Lytical Ventures

Lytical Ventures is a New York City-based venture fund established in 2018, specializing in corporate intelligence with a strong emphasis on cybersecurity, data and analytics, and artificial intelligence. The firm is composed of a team of professionals who bring decades of combined experience in direct investing and possess extensive knowledge in these key focus areas. Lytical Ventures is dedicated to identifying and supporting innovative companies that operate within this rapidly evolving technological landscape.

Steve Berg

Partner

Graham Carroll

Principal

Bob Hammer

Venture Partner

Craig Lifschutz

Partner and Member of Investment Committee

Lucas Nelson

Managing Director, Partner and Member of the Investment Committee

23 past transactions

Clausematch

Venture Round in 2022
ClauseMatch Limited is a financial technology company based in London that specializes in cloud-based solutions for document management and trading agreements. Founded in 2012, it offers a software-as-a-service platform designed to enhance productivity for compliance, legal, finance, and risk teams. The company's flagship product features a collaborative online editor that streamlines workflows, captures comments and approvals, and maintains a comprehensive audit trail, thereby minimizing human error and providing better oversight for management. ClauseMatch's platform is utilized by global banks for centralized policy management, regulatory change management, and the organization of internal documentation. By improving the efficiency of document handling, ClauseMatch aims to save time and resources while reducing operational risks.

HackNotice

Series A in 2022
HackNotice is a threat intelligence company specializing in data breaches as well as leaked credentials and identities.

Bold Metrics

Series A in 2022
Bold Metrics is a leading fit technology company based in San Francisco that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to assist apparel brands in enhancing customer experience and operational efficiency. The company's software predicts accurate body measurements and creates custom AI body models, enabling retailers to make precise size and fit recommendations. By connecting customers with better-fitting clothing, Bold Metrics helps brands reduce fit-related returns, ultimately boosting conversions and improving sustainability. Its SaaS solutions are scalable and provide valuable insights that optimize supply chain operations, from design to distribution, thus minimizing environmental impact. Trusted by various brands, Bold Metrics enhances both online and in-store shopping experiences through its innovative technology.

LimaCharlie

Seed Round in 2022
LimaCharlie is a provider of Security Infrastructure as a Service (SIaaS), offering a platform designed to streamline information security management. By delivering security tools on-demand, LimaCharlie enables businesses to efficiently manage their cloud security while significantly reducing costs and effort. The platform includes endpoint-driven security tools, telemetry storage, and a comprehensive incident response pipeline, allowing users to create custom detection and response rules. Additionally, LimaCharlie equips organizations with the necessary resources to operate a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) or Security Operations Center (SOC). The availability of APIs further allows users to build and monetize their own security products, making it a versatile solution in the field of information security.

Sprockets

Series A in 2022
Sprockets specializes in developing software solutions for franchises that streamline the hiring process by assessing potential candidates based on the traits of a company’s top-performing employees. Founded in 2013 and based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Sprockets' technology enables businesses to evaluate applicants quickly, eliminating uncertainty and reducing the costs associated with high turnover. By utilizing an applicant matching system, Sprockets helps human resources and hiring managers identify candidates that align closely with the desired profile, ensuring a more efficient and effective recruitment process.

Agolo

Series A in 2022
Agolo, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform designed to create real-time summaries from unstructured data. Founded in 2012 and based in New York, Agolo employs machine learning and natural language processing to analyze vast amounts of information, enabling users to quickly grasp key points relevant to their interests. The platform enhances the efficiency of analysts by summarizing thousands of documents and identifying connections between subjects, thereby facilitating better decision-making in fields such as finance and intelligence. By streamlining the information processing workflow, Agolo allows professionals to focus on strategic actions rather than data interpretation.

VISO Trust

Series A in 2022
VISO Trust is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in vendor security due diligence. The company has developed a platform that provides comprehensive and actionable information regarding vendor security risks. This platform enables decision-makers to conduct informed risk assessments and make sound security choices by streamlining the vendor review process. By delivering reliable data, VISO Trust assists enterprises in managing third-party security risks effectively and transparently, ultimately enhancing their overall cybersecurity posture.

MontyCloud

Seed Round in 2022
MontyCloud Inc. is a technology company that specializes in creating an artificial intelligence-driven software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing and governing cloud infrastructure, applications, and services. Founded in 2018 and located in Woodinville, Washington, MontyCloud offers solutions that simplify the management of cloud services, automate maintenance tasks, and streamline governance and compliance processes. Its platform employs an event-driven architecture, integrating AI and machine learning to provide automation and actionable insights. The company addresses key areas such as cloud cost management, security, compliance automation, and disaster recovery, enabling clients to achieve consistent, policy-driven management across diverse cloud environments.

Cynomi

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of security service software designed to ensure optimal protection across the company, applications, and employees. The company offers AI-powered cyber protection and regulatory compliance that performs a holistic, deep analysis of a company's cybersecurity posture, formulating a detailed, prioritized, and continuously updated remediation plan, enabling organizations to be safe and compliant in the cyber world.

KeyCaliber

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an automated security program assessment and optimization platform designed to identify mission-critical assets and the pathways to and from these assets. The company's platform leverages existing cybersecurity telemetry and advanced data science techniques to automatically identify and classify critical assets, determine the cyber risks and security controls for these assets, and recommend ways to reduce risks and minimize costs associated, enabling clients to replace spreadsheets and manual processes with data science and automation.

TrueFort

Series B in 2021
TrueFort Inc. specializes in real-time application and cloud workload protection solutions, addressing the security needs of modern enterprises. Founded in 2015 and based in Weehawken, New Jersey, the company focuses on securing application environments, which are increasingly targeted by cyber threats. TrueFort's Fortress solution integrates telemetry from existing agents, offering a comprehensive approach that surpasses traditional point or infrastructure-focused security measures. It provides users with a unified console for policy management and reporting, enabling organizations to measure and enhance their risk posture effectively.

Borneo

Series A in 2021
Securezapp is a modular platform that prevents data breaches and manages privacy compliance for hyper-growth companies. The platform enables to discover, classify, and create an inventory of info type mappings to various compliance requirements at scale. Securezapp was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Baffle

Series B in 2021
Baffle, Inc. specializes in data encryption software designed to secure sensitive information in cloud environments and throughout the analytics pipeline. Founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company provides a range of solutions, including advanced data protection, application tier security, and virtualized key management. Baffle's Data Protection Service enables organizations to de-identify data without altering applications, facilitating the secure transfer of data to the cloud for privacy-preserving analytics in artificial intelligence and machine learning. This capability allows businesses to enhance their data utilization while maintaining compliance and safeguarding user privacy.

Keys

Seed Round in 2021
Keys is a technology company focused on enhancing communication through innovative solutions. It utilizes artificial intelligence, specifically leveraging GPT-3, to facilitate anticipatory communication. By analyzing user intent, Keys provides suggestions that help individuals write more effectively, quickly, and accurately, addressing common challenges associated with texting, the most widely used communication channel. Founded in 2018 and based in Missoula, Montana, Keys aims to transform the way people communicate, making interactions smoother and more efficient.

VISO Trust

Seed Round in 2021
VISO Trust is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in vendor security due diligence. The company has developed a platform that provides comprehensive and actionable information regarding vendor security risks. This platform enables decision-makers to conduct informed risk assessments and make sound security choices by streamlining the vendor review process. By delivering reliable data, VISO Trust assists enterprises in managing third-party security risks effectively and transparently, ultimately enhancing their overall cybersecurity posture.

Careviso

Series A in 2021
Careviso operates an online platform that facilitates prior authorization services for genetic testing, streamlining the process for laboratories, physicians, and insurance companies. Founded in 2017 and based in Falls Church, Virginia, with an additional office in Orlando, Florida, the company focuses on improving patient access to molecular diagnostics. Careviso’s technology enables a secure, HIPAA-compliant portal for transactions, efficiently handling prior authorization processes on behalf of healthcare providers. The company's mission is to eliminate barriers to diagnostic testing access by navigating the complexities of interactions among payors, laboratories, and patients, thereby enhancing the overall healthcare experience.

Sprockets

Seed Round in 2021
Sprockets specializes in developing software solutions for franchises that streamline the hiring process by assessing potential candidates based on the traits of a company’s top-performing employees. Founded in 2013 and based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Sprockets' technology enables businesses to evaluate applicants quickly, eliminating uncertainty and reducing the costs associated with high turnover. By utilizing an applicant matching system, Sprockets helps human resources and hiring managers identify candidates that align closely with the desired profile, ensuring a more efficient and effective recruitment process.

Reality AI

Seed Round in 2020
Reality Analytics, Inc. (Reality AI) was founded by Jeff Sieracki and Stuart Feffer in 2015 to make software that helps R&D engineers develop products using sensors. Reality AI uses proprietary algorithms for optimized feature discovery and model generation, component selection and specification setting, BoM optimization, and data collection / synthetic augmentation/curation. Use cases include sound recognition, gesture recognition, and predictive maintenance using vibration, accelerometer, sound, radar, current/voltage/capacitance, and other sensor modalities. Customers in the automotive, industrial, and consumer/commercial products sectors. Reality AI has 14 US patents and 6 more pending, all in the areas of feature discovery and machine learning as applied to sensor and signal problems. Offices in Columbia, MD, Sunnyvale, CA and Tokyo, Japan.

MontyCloud

Seed Round in 2019
MontyCloud Inc. is a technology company that specializes in creating an artificial intelligence-driven software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing and governing cloud infrastructure, applications, and services. Founded in 2018 and located in Woodinville, Washington, MontyCloud offers solutions that simplify the management of cloud services, automate maintenance tasks, and streamline governance and compliance processes. Its platform employs an event-driven architecture, integrating AI and machine learning to provide automation and actionable insights. The company addresses key areas such as cloud cost management, security, compliance automation, and disaster recovery, enabling clients to achieve consistent, policy-driven management across diverse cloud environments.

TrueFort

Series A in 2019
TrueFort Inc. specializes in real-time application and cloud workload protection solutions, addressing the security needs of modern enterprises. Founded in 2015 and based in Weehawken, New Jersey, the company focuses on securing application environments, which are increasingly targeted by cyber threats. TrueFort's Fortress solution integrates telemetry from existing agents, offering a comprehensive approach that surpasses traditional point or infrastructure-focused security measures. It provides users with a unified console for policy management and reporting, enabling organizations to measure and enhance their risk posture effectively.

NS8

Series B in 2019
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.

Graylog

Venture Round in 2018
Graylog provides service and support for the open source Graylog solution which stores, searches, and analyzes machine data collected from IT infrastructures and applications. The company enables organizations, at a fraction of the cost, to improve IT operations efficiency, security, and reduce the cost of IT. Graylog has received funding from the Mercury Fund and is based in Houston.
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