Open Opportunity Fund

Open Opportunity Fund operates as the corporate venture capital arm of SoftBank Group. Founded in 2020, it focuses on technology software-based companies and seeks to back minority-founded startups led by Black, Latinx, and Native American founders in the United States. It targets software ventures that serve diverse markets and promote inclusive growth.

Paul Judge

Investment Committee Member

Past deals in Florida

Lumu

Venture Round in 2022
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.

QuickNode

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in Miami in 2017, QuickNode is a comprehensive blockchain development platform that empowers developers and businesses with fast, reliable APIs and supportive tools to execute Web3 ideas efficiently.

Heru

Series A in 2021
Heru, Inc. is a Miami-based company that develops advanced artificial intelligence-powered software for vision diagnostics and augmentation. Founded in 2018 as a spinout from the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Heru focuses on creating solutions that can autonomously diagnose vision defects and provide tailored vision augmentation using commercially available augmented reality and virtual reality devices. The company's patented technology surpasses traditional standards in clinical effectiveness, usability, and portability, allowing clinicians to conduct vision tests and obtain real-time results. Additionally, Heru's software platform facilitates visual field testing through the use of wearable devices, making it a unique cross-platform solution in the field of vision care. In December 2020, Heru achieved FDA registration, further solidifying its commitment to advancing medical technology in the vision sector.

Lumu

Series A in 2021
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.

QuickNode

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in Miami in 2017, QuickNode is a comprehensive blockchain development platform that empowers developers and businesses with fast, reliable APIs and supportive tools to execute Web3 ideas efficiently.
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