NetRise offers a cloud-based platform for automated software supply chain detection and risk management. It focuses on identifying vulnerabilities within software components, enhancing cybersecurity posture, and mitigating risks associated with firmware and software dependencies.
Wyvern
Venture Round in 2024
Wyvern operates space satellites equipped with hyperspectral sensors, capturing high-resolution imagery across multiple spectral bands. This enables diverse applications such as agriculture monitoring, forestry management, environmental assessment, and geospatial intelligence.
Foundersuite
Series A in 2024
Foundersuite, Inc. is a software company that specializes in providing startup management tools for entrepreneurs. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a comprehensive suite of software solutions designed to streamline various aspects of startup operations. Its platform includes features such as the Investor CRM for managing investor relationships, a Progress Tracker to monitor company development, and a Startup Docs module that provides essential documents and templates for entrepreneurs. Additionally, Foundersuite offers an Investor Search tool to assist in identifying potential investors, as well as tools for email marketing and managing investor updates. The company's solutions aim to support startup founders in focusing on product development, sales, and team building while simplifying corporate housekeeping and fundraising efforts.
Datalogz is a company that specializes in a platform designed for data discovery and understanding, focused on reducing data ambiguity from various sources. Its platform offers a suite of features, including a data catalog, data lineage, data governance, and a data glossary. These tools empower data scientists and analysts to utilize AI-driven recommendations, thereby enhancing project quality and minimizing inefficiencies in workflows. By streamlining the data management process, Datalogz aims to facilitate better decision-making and foster a clearer understanding of data across organizations.
Tidal Cyber
Seed Round in 2023
Tidal Cyber is a developer of a threat-informed defense platform that assists enterprise organizations in optimizing their cybersecurity defenses, operations, and investments. The company provides validated insights that enhance the ability to defend against significant threats, while also facilitating the assessment, organization, and optimization of security measures. By focusing on the behaviors of adversaries that are most relevant to its clients, Tidal Cyber enables organizations to define, measure, and improve their defense capabilities. This approach helps eliminate redundant mitigations and strengthens the overall security posture of its clients.
Falcomm
Seed Round in 2023
Falcomm is a fabless integrated circuit design startup focused on providing energy-efficient power amplifier and front-end module products for the 5G mmWave market. The company addresses a critical challenge in 5G communication—enhancing transmitter power and efficiency—by developing a patented technology known as the Dual-Drive power amplifier (PA). This innovative design surpasses the long-standing theoretical efficiency limit of 78.5%, achieving drain efficiencies that are 20% higher than existing state-of-the-art power amplifiers in the mmWave frequency range. Fully tested and verified, Falcomm's technology is compatible with the latest 5G NR modulation standards, delivering Gb/s data rates with remarkable efficiency. By improving the efficiency and thermal performance of power amplifiers, Falcomm's products can significantly reduce thermal management costs and simplify system requirements for various manufacturers, including those in base stations, mobile devices, and radar systems.
SysGit creates a setting for engineering collaboration that reduces conflict when analyzing, managing, or designing complex systems. The company created a workflow for inclusive digital engineering that makes it simple to integrate different data sets from various design systems and tools. Prewitt Ridge's product Verve is an engineering collaboration environment that eases friction in complex systems. Within the tools where they are created, Verve records and manages engineering requirements for large, complex datasets.
NetRise
Venture Round in 2023
NetRise offers a cloud-based platform for automated software supply chain detection and risk management. It focuses on identifying vulnerabilities within software components, enhancing cybersecurity posture, and mitigating risks associated with firmware and software dependencies.
Datalogz
Venture Round in 2023
Datalogz is a company that specializes in a platform designed for data discovery and understanding, focused on reducing data ambiguity from various sources. Its platform offers a suite of features, including a data catalog, data lineage, data governance, and a data glossary. These tools empower data scientists and analysts to utilize AI-driven recommendations, thereby enhancing project quality and minimizing inefficiencies in workflows. By streamlining the data management process, Datalogz aims to facilitate better decision-making and foster a clearer understanding of data across organizations.
VirgilHR
Pre Seed Round in 2022
VirgilHR is a SaaS platform that empowers HR professionals by providing real-time, automated employment and labor law guidance. It covers federal, state, labor laws, and local regulations, enabling clients to make well-informed decisions.
Overwatch Imaging
Series A in 2022
Overwatch Imaging designs and manufactures multispectral imaging systems with onboard AI software for piloted aircraft and unmanned systems. The systems automate the search for small objects of interest across large geographies and continuous data streams, supporting applications such as automated land surveillance, maritime patrol and search, and linear infrastructure inspection. The software is compatible across sensor platforms and uses computer vision, GPU processing, AI and sensor fusion to autonomously collect and analyze geospatial data in real time, delivering mission-specific intelligence for operators to review and act. Founded in 2016 and based in Hood River, Oregon.
Instant Teams
Series A in 2022
Instant Teams is a technology-enabled company based in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, specializing in providing remote workforce solutions. Founded in 2016, the company offers Arti, a platform that helps hiring managers define talent needs and matches pre-qualified, native English-speaking team members to projects. Instant Teams focuses on building high-quality customer support and operational teams, with a particular emphasis on military spouses and underserved talent communities, enabling 24/7 global support. The company's management platform handles payroll, compliance, time tracking, and reporting, making it a comprehensive solution for scaling and managing support operations. Notable customers include Walmart, Amazon, CrowdStrike, Assurance, and SeeSaw.
Shift5, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing products and systems designed to protect operational technology platforms, such as aircraft, spacecraft, ground combat vehicles, and construction machinery. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Shift5 offers a range of hardware and software solutions, including its Shift5 Intake data recorder, which collects and transmits embedded data in real-time to detect intrusions. The company also provides Shift5 Engine, which employs rule-based and model-based analytics for identifying cyber attacks on internal communication networks, and Shift5 Gauge Cluster for data capturing and analytics. Additionally, Shift5 focuses on delivering intrusion detection and prevention capabilities, secure code delivery verification, and fault reporting across various standard and custom protocols, aiding both government and commercial clients in safeguarding critical infrastructure from cyber threats.
Sicura offers a DevSecOps platform that automatically enforces and remediates technical security controls. It provides enterprise compliance profiles, supports Windows and Linux operating systems, and offers real-time scan status via data console, enhancing efficiency and threat readiness across industries.
Care Advisors
Seed Round in 2020
CareAdvisors is a minority-owned technology company dedicated to enhancing healthcare equity in the United States. The company automates the manual enrollment process for healthcare and social service benefits, thereby facilitating rapid access for millions of individuals. By streamlining this process, CareAdvisors aids healthcare organizations in reducing uncompensated care costs and addressing delays in treatment and payments. The founding team, with over a decade of experience in building community resource directories, emphasizes a personalized approach to patient care, providing one-on-one assistance through trained health navigators. These navigators work to dismantle barriers to quality healthcare and are integral to the coverage-to-care model established by the Affordable Care Act. CareAdvisors also offers training programs designed to prepare future health professionals, focusing on cultural competencies and real-world applications of health informatics. Their innovative platform connects healthcare providers with patients while enhancing the capacity of care coordinators and social workers, ultimately aiming to improve community health outcomes.
Instant Teams
Venture Round in 2020
Instant Teams is a technology-enabled company based in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, specializing in providing remote workforce solutions. Founded in 2016, the company offers Arti, a platform that helps hiring managers define talent needs and matches pre-qualified, native English-speaking team members to projects. Instant Teams focuses on building high-quality customer support and operational teams, with a particular emphasis on military spouses and underserved talent communities, enabling 24/7 global support. The company's management platform handles payroll, compliance, time tracking, and reporting, making it a comprehensive solution for scaling and managing support operations. Notable customers include Walmart, Amazon, CrowdStrike, Assurance, and SeeSaw.
Pinkaloo Technologies
Venture Round in 2019
Pinkaloo Technologies, Inc. is a Baltimore-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in developing a philanthropic engagement platform. The company's software-as-a-service solution modernizes charitable giving by offering a comprehensive tool for users to manage their donations effectively. Through its Modern Giving account, Pinkaloo allows donors to budget for their giving, discover charities aligned with their interests, and donate to any organization at their convenience. Additionally, the platform centralizes tax receipts, simplifying the process come tax season. By partnering with employers and financial institutions, Pinkaloo equips clients with a turn-key solution to enhance engagement and facilitate philanthropy within their communities, thereby promoting a culture of giving in the corporate sector.
Shift5, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in developing products and systems designed to protect operational technology platforms, such as aircraft, spacecraft, ground combat vehicles, and construction machinery. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Shift5 offers a range of hardware and software solutions, including its Shift5 Intake data recorder, which collects and transmits embedded data in real-time to detect intrusions. The company also provides Shift5 Engine, which employs rule-based and model-based analytics for identifying cyber attacks on internal communication networks, and Shift5 Gauge Cluster for data capturing and analytics. Additionally, Shift5 focuses on delivering intrusion detection and prevention capabilities, secure code delivery verification, and fault reporting across various standard and custom protocols, aiding both government and commercial clients in safeguarding critical infrastructure from cyber threats.