attacks. It helps websites and web apps enable a completely secure web experience for users. It has developed a completely agent-less solution that leverages new and powerful web standards such as Content Security Policy (CSP). The solution is fully automated and is compatible with all web technologies. This means that any website could use Tala to protect all of their end-users against web layer attacks, in a matter of minutes. Tala is led by industry veterans and successful entrepreneurs and is backed by VCs, angels and former executives at Symantec, and by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Attivo Networks

Series B in 2017
Attivo Networks, Inc. specializes in advanced network security solutions aimed at detecting and mitigating cyber threats for both on-premise and cloud environments. The company is recognized for its expertise in deception technology, which provides accurate threat detection, analysis, and response to a variety of cyber attacks, including ransomware and insider threats. Its Deception and Response Platform enhances visibility across diverse environments such as user networks, data centers, and IoT systems. Attivo's Honeynet Technology engages attackers with high-interaction traps, enabling the collection of attack data for analysis and forensics. The platform’s multi-dimensional correlation engine identifies infected endpoints and tracks the sequence of infection, command and control servers, and lateral movement methods. Additionally, Attivo Networks offers solutions that facilitate incident response through automated playbooks and integrations for threat mitigation. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Fremont, California, the company serves a global clientele in corporate and government sectors.

Section

Seed Round in 2017
Section is a technology company that provides an advanced content delivery platform, enabling engineers to efficiently manage and deliver workloads from any location. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with additional offices in Sydney, Australia, Section specializes in edge computing solutions underpinned by modern DevOps principles. Its platform supports a variety of functionalities, including a web application firewall for security, an HTTP accelerator to enhance performance, and a flexible ecommerce solution. Section's architecture is container-based, utilizing Docker and Kubernetes, allowing for extensive customization and deployment of edge compute modules. The company operates independently of hosting providers, catering to diverse deployment environments, including cloud and on-premise solutions. Section has garnered backing from notable venture capital firms and employs a diverse team skilled in engineering, marketing, and product development.

CyberGRX

Series A in 2016
CyberGRX is a cybersecurity company based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in third-party cyber risk management. Its platform offers a comprehensive and cost-effective solution for organizations to identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor cyber risks associated with their entire partner ecosystem. By leveraging automation and advanced analytics, CyberGRX enables enterprises to collaboratively address threats arising from their reliance on vendors, partners, and customers. The platform provides a scalable approach that streamlines third-party cyber risk programs, delivering real-time decision-making capabilities and complete portfolio visibility. Through its innovative tools, CyberGRX helps organizations efficiently manage and mitigate risks, enhancing their overall cybersecurity posture.

Tigera

Series A in 2016
Tigera, Inc. specializes in providing open policy-driven networking solutions tailored for cloud-native applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an engineering office in Vancouver, Canada, the company offers an integrated software solution known as Canal, which combines two existing networking technologies, Project Calico and Flannel. Tigera's offerings focus on Zero Trust network security and continuous compliance specifically for Kubernetes platforms, facilitating secure application connectivity across various environments, including on-premises, multi-cloud, and legacy systems. The company's technology supports major hosted Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, and IBM Container Service, as well as on-premises deployments. Tigera's solutions are built upon leading open-source projects and are utilized by large enterprises in sectors such as SaaS, financial services, gaming, and retail, where security and compliance are paramount.

Demisto

Series A in 2016
Demisto, Inc. operates a security orchestration, automation, and response platform that combines orchestration, incident management, and interactive investigation into a seamless experience. The company’s platform helps security teams to accelerate incident response, standardize and scale processes, threat hunting, cloud security, and learn from each incident while working together. It has a strategic partnership with ProtectWise. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with offices in San Francisco Bay Area and Tel Aviv, Israel. As of March 28, 2019, Demisto, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

JASK

Seed Round in 2016
JASK is modernizing security operations by delivering an advanced SIEM platform that provides better visibility, better automation and a better architecture. Built on cloud-native technologies, the JASK ASOC platform streamlines security analyst workflows by automating many of the repetitive tasks that restrict productivity, freeing them for higher-value roles like threat hunting and vulnerability management, while addressing the escalating talent shortage.

Icebrg

Seed Round in 2014
Icebrg is a network security software provider focused on risk reduction. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company offers a machine-recognition-based platform that enables businesses to implement enterprise-level security without the need for custom coding. This platform is designed to protect both proprietary and consumer data, allowing organizations and governments to swiftly mitigate risks. By providing real-time forensics, Icebrg helps its clients reduce their mean time to respond to security incidents.

KeyNexus

Seed Round in 2014
KeyNexus Inc. is a provider of cloud-based encryption key storage and provisioning services tailored for developers of cloud-based, enterprise, SaaS, and mobile applications. Based in Victoria, Canada, KeyNexus offers a secure platform that enables businesses to store their encryption keys safely offsite while maintaining compliance with industry standards, such as FIPS 140-2. This service effectively separates the encryption process from key management, allowing companies to implement robust encryption solutions across various environments. KeyNexus was formerly known as Dark Matter Labs Inc. and has been operational since 2005. The company was acquired by StorMagic Ltd. in April 2020, further enhancing its capabilities in the field of encryption and key management solutions.
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