DataTribe

DataTribe is a venture capital firm established in 2015, based in Fulton, Maryland, with an additional office in the Bay Area. The firm specializes in investing and co-building companies focused on cybersecurity and data science, leveraging the expertise of teams with extensive backgrounds in the Intelligence community. DataTribe differentiates itself by offering significant seed capital, up to $2 million, along with more than $1 million in in-kind services, which include office space, legal support, and accounting. This approach is designed to support entrepreneurs aiming to develop next-generation cyber techniques and products. Additionally, DataTribe hosts the annual DataTribe Challenge, a competition that attracts innovative entrepreneurs seeking to disrupt the fields of cybersecurity and data science.

Robert Ackerman Jr.

Co-Founder & Board Member

Robert Ackerman Jr.

Co-Founder & Board Member

33 past transactions

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.

Strider

Series B in 2022
Strider is a risk management company that assists corporations, research institutions, and governments in safeguarding their intellectual property from theft and economic espionage. With operations in Washington, D.C., and Salt Lake City, Utah, Strider's platform utilizes proprietary datasets, machine learning, and human intelligence to identify and address economic risks beyond traditional cyber threats. The company's products empower security teams to adopt a proactive stance against potential dangers within their personnel and supply chains, particularly those driven by nation-state actors. By integrating seamlessly into existing corporate threat management programs, Strider provides valuable insights that enhance long-term competitiveness, enabling organizations to protect their most valuable assets effectively.

ContraForce

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an enterprise security management designed to automate the complex challenges of security operations. The company's platform incorporates artificial intelligence to deploy an enterprise-grade security operations application that dynamically updates detection and response capabilities, enabling customers to collapse the time to detect, contain and respond to threats, minimizing the security and scope of impact.

QuickCode ai

Seed Round in 2021
QuickCode.ai provides a software platform that helps solve this problem of getting the right kind of labeled training data.

Dragos

Series D in 2021
Dragos is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting critical infrastructure across various industries, including power, water utilities, energy, and manufacturing. The company develops an integrated software platform that offers essential visibility into industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) networks, enabling organizations to identify and address potential threats before they escalate. Dragos also adapts its solutions for emerging applications, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Headquartered in the Washington, DC area, Dragos has a global presence with regional offices in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Middle East. The company is committed to safeguarding civilization through its expertise in industrial cybersecurity.

BlackCloak

Series A in 2021
BlackCloak, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity software and concierge services tailored for ultra and high-net-worth individuals, as well as executives. Founded in 2017 and based in Lake Mary, Florida, the company aims to mitigate financial, reputational, and privacy risks for its clients. Its offerings include a comprehensive platform that safeguards personal devices, monitors home networks, and enhances privacy through data minimization. Additionally, BlackCloak provides services such as dark web monitoring to identify potential threats and a scrubbing service to remove personal information from data broker sites. By focusing on the personal lives of high-profile individuals and their families, BlackCloak delivers bespoke solutions designed to protect privacy and ensure peace of mind against cyber threats.

Ntrinsec

Seed Round in 2021
Ntrinsec develops a data security platform focused on addressing challenges in identity and secrets management, specifically targeting the risks associated with compromised cryptographic secrets. The company's technology automates key discovery and machine identity management, employing simulations and synthetic testing to facilitate effective remediation. By simplifying key management tasks in complex environments, Ntrinsec aims to mitigate the risk of data exfiltration and reduce the incidence of enterprise data breaches caused by key compromise.

SightGain Inc

Seed Round in 2020
Cyber COAST brings innovative software to help customers identify gaps in the efficacy of their security due to common issues and deficiencies like equipment misconfiguration, changes in their IT environment, and evolving adversary tactics. Software products include: Battle Stations: Evaluate and train cybersecurity teams on production systems—train where you fight! Lighthouse: Assessment and scoring of organizational level controls Port Authority: Reporting, analysis & trending of Lighthouse results across industries & ecosystems Key Terrain: Assessment and analysis of system level security controls Our products measure and test security environments against both known and newly discovered threats, ultimately empowering organizations to identify risks in their security controls before a breach occurs, and rapidly adapt their defenses to the evolving threat landscape. Each product takes a proactive approach to understanding and mitigating the unique risks, inefficiencies and vulnerabilities in the context of our clients’ operational and security environment.

Dragos

Series C in 2020
Dragos is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting critical infrastructure across various industries, including power, water utilities, energy, and manufacturing. The company develops an integrated software platform that offers essential visibility into industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) networks, enabling organizations to identify and address potential threats before they escalate. Dragos also adapts its solutions for emerging applications, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Headquartered in the Washington, DC area, Dragos has a global presence with regional offices in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Middle East. The company is committed to safeguarding civilization through its expertise in industrial cybersecurity.

Strider

Series A in 2020
Strider is a risk management company that assists corporations, research institutions, and governments in safeguarding their intellectual property from theft and economic espionage. With operations in Washington, D.C., and Salt Lake City, Utah, Strider's platform utilizes proprietary datasets, machine learning, and human intelligence to identify and address economic risks beyond traditional cyber threats. The company's products empower security teams to adopt a proactive stance against potential dangers within their personnel and supply chains, particularly those driven by nation-state actors. By integrating seamlessly into existing corporate threat management programs, Strider provides valuable insights that enhance long-term competitiveness, enabling organizations to protect their most valuable assets effectively.

BlackCloak

Seed Round in 2020
BlackCloak, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity software and concierge services tailored for ultra and high-net-worth individuals, as well as executives. Founded in 2017 and based in Lake Mary, Florida, the company aims to mitigate financial, reputational, and privacy risks for its clients. Its offerings include a comprehensive platform that safeguards personal devices, monitors home networks, and enhances privacy through data minimization. Additionally, BlackCloak provides services such as dark web monitoring to identify potential threats and a scrubbing service to remove personal information from data broker sites. By focusing on the personal lives of high-profile individuals and their families, BlackCloak delivers bespoke solutions designed to protect privacy and ensure peace of mind against cyber threats.

Code Dx

Seed Round in 2019
Code Dx, Inc. specializes in application security management solutions that streamline the identification, prioritization, and management of software vulnerabilities. The company offers an automated tool called Enterprise, which integrates and correlates vulnerability data from various sources, including software composition analysis, static application security testing, dynamic application security testing, and manual assessments. This tool maps vulnerability findings against industry standards and regulatory requirements, facilitates collaboration among security and development teams, and tracks remediation efforts. Additionally, Code Dx provides Code Pulse, aimed at application security testing for development, testing, and quality assurance teams. The company's solutions cater to executives, security professionals, engineers, and developers, and are distributed through resellers. Founded in 2010, Code Dx is headquartered in Northport, New York.

Refirm Labs

Seed Round in 2019
ReFirm is an emerging leader in the IoT security space. With decades of experience securing devices for sensitive national security applications, its team has developed a new method for vetting and validating firmware that automates the process of detecting security flaws in connected devices and mitigating them. Its Centrifuge Platform is at the forefront of this approach and is the first to deliver this capability to the commercial market. Also, its technology is already helping global companies secure their products by testing their firmware during and after the development process, and monitor for new vulnerabilities.

Strider

Venture Round in 2019
Strider is a risk management company that assists corporations, research institutions, and governments in safeguarding their intellectual property from theft and economic espionage. With operations in Washington, D.C., and Salt Lake City, Utah, Strider's platform utilizes proprietary datasets, machine learning, and human intelligence to identify and address economic risks beyond traditional cyber threats. The company's products empower security teams to adopt a proactive stance against potential dangers within their personnel and supply chains, particularly those driven by nation-state actors. By integrating seamlessly into existing corporate threat management programs, Strider provides valuable insights that enhance long-term competitiveness, enabling organizations to protect their most valuable assets effectively.

BlueRidgeAI

Seed Round in 2019
Their solution combines decades of industrial motor expertise, employing simple to install industrial sensors that detect problems before they occur, allowing plant managers to focus on what matters most: improving operations efficiency while reducing costs.

BlackCloak

Seed Round in 2019
BlackCloak, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity software and concierge services tailored for ultra and high-net-worth individuals, as well as executives. Founded in 2017 and based in Lake Mary, Florida, the company aims to mitigate financial, reputational, and privacy risks for its clients. Its offerings include a comprehensive platform that safeguards personal devices, monitors home networks, and enhances privacy through data minimization. Additionally, BlackCloak provides services such as dark web monitoring to identify potential threats and a scrubbing service to remove personal information from data broker sites. By focusing on the personal lives of high-profile individuals and their families, BlackCloak delivers bespoke solutions designed to protect privacy and ensure peace of mind against cyber threats.

BlueRidgeAI

Seed Round in 2019
Their solution combines decades of industrial motor expertise, employing simple to install industrial sensors that detect problems before they occur, allowing plant managers to focus on what matters most: improving operations efficiency while reducing costs.

Prevailion

Series A in 2019
Prevailion, Inc. designs and develops cyber security compromise management platform that provides access to historical and active cyber compromises impacting various organizations around the world. The company serves the industries, such as financial, defense, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. Prevailion, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Fulton, Maryland.

Strider

Seed Round in 2019
Strider is a risk management company that assists corporations, research institutions, and governments in safeguarding their intellectual property from theft and economic espionage. With operations in Washington, D.C., and Salt Lake City, Utah, Strider's platform utilizes proprietary datasets, machine learning, and human intelligence to identify and address economic risks beyond traditional cyber threats. The company's products empower security teams to adopt a proactive stance against potential dangers within their personnel and supply chains, particularly those driven by nation-state actors. By integrating seamlessly into existing corporate threat management programs, Strider provides valuable insights that enhance long-term competitiveness, enabling organizations to protect their most valuable assets effectively.

Code Dx

Seed Round in 2019
Code Dx, Inc. specializes in application security management solutions that streamline the identification, prioritization, and management of software vulnerabilities. The company offers an automated tool called Enterprise, which integrates and correlates vulnerability data from various sources, including software composition analysis, static application security testing, dynamic application security testing, and manual assessments. This tool maps vulnerability findings against industry standards and regulatory requirements, facilitates collaboration among security and development teams, and tracks remediation efforts. Additionally, Code Dx provides Code Pulse, aimed at application security testing for development, testing, and quality assurance teams. The company's solutions cater to executives, security professionals, engineers, and developers, and are distributed through resellers. Founded in 2010, Code Dx is headquartered in Northport, New York.

Attila

Seed Round in 2018
Attila Security, Inc. specializes in developing security solutions for networks and data access across virtual and cloud applications. Founded in 2018 and based in Columbia, Maryland, the company offers a range of products including the GoSilent Cube, a portable enterprise-grade firewall and virtual private network, GoSilent Global, which provides secure data access through dual Internet protocol obfuscation, and GoSilent Server, designed for accessing data center applications and cloud services. Attila's technology aims to protect various devices, such as servers, desktops, laptops, smartphones, and IoT devices, from cyber threats, addressing the significant economic impact of cybercrime. The company serves both government entities and enterprises, ensuring that sensitive data remains secure as it is accessed by employees across different platforms.

Inertial Sense LLC

Seed Round in 2018
Inertial Sense LLC develops and distributes miniature GPS aided inertial navigation systems, attitude heading reference systems, and inertial measurement units. Its products include rugged µINS, µINS development kit, and µINS. The company’s products are used in robotic lawn mowers, delivery robots, drones, agriculture robots, mobile industrial robots, and autonomous marine vessels. It sells its products online. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Lindon, Utah.

Prevailion

Seed Round in 2018
Prevailion, Inc. designs and develops cyber security compromise management platform that provides access to historical and active cyber compromises impacting various organizations around the world. The company serves the industries, such as financial, defense, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. Prevailion, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Fulton, Maryland.

The CyberWire

Seed Round in 2018
The CyberWire is a Maryland-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in delivering cyber security-focused news. It provides a range of services, including daily briefings and podcasts that highlight critical developments in the global cyber security landscape. The company aims to offer concise and relevant content, effectively filtering through the vast amount of information in the industry. Its news products are crafted by a team of analysts, experts, and writers who ensure that the content is both accessible and insightful. In addition to news dissemination, The CyberWire offers sponsorship and advertising opportunities, syndication, and research reports, catering to the needs of commercial, academic, and government organizations. Through its community-driven approach, the company strives to equip individuals and organizations with the essential information necessary for navigating the complexities of cyber security.

Attila

Seed Round in 2018
Attila Security, Inc. specializes in developing security solutions for networks and data access across virtual and cloud applications. Founded in 2018 and based in Columbia, Maryland, the company offers a range of products including the GoSilent Cube, a portable enterprise-grade firewall and virtual private network, GoSilent Global, which provides secure data access through dual Internet protocol obfuscation, and GoSilent Server, designed for accessing data center applications and cloud services. Attila's technology aims to protect various devices, such as servers, desktops, laptops, smartphones, and IoT devices, from cyber threats, addressing the significant economic impact of cybercrime. The company serves both government entities and enterprises, ensuring that sensitive data remains secure as it is accessed by employees across different platforms.

Refirm Labs

Seed Round in 2017
ReFirm is an emerging leader in the IoT security space. With decades of experience securing devices for sensitive national security applications, its team has developed a new method for vetting and validating firmware that automates the process of detecting security flaws in connected devices and mitigating them. Its Centrifuge Platform is at the forefront of this approach and is the first to deliver this capability to the commercial market. Also, its technology is already helping global companies secure their products by testing their firmware during and after the development process, and monitor for new vulnerabilities.

Enveil

Corporate Round in 2017
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.

Dragos

Series A in 2017
Dragos is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting critical infrastructure across various industries, including power, water utilities, energy, and manufacturing. The company develops an integrated software platform that offers essential visibility into industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) networks, enabling organizations to identify and address potential threats before they escalate. Dragos also adapts its solutions for emerging applications, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Headquartered in the Washington, DC area, Dragos has a global presence with regional offices in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Middle East. The company is committed to safeguarding civilization through its expertise in industrial cybersecurity.

Refirm Labs

Seed Round in 2017
ReFirm is an emerging leader in the IoT security space. With decades of experience securing devices for sensitive national security applications, its team has developed a new method for vetting and validating firmware that automates the process of detecting security flaws in connected devices and mitigating them. Its Centrifuge Platform is at the forefront of this approach and is the first to deliver this capability to the commercial market. Also, its technology is already helping global companies secure their products by testing their firmware during and after the development process, and monitor for new vulnerabilities.

Enveil

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Dragos

Seed Round in 2016
Dragos is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting critical infrastructure across various industries, including power, water utilities, energy, and manufacturing. The company develops an integrated software platform that offers essential visibility into industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) networks, enabling organizations to identify and address potential threats before they escalate. Dragos also adapts its solutions for emerging applications, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Headquartered in the Washington, DC area, Dragos has a global presence with regional offices in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Middle East. The company is committed to safeguarding civilization through its expertise in industrial cybersecurity.

Enveil

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Dragos

Seed Round in 2016
Dragos is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting critical infrastructure across various industries, including power, water utilities, energy, and manufacturing. The company develops an integrated software platform that offers essential visibility into industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) networks, enabling organizations to identify and address potential threats before they escalate. Dragos also adapts its solutions for emerging applications, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Headquartered in the Washington, DC area, Dragos has a global presence with regional offices in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Middle East. The company is committed to safeguarding civilization through its expertise in industrial cybersecurity.