Paladin Capital

Paladin Capital Group is a private equity investment firm established in 2001, headquartered in Washington, D.C., with additional offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, London, and Luxembourg. The firm specializes in venture investments, expansion, and growth capital, primarily focusing on innovative technologies and services that serve both commercial and governmental markets. Paladin is recognized for its expertise in dual-use technologies, merging financial acumen with national security and technical knowledge to enhance the value of its portfolio companies. The firm's most recent fund targets digital infrastructure resilience and invests in advanced technologies that support, manage, and protect critical infrastructure reliant on cyberspace. Paladin's approach emphasizes active investment, leveraging decades of experience and a robust network to support the growth and development of its investments.

Alf L. Andreassen

Principal & Managing Director

Brenda Chia

Managing Director

Tom Clute

vice_president

Philip Eliot

Investor

Frank Hodas

Vice President of Finance

Chris Inglis

Managing Director

Vin Lingathoti

Venture Partner

Mark Maloney

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Kenneth Minihan

Managing Director

Michael Moniz

Managing Director

Kenneth Pentimonti

Principal

Patrice Rainier

Director of Investor Relations

William Reinisch

Venture Partner

Francois Ruether

Investor

Michael Steed

Founder and Managing Partner

Christopher Steed

CIO and Managing Director

John Vernon

Associate

Gibb Witham

Senior Vice President

Mourad Yesayan

Managing Director

149 past transactions

GreyNoise Intelligence

Series A in 2022
GreyNoise is a cybersecurity company that reduces false positives by filtering pointless Internet background noise. It collects, analyzes, and labels mass internet scan and attack activity into a feed of Anti-Threat Intelligence. This context helps security teams reduce noise and prioritize signal - targeted attacks against their organization. Its drive to maximize analyst efficiency is delivered through its API, platform integrations, and visualizer. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Nisos

Series B in 2022
Nisos provides unrivaled protection of your reputation and assets through the practice of Active Defense. Nisos is a leading services provider in the following areas: - Adversarial Attribution - Incident Response - M&A Valuation and Diligence - Insider Threat Detection and Mitigation - Attack Simulation - Compromise Assessment - Executive Protection - Asset Protection

Decentriq

Series A in 2022
Decentriq makes data collaboration simple and safe by leveraging confidential computing. Sensitive data is extremely valuable and at the same time very hard to leverage and analyze safely. Decentriq’s software platform enables our clients and partners to securely analyze sensitive data. No friction, easy to test and apply while providing state-of-art security. The platform proves the privacy and security of the data from any other party, including us. It allows complete confidentiality for computations, even while sitting in a public cloud. More under: confidentialcomputing.cloud

Ursa Space Systems

Series C in 2022
Ursa Space Systems Inc. is a provider of geospatial services that specializes in aerial and space-based data products, enhancing geographic mapping and location-based information services available day and night, regardless of weather conditions. The company's imagery and information products support market and weather forecasting, agricultural yield assessment, disaster response, and military intelligence. Ursa has developed solutions such as the Global Oil Storage Monitoring, which assists hedge funds, commodities traders, banks, and oil companies in tracking oil storage worldwide. The company serves multiple sectors, including precision agriculture, business intelligence, weather, humanitarian efforts, and mapping. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Ithaca, New York, Ursa leverages radar satellite data to provide timely reports, enabling informed decision-making in the finance and energy industries.

Menlo Micro

Series C in 2022
Menlo Micro, Inc. specializes in the design and development of electronic switches, particularly focusing on electromechanical switch technology. The company's innovative digital-micro-switches are utilized across various industries, including battery management, home automation, electronic vehicles, and medical instrumentation. Their products are engineered to operate effectively under high temperatures and stressful conditions, supporting applications such as high-power tunable resonators, broadband power amplifier impedance matching, and electronically steerable antennas. Menlo Micro also plays a role in advancing the industrial Internet of Things and next-generation 5G mobile networks. Founded in 2016 and based in Irvine, California, the company aims to deliver efficient outcomes through its cutting-edge technology.

Adventr

Seed Round in 2021
Adventr provides its users with a platform to design, distribute, and analyze interactive, viewer-driven, video content. Its proprietary flagship product is a drag and drop SaaS network, which facilitates the creation and distribution of interactive video. Adventr’s viewers have the ability to make choices within the content, changing the video’s actions or responding to characters in real-time, improving engagement across all metrics. Its video content can be embedded or distributed via ad networks and publishers.

Corellium

Series A in 2021
Corellium specializes in ARM-based mobile device virtualization, providing a unique platform that supports both on-site and cloud environments. The company develops security research software aimed at enhancing mobile security research, mobile app testing, and IoT device modeling. Its offerings feature native performance combined with the convenience of cloud access, equipping developers with advanced tools to foster scalability, efficiency, and innovation in the creation of ARM-based devices. By focusing on these capabilities, Corellium plays a crucial role in the evolving landscape of mobile technology and security.

Karamba Security

Series B in 2021
Karamba Security's patented software detects and prevents cyberattacks on a wide variety of connected devices and systems, including automotive ECUs, Industry 4.0 controllers, enterprise edge devices, and IoT endpoints. Karamba's security solutions are embedded within devices and work automatically, without any need for customer operation and with negligible performance impact.

Expel

Series E in 2021
Expel, Inc. is a managed security software company that specializes in providing SOC-as-a-service, which includes security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Founded in 2016 and based in Herndon, Virginia, Expel leverages existing security signals from its customers to enhance the value of their current security investments. By connecting to customer technology remotely via APIs rather than agents, Expel can initiate monitoring within hours, allowing internal teams to concentrate on their unique security priorities. The company aims to streamline and improve the security operations of organizations, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging threats.

Virtuoso

Series A in 2021
SpotQA develops a next-gen digital QA platform to enable users to deliver tomorrow’s QA and test automation solutions today. It offers advanced web and mobile QA automation solutions and services, enabled by innovations and powered by cutting edge technologies and a team of QA experts. The company helps users build better quality software faster and more frequently, with fewer defects. SpotQA was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in London.

SCYTHE

Series A in 2021
Scythe Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Arlington, Virginia, founded in 2017. The company specializes in designing and developing a platform that enables organizations to create and simulate various adversarial campaigns. This capability allows businesses to rigorously test their security controls with a high level of detail, helping them identify vulnerabilities and improve their overall security posture. By providing a comprehensive environment for security testing, Scythe aims to enhance organizational resilience against potential cyber threats.

Elliptic

Series C in 2021
Elliptic Enterprises Limited, based in London, operates a platform focused on enhancing the transparency and accountability of cryptocurrency transactions. Established in 2013, the company offers blockchain analytics and compliance solutions that help financial institutions, cryptocurrency companies, and government agencies manage financial crime risk and fulfill regulatory requirements. Elliptic provides actionable intelligence to identify and combat illicit activities within the cryptocurrency space, thereby contributing to the integrity of digital currencies. The company also offers Elliptic Vault, a secure storage service for bitcoins, and is involved in lobbying, education, and advocacy related to digital currencies. By addressing the critical challenge of identity verification in cryptocurrencies, Elliptic aims to prevent criminals from undermining the positive potential of this technology.

Panaseer

Series B in 2021
Panaseer Limited develops a cloud-based cybersecurity intelligence platform that assists enterprise security teams in making informed risk decisions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, with an office in New York, the company offers the Panaseer Security Data Lake, which provides real-time insights into an organization's assets, applications, users, and data sets. This platform identifies gaps in security controls and aligns them with industry standards while facilitating regulatory compliance. By ingesting data from various sources, both cloud-based and on-premises, Panaseer enables organizations to monitor and analyze their cybersecurity posture effectively. The platform automates reporting processes, tailoring insights for stakeholders at different levels, thereby enhancing decision-making across the organization. Security leaders utilize Panaseer’s capabilities to prioritize risks based on their potential impact on the business and optimize overall cyber hygiene practices.

Hack The Box

Series A in 2021
Hack The Box Ltd. operates an online platform to test and advance skills in penetration testing and cyber security for companies, individuals, and universities. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Folkestone, United Kingdom.

Decentriq

Seed Round in 2020
Decentriq makes data collaboration simple and safe by leveraging confidential computing. Sensitive data is extremely valuable and at the same time very hard to leverage and analyze safely. Decentriq’s software platform enables our clients and partners to securely analyze sensitive data. No friction, easy to test and apply while providing state-of-art security. The platform proves the privacy and security of the data from any other party, including us. It allows complete confidentiality for computations, even while sitting in a public cloud. More under: confidentialcomputing.cloud

Menlo Micro

Series B in 2020
Menlo Micro, Inc. specializes in the design and development of electronic switches, particularly focusing on electromechanical switch technology. The company's innovative digital-micro-switches are utilized across various industries, including battery management, home automation, electronic vehicles, and medical instrumentation. Their products are engineered to operate effectively under high temperatures and stressful conditions, supporting applications such as high-power tunable resonators, broadband power amplifier impedance matching, and electronically steerable antennas. Menlo Micro also plays a role in advancing the industrial Internet of Things and next-generation 5G mobile networks. Founded in 2016 and based in Irvine, California, the company aims to deliver efficient outcomes through its cutting-edge technology.

Nisos

Venture Round in 2020
Nisos provides unrivaled protection of your reputation and assets through the practice of Active Defense. Nisos is a leading services provider in the following areas: - Adversarial Attribution - Incident Response - M&A Valuation and Diligence - Insider Threat Detection and Mitigation - Attack Simulation - Compromise Assessment - Executive Protection - Asset Protection

IriusRisk

Series A in 2020
IriusRisk, developed by Continuum Security, SL, is a comprehensive tool designed to manage and assess software security risks throughout the software development lifecycle. Founded in 2008 and based in Huesca, Spain, the company focuses on providing solutions that integrate seamlessly into existing development workflows, ensuring that security processes support rather than hinder development speed. IriusRisk caters primarily to enterprises in the financial and technology sectors, enabling them to proactively address security challenges while promoting a culture of secure software development. In addition to IriusRisk, the company also offers BDD-Security, a security testing framework that further enhances its suite of security management tools.

GreyNoise Intelligence

Seed Round in 2020
GreyNoise is a cybersecurity company that reduces false positives by filtering pointless Internet background noise. It collects, analyzes, and labels mass internet scan and attack activity into a feed of Anti-Threat Intelligence. This context helps security teams reduce noise and prioritize signal - targeted attacks against their organization. Its drive to maximize analyst efficiency is delivered through its API, platform integrations, and visualizer. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

RangeForce

Series A in 2020
RangeForce delivers the most effective way to level-up and accurately assess the skills of your cybersecurity team through a scalable, interactive, on-demand cyber-skill training platform and integrated cyber range.

Calypso AI

Series A in 2020
Calypso AI Corp. develops software products to solve artificial intelligence risks for national security and highly-regulated industries. It offers Vespr software platform, an integrated model accreditation and model risk management system that enables users to monitor artificial systems for ongoing performance, compliance, and security thresholds. Its solution is also used by teams to validate, monitor, and secure their artificial intelligence. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Mateo, California with additional offices in New York, Virginia, and Ireland.

Expel

Series D in 2020
Expel, Inc. is a managed security software company that specializes in providing SOC-as-a-service, which includes security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Founded in 2016 and based in Herndon, Virginia, Expel leverages existing security signals from its customers to enhance the value of their current security investments. By connecting to customer technology remotely via APIs rather than agents, Expel can initiate monitoring within hours, allowing internal teams to concentrate on their unique security priorities. The company aims to streamline and improve the security operations of organizations, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging threats.

Dashbird

Seed Round in 2020
Dashbird helps developers to deliver bullet-proof and fast serverless applications by offering actionable insights and debugging features. It makes software and app development quicker, leaner and helps to optimize costs. Dashbird uses Cloudwatch logs in order to offer in-depth analytics and the 2 minute setup doesn't require any code changes.

Change Donations

Seed Round in 2020
Change Donations helps charities and non-profits fundraise in the digital age and connect with tomorrow's generation of donors. Their platform allows donors to link their credit or debit cards, round their purchases up to the next euro, and donate their digital spare change to the causes they care about most. They are building a community of everyday philanthropists and helping individuals inspire positive change through their everyday spending

Teraki

Series A in 2019
Teraki GmbH develops software solutions for scaling of Insurance, predictive maintenance, and autonomous driving applications by enabling access to more qualitative data. Its software enables to fulfil low-latency SLAs required by the end-user and ultimately to adapt key KPIs such as cost-per-mile at the highest precision and lowest latency. The software also enables automotive insurance (UBI), predictive maintenance, fleet management and AD applications to perform in high volume, production series. It also offers crash detection, and autonomous driving services. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

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.

Inscripta

Series D in 2019
Inscripta, Inc. is a gene editing technology company focused on developing advanced CRISPR enzymes, specifically MADzymes, for precision gene editing. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with additional offices in Pleasanton and San Diego, Inscripta aims to revolutionize genome engineering through its innovative benchtop platform. This platform integrates an instrument, consumables, software, and assays to facilitate fully automated and scalable editing of single cells, enabling researchers to conduct massively parallel experiments with unprecedented efficiency. By offering tools that simplify the editing process and making its MAD7 CRISPR nuclease available for research, Inscripta seeks to empower scientists in overcoming existing technical and licensing barriers, fostering a new era of biological discovery.

Ursa Space Systems

Series B in 2019
Ursa Space Systems Inc. is a provider of geospatial services that specializes in aerial and space-based data products, enhancing geographic mapping and location-based information services available day and night, regardless of weather conditions. The company's imagery and information products support market and weather forecasting, agricultural yield assessment, disaster response, and military intelligence. Ursa has developed solutions such as the Global Oil Storage Monitoring, which assists hedge funds, commodities traders, banks, and oil companies in tracking oil storage worldwide. The company serves multiple sectors, including precision agriculture, business intelligence, weather, humanitarian efforts, and mapping. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Ithaca, New York, Ursa leverages radar satellite data to provide timely reports, enabling informed decision-making in the finance and energy industries.

Expel

Series C in 2019
Expel, Inc. is a managed security software company that specializes in providing SOC-as-a-service, which includes security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Founded in 2016 and based in Herndon, Virginia, Expel leverages existing security signals from its customers to enhance the value of their current security investments. By connecting to customer technology remotely via APIs rather than agents, Expel can initiate monitoring within hours, allowing internal teams to concentrate on their unique security priorities. The company aims to streamline and improve the security operations of organizations, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging threats.

RangeForce

Seed Round in 2019
RangeForce delivers the most effective way to level-up and accurately assess the skills of your cybersecurity team through a scalable, interactive, on-demand cyber-skill training platform and integrated cyber range.

RiskLens

Series B in 2019
The leading provider of cyber risk management software, RiskLens empowers business executives, risk officers and CISOs to manage their organization's cyber risk from the business perspective by quantifying it in financial terms. RiskLens was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Spokane, Washington.

Inscripta

Series C in 2019
Inscripta, Inc. is a gene editing technology company focused on developing advanced CRISPR enzymes, specifically MADzymes, for precision gene editing. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with additional offices in Pleasanton and San Diego, Inscripta aims to revolutionize genome engineering through its innovative benchtop platform. This platform integrates an instrument, consumables, software, and assays to facilitate fully automated and scalable editing of single cells, enabling researchers to conduct massively parallel experiments with unprecedented efficiency. By offering tools that simplify the editing process and making its MAD7 CRISPR nuclease available for research, Inscripta seeks to empower scientists in overcoming existing technical and licensing barriers, fostering a new era of biological discovery.

GreyNoise Intelligence

Pre Seed Round in 2019
GreyNoise is a cybersecurity company that reduces false positives by filtering pointless Internet background noise. It collects, analyzes, and labels mass internet scan and attack activity into a feed of Anti-Threat Intelligence. This context helps security teams reduce noise and prioritize signal - targeted attacks against their organization. Its drive to maximize analyst efficiency is delivered through its API, platform integrations, and visualizer. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Inscripta

Series C in 2018
Inscripta, Inc. is a gene editing technology company focused on developing advanced CRISPR enzymes, specifically MADzymes, for precision gene editing. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with additional offices in Pleasanton and San Diego, Inscripta aims to revolutionize genome engineering through its innovative benchtop platform. This platform integrates an instrument, consumables, software, and assays to facilitate fully automated and scalable editing of single cells, enabling researchers to conduct massively parallel experiments with unprecedented efficiency. By offering tools that simplify the editing process and making its MAD7 CRISPR nuclease available for research, Inscripta seeks to empower scientists in overcoming existing technical and licensing barriers, fostering a new era of biological discovery.

SCYTHE

Seed Round in 2018
Scythe Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Arlington, Virginia, founded in 2017. The company specializes in designing and developing a platform that enables organizations to create and simulate various adversarial campaigns. This capability allows businesses to rigorously test their security controls with a high level of detail, helping them identify vulnerabilities and improve their overall security posture. By providing a comprehensive environment for security testing, Scythe aims to enhance organizational resilience against potential cyber threats.

Secure Code Warrior

Series A in 2018
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.

RiskSense

Series B in 2018
RiskSense®, Inc. provides vulnerability prioritization and management to measure and control cybersecurity risk. The cloud-based RiskSense platform uses a foundation of risk-based scoring, analytics, and technology-accelerated pen testing to identify critical security weaknesses with corresponding remediation action plans, dramatically improving security and IT team efficiency and effectiveness. The company delivers a fully-informed picture of group, department, and organizational cybersecurity risk with our credit-like RiskSense Security Score (RS3). The RiskSense platform continuously correlates customer infrastructure with comprehensive internal and external vulnerability data, threat intelligence, human pen test findings, and business asset criticality to measure risk, provide early warning of weaponization, predict attacks, and prioritize remediation activities to achieve security risk goals

Cloud Conformity

Series A in 2018
Cloud Conformity is a market leading software platform helping companies & IT professionals who have invested in the cloud to continuously monitor their AWS cloud infrastructure. Our platform focuses on all major elements of advanced security, real-time threat detection, cost management, cost optimisation, best practices, compliance and automation of the environment. We have 3 AWS SaaS products: Audit, Security & Cost Management. We are single-minded in our mission to provide our clients peace of mind that their cloud infrastructure is secure, compliant and optimised at all times

Toma Biosciences

Series C in 2018
TOMA Biosciences, Inc. develops reagent kits that enable laboratories and researchers to uncover genomic changes in tumors. The company offers TOMA OS-Seq, an oncology-focused gene analysis solution. It serves laboratories, hospital systems, and research institutions worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Foster City, California.

Ursa Space Systems

Venture Round in 2018
Ursa Space Systems Inc. is a provider of geospatial services that specializes in aerial and space-based data products, enhancing geographic mapping and location-based information services available day and night, regardless of weather conditions. The company's imagery and information products support market and weather forecasting, agricultural yield assessment, disaster response, and military intelligence. Ursa has developed solutions such as the Global Oil Storage Monitoring, which assists hedge funds, commodities traders, banks, and oil companies in tracking oil storage worldwide. The company serves multiple sectors, including precision agriculture, business intelligence, weather, humanitarian efforts, and mapping. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Ithaca, New York, Ursa leverages radar satellite data to provide timely reports, enabling informed decision-making in the finance and energy industries.

DPOrganizer

Series A in 2018
DPOrganizer is a privacy management software company founded in 2015 and based in Stockholm, Sweden. The software enables organizations to map, visualize, report, and manage the processing of personal data, thereby enhancing compliance with data protection regulations such as GDPR. It provides users with tools to effectively control the processing of personal data belonging to customers and employees, facilitating improved collaboration and communication within businesses. By offering an intuitive platform, DPOrganizer aims to simplify privacy management, allowing organizations to operate more efficiently while adhering to legal requirements.

Panaseer

Series A in 2018
Panaseer Limited develops a cloud-based cybersecurity intelligence platform that assists enterprise security teams in making informed risk decisions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, with an office in New York, the company offers the Panaseer Security Data Lake, which provides real-time insights into an organization's assets, applications, users, and data sets. This platform identifies gaps in security controls and aligns them with industry standards while facilitating regulatory compliance. By ingesting data from various sources, both cloud-based and on-premises, Panaseer enables organizations to monitor and analyze their cybersecurity posture effectively. The platform automates reporting processes, tailoring insights for stakeholders at different levels, thereby enhancing decision-making across the organization. Security leaders utilize Panaseer’s capabilities to prioritize risks based on their potential impact on the business and optimize overall cyber hygiene practices.

Cyberhedge

Venture Round in 2018
Provider of a cloud based financial security service

10X Genomics

Series D in 2018
10X Genomics is a life science technology company that specializes in developing and selling instruments, consumables, and software for analyzing biological systems. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, the company offers a range of products, including chromium instruments, microfluidic chips, reagents, and other consumables. Its advanced single-cell solutions allow researchers to measure gene expression, immune profiling, epigenetics, and cellular heterogeneity, providing insights into the physical organization of DNA and gene activity on a cell-by-cell basis. Additionally, the Visium spatial gene expression solution enables the measurement of spatial gene expression patterns across tissue samples. 10X Genomics serves a diverse clientele, including academic institutions, government agencies, and biopharmaceutical companies, and has a presence in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, China, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 2012 and rebranded from 10X Technologies, Inc. in November 2014.

RubrYc Therapeutics

Series A in 2018
RubrYc Therapeutics is a biotechnology company based in San Carlos, California, founded in 2017. The company focuses on the integration of chemistry and computation to decode protein interfaces, facilitating the discovery and development of antibody-based drugs with specific epitope selectivity. By leveraging advancements in molecular library synthesis and computational methods, RubrYc aims to enhance the antibody discovery process. Their innovative approach allows for the identification of antibodies that bind to therapeutically relevant epitopes, thereby providing valuable insights into the design of therapeutic antibodies. This technology not only accelerates preclinical antibody discovery for biotherapeutic partners but also seeks to reduce the risks associated with traditional drug discovery methods.

Expel

Series B in 2018
Expel, Inc. is a managed security software company that specializes in providing SOC-as-a-service, which includes security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Founded in 2016 and based in Herndon, Virginia, Expel leverages existing security signals from its customers to enhance the value of their current security investments. By connecting to customer technology remotely via APIs rather than agents, Expel can initiate monitoring within hours, allowing internal teams to concentrate on their unique security priorities. The company aims to streamline and improve the security operations of organizations, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging threats.

Teraki

Convertible Note in 2018
Teraki GmbH develops software solutions for scaling of Insurance, predictive maintenance, and autonomous driving applications by enabling access to more qualitative data. Its software enables to fulfil low-latency SLAs required by the end-user and ultimately to adapt key KPIs such as cost-per-mile at the highest precision and lowest latency. The software also enables automotive insurance (UBI), predictive maintenance, fleet management and AD applications to perform in high volume, production series. It also offers crash detection, and autonomous driving services. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Bugcrowd

Series C in 2018
Bugcrowd Inc. operates a web-based platform that connects companies with a global community of security researchers to identify and address critical software vulnerabilities. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a range of security testing solutions for web, mobile, source code, and client-side applications. Through its platform, organizations can efficiently conduct both private and public bounty programs, allowing them to test their applications and reward researchers for valid vulnerabilities. Bugcrowd serves various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, automotive, technology, government, and security. The company has established strategic partnerships, including one with VVDN Technologies, and has additional offices in London and Surry Hills, Australia.

Inscripta

Series C in 2018
Inscripta, Inc. is a gene editing technology company focused on developing advanced CRISPR enzymes, specifically MADzymes, for precision gene editing. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with additional offices in Pleasanton and San Diego, Inscripta aims to revolutionize genome engineering through its innovative benchtop platform. This platform integrates an instrument, consumables, software, and assays to facilitate fully automated and scalable editing of single cells, enabling researchers to conduct massively parallel experiments with unprecedented efficiency. By offering tools that simplify the editing process and making its MAD7 CRISPR nuclease available for research, Inscripta seeks to empower scientists in overcoming existing technical and licensing barriers, fostering a new era of biological discovery.

Anomali

Series D in 2018
Anomali delivers earlier detection and identification of adversaries in your organization’s network by making it possible to correlate tens of millions of threat indicators against your real time network activity logs and up to a year or more of forensic log data. Anomali’s approach enables detection at every point along the kill chain, making it possible to mitigate threats before material damage to your organization has occurred. Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., the company is privately held and has received venture capital backing from General Catalyst Partners, GV, Institutional Venture Partners, and Paladin Capital Group, as well as individual investors.

Ursa Space Systems

Series A in 2017
Ursa Space Systems Inc. is a provider of geospatial services that specializes in aerial and space-based data products, enhancing geographic mapping and location-based information services available day and night, regardless of weather conditions. The company's imagery and information products support market and weather forecasting, agricultural yield assessment, disaster response, and military intelligence. Ursa has developed solutions such as the Global Oil Storage Monitoring, which assists hedge funds, commodities traders, banks, and oil companies in tracking oil storage worldwide. The company serves multiple sectors, including precision agriculture, business intelligence, weather, humanitarian efforts, and mapping. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Ithaca, New York, Ursa leverages radar satellite data to provide timely reports, enabling informed decision-making in the finance and energy industries.

RiskLens

Series A in 2017
The leading provider of cyber risk management software, RiskLens empowers business executives, risk officers and CISOs to manage their organization's cyber risk from the business perspective by quantifying it in financial terms. RiskLens was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Spokane, Washington.

Panaseer

Seed Round in 2017
Panaseer Limited develops a cloud-based cybersecurity intelligence platform that assists enterprise security teams in making informed risk decisions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, with an office in New York, the company offers the Panaseer Security Data Lake, which provides real-time insights into an organization's assets, applications, users, and data sets. This platform identifies gaps in security controls and aligns them with industry standards while facilitating regulatory compliance. By ingesting data from various sources, both cloud-based and on-premises, Panaseer enables organizations to monitor and analyze their cybersecurity posture effectively. The platform automates reporting processes, tailoring insights for stakeholders at different levels, thereby enhancing decision-making across the organization. Security leaders utilize Panaseer’s capabilities to prioritize risks based on their potential impact on the business and optimize overall cyber hygiene practices.

Karamba Security

Series B in 2017
Karamba Security's patented software detects and prevents cyberattacks on a wide variety of connected devices and systems, including automotive ECUs, Industry 4.0 controllers, enterprise edge devices, and IoT endpoints. Karamba's security solutions are embedded within devices and work automatically, without any need for customer operation and with negligible performance impact.

RiskSense

Series A in 2017
RiskSense®, Inc. provides vulnerability prioritization and management to measure and control cybersecurity risk. The cloud-based RiskSense platform uses a foundation of risk-based scoring, analytics, and technology-accelerated pen testing to identify critical security weaknesses with corresponding remediation action plans, dramatically improving security and IT team efficiency and effectiveness. The company delivers a fully-informed picture of group, department, and organizational cybersecurity risk with our credit-like RiskSense Security Score (RS3). The RiskSense platform continuously correlates customer infrastructure with comprehensive internal and external vulnerability data, threat intelligence, human pen test findings, and business asset criticality to measure risk, provide early warning of weaponization, predict attacks, and prioritize remediation activities to achieve security risk goals

Inscripta

Series B in 2017
Inscripta, Inc. is a gene editing technology company focused on developing advanced CRISPR enzymes, specifically MADzymes, for precision gene editing. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with additional offices in Pleasanton and San Diego, Inscripta aims to revolutionize genome engineering through its innovative benchtop platform. This platform integrates an instrument, consumables, software, and assays to facilitate fully automated and scalable editing of single cells, enabling researchers to conduct massively parallel experiments with unprecedented efficiency. By offering tools that simplify the editing process and making its MAD7 CRISPR nuclease available for research, Inscripta seeks to empower scientists in overcoming existing technical and licensing barriers, fostering a new era of biological discovery.

Menlo Micro

Series A in 2016
Menlo Micro, Inc. specializes in the design and development of electronic switches, particularly focusing on electromechanical switch technology. The company's innovative digital-micro-switches are utilized across various industries, including battery management, home automation, electronic vehicles, and medical instrumentation. Their products are engineered to operate effectively under high temperatures and stressful conditions, supporting applications such as high-power tunable resonators, broadband power amplifier impedance matching, and electronically steerable antennas. Menlo Micro also plays a role in advancing the industrial Internet of Things and next-generation 5G mobile networks. Founded in 2016 and based in Irvine, California, the company aims to deliver efficient outcomes through its cutting-edge technology.

HUMAN

Series B in 2016
HUMAN is a cybersecurity company focused on safeguarding enterprises from bot attacks, thereby enhancing digital experiences for genuine users. The company employs its advanced Human Verification Engine to protect applications, APIs, and digital media from malicious bot activity, which can lead to significant financial losses and degrade user experience. HUMAN verifies over 10 trillion interactions weekly for major companies and internet platforms, ensuring that digital engagements are legitimate. Its solutions cover a range of sectors, including advertising, publishing, and enterprise, addressing various threats such as automated fraud, data scraping, and account takeovers. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Washington, D.C., London, and Victoria, HUMAN continues to innovate in the field of online security.

Expel

Series A in 2016
Expel, Inc. is a managed security software company that specializes in providing SOC-as-a-service, which includes security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Founded in 2016 and based in Herndon, Virginia, Expel leverages existing security signals from its customers to enhance the value of their current security investments. By connecting to customer technology remotely via APIs rather than agents, Expel can initiate monitoring within hours, allowing internal teams to concentrate on their unique security priorities. The company aims to streamline and improve the security operations of organizations, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging threats.

RiskSense

Series A in 2016
RiskSense®, Inc. provides vulnerability prioritization and management to measure and control cybersecurity risk. The cloud-based RiskSense platform uses a foundation of risk-based scoring, analytics, and technology-accelerated pen testing to identify critical security weaknesses with corresponding remediation action plans, dramatically improving security and IT team efficiency and effectiveness. The company delivers a fully-informed picture of group, department, and organizational cybersecurity risk with our credit-like RiskSense Security Score (RS3). The RiskSense platform continuously correlates customer infrastructure with comprehensive internal and external vulnerability data, threat intelligence, human pen test findings, and business asset criticality to measure risk, provide early warning of weaponization, predict attacks, and prioritize remediation activities to achieve security risk goals

Cofense

Series C in 2016
Cofense, previously known as PhishMe, specializes in phishing threat management, focusing on the vulnerabilities of human behavior in organizations. Its intelligence-driven platform empowers employees to become proactive defenders against phishing attacks, including spear phishing, malware, and drive-by threats. Cofense serves a diverse clientele, including sectors such as defense, energy, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing, along with other major global corporations. By enhancing user security awareness and facilitating incident response, Cofense aims to reduce the risk of security breaches and improve overall organizational resilience against cyber threats.

Anomali

Series C in 2016
Anomali delivers earlier detection and identification of adversaries in your organization’s network by making it possible to correlate tens of millions of threat indicators against your real time network activity logs and up to a year or more of forensic log data. Anomali’s approach enables detection at every point along the kill chain, making it possible to mitigate threats before material damage to your organization has occurred. Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., the company is privately held and has received venture capital backing from General Catalyst Partners, GV, Institutional Venture Partners, and Paladin Capital Group, as well as individual investors.

Bugcrowd

Series B in 2016
Bugcrowd Inc. operates a web-based platform that connects companies with a global community of security researchers to identify and address critical software vulnerabilities. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a range of security testing solutions for web, mobile, source code, and client-side applications. Through its platform, organizations can efficiently conduct both private and public bounty programs, allowing them to test their applications and reward researchers for valid vulnerabilities. Bugcrowd serves various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, automotive, technology, government, and security. The company has established strategic partnerships, including one with VVDN Technologies, and has additional offices in London and Surry Hills, Australia.

Elliptic

Series A in 2016
Elliptic Enterprises Limited, based in London, operates a platform focused on enhancing the transparency and accountability of cryptocurrency transactions. Established in 2013, the company offers blockchain analytics and compliance solutions that help financial institutions, cryptocurrency companies, and government agencies manage financial crime risk and fulfill regulatory requirements. Elliptic provides actionable intelligence to identify and combat illicit activities within the cryptocurrency space, thereby contributing to the integrity of digital currencies. The company also offers Elliptic Vault, a secure storage service for bitcoins, and is involved in lobbying, education, and advocacy related to digital currencies. By addressing the critical challenge of identity verification in cryptocurrencies, Elliptic aims to prevent criminals from undermining the positive potential of this technology.

10X Genomics

Series C in 2016
10X Genomics is a life science technology company that specializes in developing and selling instruments, consumables, and software for analyzing biological systems. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, the company offers a range of products, including chromium instruments, microfluidic chips, reagents, and other consumables. Its advanced single-cell solutions allow researchers to measure gene expression, immune profiling, epigenetics, and cellular heterogeneity, providing insights into the physical organization of DNA and gene activity on a cell-by-cell basis. Additionally, the Visium spatial gene expression solution enables the measurement of spatial gene expression patterns across tissue samples. 10X Genomics serves a diverse clientele, including academic institutions, government agencies, and biopharmaceutical companies, and has a presence in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, China, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 2012 and rebranded from 10X Technologies, Inc. in November 2014.

Twist Bioscience

Series D in 2016
Twist Bioscience Corporation, a synthetic biology company, manufactures and sells synthetic DNA-based products. The company’s DNA synthesis platform enables the manufacturing of synthetic DNA by writing DNA on a silicon chip. It offers synthetic DNA-based products, including synthetic genes, tools for sample preparation, antibody libraries for drug discovery and development, and DNA as a digital data storage medium. The company has a collaboration agreement with ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd. Twist Bioscience Corporation was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

ProtectWise

Series B in 2015
ProtectWise is a Denver-based company that specializes in Cloud-Powered Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions. Founded in April 2013, it offers organizations advanced analytics for cloud, hybrid, and enterprise traffic, enabling real-time and retrospective threat detection. The platform allows for full-fidelity packet captures that are indexed and retained indefinitely, creating a searchable network memory. ProtectWise combines analytics and forensics in an intuitive visualizer to facilitate rapid incident response and threat hunting. The company, which is led by experts from notable security firms, launched the Immersive Security movement in 2017 to innovate the security landscape. To date, ProtectWise has secured over $70 million in funding, positioning itself as a significant player in the cybersecurity space.

Twist Bioscience

Series C in 2015
Twist Bioscience Corporation, a synthetic biology company, manufactures and sells synthetic DNA-based products. The company’s DNA synthesis platform enables the manufacturing of synthetic DNA by writing DNA on a silicon chip. It offers synthetic DNA-based products, including synthetic genes, tools for sample preparation, antibody libraries for drug discovery and development, and DNA as a digital data storage medium. The company has a collaboration agreement with ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd. Twist Bioscience Corporation was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Shadow Networks

Venture Round in 2015
Shadow Networks, Inc. is a privately-held company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in security solutions for enterprise and government networks. Established in 2010, the company offers a range of services, including wireless internet, cybersecurity, web design, and hosting. Its flagship product, ShadowBox, is an appliance that creates large-scale simulated hosts and networks to enhance security without compromising actual network performance. The company focuses on developing Active Threat Deception™ solutions to address sophisticated cyber threats, particularly Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), which remain undetected by many existing security measures. With a management team composed of former executives from leading networking and security firms, Shadow Networks leverages over five years of government-funded research and proven technologies deployed at the U.S. Department of Defense. This innovative approach aims to improve the detection and mitigation of complex cyber attacks, ultimately transforming the security landscape for enterprises and government agencies.

Cofense

Series B in 2015
Cofense, previously known as PhishMe, specializes in phishing threat management, focusing on the vulnerabilities of human behavior in organizations. Its intelligence-driven platform empowers employees to become proactive defenders against phishing attacks, including spear phishing, malware, and drive-by threats. Cofense serves a diverse clientele, including sectors such as defense, energy, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing, along with other major global corporations. By enhancing user security awareness and facilitating incident response, Cofense aims to reduce the risk of security breaches and improve overall organizational resilience against cyber threats.

Bugcrowd

Series A in 2015
Bugcrowd Inc. operates a web-based platform that connects companies with a global community of security researchers to identify and address critical software vulnerabilities. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a range of security testing solutions for web, mobile, source code, and client-side applications. Through its platform, organizations can efficiently conduct both private and public bounty programs, allowing them to test their applications and reward researchers for valid vulnerabilities. Bugcrowd serves various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, automotive, technology, government, and security. The company has established strategic partnerships, including one with VVDN Technologies, and has additional offices in London and Surry Hills, Australia.

Drawbridge Networks

Seed Round in 2014
Drawbridge Networks, Inc., founded in 2014 and based in New York, specializes in innovative cybersecurity solutions aimed at countering sophisticated cyber attacks. Recognizing that modern threats often bypass traditional enterprise network perimeters, the company has developed PathProtect, a tool that provides enhanced visibility and control over network activity. PathProtect enables security teams to segment sensitive systems and quickly quarantine compromised hosts, thereby mitigating the risks associated with lateral movement within an organization’s network. As a subsidiary of OPAQ Networks, Inc. since 2017, Drawbridge Networks is focused on empowering organizations to effectively manage and protect their network environments against evolving cyber threats.

10X Genomics

Series B in 2014
10X Genomics is a life science technology company that specializes in developing and selling instruments, consumables, and software for analyzing biological systems. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, the company offers a range of products, including chromium instruments, microfluidic chips, reagents, and other consumables. Its advanced single-cell solutions allow researchers to measure gene expression, immune profiling, epigenetics, and cellular heterogeneity, providing insights into the physical organization of DNA and gene activity on a cell-by-cell basis. Additionally, the Visium spatial gene expression solution enables the measurement of spatial gene expression patterns across tissue samples. 10X Genomics serves a diverse clientele, including academic institutions, government agencies, and biopharmaceutical companies, and has a presence in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, China, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 2012 and rebranded from 10X Technologies, Inc. in November 2014.

Anomali

Series B in 2014
Anomali delivers earlier detection and identification of adversaries in your organization’s network by making it possible to correlate tens of millions of threat indicators against your real time network activity logs and up to a year or more of forensic log data. Anomali’s approach enables detection at every point along the kill chain, making it possible to mitigate threats before material damage to your organization has occurred. Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., the company is privately held and has received venture capital backing from General Catalyst Partners, GV, Institutional Venture Partners, and Paladin Capital Group, as well as individual investors.

Endgame

Series C in 2014
Endgame is a leading endpoint security platform that transforms security operations teams and incident responders from crime scene investigators into hunters that prevent damage and loss, and dramatically reduces the time and cost associated with incident response and compromise assessment. Endgame’s platform uses machine learning and data science to prevent and detect unique attacks at the earliest and every stage of the attack lifecycle. Endgame’s integrated response stops attacks without disrupting normal business operations. It was founded in 2008 and has been operating in Arlington, Virginia.

Racemi

Series C in 2014
Racemi, Inc. provides cloud migration technology solutions. The company offers cloud application migration software platform for enterprise organizations to accelerate cloud adoption; and DynaCenter, an automated server migration solution that migrates the server workloads between dissimilar physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. It also provides cloud discovery and migration, training, and cloud services. The company’s solutions are used for cloud migration projects, data center relocations, disaster recovery, and other server workload migration needs. It serves customers worldwide. Racemi, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

HUMAN

Series A in 2014
HUMAN is a cybersecurity company focused on safeguarding enterprises from bot attacks, thereby enhancing digital experiences for genuine users. The company employs its advanced Human Verification Engine to protect applications, APIs, and digital media from malicious bot activity, which can lead to significant financial losses and degrade user experience. HUMAN verifies over 10 trillion interactions weekly for major companies and internet platforms, ensuring that digital engagements are legitimate. Its solutions cover a range of sectors, including advertising, publishing, and enterprise, addressing various threats such as automated fraud, data scraping, and account takeovers. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Washington, D.C., London, and Victoria, HUMAN continues to innovate in the field of online security.

ProtectWise

Series A in 2014
ProtectWise is a Denver-based company that specializes in Cloud-Powered Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions. Founded in April 2013, it offers organizations advanced analytics for cloud, hybrid, and enterprise traffic, enabling real-time and retrospective threat detection. The platform allows for full-fidelity packet captures that are indexed and retained indefinitely, creating a searchable network memory. ProtectWise combines analytics and forensics in an intuitive visualizer to facilitate rapid incident response and threat hunting. The company, which is led by experts from notable security firms, launched the Immersive Security movement in 2017 to innovate the security landscape. To date, ProtectWise has secured over $70 million in funding, positioning itself as a significant player in the cybersecurity space.

Newlans

Series B in 2014
Newlans, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Acton, Massachusetts, that focuses on programmable analog signal processing solutions. Founded in 2003, the company specializes in developing high-quality programmable silicon-on-insulator capacitors and components designed for integration into tunable radio frequency front end (RFFE) solutions. As smartphone original equipment manufacturers and RFFE module suppliers seek to adapt to the growing adoption of 4G LTE bands and carrier aggregation, Newlans provides innovative tunable solutions that enhance performance while reducing costs and size. Newlans operates as a subsidiary of Newtel Essence B.V.

Twist Bioscience

Series B in 2014
Twist Bioscience Corporation, a synthetic biology company, manufactures and sells synthetic DNA-based products. The company’s DNA synthesis platform enables the manufacturing of synthetic DNA by writing DNA on a silicon chip. It offers synthetic DNA-based products, including synthetic genes, tools for sample preparation, antibody libraries for drug discovery and development, and DNA as a digital data storage medium. The company has a collaboration agreement with ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd. Twist Bioscience Corporation was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

CertiVox

Series B in 2014
CertiVox solutions deliver simple, powerful information security to all things Internet (mainframes, too!), protecting business and individual privacy through the cloud and at rest. CertiVox was founded in 2009 to provide technology and services based on a simple belief: that everyone deserves the right to secure their information exchanges simply and easily. CertiVox's leading-edge encryption, key management and identity management solutions are currently in use at hundreds of the world’s leading corporations and used by individuals across the globe to protect their privacy. The companies passion is to create and share unique, cutting-edge cryptographic innovations for enterprise cloud computing and all things Internet. CertiVox are the only company in the global market today that has the technology in place to arm businesses and individuals with easy-to-use certificateless security solutions for any device and platform. Whether you are a business that wants to safeguard your company’s intellectual property, an ISV or SaaS provider that needs to embed cryptography and key management into your application, or an individual who wants to preserve the privacy of your personal data, CertiVox gives you the power to secure your information for all things Internet. CertiVox’s leading-edge solutions – including MIRACL (Multiprecision Integer and Rational Arithmetic C/C++ Library) Cryptographic SDK, on-demand encryption Key Management Service (KMS) and Identity Management Service (IDMS) – enable cloud service providers, independent software vendors (ISVs), communication providers, and smart device and semiconductor manufacturers to secure their voice and data communication solutions with ease. The PrivateSky Secure Information Exchange Service (SIX) gives individuals, businesses and their partners and customers easy-to-use tools to quickly encrypt email, files and documents without complex infrastructure or user burden. Compliance with mandatory encryption and privacy statues has never been easier. The bottom line: CertiVox's revolutionary certificateless cryptography, identity and key management solutions have taken the hassle out of Internet security, making it easy to securely exchange your information in any form, any time.

Damballa

Series E in 2014
Damballa specializes in advanced threat protection, focusing on the detection of active threats that evade conventional security measures. The company employs data science and machine learning techniques to identify successful infections and assess the risk posed by compromised devices, regardless of their operating system or threat vector. Damballa's solutions are designed to discover previously unknown threats, making the company a key player in cybersecurity. It safeguards nearly a billion endpoints across various sectors, including enterprises and major telecommunications providers. The firm also addresses issues related to botnet formation, providing essential safeguards against the misuse of Internet-enabled devices for harmful activities.

Shadow Networks

Series A in 2014
Shadow Networks, Inc. is a privately-held company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in security solutions for enterprise and government networks. Established in 2010, the company offers a range of services, including wireless internet, cybersecurity, web design, and hosting. Its flagship product, ShadowBox, is an appliance that creates large-scale simulated hosts and networks to enhance security without compromising actual network performance. The company focuses on developing Active Threat Deception™ solutions to address sophisticated cyber threats, particularly Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), which remain undetected by many existing security measures. With a management team composed of former executives from leading networking and security firms, Shadow Networks leverages over five years of government-funded research and proven technologies deployed at the U.S. Department of Defense. This innovative approach aims to improve the detection and mitigation of complex cyber attacks, ultimately transforming the security landscape for enterprises and government agencies.

Acalvio Technologies

Venture Round in 2014
Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter. The solutions are anchored on patented innovations in Deception and Data Science. This enables a DevOps approach to ATD, enabling ease of deployment, monitoring and management. Acalvio enriches its threat intelligence by data obtained from internal and partner ecosystems, enabling customers to benefit from defense in depth, reduce false positives, and derive actionable intelligence for remediation.

Anomali

Series A in 2014
Anomali delivers earlier detection and identification of adversaries in your organization’s network by making it possible to correlate tens of millions of threat indicators against your real time network activity logs and up to a year or more of forensic log data. Anomali’s approach enables detection at every point along the kill chain, making it possible to mitigate threats before material damage to your organization has occurred. Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., the company is privately held and has received venture capital backing from General Catalyst Partners, GV, Institutional Venture Partners, and Paladin Capital Group, as well as individual investors.

Twist Bioscience

Series A in 2014
Twist Bioscience Corporation, a synthetic biology company, manufactures and sells synthetic DNA-based products. The company’s DNA synthesis platform enables the manufacturing of synthetic DNA by writing DNA on a silicon chip. It offers synthetic DNA-based products, including synthetic genes, tools for sample preparation, antibody libraries for drug discovery and development, and DNA as a digital data storage medium. The company has a collaboration agreement with ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd. Twist Bioscience Corporation was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Bugcrowd

Seed Round in 2013
Bugcrowd Inc. operates a web-based platform that connects companies with a global community of security researchers to identify and address critical software vulnerabilities. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a range of security testing solutions for web, mobile, source code, and client-side applications. Through its platform, organizations can efficiently conduct both private and public bounty programs, allowing them to test their applications and reward researchers for valid vulnerabilities. Bugcrowd serves various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, retail, automotive, technology, government, and security. The company has established strategic partnerships, including one with VVDN Technologies, and has additional offices in London and Surry Hills, Australia.

Perspecsys

Series B in 2013
PerspecSys provides privacy, residency and security solutions for the cloud. Backed by leading venture capital funds, PerspecSys’ Cloud Protection Gateway solutions permit cloud applications to be easily adopted throughout the enterprise. With PerspecSys, sensitive data never leaves a company’s control, eliminating the risks of data transfer, processing, and storage so organizations can realize the benefits of mission-critical cloud computing services.

Perspecsys

Series B in 2013
PerspecSys provides privacy, residency and security solutions for the cloud. Backed by leading venture capital funds, PerspecSys’ Cloud Protection Gateway solutions permit cloud applications to be easily adopted throughout the enterprise. With PerspecSys, sensitive data never leaves a company’s control, eliminating the risks of data transfer, processing, and storage so organizations can realize the benefits of mission-critical cloud computing services.

Adapx

Venture Round in 2013
Adapx offers software that turns natural speech, sketches, and handwriting into data for Microsoft Office and other back-end systems. By simply speaking and writing, teams get instant access to structured data collected on paper, touchscreens, mobile devices, and wall displays. A range of enterprises and agencies speed workflows and reduce risk by using Capturx to bypass data transcription from paper and cumbersome keyboard- and menu-driven interfaces. Adapx was formerly known as Natural Interaction Systems. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

BA Insight

Venture Round in 2013
BA Insight develops integrated search technologies that help organizations enhance Microsoft SharePoint® usage

Endgame

Series B in 2013
Endgame is a leading endpoint security platform that transforms security operations teams and incident responders from crime scene investigators into hunters that prevent damage and loss, and dramatically reduces the time and cost associated with incident response and compromise assessment. Endgame’s platform uses machine learning and data science to prevent and detect unique attacks at the earliest and every stage of the attack lifecycle. Endgame’s integrated response stops attacks without disrupting normal business operations. It was founded in 2008 and has been operating in Arlington, Virginia.

BuildingIQ

Series A in 2013
BuildingIQ, Inc. designs, develops, engineers, sells, and installs integrated software projects primarily in North America and Australasia. Its software solutions are used for the reduction of energy, operations, and maintenance costs of various building systems, such as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. BuildingIQ, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota.

Adapx

Venture Round in 2012
Adapx offers software that turns natural speech, sketches, and handwriting into data for Microsoft Office and other back-end systems. By simply speaking and writing, teams get instant access to structured data collected on paper, touchscreens, mobile devices, and wall displays. A range of enterprises and agencies speed workflows and reduce risk by using Capturx to bypass data transcription from paper and cumbersome keyboard- and menu-driven interfaces. Adapx was formerly known as Natural Interaction Systems. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Cofense

Series A in 2012
Cofense, previously known as PhishMe, specializes in phishing threat management, focusing on the vulnerabilities of human behavior in organizations. Its intelligence-driven platform empowers employees to become proactive defenders against phishing attacks, including spear phishing, malware, and drive-by threats. Cofense serves a diverse clientele, including sectors such as defense, energy, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing, along with other major global corporations. By enhancing user security awareness and facilitating incident response, Cofense aims to reduce the risk of security breaches and improve overall organizational resilience against cyber threats.

Racemi

Series B in 2012
Racemi, Inc. provides cloud migration technology solutions. The company offers cloud application migration software platform for enterprise organizations to accelerate cloud adoption; and DynaCenter, an automated server migration solution that migrates the server workloads between dissimilar physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. It also provides cloud discovery and migration, training, and cloud services. The company’s solutions are used for cloud migration projects, data center relocations, disaster recovery, and other server workload migration needs. It serves customers worldwide. Racemi, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Digital Signal

Private Equity Round in 2012
Digital Signal specializes in three-dimensional long-range facial recognition solutions for government and commercial clients. It offers enterprise biometric solutions and customized applications to suit customer needs. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Fixmo

Series C in 2011
Founded in 2009, Fixmo Inc. is the mobile risk management (MRM) company that empowers organizations to mitigate risks around mobile deployments. Using Fixmo's solutions including its flagship Sentinel product, enterprises and government agencies ensure the integrity, compliance and auditability of every device used by their mobile workforce. Through a technology transfer agreement, Fixmo has commercialized and further advanced powerful MRM technologies initially developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The company is headquartered in Sterling, VA with offices in Toronto. For more information about mobile risk management visit www.fixmo.com or follow @fixmo on Twitter.

CyberCore Technologies

Venture Round in 2011
CyberCore Technologies LLC, based in Elkridge, Maryland, provides a range of information communications and technology (ICT) services to government and commercial clients. Founded in 2000, the company specializes in the procurement, integration, configuration, and deployment of various ICT products and mission-critical systems. Its managed services encompass infrastructure management, troubleshooting, and incident resolution for devices such as printers, network access nodes, and desktops, operating under firm-fixed price consumption models and service level agreements. Additionally, CyberCore offers professional services that include software engineering, IT service delivery, help desk support, vulnerability assessments, systems engineering, system administration, and cyber defense. The company has established long-term partnerships with various organizations, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, and focuses on effective technology strategy execution to ensure customer success.