Secure Octane is a venture capital firm established in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California. The firm specializes in early-stage investments in startups that focus on cybersecurity, data platforms, developer productivity, and enterprise infrastructure. Secure Octane aims to support innovative companies in the United States, Canada, Israel, and Europe that are at the forefront of technological advancements in these sectors. With a clear focus on emerging trends in cybersecurity and data utilization, Secure Octane seeks to foster the growth of businesses that enhance security and efficiency in various applications.
Anagram offers AI-driven phishing simulations and interactive, personalized training that engages and educates staff members, going beyond conventional techniques like antiquated movies and quizzes to give a human-driven security platform that produces tangible results.
StackGen
Seed Round in 2024
StackGen, founded in 2023 by Sachin Aggarwal and Asif Awan, is a company that specializes in automating the generation of Infrastructure from Code (IfC) based on application code. It differentiates itself from traditional Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methods by automatically creating IaC without the need for code modifications, thereby applying preset standards and ensuring compliance. StackGen targets platform engineers and DevOps teams, aiming to improve the developer experience by addressing common bottlenecks in the software development lifecycle, reducing liabilities, and alleviating cognitive overload. The company is supported by prominent venture capital firms, highlighting its potential in the tech industry. For more information, visit www.stackgen.com.
Lineaje
Series A in 2024
Lineaje is a developer of a security management platform that addresses significant Software Supply Chain security challenges encountered by organizations involved in building, using, or selling software. The platform provides an accurate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) that includes comprehensive transitive dependency rates. It features automatic attestation of integrity, proactive detection of threats and compromises, and ensures compliance for both public and private publishing. By offering these capabilities, Lineaje enables organizations to enhance their supply chain security effectively.
AppMap
Venture Round in 2023
AppMap is a developer-focused software company that offers dynamic runtime code analysis and visualization tools to enhance application observability. Its platform enables developers to observe and map their application's behavior seamlessly within their coding environment, providing real-time insights into performance, security, and stability issues before code is deployed. By facilitating collaboration, AppMap allows team members to address application behavior problems without replicating environments, and it supports automated generation of observability reports in continuous integration (CI) environments. The software is designed for ease of use within existing workflows, delivering comprehensive insights that help software engineers understand complex applications and accelerate the development of high-quality, secure code. This enables teams to maintain alignment and clarity in their software projects while proactively identifying and mitigating potential defects.
Gradient
Seed Round in 2023
Gradient is a developer of artificial intelligence models aimed at automating enterprise workloads. The company provides customizable and compute-efficient large language models, along with a development platform. This combination enables organizations to effectively harness artificial intelligence, streamlining their workflows and enhancing productivity. Through its offerings, Gradient facilitates the integration of advanced AI capabilities into various business processes, allowing enterprises to optimize operations and improve efficiency.
Synqly
Seed Round in 2023
Synqly operates an Integration-as-a-Service platform, specializing in the seamless and swift integration of infrastructure and security technologies. It connects and integrates various security products, removing barriers and fostering collaboration within the security ecosystem. This enables security vendors to offer easy-to-use integrations, scalable solutions, and flexible deployment options.
HiddenLayer
Series A in 2023
HiddenLayer specializes in cybersecurity solutions tailored for machine learning algorithms and models. The company provides a range of services, including threat modeling, machine learning risk assessment training, and red team assessments, as well as AI and ML model scanning. Their platform leverages machine learning to analyze interactions within models, allowing for the detection of malicious activity without needing access to the user's artificial intelligence model or sensitive training data. This enables businesses to effectively identify and defend against potential threats to their machine learning systems.
Riscosity
Seed Round in 2023
Riscosity is a data flow posture management platform that provides organizations with control, visibility, and compliance for data shared with third parties. The platform is designed to discover, manage, and secure digital supply chains, allowing users to identify and mitigate risks within their software supply chains. By inspecting source code, open-source code, operating system libraries, APIs, and third-party binaries, Riscosity enables organizations to uncover and manage potential liabilities associated with both internal and external application development. This comprehensive approach helps organizations ensure the security and compliance of their data interactions.
Lightup
Series A in 2023
Lightup is a no-code data quality platform that enables enterprises to achieve 100% data quality coverage 10x faster than legacy tools, across multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, on batch or streaming data – scalable in minutes, not months. With prebuilt pushdown data quality checks, AI-powered anomaly detection, real-time incident alerts, and integrated issue resolution management, Lightup empowers data teams to proactively monitor data health at fine granularity and quickly pinpoint bad data flowing in good data pipelines to ensure reliable, accurate business-critical data and prevent costly data outages, before they occur. Founded in 2019, with headquarters in Mountain View, CA, Lightup Data, Inc. is a Series A private startup company, backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Spectrum28.
Kibsi
Seed Round in 2022
Kibsi is a developer of an integrated platform that specializes in artificial intelligence-powered computer vision applications. It offers a cloud-native, low-code solution that simplifies the deployment of vision-based technologies, allowing users to leverage existing camera systems for immediate insights. By streamlining the complexities typically associated with computer vision, Kibsi enables businesses and enterprises to prioritize their operational needs and make informed decisions swiftly. The platform's focus on accessibility empowers a wider range of customers to harness the potential of computer vision without requiring extensive technical expertise.
SensCy
Seed Round in 2022
SensCy, founded in 2021 and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, specializes in providing cybersecurity solutions tailored for small and medium-sized organizations. The company has developed a platform that enhances the cybersecurity posture of these businesses by offering essential education, effective policies, and best practices. SensCy aims to demystify cybersecurity for its clients, significantly lowering the risk of severe incidents while preparing them to respond and recover in case of an attack. By focusing on affordability and clarity, the company fosters a proactive cybersecurity culture, ensuring that small businesses can safeguard their critical data effectively.
FireTail
Seed Round in 2022
FireTail is a cybersecurity company based in McLean, Virginia, established in 2021. It focuses on enhancing API security through a code-centric approach, recognizing that APIs are becoming the primary target for cyberattacks. The company's platform offers real-time protection for cloud applications and APIs, addressing vulnerabilities such as data breaches and hacking attempts. Key features include monitoring, alerts through various communication channels, centralized logging, and security posture management. Additionally, FireTail provides reporting and integration capabilities, along with enterprise support services, which help businesses and developers secure their data and information from third-party threats while ensuring visibility into performance metrics.
Neurelo
Seed Round in 2022
Neurelo is a technology company focused on transforming the way developers create and manage applications through its innovative data access platform. By providing a new programming interface for databases, Neurelo enhances developer productivity with features such as auto-generated REST and GraphQL data APIs, AI-driven custom-query APIs, and Schema as Code. The platform facilitates the entire application lifecycle by programmatically defining data models, enforcing access controls, and offering deep observability into data access patterns. This streamlined approach allows developers to build and scale their applications more effectively. Neurelo is privately held and supported by notable venture firms that prioritize developer-centric solutions.
Ghost Security
Series A in 2022
Ghost Security specializes in cyber security software aimed at enhancing application security for modern enterprises. The company develops solutions that integrate at every layer of the application stack, from edge to workloads and operational tools. By doing so, Ghost Security enables organizations to obtain contextually relevant security insights, facilitating the secure deployment of applications at cloud scale and in alignment with DevOps practices. Their focus is on creating a new standard in application security that meets the evolving needs of businesses in a digital landscape.
RegScale
Series A in 2022
RegScale is a compliance automation software company founded in 2021 and based in McLean, Virginia. The company focuses on helping organizations meet their compliance obligations in real-time through an API-centric approach that automates the collection, compilation, and reporting of regulatory data. By digitizing regulatory requirements, RegScale enables businesses to transition from manual, static compliance documentation to a dynamic and collaborative platform that produces audit-ready documentation. Its solutions are designed to integrate seamlessly into any environment and are tailored to industry-specific regulations, particularly in sectors like energy and financial services. This automation not only reduces compliance-related risks and costs but also enhances productivity by providing decision-makers with real-time visibility into compliance and operational risks.
HiddenLayer
Seed Round in 2022
HiddenLayer specializes in cybersecurity solutions tailored for machine learning algorithms and models. The company provides a range of services, including threat modeling, machine learning risk assessment training, and red team assessments, as well as AI and ML model scanning. Their platform leverages machine learning to analyze interactions within models, allowing for the detection of malicious activity without needing access to the user's artificial intelligence model or sensitive training data. This enables businesses to effectively identify and defend against potential threats to their machine learning systems.
OpenObserve
Seed Round in 2022
OpenObserve is a developer of an open-source observability platform that simplifies the monitoring of logs, metrics, and traces. The platform features a full-text search capability that allows users to efficiently navigate through application data while automatically discovering schema. This functionality enables clients to effectively monitor their systems and applications while reducing costs. OpenObserve aims to provide a high-performance solution that is accessible and easier to use, catering to organizations seeking a cost-effective approach to observability.
Passage
Seed Round in 2022
Passage is a modern identity for web and mobile applications. Passage is an innovator in the rapidly growing passwordless identity space. Founded in 2021, Passage is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States.
Evo Security
Seed Round in 2022
Evo Security is a cybersecurity SaaS company that specializes in identity and access management solutions. It offers a multi-factor authentication product called Evo MFA, tailored for managed service providers, managed security service providers, value-added resellers, and distributors. This white-labeled solution enables these partners to serve their small and medium-sized enterprise clients effectively. Evo Security's platform includes features such as multi-cloud authentication, login breach protection, single sign-on, privileged access management, and password management. By employing Evo Security's offerings, businesses can eliminate credential sharing, establish robust administrative permissions, enhance login security for their clients, and meet necessary insurance and compliance requirements.
Kibsi
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kibsi is a developer of an integrated platform that specializes in artificial intelligence-powered computer vision applications. It offers a cloud-native, low-code solution that simplifies the deployment of vision-based technologies, allowing users to leverage existing camera systems for immediate insights. By streamlining the complexities typically associated with computer vision, Kibsi enables businesses and enterprises to prioritize their operational needs and make informed decisions swiftly. The platform's focus on accessibility empowers a wider range of customers to harness the potential of computer vision without requiring extensive technical expertise.
Zenduty
Seed Round in 2021
Zenduty is a provider of a management and response orchestration platform designed to enhance operational health management. Its platform features an incident response dashboard that monitors the health of production operations, alongside end-to-end incident alerting and on-call management. This enables clients to effectively track their operational health and improve system uptime, ensuring a more efficient response to incidents.
Accurics
Seed Round in 2020
Accurics, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Pleasanton, California, that specializes in securing cloud-native infrastructure throughout the development and operational lifecycle. Founded in 2019, Accurics has developed a platform designed to protect hybrid and multi-cloud environments by scanning Infrastructure as Code for misconfigurations and potential vulnerabilities before the infrastructure is provisioned. The platform also continuously monitors production cloud deployments to detect changes that could introduce risks, allowing organizations to maintain a secure posture. By enabling organizations to codify security measures and programmatically address risks, Accurics supports compliance and governance efforts, fostering a secure environment for innovation in cloud technologies. The company also provides open-source tools to help organizations achieve cyber resilience.
Polly
Series A in 2019
Polly is a survey platform founded in 2015 by former Microsoft engineers Samir Diwan and Bilal Aijazi. The company specializes in employee engagement solutions, enabling businesses to create enterprise surveys and polls that facilitate quick feedback collection. Its platform features a chatbot that can be trained to gather, connect, and analyze data from employees, allowing organizations to enhance their workflows and improve both employee and customer experiences. Polly's clients include notable companies such as Soylent, Auth0, and Grammarly, and it is supported by various investors, including Amplify Partners, Slack Fund, Fathom Capital, and Madrona Venture Group.
CloudKnox Security
Series A in 2018
CloudKnox Security Inc. is a cloud security software company based in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in a multi-cloud permissions management platform that offers comprehensive visibility and automated management of permissions for cloud infrastructure resources and identities. The platform utilizes patented Activity-Based Authorization technology to continuously monitor and assess risks associated with user activities. It detects and remediates over-permissioned identities, whether human or machine, ensuring that only necessary permissions are granted. Additionally, the software provides insights for tracking risks and allows for the restriction of activities by suspicious users, as well as the creation and editing of reports.
Cobalt
Series A in 2018
Cobalt Labs, Inc. specializes in providing security solutions for bitcoin applications and modernizing penetration testing through its Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform. The company offers Cobalt Central, a secure inbox for managing bug reports and interacting with security researchers. Additionally, its CrowdCurity platform connects businesses with security experts via bug bounty programs. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Cobalt Labs also has offices in Berlin and Boston. By leveraging a global talent pool of certified freelancers, Cobalt's platform delivers actionable insights that help organizations identify, track, and resolve software vulnerabilities efficiently, resulting in quicker remediation times and improved return on investment for security testing.
Tala Security
Venture Round in 2017
Tala Security, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Fremont, California, founded in 2016. It offers an enterprise website security platform designed to protect critical web assets from various threats, including formjacking and advanced attacks. Tala's solutions are built on powerful web standards like Content Security Policy (CSP) and are completely agent-less, allowing for quick deployment across diverse web technologies. The platform automates security processes, providing businesses with the ability to secure their websites and applications in a matter of minutes. Tala's software also analyzes applications to extract security-relevant behaviors and offers insights into the attack surface, helping organizations track their security posture and mitigate potential data breaches and fraud. The company is led by experienced professionals with backgrounds in cybersecurity and is supported by venture capitalists and the National Science Foundation.
Attivo Networks
Series B in 2017
Attivo Networks, Inc. specializes in advanced cybersecurity solutions designed to detect, analyze, and respond to various cyber threats, including insider, credential, and ransomware attacks. The company offers a comprehensive Deception and Response Platform, which enhances visibility across user networks, data centers, and specialized environments such as IoT and industrial control systems. Its Honeynet Technology creates high-interaction traps to mislead attackers, allowing for the capture and analysis of attack activities. This platform also features a multi-dimensional correlation engine that identifies infected endpoints and tracks lateral movement, providing evidence-based alerts and detailed forensic reports. Attivo Networks simplifies incident response through ThreatOps playbooks and integrations for automated attack mitigation. Founded in 2011 and based in Fremont, California, the company serves both corporate and government sectors globally.
Section
Seed Round in 2017
Section is a cloud-native hosting provider that specializes in edge computing, allowing engineers to deploy and manage workloads with flexibility and control. Founded in 2012 in Australia and later relocating its headquarters to the United States in 2016, Section offers a sophisticated platform that optimizes application delivery across a global infrastructure. Its container-based approach supports Docker and Kubernetes, enabling the deployment of custom edge compute modules anywhere along the edge continuum. The platform is designed to address a range of challenges beyond traditional content delivery networks, focusing on performance, cost, and reliability in workload management. With offices in Sydney and Boulder, Section is supported by prominent venture capital firms and features a team of professionals from diverse backgrounds in engineering and development.
CyberGRX
Series A in 2016
CyberGRX is a cybersecurity company based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in third-party cyber risk management. The company offers a comprehensive platform designed to help organizations identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor their cyber risk exposure across their entire partner ecosystem. By leveraging automation and advanced analytics, CyberGRX enables enterprises to effectively manage and monitor risks associated with their vendors, partners, and customers. The platform provides a cost-effective and scalable solution, allowing organizations to gain complete visibility into their risk portfolio while facilitating real-time decision-making and predictive capabilities.
Tigera
Series A in 2016
Tigera, Inc. is a provider of open policy-driven networking solutions specifically designed for cloud-native applications. Incorporated in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, with an engineering office in Vancouver, Canada, the company offers Calico, a unified network security and observability platform. Calico is recognized as the most widely adopted container networking and security solution, effectively preventing, detecting, and mitigating security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. This software powers over 100 million containers across more than 8 million nodes globally, supporting all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions. Tigera's Canal product combines and refines existing cloud networking solutions, enabling enterprises to implement secure application connectivity in private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. Leading companies across various industries utilize Tigera’s technology to enhance the security and scalability of their applications.
Demisto
Series A in 2016
Demisto, Inc. operates a security orchestration, automation, and response platform designed to enhance the efficiency of security teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Tel Aviv, Israel, the company focuses on streamlining incident management and interactive investigation processes. Its platform integrates intelligent automation through a ChatOps interface, allowing teams to manage security incidents more effectively while leveraging existing security investments. Demisto's automated incident response capabilities, powered by an AI-driven bot, facilitate collaboration and enable organizations to efficiently execute playbook-based workflows and threat hunting operations. As a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Demisto continues to evolve its offerings to address the growing challenges in cybersecurity.
JASK
Seed Round in 2016
JASK, Inc. is a cybersecurity software company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company specializes in developing an advanced Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform known as the JASK ASOC. This platform utilizes cloud-native technologies to enhance security operations by improving visibility, automation, and architecture. By automating repetitive tasks that typically hinder productivity, JASK's solution enables security analysts to focus on more critical activities, such as threat hunting and vulnerability management. This approach addresses the growing talent shortage in the cybersecurity field. As of October 25, 2019, JASK operates as a subsidiary of Sumo Logic, Inc.
Icebrg
Seed Round in 2014
Icebrg is a network security software provider focused on risk reduction. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company offers a machine-recognition-based platform that enables businesses to implement enterprise-level security without the need for custom coding. This platform is designed to protect both proprietary and consumer data, allowing organizations and governments to swiftly mitigate risks. By providing real-time forensics, Icebrg helps its clients reduce their mean time to respond to security incidents.
KeyNexus
Seed Round in 2014
KeyNexus Inc. is a provider of cloud-based encryption key storage and provisioning services tailored for developers of cloud-based, enterprise, SaaS, and mobile applications. Based in Victoria, Canada, KeyNexus offers a secure platform that enables businesses to store their encryption keys safely offsite while maintaining compliance with industry standards, such as FIPS 140-2. This service effectively separates the encryption process from key management, allowing companies to implement robust encryption solutions across various environments. KeyNexus was formerly known as Dark Matter Labs Inc. and has been operational since 2005. The company was acquired by StorMagic Ltd. in April 2020, further enhancing its capabilities in the field of encryption and key management solutions.
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