Forgepoint Capital

Forgepoint Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with an office in London. It focuses on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and infrastructure software, including cloud security, DevSecOps, identity, privacy, insurtech, fintech, and related digital security technologies. The firm backs seed, early-stage and growth investments, often in Series A and B rounds, partnering with entrepreneurs to scale category-defining companies. It operates a sector-focused investment team and an Advisory Council of industry leaders to support portfolio companies. Forgepoint Capital manages over $1 billion in assets and maintains a global portfolio of dozens of companies, reflecting its international reach and commitment to advancing the digital security and technology landscape.

Casilda Angulo

Senior Associate

Ernie Bio

Managing Director

Leoncio Casusol

Partner

Leo Casusol

Managing Director

Sean Cunningham

Managing Director

Past deals in Risk Management

RAD Security

Series A in 2025
RAD Security is a developer of an AI-driven cloud security platform that focuses on securing AI workloads and cloud infrastructure. Its advanced Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) system continuously monitors the behavior of containerized environments across hybrid-cloud settings. By proactively alerting clients to security issues and automatically addressing suspicious configurations, RAD Security helps organizations maintain compliance and quickly remediate vulnerabilities. The company's platform is designed to provide seamless, scalable protection, allowing businesses to navigate the complexities of AI security with confidence. Through its commitment to proactive security and continuous adaptation, RAD Security supports enterprises as they grow and evolve in an increasingly digital landscape.

Nudge Security

Seed Round in 2024
Nudge Security is a cybersecurity company that safeguards modern organizations by empowering their workforce. It offers SaaS security and governance software, providing IT and security teams with comprehensive visibility of all SaaS and cloud assets, allowing employees to make secure decisions without hindering productivity.

Lynx

Series A in 2023
Lynx is an artificial intelligence-driven software company that focuses on addressing significant challenges related to fraud and financial crime. By leveraging advanced AI technology, Lynx offers solutions that proactively identify and prevent fraudulent activities in real time, enhancing accuracy, speed, and scalability for multinational organizations. The company aims to transform its clients' approaches from reactive to proactive, providing actionable insights that illuminate potential risks. Lynx has built strong, long-term relationships with financial institutions, fintechs, and commercial entities, emphasizing exceptional customer experiences while setting new standards in the industry.

Lumu

Series B in 2023
Lumu is a cybersecurity company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Doral, Florida. The company specializes in real-time identification and isolation of cyber compromises, providing enterprises with the ability to detect threats and attacks swiftly. Lumu enhances existing security measures through actionable intelligence, employing principles of Continuous Compromise Assessment. Its software offers features such as customizable activity clustering, a compromise radar, and integrated threat intelligence, enabling clients to analyze network metadata effectively. By normalizing and collecting data from various sources, such as net flows and access logs, Lumu empowers security teams to achieve real-time visibility across their infrastructures and significantly reduce the time needed for breach detection from months to minutes.

Symmetry Systems

Series B in 2023
Symmetry Systems, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in San Mateo, California, specializing in data security and privacy solutions. Established in 2015, the company offers a platform tailored to address modern data security challenges by providing organizations with comprehensive visibility into their data assets. Symmetry’s platform assists in tracking data access and usage, thereby safeguarding against misuse, insider threats, and cyberattacks. It accommodates both structured and unstructured data across major cloud services, SaaS platforms, and on-premise databases. The platform operates as a read-only service, inheriting existing security and compliance controls, making it suitable for highly regulated environments. Its advanced AI capabilities equip organizations to manage data security risks, ensure compliance, and respond to threats effectively. Symmetry's innovations are trusted by leading financial service providers, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies. The company has roots in the Spark Research Lab at UT Austin and has received recognition as a "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner.

SPHERE

Series B in 2022
Sphere Technology Solutions is a cybersecurity company that specializes in enhancing data governance, security, and compliance for businesses. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, the company offers a comprehensive software and service solution designed to provide actionable intelligence and remediation capabilities. Sphere's approach focuses on securing sensitive data and establishing governance frameworks to control system and asset access. The company is also developing its managed service operations, featuring its automation platform, SPHEREboard, and the SPHEREsoftserve solution, which integrates automation with expert support to streamline processes and improve outcomes. By combining technology and specialized expertise, Sphere Technology Solutions enables organizations to meet regulatory requirements and enhance their overall security posture.

ZeroFOX

Post in 2022
ZeroFOX is a cybersecurity company that provides external threat intelligence and protection against social media–based threats. It operates a cloud-based platform delivering real-time social threat analytics, protection, and monitoring to safeguard brands, people, and data across the public attack surface. Its solutions address phishing, credential compromise, impersonation, information leakage, brand hijacking, and physical or reputational risks to executives and high-profile individuals, with services including managed monitoring and protection. The company supports industries such as financial services, retail, government, healthcare, technology, education, media, and sports, and offers specialized protections for elections and high-value personnel.

RapidFort

Seed Round in 2022
RapidFort is a software attack surface optimization company that offers a unified platform aimed at minimizing cyber-attack risks for organizations. Its innovative solution reduces development costs by 10% and accelerates software release timelines by 2 to 3 weeks. The platform facilitates compliance with various security frameworks, such as FedRAMP and SOC2, by streamlining vulnerability remediation processes. RapidFort integrates three main components: RF Curated Images, which provide container images built to stringent security standards; Instrumentation and Profiting tools that generate comprehensive Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) while prioritizing threat remediation; and Hardening and Defending tools that automatically secure unused components, significantly reducing the software attack surface. Collectively, these features enable the platform to eliminate 95% of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) automatically without requiring code changes, thereby enhancing overall security and efficiency for its users.

Whistic

Series B in 2022
Whistic, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pleasant Grove, Utah. It operates an AI-powered platform designed to help organizations evaluate and manage the IT security risks associated with their SaaS vendors. Whistic's platform streamlines the vendor risk assessment process, allowing information security and compliance teams to establish effective third-party risk management programs. The solution offers a centralized repository for security and compliance documentation, facilitating easier responses to security review requests and aiding in regulatory compliance. Additionally, Whistic features a unique Trust Catalog that connects vendors with their customers, enabling seamless exchange of security and compliance information. This comprehensive approach significantly reduces the risk of data breaches and enhances customer trust in the vendor relationship.

Surefire Cyber

Series A in 2022
Surefire Cyber specializes in incident response services for various cyber threats like ransomware, malware, and data theft. They assist clients in preparing for, responding to, recovering from incidents, and enhancing their overall cyber resilience.

Ermetic - a Tenable company

Series B in 2021
Ermetic Ltd. is a company focused on cloud infrastructure security, offering a comprehensive platform designed to protect enterprises from access-related risks and misconfigurations. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Ermetic provides solutions that enhance visibility into identities, their entitlements, and data usage. The platform combines advanced analytics with detailed insights, enabling organizations to enforce least privilege access across complex cloud environments. This functionality supports the detection of identity and access-based threats, policy enforcement, anomaly detection, and compliance monitoring. Led by experienced technology entrepreneurs, Ermetic has garnered funding from notable investors, including Glilot Capital Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.

Cyberhaven

Series B in 2021
Cyberhaven is a cybersecurity company that revolutionizes enterprise security by providing real-time visibility into the behavior of business-critical data. Its Data Behavior Analytics (DaBA) solution enables organizations to protect sensitive documents against cyber-attacks and insider leaks across endpoints, servers, applications, on-premise, and cloud environments. Cyberhaven simplifies security infrastructure by combining a focus on business workflows with technology that acts as an 'X-ray machine' for cyber threats.

ReversingLabs

Series B in 2021
ReversingLabs is a leading provider of file and software security solutions. The company offers a modern cybersecurity platform designed to verify and deliver safe binaries, ensuring the integrity of the software supply chain. ReversingLabs' Spectra Core technology tracks over 40 billion searchable files daily, capable of deconstructing full software binaries in seconds to minutes. This allows for rapid identification of potential risks within individual files or entire software packages. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and top cybersecurity vendors, ReversingLabs' technologies perform real-time deep inspection and automated analysis of all content entering an enterprise, providing context through in-depth static analysis to help security teams respond swiftly to prevent breaches.

Symmetry Systems

Series A in 2021
Symmetry Systems, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in San Mateo, California, specializing in data security and privacy solutions. Established in 2015, the company offers a platform tailored to address modern data security challenges by providing organizations with comprehensive visibility into their data assets. Symmetry’s platform assists in tracking data access and usage, thereby safeguarding against misuse, insider threats, and cyberattacks. It accommodates both structured and unstructured data across major cloud services, SaaS platforms, and on-premise databases. The platform operates as a read-only service, inheriting existing security and compliance controls, making it suitable for highly regulated environments. Its advanced AI capabilities equip organizations to manage data security risks, ensure compliance, and respond to threats effectively. Symmetry's innovations are trusted by leading financial service providers, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies. The company has roots in the Spark Research Lab at UT Austin and has received recognition as a "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner.

SPHERE

Series A in 2021
Sphere Technology Solutions is a cybersecurity company that specializes in enhancing data governance, security, and compliance for businesses. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, the company offers a comprehensive software and service solution designed to provide actionable intelligence and remediation capabilities. Sphere's approach focuses on securing sensitive data and establishing governance frameworks to control system and asset access. The company is also developing its managed service operations, featuring its automation platform, SPHEREboard, and the SPHEREsoftserve solution, which integrates automation with expert support to streamline processes and improve outcomes. By combining technology and specialized expertise, Sphere Technology Solutions enables organizations to meet regulatory requirements and enhance their overall security posture.

WireWheel

Series B in 2021
WireWheel, Inc. is a software company specializing in data privacy management solutions, designed to assist organizations in complying with various data protection regulations such as the EU GDPR and HIPAA. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, WireWheel offers a cloud-based platform that integrates machine learning and data science to streamline privacy program management and subject rights request handling. The platform facilitates the automatic mapping of public cloud assets and aids in managing third-party relationships, enabling organizations to effectively navigate compliance obligations while maximizing the value of their data assets. WireWheel's innovative approach positions its clients to operationalize privacy effectively within their enterprises.

Symmetry Systems

Seed Round in 2020
Symmetry Systems, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in San Mateo, California, specializing in data security and privacy solutions. Established in 2015, the company offers a platform tailored to address modern data security challenges by providing organizations with comprehensive visibility into their data assets. Symmetry’s platform assists in tracking data access and usage, thereby safeguarding against misuse, insider threats, and cyberattacks. It accommodates both structured and unstructured data across major cloud services, SaaS platforms, and on-premise databases. The platform operates as a read-only service, inheriting existing security and compliance controls, making it suitable for highly regulated environments. Its advanced AI capabilities equip organizations to manage data security risks, ensure compliance, and respond to threats effectively. Symmetry's innovations are trusted by leading financial service providers, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies. The company has roots in the Spark Research Lab at UT Austin and has received recognition as a "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner.

Area 1 Security

Series D in 2020
Area 1 Security, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Redwood City, California, that specializes in eliminating targeted, socially engineered cyber-attacks. Founded in 2013 by experts from the NSA and MIT, the company develops the Area 1 Horizon, a cloud-based solution that identifies threat campaigns, attacker infrastructure, and attack delivery mechanisms. This product provides advanced warnings and effectively halts phishing attacks during their early stages, addressing multiple use cases such as attack visualization and preemption. By targeting various cyber-attack vectors, including email and web, Area 1 Security enhances the cybersecurity posture of enterprises and enables them to proactively combat threats.

Remediant

Series A in 2019
Remediant, Inc. is a security software company founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It specializes in Privileged Access Management (PAM), providing enterprises with tools to protect their accounts from misuse and abuse. Its flagship product, SecureONE, offers a next-generation PAM solution that enables real-time monitoring and zero trust protection of privileged accounts. The platform allows for Just-In-Time Administration (JITA) across diverse IT and security ecosystems, dynamically managing privileged access for Windows, Linux, and Mac systems without the need for agent installation. Remediant's solutions empower organizations to enhance control and visibility over privileged access, thereby mitigating security risks associated with data theft and lateral movement via compromised credentials. In December 2022, Remediant was acquired by Netwrix.

NowSecure

Series B in 2019
NowSecure is a mobile app security software company that provides automated security testing for iOS and Android apps, enabling rapid, scalable assessment in Agile and DevSecOps workflows. Its core platform performs continuous security, privacy, and compliance testing on pre-prod and published apps, with features for repeatable testing and real-time risk reporting. The company also offers complementary tools such as a workstation for analysts and a continuous monitoring solution, along with services including manual penetration testing, developer training, and technical support to help implement and run mobile security programs. NowSecure serves sectors such as financial services, retail, hospitality, and government. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chicago, with additional offices in Vienna, Virginia, and Bellevue, Washington.

ReversingLabs

Series A in 2017
ReversingLabs is a leading provider of file and software security solutions. The company offers a modern cybersecurity platform designed to verify and deliver safe binaries, ensuring the integrity of the software supply chain. ReversingLabs' Spectra Core technology tracks over 40 billion searchable files daily, capable of deconstructing full software binaries in seconds to minutes. This allows for rapid identification of potential risks within individual files or entire software packages. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and top cybersecurity vendors, ReversingLabs' technologies perform real-time deep inspection and automated analysis of all content entering an enterprise, providing context through in-depth static analysis to help security teams respond swiftly to prevent breaches.
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