Silicon Valley CISO Investments

Silicon Valley CISO Investments (“SVCI”) is a group of Chief Information Security Officers (“CISO”) that operate as an angel investor syndicate. Founded in 2019, SVCI is already successfully pursuing its mission of fuelling the next generation of cybersecurity innovation. The group identifies promising startups, invests in them and leverages its members’ unmatched industry expertise to help the companies thrive.

Yunger, Oren

Co-Founder

14 past transactions

Wing Security

Series A in 2022
Wing Security is a security leader that aims to ensure SaaS security is strong, always on, and consistent, without onboarding dozens of vendors. They provide comprehensive, accessible, and simple SaaS security for organizations anywhere. Wing Security was founded by the former CISO and Head of Cyber Defense for the Israeli Defense Forces with the goal of providing consumers with automated, self-service SaaS application security tools.

Incode Technologies

Series B in 2021
Incode Technologies is a digital identity company that builds delightful and secure biometric identity products for frictionless banking, payment, hospitality, and retail experiences. Incode is recognized as a leader in enterprise-grade facial recognition by the US Government. Built for the next generation of consumers, Incode’s products are already used by some of the world’s largest banks, financial institutions, governments, and retailers. Incode sets a new standard in convenience and security for those who matter the most: the end-users. Incode was founded in 2015 by a passionate serial entrepreneur and a group of hard-working, goal-crushing individuals. Headquartered in San Francisco, Incode operates globally with additional offices in Europe and Latin America.

Lucidum

Series A in 2021
Lucidum is the asset discovery company that eliminates blind spots across cloud, security and IT operations. Fortune 500 companies rely on the Lucidum platform and its patent-pending machine learning to discover, triangulate and identify all assets – even previously unknown unknowns – delivering visibility essential to truly secure, manage, and transform your enterprise. Backed by GGV Capital and Silicon Valley CISO Investors (SVCI), Lucidum is based in San Jose, California.

Tromzo

Seed Round in 2021
Developer-first AppSec management platform that eliminates friction between developers and security so you can scale your application security program.

Drata

Series A in 2021
Drata is a Trust Management Platform with the mission to help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. Drata helps thousands of companies streamline their security compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, CMMC, NIST CSF, etc.) through continuous, automated control monitoring and evidence collection, resulting in lower costs and time spent preparing for annual audits. Drata was founded in 2020 by Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz and is based in San Diego, California, United States.

Cyral

Series B in 2021
Cyral delivers visibility, control, and security for the Data Cloud. It has developed a lightweight service to intercept all requests from all apps, tools, and users to any structured or semi-structured data store, without impacting performance or scalability. It helps companies with assurance, segmentation, and governance of their data services in the cloud. Benefits for organizations using Cyral include the Identity Federation and Zero Trust - unified data access management for all data repositories using your existing identity provider. Identify users behind shared service credentials from BI tools and apps. Simplify privileged access approvals and break glass procedures; Data Segmentation - enforce the least privilege and segregation of duties across all your users and data repositories. Protect data spillage from one application tenant to another due to logic and configuration errors. Secure data from exfiltration without requiring any changes to applications; and Data Activity Monitoring - provide a complete, real-time activity trail of all accesses to data, by underlying user or tenant, and track who did what. Speed up audits and forensics, troubleshoot performance issues faster, and simplify compliance checks.

Tines

Series B in 2021
Tines is a no-code workflow automation platform tailored for security teams, allowing them to easily build, run, and monitor workflows. The platform offers a free Community Edition, enabling users to explore its features and capabilities.

Orca Security

Series C in 2021
Cloud Security, Cloud Compliance, Vulnerability Management, AWS Security, Microsoft Azure Security, Google Cloud Platform Security, Oracle Cloud. Orca’s cloud-native solution reads a company’s cloud configuration and can detect malware, misconfigurations, and other vulnerabilities. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Portland and Israel.

Wing Security

Seed Round in 2021
Wing Security is a security leader that aims to ensure SaaS security is strong, always on, and consistent, without onboarding dozens of vendors. They provide comprehensive, accessible, and simple SaaS security for organizations anywhere. Wing Security was founded by the former CISO and Head of Cyber Defense for the Israeli Defense Forces with the goal of providing consumers with automated, self-service SaaS application security tools.

Tonic.ai

Series A in 2020
Tonic empowers developers while protecting customer privacy by enabling companies to create safe, synthetic versions of their data for use in software development and testing. Founded in 2018 with offices in San Francisco and Atlanta, the company is pioneering enterprise tools for database subsetting, de-identification, and synthesis. Thousands of developers use data generated with Tonic on a daily basis to build their products faster in industries as wide ranging as healthcare, financial services, logistics, edtech, and e-commerce. Working with customers like eBay, Flexport, and PwC, Tonic innovates to advance their goal of advocating for the privacy of individuals while enabling companies to do their best work. For more information, visit Tonic.ai.

Orca Security

Series B in 2020
Cloud Security, Cloud Compliance, Vulnerability Management, AWS Security, Microsoft Azure Security, Google Cloud Platform Security, Oracle Cloud. Orca’s cloud-native solution reads a company’s cloud configuration and can detect malware, misconfigurations, and other vulnerabilities. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Portland and Israel.

Lucidum

Seed Round in 2020
Lucidum is the asset discovery company that eliminates blind spots across cloud, security and IT operations. Fortune 500 companies rely on the Lucidum platform and its patent-pending machine learning to discover, triangulate and identify all assets – even previously unknown unknowns – delivering visibility essential to truly secure, manage, and transform your enterprise. Backed by GGV Capital and Silicon Valley CISO Investors (SVCI), Lucidum is based in San Jose, California.

Orca Security

Series A in 2020
Cloud Security, Cloud Compliance, Vulnerability Management, AWS Security, Microsoft Azure Security, Google Cloud Platform Security, Oracle Cloud. Orca’s cloud-native solution reads a company’s cloud configuration and can detect malware, misconfigurations, and other vulnerabilities. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Portland and Israel.

Cyral

Series A in 2020
Cyral delivers visibility, control, and security for the Data Cloud. It has developed a lightweight service to intercept all requests from all apps, tools, and users to any structured or semi-structured data store, without impacting performance or scalability. It helps companies with assurance, segmentation, and governance of their data services in the cloud. Benefits for organizations using Cyral include the Identity Federation and Zero Trust - unified data access management for all data repositories using your existing identity provider. Identify users behind shared service credentials from BI tools and apps. Simplify privileged access approvals and break glass procedures; Data Segmentation - enforce the least privilege and segregation of duties across all your users and data repositories. Protect data spillage from one application tenant to another due to logic and configuration errors. Secure data from exfiltration without requiring any changes to applications; and Data Activity Monitoring - provide a complete, real-time activity trail of all accesses to data, by underlying user or tenant, and track who did what. Speed up audits and forensics, troubleshoot performance issues faster, and simplify compliance checks.
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