MACH37
MACH37 is the premier accelerator for entrepreneurs and startups that are solving important problems in the fields of cybersecurity, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, IoT, industrial controls, or other cyber-related fields where security is critically important. We go beyond the traditional model of typical startup accelerators by bringing our innovators focused mentorship and support from our exclusive Stars Mentor Network that is comprised of visionaries, practitioners, and successful entrepreneurs from across the cyber industry. Twice a year, MACH37 invests in a cohort of 5-10 cyber startups, each of which participates in an intensive 3-month program that emphasizes coaching, mentorship, and validation of their solution for product/market fit. Throughout the program, startups are introduced to investors and key public and private sector organizations in the Washington DC metro area. Our program is designed to propel cyber startups into the marketplace, equipped with the skills to connect with customers, grow and compete for funding, and generate traction. The program culminates with a Demo Day presentation to 150-200 investors. MACH37 was established in 2013 as a division of the Virginia-based Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) with funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia. In 2017 CIT partnered with VentureScope, a strategic innovation consultancy and venture investment firm, to revamp MACH37's operating model and curriculum. In 2018, VentureScope acquired majority ownership of MACH37. Following a successful partnership between CIT and VentureScope, MACH37 became fully owned and operated by VentureScope in 2020. MACH37 focuses primarily on honing and strengthening startups' product-market fit through extensive customer discovery and market research, expanding emerging companies' professional networks, fostering founder wellbeing, and providing emerging companies in the cyber security industry with access to investment capital and an immediate customer base. In an October 2020 article, Forbes named MACH37 'the Granddaddy' of top cyber accelerators giving a nod to the fact that MACH37 was one of the first accelerators in the world dedicated to cyber and cyber adjacent technologies and has lasted far longer than many of its peer accelerators while strengthening over time. The name 'MACH37' is a reference to the escape velocity of Earth's atmosphere and the accelerator's goal to help cyber startups GET LAUNCHED. VentureScope receives 5% equity from each MACH37 startup. Qualifying MACH37 startups are also eligible for an equity investment.
Anatrope
Seed Round in 2015
Anatrope develops fleet management, geo-fencing, and fee collection sensor technology for personal and commercial automobile industry. The company is based in the United States.
Atomicorp Ltd. develops security solutions for the protection and support of cloud, virtual, shared, and dedicated Web hosting environments. It offers Atomic Secured Linux, a security solution for Linux Web servers that provides solutions for site defacement and comment spams, Web application vulnerabilities, PCI-DSS and other regulatory compliance, rootkits and malware, denial of service attacks, XML attacks, SQL injections and cross site scripting, CSRF attacks, file and code injections, cookie and credential thefts, persistent threats, recursion attacks, data thefts and information leakages, malware uploads, and more. The company also offers Atomicorp GotRoot ModSecurity Rules, a Web server module that allows users to build a Web application firewall to protect Web applications; Atomicorp Nucleus Repository, a commercial archive that provides PHP 5.3 and related legacy support packages; and Atomicorp Repository, a Linux/MySQL/PHP archive. In addition, it offers a database of signatures, rules, and countermeasures against metacharacter attacks, remote code inclusion, XML schema attacks, buffer overflows, LDAP injection, dangling pointer attacks, and other application and Web based attacks. The company serves commercial enterprises and government agencies. It also sells its products online. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Chantilly, Virginia. Atomicorp Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Prometheus Global, Inc.
Companies today have a lack of visibility and control over their networks. Eunomic creates software for network switches that takes away the attacker’s advantage and makes critical networks secure. Their solution runs on commodity processors to reduce the total cost of ownership.
JeKudo is focused on creating user-friendly privacy tools, with an emphasis on group messaging applications. The company has developed a platform that enables users to engage in private chats with selected friends and colleagues, allowing them to share content and messages securely. Led by CEO Elissa Shevinsky, JeKudo has garnered support from the Mach37 cyber-security accelerator in Northern Virginia, positioning itself to enhance communication while prioritizing user privacy.
PierceMatrix (formerly PierceGTI) is a security product company that reduces your risk chain exposure. It shares information on known threats, learns about new threats and provides reports, dashboards and targeted recommendations to help you secure your network. Pierce uses artificial intelligence developed for the US military and a unique distributed architecture to optimize your security processes so you spend less time researching security problems and more time fixing security problems! Pierce uses the information gathered from thousands of client networks and industry data sources to detect botnets, attackers, compromised machines, and corporate IP reputation. The Pierce dashboard and reports provide you with up-to-the minute security intelligence on your risk chain.
BiJoTi offers Security Performance Monitoring. BiJoTi provides next generation security event correlation, vulnerability detection and case management. This makes compliance and security an informed, continuous process. BiJoTi's Security Performance Monitoring automates making healthy and effective cybersecurity decisions.
Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by developers and end-users. Virgil Security’s encryption libraries and services, along with an accompanying public key management infrastructure, ease the pain of developing, deploying, and using strong cryptography. Virgil Security enables a new generation of enhanced privacy and security for applications, cloud services, and the Internet of Things.
SecureDB provides an encrypted User Management as a Service to Web and Mobile developers. SecureDB stores Authentication Credentials, Account Profile information, Credit Card information, PII and PHI securely, on the cloud (or on premise).
DISRUPT6, Inc. develops security platform for gathering and analyzing data in a full dual stack environment. The company provides early-warnings of threats based on cyber-attack profiling, data monitoring, and enhanced attribution analytics. Its platform offers visibility into customer migration, workflow management, and intrusion detection. DISRUPT6, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Leesburg, Virginia.
MSB, Incorporated provides cybersecurity, systems development and engineering, and program management services for government, institutional, and commercial enterprises. It offers life-cycle management support, information technology consulting, technical and software engineering, internal revenue, and monitoring analysis services; and assessing, planning, executing, and monitoring services. The company serves the Department of Homeland Security. MSB, Incorporated was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.
CardKill Inc. develops a software package that automatically locates and terminates stolen credit and debit cards before fraudulent transactions occur. Its platform identifies cash-out transactions and blocks the purchase during the authorization cycle. CardKill Inc. is based in Largo, Florida with an additional location in Herndon, Virginia.
AXON Ghost Sentinel, Inc. has pivoted away from security, all founders and execs have moved on and company is now called AxonAI.
IDentia, Inc. provides identity and access control management services for identity trust and privacy protection. It offers IDentia, an identity as a service solution for enterprises in support of cloud computing. The company’s products also include IDentia Identity Provider that provides centralized user authentication capabilities for distributed Web applications and services; IDentia Attribute Service, a security assertion markup language compliant Web service to support attribute queries and assertion; IDentia Policy Admin Service that provides policy store and lifecycle management to ensure policy creation and distribution to various policy decision and enforcement points across the enterprise; and IDentia RP, a client component for enabling Web applications and services with user authentication. IDentia, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.
Key Cybersecurity, Inc. specializes in digital forensics solutions aimed at monitoring and reporting abusive behavior related to file downloading and sharing. The company's primary product, CyberMerlin, is a sophisticated hash algorithm and vision technology forensics tool designed to proactively identify illicit files and the activities of malicious users across commercial, federal, and educational networks. This innovative solution addresses both known and unknown files that existing security measures may overlook. CyberMerlin automatically monitors network activity, provides alerts, and generates comprehensive forensics reports to assist investigators and law enforcement agencies. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Dumfries, Virginia, Key Cybersecurity is dedicated to enhancing the cybersecurity landscape with its advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities.
Conatix is reinventing business research, helping companies to do market, investment and strategic research better, faster and cheaper. Conatix is building a semi-automated business intelligence system based on recent advances in machine learning to enable companies to discover, source, structure and share previously unstructured data and information from outside their organizations. The system will be licensed to companies to use for all of their research work on a per-month, per-seat online knowledge management as a service (KaaS) basis. Conatix disrupts the business research value chain: rethinking online search and discovery, organizing the research process, creating a system that learns, and iterating the process to create knowledge that scales. Companies need to do more than one-off keyword searches using an advertising-driven consumer search tool. Conatix does not just sell a technical solution to the narrow problem of internet search, or a search engine. Conatix sells an end-to-end business system solving a business problem to a business customer, developed in response to a real business need.