SineWave Ventures

SineWave Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014, with its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. The firm focuses on investing in technology-based companies in the United States, aiming to accelerate the development of new technologies that serve both commercial and public sector ecosystems. SineWave Ventures is committed to identifying and supporting innovative enterprises that have the potential to drive significant advancements in their respective fields.

Karen Evans

Venture Partner

Chris Gaughan

General Partner

Brian Hibbeln

Venture Partner

Charlie Kleinsmith

Senior Associate

Greg Kotchick

Senior Associate

Vivek Ladsariya

Partner

Pat Muoio

Partner

Patricia Muoio

Partner

Yanev Suissa

Partner

27 past transactions

Shabodi

Series A in 2022
Enterprise Software, SaaS, PaaS, 5G

Selector

Series A in 2022
Selector AI is a platform for operational intelligence of multi-cloud infrastructure and performance-sensitive managed services. By adopting an AI/ML-based data analytics approach, Selector AI provides actionable multi-dimensional insights to network, cloud and application operators. Our customers can meet their service KPIs through seamless collaboration on messaging platforms, search-driven querying with a conversational user experience, and automated data engineering pipelines.

Ockam

Series A in 2022
Ockam Inc. provides a server less platform for secure Internet-of-things (IOT) development. The company’s tool enables to interconnect hardware with software services and facilitate the exchange of information within connected systems; manage identities, cryptographic keys, and credentials for devices and services; and optimize connectivity and messaging for the exchange of information between entities and applications. Additionally, it connects application developers and system integrators; hardware and chipset engineers; and cloud service product managers. Ockam Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Clarifai

Series C in 2021
Clarifai, Inc. specializes in advanced image recognition technology, allowing users to detect near-duplicates and conduct visual searches. The company's systems can identify various categories, objects, and tags within images, enabling the discovery of similar images in large, uncategorized repositories through a combination of semantic and visual similarity. Additionally, Clarifai offers Labeler, a tool designed for labeling unstructured datasets, facilitating data search using artificial intelligence, training AI models, and auto-scaling models in production. Founded in 2013, Clarifai is headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Tallinn, Estonia.
AON3D is a manufacturer of high-temperature industrial 3D printers. The AON-M2, its flagship 3D printer, is a direct response to demands for hotter print conditions and the careful thermal control needed for producing strong and dimensionally stable parts from advanced materials. It offers an open filament platform that empowers users to choose the right materials for their project and slash costs by avoiding expensive proprietary materials and license fees. Founders Andrew Walker, Randeep Singh, and Kevin Han established the company in 2015 in Montreal, Quebec.

Shabodi

Seed Round in 2021
Enterprise Software, SaaS, PaaS, 5G

Perennial

Seed Round in 2020
Cloud Agronomics Inc. is a geospatial imaging and analytics company focused on enhancing agricultural practices through real-time data. Established in 2017 and based in Lewes, Delaware, the company utilizes remote sensing technology to provide actionable insights for farm management. Its services include monitoring crop performance, predicting yields, and assessing carbon levels, all aimed at optimizing agricultural outcomes. Additionally, Cloud Agronomics offers tools for detecting crop diseases, allowing farmers to address issues promptly and effectively, minimizing the risk of widespread outbreaks. Through its innovative approach, the company is positioned to support sustainable farming and improve crop health.

Evolv Technology

Series C in 2020
Evolv Technology specializes in noninvasive body scanners designed for touchless security screening, focusing on enhancing safety in public spaces. The company offers a range of products, including Evolv Express for firearm and bomb detection, Evolv Edge for checkpoint security, and Evolv Pinpoint for facial recognition. These systems are utilized in various settings, such as schools, stadiums, hospitals, and entertainment venues, to ensure the safety of employees, visitors, and VIPs. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Evolv Technology aims to improve security protocols by integrating advanced sensors and artificial intelligence, enabling reliable scanning without compromising the visitor experience. The company has screened over 50 million individuals, successfully preventing more than 5,000 weapons from entering secure areas. With a leadership team comprising veterans from security agencies, Evolv is committed to providing effective solutions for both government and private sectors.

ShardSecure

Seed Round in 2019
ShardSecure, Inc. specializes in encryption and cloud data security solutions, focusing on protecting sensitive information during storage and sharing in cloud environments. The company's innovative Microshard technology fragments sensitive data into small pieces, which are then distributed across multiple cloud platforms alongside decoy shards, making it nearly impossible for hackers to reconstruct the original data. This approach not only enhances data protection but also helps mitigate risks associated with cloud misconfigurations. ShardSecure's solutions are designed to be application-agnostic and can be deployed as a virtual storage appliance. The company integrates with major cloud service providers, including AWS, Azure, Google, and IBM, providing clients with simplified and effective data security alternatives. Founded in 2019, ShardSecure is headquartered in New York, New York.

Evolv Technology

Series C in 2019
Evolv Technology specializes in noninvasive body scanners designed for touchless security screening, focusing on enhancing safety in public spaces. The company offers a range of products, including Evolv Express for firearm and bomb detection, Evolv Edge for checkpoint security, and Evolv Pinpoint for facial recognition. These systems are utilized in various settings, such as schools, stadiums, hospitals, and entertainment venues, to ensure the safety of employees, visitors, and VIPs. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Evolv Technology aims to improve security protocols by integrating advanced sensors and artificial intelligence, enabling reliable scanning without compromising the visitor experience. The company has screened over 50 million individuals, successfully preventing more than 5,000 weapons from entering secure areas. With a leadership team comprising veterans from security agencies, Evolv is committed to providing effective solutions for both government and private sectors.

Nalej

Seed Round in 2019
Nalej operates an edge computing platform designed to facilitate the end-to-end lifecycle management of distributed infrastructure, networks, multi-cloud environments, and applications. The platform empowers organizations by enabling the secure development, deployment, and management of applications and data across various servers and devices, optimizing resources based on geographic distribution and specific operational parameters. Nalej's software integrates advanced technologies such as Kubernetes, serverless computing, and machine learning, allowing for seamless automation of application deployment and workload management. This capability significantly reduces the complexity and cost associated with edge computing by providing developers and analysts with comprehensive monitoring and operational tools. Furthermore, Nalej's platform continuously analyzes optimization opportunities, ensuring that resources are utilized effectively while addressing security and compliance needs across the enterprise.

SentinelOne

Series D in 2019
SentinelOne is a cloud-based cybersecurity company founded in 2013, headquartered in Mountain View, California. It specializes in autonomous endpoint protection, offering its Singularity platform, which provides comprehensive detection and response capabilities against various security threats. The platform integrates behavioral-based detection, advanced mitigation, and forensic tools to address attacks that employ evasion techniques, ensuring real-time threat prevention. Recognized as a leader in the field, SentinelOne has received accolades for its innovative approach, including being named a Visionary in Gartner's Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrant and featuring on the Forbes AI 50 list for its effective use of artificial intelligence. The company has also achieved independent certifications validating its solutions as true antivirus replacements across multiple operating systems. SentinelOne's founding team comprises experts from top cybersecurity firms, reflecting its strong foundation in the industry.

Lyric

Debt Financing in 2019
Lyric Hospitality, Inc. is a technology-driven hospitality and real estate booking platform tailored for business travelers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company specializes in designing and managing short-term rental properties that provide a professional and reliable experience, surpassing typical offerings from individual homeowners. Lyric employs an application called Tidy to efficiently manage room cleanings, ensuring high standards of cleanliness and service. The company focuses on creating locally inspired accommodations that enhance the travel experience for modern professionals.

Lyric

Series B in 2019
Lyric Hospitality, Inc. is a technology-driven hospitality and real estate booking platform tailored for business travelers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company specializes in designing and managing short-term rental properties that provide a professional and reliable experience, surpassing typical offerings from individual homeowners. Lyric employs an application called Tidy to efficiently manage room cleanings, ensuring high standards of cleanliness and service. The company focuses on creating locally inspired accommodations that enhance the travel experience for modern professionals.

ShiftLeft

Series B in 2019
ShiftLeft, Inc. specializes in cloud security solutions tailored to each version of applications, emphasizing proactive security measures rather than reactive threat responses. Founded in 2016 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company offers a range of products, including NextGen Static Analysis, Protect, Ocular, and tools for open source software such as ShiftLeft Scan, Joern, and CPG Schema. ShiftLeft's innovative approach involves understanding the "Security DNA" of applications and microservices, which enables organizations to secure their software effectively as part of the continuous integration process. This methodology enhances the speed of identifying and automatically triaging security issues, ultimately reducing the potential attack surface at runtime.

Paperspace

Series A in 2018
Paperspace is a high-performance cloud computing and ML development platform for building, training and deploying machine learning models. Tens of thousands of individuals, startups and enterprises use Paperspace to iterate faster and collaborate on intelligent, real-time prediction engines.

Rescale

Series B in 2018
Rescale, Inc. develops and operates software platforms and hardware infrastructure that facilitate scientific and engineering simulations for various industries. The company offers cloud simulation and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, including ScaleX Pro for independent professionals and small to medium-sized businesses, and ScaleX Developer for application developers and software vendors to integrate their solutions with Rescale's platform. Additionally, ScaleX Enterprise provides a unified simulation platform with administrative capabilities for managing both cloud and on-premise HPC resources. Serving sectors such as aerospace, automotive, consumer products, electronics, oil and gas, and life sciences, Rescale has established itself as a prominent provider in the cloud simulation market. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Rescale also maintains offices in Tokyo, Munich, and Singapore.

JUMP Bikes

Series A in 2018
JUMP is bike share electrified. They create the hardware and software to take you farther, get there faster, and make every ride fun. JUMP bikes are designed in New York City by people who love bikes and care about the future of their cities. JUMP Bikes has been shaping the future of bike share since 2010. They brought freedom to bike share systems with Social Bicycles, the first ever smart-bikes with integrated GPS, payment systems, and locks that kicked off the dockless revolution. We’ve dropped 15,000 bikes into 40 different markets and clocked over 5 million rides since 2013.

Social Bicycles

Series A in 2017
Social Bicycles Inc., doing business as JUMP Bikes, develops an online platform and software that enables members to find bikes at hub locations and reserve from the Web, mobile applications, or directly from the bike itself. It serves residential properties, municipalities, universities, and corporate campuses in the United States and internationally. Social Bicycles Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brooklyn, New York with locations worldwide. As of April 9, 2018, Social Bicycles Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc.

Upskill

Series B in 2017
Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite. Its robust platform, Skylight, connects the industrial workforce with the people, processes, information, and equipment they need to do their jobs with greater efficiency and fewer errors, leaving them hands free to focus on their tasks at hand, and their tools. For organizations in the competitive global market looking to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce costs, train new workers, retain tribal knowledge, and provide a strong foundation for further investments, the future starts with Upskill.

SentinelOne

Series C in 2017
SentinelOne is a cloud-based cybersecurity company founded in 2013, headquartered in Mountain View, California. It specializes in autonomous endpoint protection, offering its Singularity platform, which provides comprehensive detection and response capabilities against various security threats. The platform integrates behavioral-based detection, advanced mitigation, and forensic tools to address attacks that employ evasion techniques, ensuring real-time threat prevention. Recognized as a leader in the field, SentinelOne has received accolades for its innovative approach, including being named a Visionary in Gartner's Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrant and featuring on the Forbes AI 50 list for its effective use of artificial intelligence. The company has also achieved independent certifications validating its solutions as true antivirus replacements across multiple operating systems. SentinelOne's founding team comprises experts from top cybersecurity firms, reflecting its strong foundation in the industry.

Databricks

Series C in 2016
Databricks Inc. offers a unified data analytics cloud platform designed to streamline data engineering and collaborative data science. The company provides a cloud-based platform that enables developers and data scientists to integrate data seamlessly, conduct real-time experimentation, and deploy production applications efficiently. Key products include Databricks Delta, which combines the scalability of a data warehouse with the low latency of streaming data ingestion, MLflow for managing the machine learning lifecycle, and Delta Lake, an open-source technology for handling both batch and streaming data. Databricks serves a diverse range of industries, including advertising, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, among others. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company also has a presence in London, Amsterdam, and Bengaluru, and maintains strategic partnerships with several organizations to enhance its offerings.

Nalej

Seed Round in 2016
Nalej operates an edge computing platform designed to facilitate the end-to-end lifecycle management of distributed infrastructure, networks, multi-cloud environments, and applications. The platform empowers organizations by enabling the secure development, deployment, and management of applications and data across various servers and devices, optimizing resources based on geographic distribution and specific operational parameters. Nalej's software integrates advanced technologies such as Kubernetes, serverless computing, and machine learning, allowing for seamless automation of application deployment and workload management. This capability significantly reduces the complexity and cost associated with edge computing by providing developers and analysts with comprehensive monitoring and operational tools. Furthermore, Nalej's platform continuously analyzes optimization opportunities, ensuring that resources are utilized effectively while addressing security and compliance needs across the enterprise.

Veriflow

Series A in 2016
Veriflow brings formal verification to network infrastructure for the first time, continuously ensuring your network operates as intended. Veriflow predicts outages before they impact the business, and vulnerabilities before they are exploited, allowing IT teams to operate secure and resilient networks. Veriflow backed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Menlo Ventures, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Defense. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Upskill

Venture Round in 2015
Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite. Its robust platform, Skylight, connects the industrial workforce with the people, processes, information, and equipment they need to do their jobs with greater efficiency and fewer errors, leaving them hands free to focus on their tasks at hand, and their tools. For organizations in the competitive global market looking to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce costs, train new workers, retain tribal knowledge, and provide a strong foundation for further investments, the future starts with Upskill.

SentinelOne

Series B in 2015
SentinelOne is a cloud-based cybersecurity company founded in 2013, headquartered in Mountain View, California. It specializes in autonomous endpoint protection, offering its Singularity platform, which provides comprehensive detection and response capabilities against various security threats. The platform integrates behavioral-based detection, advanced mitigation, and forensic tools to address attacks that employ evasion techniques, ensuring real-time threat prevention. Recognized as a leader in the field, SentinelOne has received accolades for its innovative approach, including being named a Visionary in Gartner's Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrant and featuring on the Forbes AI 50 list for its effective use of artificial intelligence. The company has also achieved independent certifications validating its solutions as true antivirus replacements across multiple operating systems. SentinelOne's founding team comprises experts from top cybersecurity firms, reflecting its strong foundation in the industry.

Tamr

Series B in 2015
Tamr is an enterprise data unification company that is cost-effective, scalable, and accessible to any enterprise. Following the success of initial research at MIT CSAIL, the Tamr team began building a commercial-grade solution designed to tackle the challenge of connecting and enriching diverse data at scale, quickly and cost effectively. Launched in the spring of 2014 and backed by a series of investors, such as Google Ventures and New Enterprise Associates, Tamr is deployed in production at a variety organizations, including information services providers, pharmaceutical firms and retailers. Tamr, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 2013 by database industry veterans Andy Palmer, Mike Stonebraker and Ihab Ilyas with George Beskales, Daniel Bruckner and Alex Pagan.