Forgepoint Capital

ForgePoint Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth equity investments. It seeks to invest in companies in the field of emerging technologies in cyber security sector, Internet of Things, secure payments and fraud, next-generation identity platforms, behavioral analytics, and privacy & security. ForgePoint Capital was founded in 2015 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Ernie Bio

Principal

LC

Leo Casusol

Venture Partner

Sean Cunningham

MD

Donald Dixon

MD

Morgan Gerlak

Principal

Rohit Gupta

Associate

Reynaldo Kirton

Senior Associate

Lisa Lee

CFO

Will Lin

MD

WL

William Lin

MD

Andrew McClure

Principal

Connie Qian

Senior Associate

Manoj Ramachandran

vice_president

MR

Mj Ramachandran

VP

Alberto Yepez

MD

Past deals in Cyber Security

ReversingLabs US Inc.

Series B in 2021
ReversingLabs delivers game changing threat detection and analysis solutions to help organizations combat the latest generation of intelligent cyber attacks. Our unique and innovative Active Decomposition technology classifies all your binary materials for proactive threat defense.

Attivo Networks, Inc.

Series B in 2017
Attivo Networks provides required visibility and actionable, substantiated alerts to detect, isolate, and defend against cyber attacks. Attivo Networks, the leader in deception technology, provides accurate in-network threat detection, analysis, and accelerated response to advanced, credential, insider, and ransomware attacks. The Attivo Deception and Response Platform provide continuous visibility and efficient threat management for user networks, data centers, cloud, branch, IoT, ICS-SCADA, and POS environments. Camouflage dynamic deception sets high-interaction traps to misdirect and lure attackers into revealing themselves. The solution’s advanced attack analysis and lateral movement tracking automate investigation, deliver evidence-based alerts, and in-depth forensic reports. Incident response is simplified with ThreatOps™ playbooks and 3rd party integrations for automated attack blocking, quarantine, and threat hunting.

DeepSee.ai

Series A in 2021
DeepSee.ai is an AI-powered Knowledge Process Automation company.

imperva

Series B in 2017
Imperva provides activity monitoring, real-time protection, and risk management solutions for critical business data and applications. Imperva is a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions that protect business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises It was founded by Shlomo Kramer, Amichai Shulman and Mickey Boodaei in 2002 and is based in Redwood Shores, California.

Attivo Networks, Inc.

Series C in 2017
Attivo Networks provides required visibility and actionable, substantiated alerts to detect, isolate, and defend against cyber attacks. Attivo Networks, the leader in deception technology, provides accurate in-network threat detection, analysis, and accelerated response to advanced, credential, insider, and ransomware attacks. The Attivo Deception and Response Platform provide continuous visibility and efficient threat management for user networks, data centers, cloud, branch, IoT, ICS-SCADA, and POS environments. Camouflage dynamic deception sets high-interaction traps to misdirect and lure attackers into revealing themselves. The solution’s advanced attack analysis and lateral movement tracking automate investigation, deliver evidence-based alerts, and in-depth forensic reports. Incident response is simplified with ThreatOps™ playbooks and 3rd party integrations for automated attack blocking, quarantine, and threat hunting.

Truera, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Truera provides a Model Intelligence platform for enterprises to analyze machine learning, improve model quality, and build trust. Powered by enterprise-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) Explainability technology based on six years of research at Carnegie Mellon University, the platform helps eliminate the black box surrounding widely used AI and ML technologies. The platform is already deployed at and delivering value to a number of early Fortune 100 customers in banking and insurance.

Verituity

Series A in 2021
Verituity is a verified digital payments platform that connects banks, businesses, and payees to first-time and on-time digital payouts. Verituity’s bank-grade platform helps financial institutions meet the unique payout needs of their clients. Whether it’s insurance companies paying claims, businesses paying suppliers, service providers paying refunds, mortgage companies transferring funds, or gaming companies paying out winnings.

Noname Security

Series C in 2021
Noname Security develops security solutions for protecting application programming interface from data leakage, authorization issues, abuse, misuse, and data corruption with no agents and no network modifications. It offers holistic application programming interface security solutions, detection and prevention solutions, discovery and classification capabilities, and integration. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Whistic, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Whistic enables customers to conduct and respond to vendor security reviews on a single platform. Software vendors and other companies that store or process sensitive data are undergoing an increasing amount of scrutiny from their prospects, customers, and partners as it relates to information security and compliance. Whistic reduces friction by automating and streamlining security reviews, enabling InfoSec and compliance teams to more efficiently understand the security and compliance posture of a given company and empowering sales teams to standardize their responses to security questionnaires.

Noname Security

Series B in 2021
Noname Security develops security solutions for protecting application programming interface from data leakage, authorization issues, abuse, misuse, and data corruption with no agents and no network modifications. It offers holistic application programming interface security solutions, detection and prevention solutions, discovery and classification capabilities, and integration. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Huntress

Series C in 2023
Huntress is an information technology company that provides threat detection and actionable cybersecurity intelligence. It empowers IT Departments and Managed Service Providers (MSP) to expand their capabilities and confidently address their customers’ most complex cybersecurity challenges. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Maryland, United States.

Uptycs

Series B in 2020
The Uptycs security platform utilizes osquery, an open source universal endpoint agent, coupled with a scalable security analytics platform to enable a unified view for fleet visibility, intrusion detection, vulnerability management and compliance across Linux, macOS, Windows, containers, and cloud workloads.

Anitian Corporation, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Anitian delivers the fastest path to security and compliance in the cloud. Anitian’s Compliance Automation Platform and SecureCloud service help high-growth SaaS companies get applications to market quickly, so they can unlock revenue in weeks, not months or years. Our automated cloud platform and service delivers a full suite of security controls – pre-engineered and pre-configured to rigorous security standards such as FedRAMP, PCI, CMMC, GDPR, or ISO27001. Anitian’s pre-engineered environment and platform use the full power and scale of the cloud to accelerate time-to-market and time-to-revenue so you can start secure, start compliant, and stay ahead. Find out more at www.anitian.com.

IronNet Cybersecurity

Series A in 2015
IronNet Cybersecurity is uniquely positioned the gap between traditional cybersecurity approaches and this rapidly evolving threat grows wider. Its mission is to deliver the power and resources of Collective Defense so that any company, organization, or public entity can defend better as part of a collaborative ecosystem with shared knowledge and vetted alerts in real-time. IronNet was founded in 2014 by General (Ret.) Keith Alexander- former head of the NSA and Commander U.S. Cyber Command.

Ermetic Ltd.

Series B in 2021
Ermetic Ltd. develops an analysis platform for cloud infrastructure security. The company offers an enterprise security based platform, Ermetic, which provides data analytics for identity and access-based threats detection, flagging data access, and policy enforcement, anomaly detection, automation, and compliance monitoring solutions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Symmetry Systems

Series A in 2021
Symmetry Systems delivers Data Store and Object Security (DSOS) purpose-built to provide full visibility and unified access control over your most valuable data assets, no matter where or how they are stored. Symmetry DataGuard maintains authority over data even when all else fails, whether that be exploited insider credentials, malicious applications, or security fatigue from the rapid onset of remote work.

ReversingLabs US Inc.

Series A in 2017
ReversingLabs delivers game changing threat detection and analysis solutions to help organizations combat the latest generation of intelligent cyber attacks. Our unique and innovative Active Decomposition technology classifies all your binary materials for proactive threat defense.

RapidFort

Seed Round in 2022
RapidFort is a cloud native cybersecurity company helping organizations minimize the attack surface of their cloud workloads automatically and continuously. What normally takes weeks to months of menial, manual work with mediocre results is done in minutes with RapidFort, producing optimal results. RapidFort's mission is to Secure The Cloud - RAPIDLY, lowering zero-day exploit risks, and freeing developers to build great software instead of addressing vulnerabilities.. RapidFort is headquartered in San Francisco, USA.

Bayshore Networks, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Bayshore Networks, Inc. develops cyber security software for the industrial Internet of things (IoT). The company's platform protects operational technology (OT) machines, networks, applications, and workers and provides inspection and filtering of network flows, policy building and enforcement, and detection of segment industrial protocols. Its products include Bayshore IT/OT Gateway, Bayshore IC (Industrial Controls), Bayshore SE (Secure Enterprise), Bayshore SingleView, and Bayshore PallatonIt Policy Engine. The company has strategic partnerships with Cisco Systems, BAE Systems, and VMware. Bayshore Networks, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

BehavioSec

Series B in 2018
BehavioSec is the first vendor to pioneer behavioral biometrics. The company’s Behavioral Biometrics as a Service (BBaaS) platform is widely deployed across Global 2000 companies for its proven ability to dramatically reduce account fraud and data theft. Founded in 2008 out of groundbreaking academic research, BehavioSec technology allows companies, to continuously verify digital identities with superior precision, in real-time. Strengthened with the leadership of serial entrepreneurs and experienced industry professionals, the BehavioSec team now spans the world, providing security while preserving a rich digital experience throughout web and mobile apps. BehavioSec is the only enterprise-grade vendor used in global deployments with some of the largest companies, reducing manual review whilst safeguarding millions of users and billions of transactions. BehavioSec investors include Forgepoint Capital, Cisco, ABN AMRO, Conor Ventures and Octopus Ventures. BehavioSec is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has global operations throughout Europe and Asia Pac. For more information, visit www.behaviosec.com.

Anitian Corporation, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Anitian delivers the fastest path to security and compliance in the cloud. Anitian’s Compliance Automation Platform and SecureCloud service help high-growth SaaS companies get applications to market quickly, so they can unlock revenue in weeks, not months or years. Our automated cloud platform and service delivers a full suite of security controls – pre-engineered and pre-configured to rigorous security standards such as FedRAMP, PCI, CMMC, GDPR, or ISO27001. Anitian’s pre-engineered environment and platform use the full power and scale of the cloud to accelerate time-to-market and time-to-revenue so you can start secure, start compliant, and stay ahead. Find out more at www.anitian.com.

Bishop Fox, LLC

Series A in 2019
Bishop Fox is the largest private professional services firm focused on offensive security testing. Since 2005, the firm has provided security consulting services to the world's leading organizations — working with over 25% of the Fortune 100 — to help secure their products, applications, networks, and cloud with penetration testing and security assessments. The company is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ and has offices in Atlanta, GA; San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; and Barcelona, Spain.

Huntress

Series A in 2020
Huntress is an information technology company that provides threat detection and actionable cybersecurity intelligence. It empowers IT Departments and Managed Service Providers (MSP) to expand their capabilities and confidently address their customers’ most complex cybersecurity challenges. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Maryland, United States.

WireWheel.io

Series B in 2021
WireWheel, Inc. develops a data privacy management platform that helps comply with data privacy and data protection regulations. The company’s platform complies with regulations, including the EU GDPR, Privacy Shield, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Its products include privacy program management and subject rights request management. The company combines machine learning, data science, and cloud computing. WireWheel, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Arlington, Virginia

Cyberhaven

Series B in 2021
Cyberhaven provides data tracing technology that reconstructs data flows in order to automatically identify and secure all critical assets within an enterprise. The company is driven by a mission to bring radical simplicity to enterprise security.

Instabug

Series B in 2022
Instabug is a computer software company that offers services for mobile app developers to help them in testing their applications. It delivers real-time contextual throughout the application's life cycle that helps mobile application developers to detect bugs and errors on their application. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in California, United States.

Rafay Systems, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Rafay Systems, Inc. develops a platform that allows companies to deploy performance and geography sensitive workloads closer to their end users. It offers Programmable Edge, a solution that helps the companies to use the platform to run custom logic at the Internet edge. The company’s products is used to create, deploy, operate, monitor, upgrade, and retire Kuberentes clusters across various heterogeneous regions, clouds, and environments. Its solutions is used in multi-region, multi-cloud, and hybrid app deployments; powering rapid-launch test automation for Dev/QA; delivering consistent CX and UX experiences; operating SaaS Apps in customer environments; reducing DevOps complexity via lifecycle automation; enabling IoT and CX apps in retail brick and mortar environments; modernizing factory operations with IoT and CX apps; and enabling app deployments in 5G/MEC environments. Rafay Systems, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Cloudentity

Series A in 2020
Cloudentity is a provider of Identity-Aware Authorization and Application Security solutions for the API first economy such as Open Banking. API Access Control has emerged as the next generation of Identity security allowing enterprises to protect APIs, users, and services from misuse and abuse. Security and infrastructure teams at Fortune 500 organizations across the world rely on Cloudentity to keep their applications safe from attack. For more information visit Cloudentity.com, on Twitter at @CloudentityTEAM, or connect on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/cloudentityteam/.

Huntress

Series B in 2021
Huntress is an information technology company that provides threat detection and actionable cybersecurity intelligence. It empowers IT Departments and Managed Service Providers (MSP) to expand their capabilities and confidently address their customers’ most complex cybersecurity challenges. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Maryland, United States.

SolCyber

Series A in 2021
SolCyber offers a curated stack of enterprise-strength security tools and streamlined, accessible, and affordable services for any organization.
IronNet Cybersecurity is uniquely positioned the gap between traditional cybersecurity approaches and this rapidly evolving threat grows wider. Its mission is to deliver the power and resources of Collective Defense so that any company, organization, or public entity can defend better as part of a collaborative ecosystem with shared knowledge and vetted alerts in real-time. IronNet was founded in 2014 by General (Ret.) Keith Alexander- former head of the NSA and Commander U.S. Cyber Command.

1Kosmos - BlockID

Series A in 2021
BlockID by 1Kosmos revolutionizes identity management, enabling people and companies to escape from the legacy systems of paper-based documents and move into a true digital identity with unprecedented privacy, security, transparency and individual rights by leveraging the power of blockchain technology.

Secure Code Warrior

Series B in 2019
Secure Code Warrior develops an online secure by making security visible and providing skills/tools to write secure code from start. It helps companies scale secure coding excellence as coders and development team build. The company empowers Developers to write secure code, achieving rapid improvements in security compliance and consistency, as well as a better quality and speed of code writing. Secure Code Warrior has developed the first gamified competitive Developer Quality Assurance platform that helps individual software developers build their own secure coding skills while providing organizations and executives with the visibility and metrics to understand the secure code skill strengths and weaknesses of their development teams and individual developers. It includes support for nearly 30 programming languages and frameworks and delivers more than 3,500 training modules that cover more than 140 different software weaknesses; including the all-important OWASP Top 10. Secure Code Warrior was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

NowSecure

Series B in 2019
NowSecure is a mobile app security software company delivering fully automated mobile app security testing with the speed, accuracy, and efficiency necessary for Agile and DevSecOps environments. It can identify the broadest array of security threats, compliance gaps, and privacy issues in custom-developed, commercial, and business-critical mobile apps. These offerings are also provided as a managed service or independent 3rd party app verification. NowSecure was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Symmetry Systems

Seed Round in 2020
Symmetry Systems delivers Data Store and Object Security (DSOS) purpose-built to provide full visibility and unified access control over your most valuable data assets, no matter where or how they are stored. Symmetry DataGuard maintains authority over data even when all else fails, whether that be exploited insider credentials, malicious applications, or security fatigue from the rapid onset of remote work.

4IQ, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Whether you are protecting people, companies, and assets; or identifying adversaries and investigating cyber crime, 4iQ can help reduce impact and financial losses. 4iQ technology and team have spent years diving into the surface, social, deep and dark web for openly exposed leaked, lost, or stolen identity records. Our proprietary, curated datalake of 14+ Billion records helps organizations assess risk exposure for clients or use the data and other 4iQ tools to disrupt nefarious cyber activities.

ID Experts

Venture Round in 2016
ID Experts brings simplicity and efficiency to the complex world of data privacy, security, and fraud prevention, through innovative software and service solutions. The personal data your organization captures, stores, and transmits is both a necessity and a liability. The risk of a data breach has never been so high. Neither have the consequences of not complying with federal/state privacy and security regulations like HIPAA/HITECH and GLBA. ID Experts’ focus is to minimize these risks.
SPHERE is a cybersecurity company that provides software and services to improve data governance, security, and compliance across data, platforms, and applications. It enables businesses to secure their sensitive data and create a governance framework to control access to systems and assets. The company is developing its managed service operations, including its purpose-built automation platform, SPHEREboard, along with targeted SME's across the SPHERExperts team. Together, this solution is described as SPHEREsoftserve, which combines automation and expertise to provide a seamless and effective solution to SPHERE's customers. SPHEREsoftserve provides a unified approach, improving processes and procedures leveraging technology and skillset for a consistent and predictable outcome. In 2009, Rita Gurevich headquartered SPHERE in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Attivo Networks, Inc.

Series C in 2019
Attivo Networks provides required visibility and actionable, substantiated alerts to detect, isolate, and defend against cyber attacks. Attivo Networks, the leader in deception technology, provides accurate in-network threat detection, analysis, and accelerated response to advanced, credential, insider, and ransomware attacks. The Attivo Deception and Response Platform provide continuous visibility and efficient threat management for user networks, data centers, cloud, branch, IoT, ICS-SCADA, and POS environments. Camouflage dynamic deception sets high-interaction traps to misdirect and lure attackers into revealing themselves. The solution’s advanced attack analysis and lateral movement tracking automate investigation, deliver evidence-based alerts, and in-depth forensic reports. Incident response is simplified with ThreatOps™ playbooks and 3rd party integrations for automated attack blocking, quarantine, and threat hunting.

Uptycs

Series A in 2018
The Uptycs security platform utilizes osquery, an open source universal endpoint agent, coupled with a scalable security analytics platform to enable a unified view for fleet visibility, intrusion detection, vulnerability management and compliance across Linux, macOS, Windows, containers, and cloud workloads.

Cysiv

Series A in 2020
Cysiv combines all the elements of an advanced, proactive, threat hunting SOC with a managed security stack for hybrid cloud, network, and endpoint security, delivering them to enterprises and Managed Service Providers as a 24/7 SOC-as-a-Service with simple, usage-based, monthly billing.

IronNet Cybersecurity

Series B in 2018
IronNet Cybersecurity is uniquely positioned the gap between traditional cybersecurity approaches and this rapidly evolving threat grows wider. Its mission is to deliver the power and resources of Collective Defense so that any company, organization, or public entity can defend better as part of a collaborative ecosystem with shared knowledge and vetted alerts in real-time. IronNet was founded in 2014 by General (Ret.) Keith Alexander- former head of the NSA and Commander U.S. Cyber Command.

4IQ, Inc.

Series C in 2020
Whether you are protecting people, companies, and assets; or identifying adversaries and investigating cyber crime, 4iQ can help reduce impact and financial losses. 4iQ technology and team have spent years diving into the surface, social, deep and dark web for openly exposed leaked, lost, or stolen identity records. Our proprietary, curated datalake of 14+ Billion records helps organizations assess risk exposure for clients or use the data and other 4iQ tools to disrupt nefarious cyber activities.

Mocana Corporation

Series G in 2019
Mocana is a developer of cybersecurity software solutions that protect Internet of Things (IoT) devices, operational technology, mission-critical systems, and industrial infrastructure. The company's on-device cybersecurity software and lifecycle management platform enable manufacturers and industrial companies to build self-defending systems that are tamper-resistant. Its tightly integrated solutions help companies to minimize the risk of a cyber breach, comply with industry standards, and protect intellectual property by ensuring that devices and processes are trusted end-to-end, from device manufacturing to deployment. Unlike IT network security approaches, Mocana enables devices to protect themselves and prevent malware from being installed. It was established in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Appthority, Inc.

Series B in 2016
Appthority, Inc. develops mobile application security solutions. The company offers MTP, a mobile threat defense solution that protects enterprises from mobile threats to enterprise data and employee privacy. It also provides threat detection, management, and intelligence solutions. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of November 5, 2018, Appthority, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NortonLifeLock Inc.

Strata Identity, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Strata Identity provides distributed multi-cloud identity solutions to enterprises. Its identity orchestration platform is designed specifically for hybrid and multi-cloud environments that enable users to easily manage distributed identity systems. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Boulder, with offices in Vancouver, San Francisco, Austin, and Atlanta.

Remediant

Series A in 2019
Remediant provides enterprises with Privileged Access Management (PAM) software to help them protect their accounts from misuse and abuse. It enables real-time monitoring, zero trust protection of privileged accounts and Just-In-Time Administration (JITA) across IT/Security ecosystems. Its product, SecureONE, a next-generation Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution that dynamically allocating privileged access across Windows, Linux and Mac systems — without installing an agent.

Cybercube Analytics, Inc.

Series B in 2019
Cybercube Analytics, Inc. operates a cyber risk analytics platform that provides data-driven cyber analytics for the global insurance institutions. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Area 1 Security

Series D in 2020
Based in Redwood City, CA, Area 1 Security is developing a product focused on eliminating targeted, socially engineered cyber attacks. Founded by security experts from NSA and MIT, and data analytics specialists from NSA and Disney, the stealth mode startup has raised $25.5 million in total funding to date. Investors include Icon Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Allegis Capital, Cowboy Ventures; Data Collective (DCVC); First Round Capital; RedSeal Networks CEO and former Venrock partner Ray Rothrock; and Shape Security CEO Derek Smith.

Bayshore Networks, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Bayshore Networks, Inc. develops cyber security software for the industrial Internet of things (IoT). The company's platform protects operational technology (OT) machines, networks, applications, and workers and provides inspection and filtering of network flows, policy building and enforcement, and detection of segment industrial protocols. Its products include Bayshore IT/OT Gateway, Bayshore IC (Industrial Controls), Bayshore SE (Secure Enterprise), Bayshore SingleView, and Bayshore PallatonIt Policy Engine. The company has strategic partnerships with Cisco Systems, BAE Systems, and VMware. Bayshore Networks, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

LoginRadius Inc.

Series A in 2018
LoginRadius Inc. develops and operates a cloud-based customer identity and access management platform for mid-to-large sized companies worldwide. Its platform helps companies deliver a connected customer experience, build an integrated marketing ecosystem, and centralize customer data to define a unified profile and better manage their customer identities. The company’s platform includes customer registration services, social login, profile management, integration with third party marketing applications, user management, and customer insights. LoginRadius Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Vancouver, Canada with additional offices in Jaipur and Bengaluru, India; and San Francisco, California.

Concourse Labs

Series A in 2020
Concourse Labs develops a cloud governance solution that enables enterprises to accelerate migration to the cloud. It offers Concourse, an application that automates manual governance processes, letting companies safely operate at cloud scale and speed. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.