Lightspeed Ventures, LLC

Lightspeed Ventures, LLC is a global venture capital firm founded in 2000, headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya Pituach. The firm specializes in early-stage and expansion-stage investments, focusing on a diverse range of sectors including consumer, enterprise technology, cleantech, financial technology, mobile, e-commerce, and biotechnology. Lightspeed engages in both equity and debt financing for startups and growth companies, as well as providing incubation services. It primarily invests in the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India, with specific investment strategies tailored to different regions. In India, for instance, it focuses on advertising, healthcare, education, and retail, while in China, it targets both early and late-stage businesses across various technology sectors. The firm manages significant capital through its funds, actively participating in the growth of innovative companies across multiple industries.

Mark Anderson

Venture Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner

Luke Beseda

Partner

Ashley Brasier

Partner

Yoni Cheifetz

Partner

Sam Eisler

Partner

Janou Gordon

Director of Special Projects

David Gussarsky

Partner

Harry Han

Partner

Lisa Han

Partner

Kshitij Jain

Associate

Ansaf Kareem

Partner

Alex Kayyal

Partner

Meredith Kendall

Marketing Partner

Jonathan MacQuitty

Partner

Andrew John Moley

Operating Partner and Chief Financial Officer

Tal Morgenstern

Partner

Peter Moulds

Venture Partner

Antoine Moyroud

Partner

Brett Nissenberg

Partner and General Counsel

Michael Romano

Partner of Investor Relations

Adam Rothstein

Partner

Chris Schaepe

Co-Founder and Partner

Alexander Schmitt

Partner

Bipul Sinha

Venture Partner

Ajay Sudan

Partner

John Wendell Thompson

Venture Partner

Rytis Vitkauskas

Partner

Scott Young

VP of Technology

Johnna (Harriott) Lesch

Vice President of Finance

Past deals in Cyber Security

Normalyze

Series A in 2022
Normalyze is a provider of cloud data security solutions that focuses on protecting data, applications, identities, and infrastructure in public cloud environments. The company has developed an agentless scanning platform that prioritizes data security by enabling the discovery of sensitive data and its access routes across various cloud resources. This platform allows security teams to visualize their cloud data attack surface quickly and gain real-time insights into their security posture, including access controls, configurations, and sensitive data management. By offering these capabilities, Normalyze enhances the ability of organizations to analyze, prioritize, and respond to data threats, effectively preventing sensitive data leakage at scale across public clouds.

CertiK

Series B in 2022
CertiK Global Ltd. is a company specializing in blockchain security, focusing on the formal verification of smart contracts and blockchain ecosystems. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Beijing, Seoul, and Seattle, CertiK provides a range of services including security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification. The company has developed advanced techniques to mathematically prove the correctness and security of blockchain applications, distinguishing its approach from traditional security audits. By employing artificial intelligence and leveraging both on-chain and off-chain data, CertiK offers developers real-time insights into the security of decentralized finance and other critical applications. With a commitment to securing over $6 billion in assets, CertiK has established itself as a leader in the blockchain security industry, serving many of the world's top projects.

Theta Lake

Series B in 2022
Theta Lake provides security and compliance for modern collaboration platforms. Empowering enterprises to manage compliance, data exposure, security, and acceptable use risks in what is shared, shown, spoken, and typed during video conferences, collaboration chat, audio calls, and any other unified communications from Cisco Webex, Zoom, RingCentral, Microsoft Teams, Slack, BlueJeans, and more.

Axonius

Series E in 2022
Axonius, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in asset management for connected devices used by businesses. Founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers a platform that allows IT and security teams to gain visibility and control over a wide array of devices, including mobile, computing, and IoT devices. The platform integrates data from various networked devices and existing management services, creating a comprehensive environment for managing device security. Key features include a user-friendly adapter API for seamless integration of new device types and a framework for secure sharing of adapters and plugins. Axonius aims to facilitate safe device adoption and usage at scale, helping organizations effectively manage their cybersecurity landscape.

Talon Cyber Security

Seed Round in 2022
Talon Cyber Security is a provider of cybersecurity solutions for the distributed workforce. A next-generation solution designed to protect against a new category of threats posed by distributed work, Talon enables workforce productivity and flexibility alongside rock-solid cybersecurity. Talon’s founders include proven entrepreneurs and former leaders of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite military technology and intelligence unit.

1Password

Series C in 2022
1Password is a secure, convenient password manager, providing businesses and families a safe way to share passwords, credit cards, and documents. It keeps important information secure with AES 256-bit encryption. With 1Password, users can keep all kinds of information easily organized with convenient categories and tags and find what they need with a customizable search. Founded in 2005, 1Password remembers and fills web forms with passwords, credit card information, and addresses—with a single click. It is focused on making security convenient and keeping customers happy. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario in Canada.

Noname Security

Series C in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2020. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), focusing on protecting against data leakage, authorization issues, and other vulnerabilities. Its agentless platform enables enterprises to discover, classify, and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs in real-time without requiring modifications to the network or the installation of agents. Noname Security's offerings include comprehensive detection and prevention capabilities, delivering greater visibility and security than traditional API gateways and load balancers.

Panther

Series B in 2021
Panther’s mission is to help security teams detect and respond to breaches at cloud-scale. Panther is more than a SIEM, it’s a sustainable way to monitor everything happening in your environment. In a world exploding with data, automation is critical. Panther directly enables security teams to create expressive detections with Python and store years of normalized and structured data in a security data lake. Move to a platform built for security engineers, by security engineers. Jack Naglieri launched the company in San Francisco, California in 2018.

CertiK

Series B in 2021
CertiK Global Ltd. is a company specializing in blockchain security, focusing on the formal verification of smart contracts and blockchain ecosystems. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Beijing, Seoul, and Seattle, CertiK provides a range of services including security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification. The company has developed advanced techniques to mathematically prove the correctness and security of blockchain applications, distinguishing its approach from traditional security audits. By employing artificial intelligence and leveraging both on-chain and off-chain data, CertiK offers developers real-time insights into the security of decentralized finance and other critical applications. With a commitment to securing over $6 billion in assets, CertiK has established itself as a leader in the blockchain security industry, serving many of the world's top projects.

CyCognito

Series C in 2021
CyCognito solves one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: seeing how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, what systems and assets are at risk and how you can eliminate the exposure. Founded by national intelligence agency veterans, CyCognito has a deep understanding of how attackers exploit blind spots and a path of least resistance. The Palo Alto-based company is funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and its mission is to help organizations protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers. It does this with a category-defining, transformative platform that automates offensive cybersecurity operations to provide reconnaissance capabilities superior to those of attackers..

Arceo Labs, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Arceo Labs, Inc. operates under the brand Arceo, specializing in cybersecurity and cyber analytics services tailored for the insurance industry. The company offers solutions to cyber insurance brokers and carriers, enabling them to assess, underwrite, and manage cyber risks through the use of artificial intelligence and workflow automation. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Arceo Labs also maintains offices in Chicago, Baltimore, and New York. The firm is dedicated to providing organizations with the necessary tools and guidance to protect and insure their data effectively.

Cato Networks

Series F in 2021
Cato Networks Ltd. is a provider of a cloud-based network Security-as-a-Service platform designed for modern enterprises. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in multiple global locations, the company offers an integrated networking and security solution that connects enterprise locations, users, and data securely. Cato's platform includes features such as WAN optimization, firewall protection, secure web gateways, threat protection, and unified communications optimization. It facilitates secure remote access, last mile management, and site deployment, catering to the needs of distributed, mobile, and cloud-enabled organizations. By eliminating traditional branch appliances and reducing MPLS costs, Cato Networks enhances performance across global locations and cloud applications, ensuring secure internet access for users everywhere.

LeapYear Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
LeapYear Technologies, Inc. operates a platform designed to help organizations extract value from sensitive data while ensuring its security and privacy. The platform allows domain experts, data scientists, and partner organizations to develop automated machine learning applications and APIs that facilitate the use of confidential and regulated data sources. By implementing differential privacy, LeapYear ensures that data can be utilized for analysis and machine learning without exposing or compromising individual data points. The company collaborates with major players in sectors such as financial services, healthcare, technology, and insurance to combine and analyze previously restricted data, enabling organizations to monetize these valuable assets effectively. Founded in 2014 and based in Berkeley, California, LeapYear Technologies was known as Shroudbase, Inc. prior to its name change in January 2015.

RoundRobin

Seed Round in 2021
RoundRobin's mission is to give people back control of their personal information. Over 93% of American's identities are readily accessible on the web. We help individuals and enterprises who are put at risk when their information is made public. Our primary product is currently in stealth-mode, running betas with high net worth individuals, celebrities, and various enterprise clients.

At-Bay

Series D in 2021
At-Bay, Inc. specializes in cyber insurance underwriting and risk management services, offering customized insurance policies that address various cyber risks such as information privacy, network security failures, cyber extortion, and financial fraud. The company emphasizes comprehensive risk assessment, security analysis, and exposure evaluation to help clients understand and mitigate cyber threats. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, At-Bay also maintains a research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Originally known as Cyberjack Inc., the company rebranded in 2017 to reflect its focus on providing insurance solutions that enable businesses to innovate while managing the ever-present challenges of cyber risk. Through continuous analysis and modeling of cyber threats, At-Bay partners with brokers to deliver effective risk management programs tailored to the needs of its clients.

Netskope

Venture Round in 2021
Netskope, Inc. is a software company specializing in cloud application analytics and security solutions designed to protect enterprise data and users globally. The company offers the Netskope Security Cloud, which provides real-time visibility and protection against data threats when accessing cloud services, websites, and private applications. Through its patented Cloud XD technology, Netskope enables organizations to gain insights into cloud usage and enforce policies such as data loss prevention, access control, and malware protection across various platforms. Additionally, the company’s NewEdge security network facilitates seamless security without compromising performance. Netskope also functions as a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), helping organizations manage cloud application usage and prevent data exfiltration. Its offerings extend to web security solutions that filter content, detect advanced threats, and control application usage. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Netskope serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, and retail, with a global presence supported by multiple data centers.

Oosto

Series C in 2021
Osto offers enterprises the ability to better protect their customers, employees, and guests in real-time by analyzing safety and security threats in real-time without compromising on fair and ethical behavior.

Noname Security

Series B in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2020. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), focusing on protecting against data leakage, authorization issues, and other vulnerabilities. Its agentless platform enables enterprises to discover, classify, and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs in real-time without requiring modifications to the network or the installation of agents. Noname Security's offerings include comprehensive detection and prevention capabilities, delivering greater visibility and security than traditional API gateways and load balancers.

Synctera

Series A in 2021
Synctera Inc. is a company that specializes in providing digital banking solutions aimed at facilitating partnerships between traditional banks and fintech startups. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Synctera offers a platform that helps banks identify their specific needs and connects them with suitable fintech firms. The company manages the relationship through a backend platform that addresses regulatory compliance and supports the onboarding process. In addition to its partnership solutions, Synctera enhances security through features such as personally identifiable information (PII) encryption, endpoint protection, secure login, authentication, and role-based access.

Exabeam

Series F in 2021
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Talon Cyber Security

Seed Round in 2021
Talon Cyber Security is a provider of cybersecurity solutions for the distributed workforce. A next-generation solution designed to protect against a new category of threats posed by distributed work, Talon enables workforce productivity and flexibility alongside rock-solid cybersecurity. Talon’s founders include proven entrepreneurs and former leaders of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite military technology and intelligence unit.

Aqua Security

Series E 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.

Axonius

Series D in 2021
Axonius, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in asset management for connected devices used by businesses. Founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers a platform that allows IT and security teams to gain visibility and control over a wide array of devices, including mobile, computing, and IoT devices. The platform integrates data from various networked devices and existing management services, creating a comprehensive environment for managing device security. Key features include a user-friendly adapter API for seamless integration of new device types and a framework for secure sharing of adapters and plugins. Axonius aims to facilitate safe device adoption and usage at scale, helping organizations effectively manage their cybersecurity landscape.

Noname Security

Series A in 2020
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2020. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), focusing on protecting against data leakage, authorization issues, and other vulnerabilities. Its agentless platform enables enterprises to discover, classify, and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs in real-time without requiring modifications to the network or the installation of agents. Noname Security's offerings include comprehensive detection and prevention capabilities, delivering greater visibility and security than traditional API gateways and load balancers.

At-Bay

Series C in 2020
At-Bay, Inc. specializes in cyber insurance underwriting and risk management services, offering customized insurance policies that address various cyber risks such as information privacy, network security failures, cyber extortion, and financial fraud. The company emphasizes comprehensive risk assessment, security analysis, and exposure evaluation to help clients understand and mitigate cyber threats. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, At-Bay also maintains a research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Originally known as Cyberjack Inc., the company rebranded in 2017 to reflect its focus on providing insurance solutions that enable businesses to innovate while managing the ever-present challenges of cyber risk. Through continuous analysis and modeling of cyber threats, At-Bay partners with brokers to deliver effective risk management programs tailored to the needs of its clients.

Synctera

Seed Round in 2020
Synctera Inc. is a company that specializes in providing digital banking solutions aimed at facilitating partnerships between traditional banks and fintech startups. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Synctera offers a platform that helps banks identify their specific needs and connects them with suitable fintech firms. The company manages the relationship through a backend platform that addresses regulatory compliance and supports the onboarding process. In addition to its partnership solutions, Synctera enhances security through features such as personally identifiable information (PII) encryption, endpoint protection, secure login, authentication, and role-based access.

Cato Networks

Series E in 2020
Cato Networks Ltd. is a provider of a cloud-based network Security-as-a-Service platform designed for modern enterprises. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in multiple global locations, the company offers an integrated networking and security solution that connects enterprise locations, users, and data securely. Cato's platform includes features such as WAN optimization, firewall protection, secure web gateways, threat protection, and unified communications optimization. It facilitates secure remote access, last mile management, and site deployment, catering to the needs of distributed, mobile, and cloud-enabled organizations. By eliminating traditional branch appliances and reducing MPLS costs, Cato Networks enhances performance across global locations and cloud applications, ensuring secure internet access for users everywhere.

Theta Lake

Series A in 2020
Theta Lake provides security and compliance for modern collaboration platforms. Empowering enterprises to manage compliance, data exposure, security, and acceptable use risks in what is shared, shown, spoken, and typed during video conferences, collaboration chat, audio calls, and any other unified communications from Cisco Webex, Zoom, RingCentral, Microsoft Teams, Slack, BlueJeans, and more.

Panther

Series A in 2020
Panther’s mission is to help security teams detect and respond to breaches at cloud-scale. Panther is more than a SIEM, it’s a sustainable way to monitor everything happening in your environment. In a world exploding with data, automation is critical. Panther directly enables security teams to create expressive detections with Python and store years of normalized and structured data in a security data lake. Move to a platform built for security engineers, by security engineers. Jack Naglieri launched the company in San Francisco, California in 2018.

Oosto

Series B in 2020
Osto offers enterprises the ability to better protect their customers, employees, and guests in real-time by analyzing safety and security threats in real-time without compromising on fair and ethical behavior.

CyCognito

Series B in 2020
CyCognito solves one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: seeing how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, what systems and assets are at risk and how you can eliminate the exposure. Founded by national intelligence agency veterans, CyCognito has a deep understanding of how attackers exploit blind spots and a path of least resistance. The Palo Alto-based company is funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and its mission is to help organizations protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers. It does this with a category-defining, transformative platform that automates offensive cybersecurity operations to provide reconnaissance capabilities superior to those of attackers..

Calypso AI

Series A in 2020
Calypso AI Corp. develops software products to solve artificial intelligence risks for national security and highly-regulated industries. It offers Vespr software platform, an integrated model accreditation and model risk management system that enables users to monitor artificial systems for ongoing performance, compliance, and security thresholds. Its solution is also used by teams to validate, monitor, and secure their artificial intelligence. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Mateo, California with additional offices in New York, Virginia, and Ireland.

NS8

Series A in 2020
NS8 Inc. is a fraud prevention and user experience protection platform based in Las Vegas, Nevada, with additional offices in Miami Beach, Florida, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 2016, the company offers a suite of tools designed to help online businesses minimize risk through its NS8 Antifraud platform. This platform utilizes machine learning, behavioral analytics, real-time scoring, and fraud pattern detection to identify and address fraudulent activities. It provides insights into bot detection and hidden session segmentation, enabling users to understand effective traffic sources. Additionally, NS8's platform offers consumer metrics that allow businesses to display customized content and track the performance of various sales techniques. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including ecommerce platforms, online merchants, payment gateways, and event ticketing sectors. In October 2020, NS8 filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Magic

Seed Round in 2020
Get peace of mind with secure, extensible passwordless authentication that’s built to scale. All with a few lines of code.

Aqua Security

Series D in 2020
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.

Aqua Security

Series D in 2020
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.

Confluera

Series B in 2020
Confluera, Inc. develops an autonomous detection and response platform to detect and stop attackers navigating infrastructure. It offers Confluera that delivers autonomous infrastructure-wide cyber kill chain tracking and response by leveraging continuous attack graph to stop and remediate cyberthreats in real-time. The company’s Confluera connects malicious activities progressing through the attack lifecycle to pinpoint the attacker; eliminates manual triages and inconclusive correlations by building the complete context; and intercepts and surgically removes the attacker’s footprint. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Cato Networks

Series D in 2020
Cato Networks Ltd. is a provider of a cloud-based network Security-as-a-Service platform designed for modern enterprises. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in multiple global locations, the company offers an integrated networking and security solution that connects enterprise locations, users, and data securely. Cato's platform includes features such as WAN optimization, firewall protection, secure web gateways, threat protection, and unified communications optimization. It facilitates secure remote access, last mile management, and site deployment, catering to the needs of distributed, mobile, and cloud-enabled organizations. By eliminating traditional branch appliances and reducing MPLS costs, Cato Networks enhances performance across global locations and cloud applications, ensuring secure internet access for users everywhere.

Axonius

Series C in 2020
Axonius, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in asset management for connected devices used by businesses. Founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers a platform that allows IT and security teams to gain visibility and control over a wide array of devices, including mobile, computing, and IoT devices. The platform integrates data from various networked devices and existing management services, creating a comprehensive environment for managing device security. Key features include a user-friendly adapter API for seamless integration of new device types and a framework for secure sharing of adapters and plugins. Axonius aims to facilitate safe device adoption and usage at scale, helping organizations effectively manage their cybersecurity landscape.

At-Bay

Series B in 2020
At-Bay, Inc. specializes in cyber insurance underwriting and risk management services, offering customized insurance policies that address various cyber risks such as information privacy, network security failures, cyber extortion, and financial fraud. The company emphasizes comprehensive risk assessment, security analysis, and exposure evaluation to help clients understand and mitigate cyber threats. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, At-Bay also maintains a research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Originally known as Cyberjack Inc., the company rebranded in 2017 to reflect its focus on providing insurance solutions that enable businesses to innovate while managing the ever-present challenges of cyber risk. Through continuous analysis and modeling of cyber threats, At-Bay partners with brokers to deliver effective risk management programs tailored to the needs of its clients.

Netskope

Series G in 2020
Netskope, Inc. is a software company specializing in cloud application analytics and security solutions designed to protect enterprise data and users globally. The company offers the Netskope Security Cloud, which provides real-time visibility and protection against data threats when accessing cloud services, websites, and private applications. Through its patented Cloud XD technology, Netskope enables organizations to gain insights into cloud usage and enforce policies such as data loss prevention, access control, and malware protection across various platforms. Additionally, the company’s NewEdge security network facilitates seamless security without compromising performance. Netskope also functions as a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), helping organizations manage cloud application usage and prevent data exfiltration. Its offerings extend to web security solutions that filter content, detect advanced threats, and control application usage. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Netskope serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, and retail, with a global presence supported by multiple data centers.

CyCognito

Series A in 2019
CyCognito solves one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: seeing how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, what systems and assets are at risk and how you can eliminate the exposure. Founded by national intelligence agency veterans, CyCognito has a deep understanding of how attackers exploit blind spots and a path of least resistance. The Palo Alto-based company is funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and its mission is to help organizations protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers. It does this with a category-defining, transformative platform that automates offensive cybersecurity operations to provide reconnaissance capabilities superior to those of attackers..

Cognicept Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cognicept Systems provides tech stack that enables humans to control anywhere globally and resolve issues using machine learning. They also provide Human-in-the-loop (HITL) error handling with their telerobotic networking technology and remote robot trainers. Their supervised autonomy products make unpredictable applications reliable and enable use cases that were previously impossible.

Arceo Labs, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Arceo Labs, Inc. operates under the brand Arceo, specializing in cybersecurity and cyber analytics services tailored for the insurance industry. The company offers solutions to cyber insurance brokers and carriers, enabling them to assess, underwrite, and manage cyber risks through the use of artificial intelligence and workflow automation. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Arceo Labs also maintains offices in Chicago, Baltimore, and New York. The firm is dedicated to providing organizations with the necessary tools and guidance to protect and insure their data effectively.

Confluera

Series A in 2019
Confluera, Inc. develops an autonomous detection and response platform to detect and stop attackers navigating infrastructure. It offers Confluera that delivers autonomous infrastructure-wide cyber kill chain tracking and response by leveraging continuous attack graph to stop and remediate cyberthreats in real-time. The company’s Confluera connects malicious activities progressing through the attack lifecycle to pinpoint the attacker; eliminates manual triages and inconclusive correlations by building the complete context; and intercepts and surgically removes the attacker’s footprint. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

LeapYear Technologies

Series B in 2019
LeapYear Technologies, Inc. operates a platform designed to help organizations extract value from sensitive data while ensuring its security and privacy. The platform allows domain experts, data scientists, and partner organizations to develop automated machine learning applications and APIs that facilitate the use of confidential and regulated data sources. By implementing differential privacy, LeapYear ensures that data can be utilized for analysis and machine learning without exposing or compromising individual data points. The company collaborates with major players in sectors such as financial services, healthcare, technology, and insurance to combine and analyze previously restricted data, enabling organizations to monetize these valuable assets effectively. Founded in 2014 and based in Berkeley, California, LeapYear Technologies was known as Shroudbase, Inc. prior to its name change in January 2015.

Exabeam

Series E in 2019
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Calypso AI

Seed Round in 2019
Calypso AI Corp. develops software products to solve artificial intelligence risks for national security and highly-regulated industries. It offers Vespr software platform, an integrated model accreditation and model risk management system that enables users to monitor artificial systems for ongoing performance, compliance, and security thresholds. Its solution is also used by teams to validate, monitor, and secure their artificial intelligence. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Mateo, California with additional offices in New York, Virginia, and Ireland.

Aqua Security

Series C in 2019
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.

Cato Networks

Series C in 2019
Cato Networks Ltd. is a provider of a cloud-based network Security-as-a-Service platform designed for modern enterprises. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in multiple global locations, the company offers an integrated networking and security solution that connects enterprise locations, users, and data securely. Cato's platform includes features such as WAN optimization, firewall protection, secure web gateways, threat protection, and unified communications optimization. It facilitates secure remote access, last mile management, and site deployment, catering to the needs of distributed, mobile, and cloud-enabled organizations. By eliminating traditional branch appliances and reducing MPLS costs, Cato Networks enhances performance across global locations and cloud applications, ensuring secure internet access for users everywhere.

Oosto

Series A in 2019
Osto offers enterprises the ability to better protect their customers, employees, and guests in real-time by analyzing safety and security threats in real-time without compromising on fair and ethical behavior.

Netskope

Series F in 2018
Netskope, Inc. is a software company specializing in cloud application analytics and security solutions designed to protect enterprise data and users globally. The company offers the Netskope Security Cloud, which provides real-time visibility and protection against data threats when accessing cloud services, websites, and private applications. Through its patented Cloud XD technology, Netskope enables organizations to gain insights into cloud usage and enforce policies such as data loss prevention, access control, and malware protection across various platforms. Additionally, the company’s NewEdge security network facilitates seamless security without compromising performance. Netskope also functions as a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), helping organizations manage cloud application usage and prevent data exfiltration. Its offerings extend to web security solutions that filter content, detect advanced threats, and control application usage. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Netskope serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, and retail, with a global presence supported by multiple data centers.

Exabeam

Series D in 2018
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

CertiK

Seed Round in 2018
CertiK Global Ltd. is a company specializing in blockchain security, focusing on the formal verification of smart contracts and blockchain ecosystems. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Beijing, Seoul, and Seattle, CertiK provides a range of services including security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification. The company has developed advanced techniques to mathematically prove the correctness and security of blockchain applications, distinguishing its approach from traditional security audits. By employing artificial intelligence and leveraging both on-chain and off-chain data, CertiK offers developers real-time insights into the security of decentralized finance and other critical applications. With a commitment to securing over $6 billion in assets, CertiK has established itself as a leader in the blockchain security industry, serving many of the world's top projects.

Templarbit

Seed Round in 2018
Templarbit Inc. develops a security solution that protects applications from XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attacks. The company's solution provides monitoring, a central dashboard that shows all security events, and deploys security intel agents across the application stack that monitor and detect malicious behavior. Templarbit Inc. offers its solution with a free trial and priced according to traffic load and application stack. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Arctic Wolf

Series B in 2018
Arctic Wolf provides a security operations center-as-a-service designed to help businesses mitigate cyber risks. The company offers a range of services including Managed Detection and Response, Managed Risk, and Managed Cloud Monitoring, delivered by a team of security engineers who act as an extension of the client's internal team. Their offerings encompass cloud infrastructure monitoring, software application monitoring, dynamic asset identification, vulnerability assessment, account takeover risk detection, security controls benchmarking, and log search services. Additionally, Arctic Wolf develops the Arctic Wolf Agent, a software tool that collects actionable intelligence from IT environments. The company serves various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and legal industries, and operates from its headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with additional offices in Provo, Utah, and Waterloo, Canada. Founded in 2012, Arctic Wolf continues to be a key player in enhancing the security posture of enterprises.

At-Bay

Seed Round in 2017
At-Bay, Inc. specializes in cyber insurance underwriting and risk management services, offering customized insurance policies that address various cyber risks such as information privacy, network security failures, cyber extortion, and financial fraud. The company emphasizes comprehensive risk assessment, security analysis, and exposure evaluation to help clients understand and mitigate cyber threats. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, At-Bay also maintains a research and development center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Originally known as Cyberjack Inc., the company rebranded in 2017 to reflect its focus on providing insurance solutions that enable businesses to innovate while managing the ever-present challenges of cyber risk. Through continuous analysis and modeling of cyber threats, At-Bay partners with brokers to deliver effective risk management programs tailored to the needs of its clients.

Aqua Security

Series B in 2017
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.

Citadel Defense Company

Series A in 2017
Citadel Defense Company develops and manufactures counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) that detect and defend against risks posed by commercially available drones. The company offers a mobile semi-autonomous drone threat mitigation solution that utilizes a multi-layered protection model with escalating counter measures to monitor airspace, detect threats, and mitigate unauthorized drones; and Deepfake AI to prevent drone attacks on military and government assets. Citadel Defense Company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in National City, California.

Netskope

Series E in 2017
Netskope, Inc. is a software company specializing in cloud application analytics and security solutions designed to protect enterprise data and users globally. The company offers the Netskope Security Cloud, which provides real-time visibility and protection against data threats when accessing cloud services, websites, and private applications. Through its patented Cloud XD technology, Netskope enables organizations to gain insights into cloud usage and enforce policies such as data loss prevention, access control, and malware protection across various platforms. Additionally, the company’s NewEdge security network facilitates seamless security without compromising performance. Netskope also functions as a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), helping organizations manage cloud application usage and prevent data exfiltration. Its offerings extend to web security solutions that filter content, detect advanced threats, and control application usage. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Netskope serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, and retail, with a global presence supported by multiple data centers.

Selfie Networks

Seed Round in 2017
Selfie Networks, Inc., founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, focuses on commercializing research related to net neutrality and network personalization. The company operates a token-based network platform designed to enhance network security, forwarding, and telemetry. It provides a global directory for zero-rating programs and participating mobile applications, facilitating safe and efficient collaboration between application developers and infrastructure owners. This approach aims to improve the overall user experience in the digital landscape.

enSilo

Series A in 2017
enSilo Inc. develops a real-time automated data protection platform. It offers targeted attack exfiltration prevention platform that provides solution for virtual patching against advanced targeted threats. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 28, 2019, enSilo Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fortinet, Inc. As of October 28, 2019, enSilo Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fortinet, Inc.

enSilo

Series A in 2017
enSilo Inc. develops a real-time automated data protection platform. It offers targeted attack exfiltration prevention platform that provides solution for virtual patching against advanced targeted threats. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 28, 2019, enSilo Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fortinet, Inc. As of October 28, 2019, enSilo Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fortinet, Inc.

Exabeam

Series C in 2017
Exabeam is a big data security analytics company that provides enterprises with advanced user behavior intelligence to unlock the potential of existing security information and event management and log management data repositories, enabling IT security teams to more quickly detect and respond to cyberattacks and insider threats in real time. The company’s user behavior intelligence technology fundamentally changes the way cyberattacks are detected and simplifies security operations by focusing on attacker behavior rather than ever-changing malware and tools, shining a spotlight on suspicious network activity, and reducing the noise of false positive security alerts. Through extraction and enrichment of log feeds, user session tracking, behavior analysis, and event risk scoring, Exabeam gives IT security teams the ability to detect and track credential use in all parts of the attack chain and prioritize responses. The company was built by seasoned security and enterprise IT veterans from Splunk, Imperva, and Sumo Logic, and believes in working together as a team to achieve customer success. Exabeam was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Bromium

Series D in 2016
Provider of micro-virtualization and hardware based security for enterprise desktops

enSilo

Series A in 2016
enSilo Inc. develops a real-time automated data protection platform. It offers targeted attack exfiltration prevention platform that provides solution for virtual patching against advanced targeted threats. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 28, 2019, enSilo Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fortinet, Inc. As of October 28, 2019, enSilo Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fortinet, Inc.

Fireglass

Series A in 2016
Fireglass allows users to click with confidence from any device by eliminating malware and phishing from web and email with no endpoint agent. Organizations protected by Fireglass maximize user productivity while solving the operational overhead and complexity of web gateways through true isolation, where all traffic is executed remotely and does not reach the corporate network. Deployed at Fortune 500 companies, Fireglass was founded by network security leaders and military intelligence veterans and is backed by world-class investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.

Netskope

Series D in 2015
Netskope, Inc. is a software company specializing in cloud application analytics and security solutions designed to protect enterprise data and users globally. The company offers the Netskope Security Cloud, which provides real-time visibility and protection against data threats when accessing cloud services, websites, and private applications. Through its patented Cloud XD technology, Netskope enables organizations to gain insights into cloud usage and enforce policies such as data loss prevention, access control, and malware protection across various platforms. Additionally, the company’s NewEdge security network facilitates seamless security without compromising performance. Netskope also functions as a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), helping organizations manage cloud application usage and prevent data exfiltration. Its offerings extend to web security solutions that filter content, detect advanced threats, and control application usage. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Netskope serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, and retail, with a global presence supported by multiple data centers.

CloudPassage

Series D in 2015
CloudPassage® Halo® is the world’s leading agile security platform that provides instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds. The Halo platform is delivered as a service, so it deploys in minutes and scales on-demand. Halo uses minimal system resources; so layered security can be deployed where it counts, right at every workload – servers, instances and containers. Leading enterprises like Citrix, Salesforce.com and Adobe use CloudPassage today to enhance their security and compliance posture, while at the same time enabling business agility. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors.

Zscaler

Series B in 2015
Cloud-delivered Internet security

enSilo

Series A in 2015
enSilo Inc. develops a real-time automated data protection platform. It offers targeted attack exfiltration prevention platform that provides solution for virtual patching against advanced targeted threats. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 28, 2019, enSilo Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fortinet, Inc. As of October 28, 2019, enSilo Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fortinet, Inc.

HanSight

Seed Round in 2014
Hansight (Beijing) Software Technology Co., Ltd. offers data collection, processing, and analysis services for real time data security. It offers its services to industries, including finance, energy, government, manufacturing, and medical. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Beijing, China.

Netskope

Series C in 2014
Netskope, Inc. is a software company specializing in cloud application analytics and security solutions designed to protect enterprise data and users globally. The company offers the Netskope Security Cloud, which provides real-time visibility and protection against data threats when accessing cloud services, websites, and private applications. Through its patented Cloud XD technology, Netskope enables organizations to gain insights into cloud usage and enforce policies such as data loss prevention, access control, and malware protection across various platforms. Additionally, the company’s NewEdge security network facilitates seamless security without compromising performance. Netskope also functions as a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), helping organizations manage cloud application usage and prevent data exfiltration. Its offerings extend to web security solutions that filter content, detect advanced threats, and control application usage. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Netskope serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, and retail, with a global presence supported by multiple data centers.

Netskope

Series B in 2013
Netskope, Inc. is a software company specializing in cloud application analytics and security solutions designed to protect enterprise data and users globally. The company offers the Netskope Security Cloud, which provides real-time visibility and protection against data threats when accessing cloud services, websites, and private applications. Through its patented Cloud XD technology, Netskope enables organizations to gain insights into cloud usage and enforce policies such as data loss prevention, access control, and malware protection across various platforms. Additionally, the company’s NewEdge security network facilitates seamless security without compromising performance. Netskope also functions as a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), helping organizations manage cloud application usage and prevent data exfiltration. Its offerings extend to web security solutions that filter content, detect advanced threats, and control application usage. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Netskope serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, and retail, with a global presence supported by multiple data centers.

Click Security

Series B in 2013
Click Security, Inc. specializes in real-time security analytics solutions, focusing on cyber threat investigation software. The company provides a range of cybersecurity services that enable users to automate the prioritization, investigation, and hunting of threats through advanced visualization and analytics. Its solutions enhance visibility into suspicious behaviors, allowing organizations to analyze existing data for threat detection and correlate alerts to facilitate informed responses. Click Security also offers proactive incident response, security analytics, and threat assessment reporting, along with managed security services. Founded in 2009 and based in Austin, Texas, the company aims to disrupt the network security landscape by delivering high-performance, scalable solutions to enterprises, educational institutions, critical infrastructure, and government agencies. As of April 2016, Click Security operates as a subsidiary of Alert Logic, Inc.

Arctic Wolf

Venture Round in 2012
Arctic Wolf provides a security operations center-as-a-service designed to help businesses mitigate cyber risks. The company offers a range of services including Managed Detection and Response, Managed Risk, and Managed Cloud Monitoring, delivered by a team of security engineers who act as an extension of the client's internal team. Their offerings encompass cloud infrastructure monitoring, software application monitoring, dynamic asset identification, vulnerability assessment, account takeover risk detection, security controls benchmarking, and log search services. Additionally, Arctic Wolf develops the Arctic Wolf Agent, a software tool that collects actionable intelligence from IT environments. The company serves various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and legal industries, and operates from its headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with additional offices in Provo, Utah, and Waterloo, Canada. Founded in 2012, Arctic Wolf continues to be a key player in enhancing the security posture of enterprises.

Zscaler

Series A in 2012
Cloud-delivered Internet security

Arctic Wolf

Series A in 2012
Arctic Wolf provides a security operations center-as-a-service designed to help businesses mitigate cyber risks. The company offers a range of services including Managed Detection and Response, Managed Risk, and Managed Cloud Monitoring, delivered by a team of security engineers who act as an extension of the client's internal team. Their offerings encompass cloud infrastructure monitoring, software application monitoring, dynamic asset identification, vulnerability assessment, account takeover risk detection, security controls benchmarking, and log search services. Additionally, Arctic Wolf develops the Arctic Wolf Agent, a software tool that collects actionable intelligence from IT environments. The company serves various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and legal industries, and operates from its headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with additional offices in Provo, Utah, and Waterloo, Canada. Founded in 2012, Arctic Wolf continues to be a key player in enhancing the security posture of enterprises.

Bromium

Series A in 2011
Provider of micro-virtualization and hardware based security for enterprise desktops

Skybox Security

Debt Financing in 2011
Skybox Security, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity management solutions tailored for enterprises facing complex security challenges. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to enhance visibility and control over an organization's security posture. Key offerings include Skybox Horizon for attack surface visibility, Skybox Vulnerability Control for context-aware vulnerability management, and Skybox Threat Manager for threat intelligence analysis and response. Additionally, the company provides tools for firewall management, including Skybox Firewall Assurance and Skybox Change Manager, which streamline the firewall change management process. Skybox Network Assurance further enhances network visibility and control. The company's platform integrates with numerous networking and security technologies, enabling clients across various sectors—including financial services, government, energy, technology, telecommunications, and healthcare—to effectively manage vulnerabilities and respond to cyber threats.

Skybox Security

Series D in 2009
Skybox Security, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity management solutions tailored for enterprises facing complex security challenges. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to enhance visibility and control over an organization's security posture. Key offerings include Skybox Horizon for attack surface visibility, Skybox Vulnerability Control for context-aware vulnerability management, and Skybox Threat Manager for threat intelligence analysis and response. Additionally, the company provides tools for firewall management, including Skybox Firewall Assurance and Skybox Change Manager, which streamline the firewall change management process. Skybox Network Assurance further enhances network visibility and control. The company's platform integrates with numerous networking and security technologies, enabling clients across various sectors—including financial services, government, energy, technology, telecommunications, and healthcare—to effectively manage vulnerabilities and respond to cyber threats.

SailPoint

Series C in 2008
SailPoint Technologies develops identity governance software solutions that assist organizations in managing digital identities and access rights across various environments, including on-premises, cloud, and mobile applications. Their offerings include IdentityIQ, a comprehensive on-premises identity governance tool that provides visibility and control over user access; IdentityNow, a cloud-based governance platform; and IdentityAI, which utilizes artificial intelligence to identify potential security threats. Additionally, SailPoint's products feature functionalities for role management, access request management, and compliance management, aimed at streamlining IT compliance processes and mitigating fraud risks. The company serves a diverse clientele, including commercial enterprises, financial institutions, and government entities, through direct sales and partnerships with system integrators and technology resellers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, SailPoint has established itself as a leader in the identity governance space.

NeoScale Systems

Series F in 2007
As of December 11, 2007, NeoScale Systems, Inc. was acquired by Ncipher plc. NeoScale Systems, Inc. provides enterprise storage security solutions. Its solutions enable organizations to address security risks associated with offsite storage, tape media access, business continuity, consolidation, and privacy compliance. The company's products include CryptoStor Tape, a tape security appliance that compresses, encrypts, and digitally signs data; CryptoStor FC Disk, an enterprise-class storage security appliance, which provides wire-speed encryption, centralized policy management, storage firewall access control, and fabric transparent operation for storage transport and media privacy; and CryptoStor KeyVault, an automated and open enterprise-class appliance for data-at-rest encryption key management. NeoScale Systems serves companies in various sectors, including financial services, healthcare / health services, manufacturing, retail / wholesale, entertainment, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, domestic and foreign government, and small-medium enterprises. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Milpitas, California.

SailPoint

Series B in 2007
SailPoint Technologies develops identity governance software solutions that assist organizations in managing digital identities and access rights across various environments, including on-premises, cloud, and mobile applications. Their offerings include IdentityIQ, a comprehensive on-premises identity governance tool that provides visibility and control over user access; IdentityNow, a cloud-based governance platform; and IdentityAI, which utilizes artificial intelligence to identify potential security threats. Additionally, SailPoint's products feature functionalities for role management, access request management, and compliance management, aimed at streamlining IT compliance processes and mitigating fraud risks. The company serves a diverse clientele, including commercial enterprises, financial institutions, and government entities, through direct sales and partnerships with system integrators and technology resellers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, SailPoint has established itself as a leader in the identity governance space.

Identity Engines

Series B in 2006
Identity Engines (idEngines) develops identity-based solutions for securing enterprise networks. It offers Ignition server, a network identity management device to centralize, streamline, and secure access across the network. The company also offers Ignition Portal that provides Web authentication capability to support network access control for various guest and visitor device types, operating systems, and browsers; Ignition Posture that provides endpoint posture checking; Ignition Guest Manager that secures network services for vendors and partners; and Ignition AutoConnect, an automated solution to streamline secure wireless and wired deployments. idEngines was acquired by Avaya Inc/Nortel Networks in December of 2008, and is now part of Extreme Networks through Extreme's acquisition of Avaya's enterprise networking business.

Skybox Security

Series D in 2006
Skybox Security, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity management solutions tailored for enterprises facing complex security challenges. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to enhance visibility and control over an organization's security posture. Key offerings include Skybox Horizon for attack surface visibility, Skybox Vulnerability Control for context-aware vulnerability management, and Skybox Threat Manager for threat intelligence analysis and response. Additionally, the company provides tools for firewall management, including Skybox Firewall Assurance and Skybox Change Manager, which streamline the firewall change management process. Skybox Network Assurance further enhances network visibility and control. The company's platform integrates with numerous networking and security technologies, enabling clients across various sectors—including financial services, government, energy, technology, telecommunications, and healthcare—to effectively manage vulnerabilities and respond to cyber threats.

SailPoint

Series A in 2006
SailPoint Technologies develops identity governance software solutions that assist organizations in managing digital identities and access rights across various environments, including on-premises, cloud, and mobile applications. Their offerings include IdentityIQ, a comprehensive on-premises identity governance tool that provides visibility and control over user access; IdentityNow, a cloud-based governance platform; and IdentityAI, which utilizes artificial intelligence to identify potential security threats. Additionally, SailPoint's products feature functionalities for role management, access request management, and compliance management, aimed at streamlining IT compliance processes and mitigating fraud risks. The company serves a diverse clientele, including commercial enterprises, financial institutions, and government entities, through direct sales and partnerships with system integrators and technology resellers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, SailPoint has established itself as a leader in the identity governance space.

Identity Engines

Series A in 2005
Identity Engines (idEngines) develops identity-based solutions for securing enterprise networks. It offers Ignition server, a network identity management device to centralize, streamline, and secure access across the network. The company also offers Ignition Portal that provides Web authentication capability to support network access control for various guest and visitor device types, operating systems, and browsers; Ignition Posture that provides endpoint posture checking; Ignition Guest Manager that secures network services for vendors and partners; and Ignition AutoConnect, an automated solution to streamline secure wireless and wired deployments. idEngines was acquired by Avaya Inc/Nortel Networks in December of 2008, and is now part of Extreme Networks through Extreme's acquisition of Avaya's enterprise networking business.

NeoScale Systems

Series D in 2005
As of December 11, 2007, NeoScale Systems, Inc. was acquired by Ncipher plc. NeoScale Systems, Inc. provides enterprise storage security solutions. Its solutions enable organizations to address security risks associated with offsite storage, tape media access, business continuity, consolidation, and privacy compliance. The company's products include CryptoStor Tape, a tape security appliance that compresses, encrypts, and digitally signs data; CryptoStor FC Disk, an enterprise-class storage security appliance, which provides wire-speed encryption, centralized policy management, storage firewall access control, and fabric transparent operation for storage transport and media privacy; and CryptoStor KeyVault, an automated and open enterprise-class appliance for data-at-rest encryption key management. NeoScale Systems serves companies in various sectors, including financial services, healthcare / health services, manufacturing, retail / wholesale, entertainment, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, domestic and foreign government, and small-medium enterprises. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Milpitas, California.

Skybox Security

Series C in 2004
Skybox Security, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity management solutions tailored for enterprises facing complex security challenges. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to enhance visibility and control over an organization's security posture. Key offerings include Skybox Horizon for attack surface visibility, Skybox Vulnerability Control for context-aware vulnerability management, and Skybox Threat Manager for threat intelligence analysis and response. Additionally, the company provides tools for firewall management, including Skybox Firewall Assurance and Skybox Change Manager, which streamline the firewall change management process. Skybox Network Assurance further enhances network visibility and control. The company's platform integrates with numerous networking and security technologies, enabling clients across various sectors—including financial services, government, energy, technology, telecommunications, and healthcare—to effectively manage vulnerabilities and respond to cyber threats.

Skybox Security

Series B in 2004
Skybox Security, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity management solutions tailored for enterprises facing complex security challenges. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to enhance visibility and control over an organization's security posture. Key offerings include Skybox Horizon for attack surface visibility, Skybox Vulnerability Control for context-aware vulnerability management, and Skybox Threat Manager for threat intelligence analysis and response. Additionally, the company provides tools for firewall management, including Skybox Firewall Assurance and Skybox Change Manager, which streamline the firewall change management process. Skybox Network Assurance further enhances network visibility and control. The company's platform integrates with numerous networking and security technologies, enabling clients across various sectors—including financial services, government, energy, technology, telecommunications, and healthcare—to effectively manage vulnerabilities and respond to cyber threats.

NeoScale Systems

Series C in 2004
As of December 11, 2007, NeoScale Systems, Inc. was acquired by Ncipher plc. NeoScale Systems, Inc. provides enterprise storage security solutions. Its solutions enable organizations to address security risks associated with offsite storage, tape media access, business continuity, consolidation, and privacy compliance. The company's products include CryptoStor Tape, a tape security appliance that compresses, encrypts, and digitally signs data; CryptoStor FC Disk, an enterprise-class storage security appliance, which provides wire-speed encryption, centralized policy management, storage firewall access control, and fabric transparent operation for storage transport and media privacy; and CryptoStor KeyVault, an automated and open enterprise-class appliance for data-at-rest encryption key management. NeoScale Systems serves companies in various sectors, including financial services, healthcare / health services, manufacturing, retail / wholesale, entertainment, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, domestic and foreign government, and small-medium enterprises. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Milpitas, California.

Virsa Systems

Series A in 2004
Virsa Systems Inc. is the developer of the only real-time, 24/7, security and controls compliance software for SAP systems. Purpose-built to maintain continuous compliance with stringent regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Virsa's solutions automate risk assessment, eliminate false positives and deliver real-time simulation and remediation capabilities. By offering the world's largest library of built-in, best practice rules on segregation of duties, Virsa delivers accelerated implementation and faster remediation with the lowest cost of implementation. The acknowledged market leader, Virsa has the sector's largest installed base of enterprise customers and the preferred solutions for security, controls and corporate governance.

NeoScale Systems

Series A in 2002
As of December 11, 2007, NeoScale Systems, Inc. was acquired by Ncipher plc. NeoScale Systems, Inc. provides enterprise storage security solutions. Its solutions enable organizations to address security risks associated with offsite storage, tape media access, business continuity, consolidation, and privacy compliance. The company's products include CryptoStor Tape, a tape security appliance that compresses, encrypts, and digitally signs data; CryptoStor FC Disk, an enterprise-class storage security appliance, which provides wire-speed encryption, centralized policy management, storage firewall access control, and fabric transparent operation for storage transport and media privacy; and CryptoStor KeyVault, an automated and open enterprise-class appliance for data-at-rest encryption key management. NeoScale Systems serves companies in various sectors, including financial services, healthcare / health services, manufacturing, retail / wholesale, entertainment, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, domestic and foreign government, and small-medium enterprises. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Milpitas, California.