Michael Sutton

Founder

35 past transactions

Feroot, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Feroot, Inc. develops intrusion and threat detection platform. It offers Client-facing attack surface monitoring, real time notifications, security access analysis, keystroke sniffing, asset discovery; Alerts and notifications, integrations, data skimming and unauthorized transfer, scripts; Forensics, caching and storing, script difference, loading chain; and Custom scenarios. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Viso Trust

Seed Round in 2021
Imagine your next vendor review, is already done. VISO Trust puts reliable, comprehensive, actionable vendor security information directly in the hands of decisionmakers who need to make informed risk assessments.

Cybrary

Series B in 2019
Cybrary is the fastest growing, fastest-moving catalog in the industry. By working with an elite community of instructors, experts, and thought leaders, as well as cutting edge hands-on learning providers, we deliver relevant and high-quality content that is accessible anytime, anywhere. Cyber security and IT companies on Cybrary can play a role in the learning by contributing courses and content. Companies can also use their presence to recruit talent. Finally, companies looking to train their employees can use Cybrary's "Teams" product, to manage the training that their employees are taking on the platform. The product also provides hands-on CTF style challenges, practical labs and skill assessments.

LimaCharlie

Seed Round in 2022
Security Infrastructure as a Service (SIaaS). LimaCharlie abstracts away the hard parts of information security and delivers them on-demand (or à la carte) at scale in a manner similar to any major cloud provider drastically reducing costs and effort. We supply all the tools to run an MSSP or SOC as well as providing API’s that allow users to build and monetize their own products.

Build.Security

Seed Round in 2020
Build Security Ltd. provides an authorization policy management platform for developers to bake authorization policy management right into their applications. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Vulcan Cyber

Seed Round in 2018
Vulcan Cyber Ltd. operates a vulnerability remediation platform. It provides a technology platform, which integrates, automates, and orchestrates existing tools and processes and lets security teams gain the insight needed and take the action required to continuously eliminate exposed vulnerabilities in their production systems. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel with an additional office in San Fracisco, California.

Grip Security

Seed Round in 2021
Grip Security, the pioneer in SaaS security, brings the industry’s most comprehensive visibility across an enterprise’s entire SaaS portfolio – known or unknown for SaaS applications, users, and their interactions – with extreme accuracy and deployment in minutes

Orca Security

Seed Round in 2019
Orca Security Ltd. develops and operates a cloud native security platform that secures both customers’ own cloud native and legacy applications migrated to the cloud without agents. It utilizes integration into the cloud infrastructure layer to assess the security state of every discovered asset; encompasses the cloud control plane, operating system, applications and business data; delivers visibility into compromised resources, vulnerable software, and misconfigurations; utilizes read-only access with no impact on performance or availability; and allows IT security teams to do agent deploying or network scanning. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Attila

Series A in 2020
Attila Security, Inc develops servers for networks and data access on virtual and cloud applications. The company offers GoSilent Cube, a portable enterprise-grade firewall and virtual private network for data security; GoSilent Global, a provider of data access on public network through dual Internet protocol (IP) obfuscation; and GoSilent Server, which provides access to data center applications and cloud services in enterprise firewall. It serves governments and enterprises. Attila Security, Inc was formerly known as Tunl, Inc. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Columbia, Maryland.

Anno.Ai

Seed Round in 2019
Anno.Ai develops a hosted platform to curate training data for machine learning (ML) operations. The company allows users to create a project, customize labels, add members, and upload data for ML models and annotation of data. The company is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia.

Scytale.io

Series A in 2019
Scytale was started in 2017 by seasoned engineers from Amazon Web Services, Google, Okta, PagerDuty, Splunk, and Duo Security who want to help enterprise engineers securely and easily build identity-driven, large-scale distributed software systems. They are breathing life into some select ideas we saw unlock innovation and speed at not only these companies, but also at other large-scale, global Internet companies. With the rise of cloud computing, software "containers,"​ and distributed, service-oriented engineering teams, software developers, IT operations managers, and security engineers are being challenged to operate effectively in an increasingly complex and fragmented enterprise IT environment.

GreyNoise Intelligence

Private Placement 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.

TrueFort

Series A in 2019
TrueFort Fortress is a comprehensive, real-time cloud and application workload protection solution that secures the largest, most targeted and most dynamic, part of the enterprise attack surface … its application environment. It leverages telemetry from your existing agents and delivers more value than point or infrastructure-focused solutions. Best of all, it is a single console, policy, and reporting system from which to measure, control and immediately improve your risk posture.

Vulcan Cyber

Series A in 2019
Vulcan Cyber Ltd. operates a vulnerability remediation platform. It provides a technology platform, which integrates, automates, and orchestrates existing tools and processes and lets security teams gain the insight needed and take the action required to continuously eliminate exposed vulnerabilities in their production systems. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel with an additional office in San Fracisco, California.

Emu Technology

Convertible Note in 2018
EMU Solutions, Inc. develops and delivers hardware and software technology for enhancing memory utilization. Its technology enables users to eliminate data bottlenecks on microprocessors. EMU Solutions, Inc. has strategic partnerships with Graham Allen Partners, LLC; Aunalytics, Inc.; Data Realty, LLC; and Qumulus Solutions. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in South Bend, Indiana.

Racktop Systems

Series A in 2019
RackTop was founded by intelligence community veterans who have been solving the most complex data and security problems for over two decades. Today, RackTop develops innovative software products that are revolutionizing the data storage industry by combining high-performance network attached storage with advanced security to solve the most difficult compliance and cyber security challenges facing the modern enterprise. RackTop’s products are unified under a single platform, offering reduced complexity, improved security, and significant cost savings over traditional solutions.

Scytale.io

Series A in 2019
Scytale was started in 2017 by seasoned engineers from Amazon Web Services, Google, Okta, PagerDuty, Splunk, and Duo Security who want to help enterprise engineers securely and easily build identity-driven, large-scale distributed software systems. They are breathing life into some select ideas we saw unlock innovation and speed at not only these companies, but also at other large-scale, global Internet companies. With the rise of cloud computing, software "containers,"​ and distributed, service-oriented engineering teams, software developers, IT operations managers, and security engineers are being challenged to operate effectively in an increasingly complex and fragmented enterprise IT environment.

Valence Security

Series A in 2022
Valence Security is the first Business Application Mesh security company focused on managing the risks from third-party integrations and securing app-to-app connectivity.

SCYTHE

Seed Round in 2018
Scythe INC. designs and develops a platform that allows organizations to build and emulate combinations of adversarial campaign to test an organization’s security controls with granularity. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

Todyl

Venture Round in 2020
Todyl's Secure Global Network was built with security baked in, not bolted on, helping channel partners address some of the toughest challenges facing businesses today. Todyl consolidates multiple security products, features integrated SIEM and GRC, reduce the attack surface area and leverages our patent-pending ZeroTrust technology to stop threats like ransomware and Fileless Malware from spreading. With Todyl, partners can deliver world-class, cost-effective security programs to businesses of any size.

HighSide

Seed Round in 2017
Powered by a distributed cryptographic key management infrastructure, HighSide’s suite of products enable businesses to engage securely in a remote first world. At HighSide we build technology to enable the modern business addressing challenges in productivity, sharing and engagement typically stymied by data security and data access requirements. Through our zero-trust technology, teams have access to a modern unified communications and file sharing platform including voice, video, text and files, reducing risk of shadow IT and reliance on dated and insecure communications channels.

Todyl

Series A in 2022
Todyl's Secure Global Network was built with security baked in, not bolted on, helping channel partners address some of the toughest challenges facing businesses today. Todyl consolidates multiple security products, features integrated SIEM and GRC, reduce the attack surface area and leverages our patent-pending ZeroTrust technology to stop threats like ransomware and Fileless Malware from spreading. With Todyl, partners can deliver world-class, cost-effective security programs to businesses of any size.

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.

Huntress

Seed Round in 2019
Huntress is an information technology company that provides threat detection and actionable cybersecurity intelligence. It empowers IT Departments and Managed Service Providers (MSP) to expand their capabilities and confidently address their customers’ most complex cybersecurity challenges. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Maryland, United States.

SecureCircle

Seed Round in 2020
SecureCircle delivers a SaaS-based cybersecurity service that extends Zero Trust security to data on the endpoint. At SecureCircle, we believe frictionless data security drives business value for our customers. End users operate without obstacles, while data is continuously secured against breaches and insider threats. Instead of relying on complex reactive measures, we simply secure data persistently in transit, at rest, and even in use.

DeepSig

Series A in 2020
DeepSig is an early-stage startup that develops deep learning software to reinvent wireless communications. By replacing core wireless technology with deep learning, DeepSig makes communication systems faster, more cost-efficient, more secure, and able to excel in complex environments. It uses machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to learn optimized models directly from data rather than manually designing specialized algorithms, transforming wireless for 5G, IoT, and security.

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.

Todyl

Series B in 2024
Todyl's Secure Global Network was built with security baked in, not bolted on, helping channel partners address some of the toughest challenges facing businesses today. Todyl consolidates multiple security products, features integrated SIEM and GRC, reduce the attack surface area and leverages our patent-pending ZeroTrust technology to stop threats like ransomware and Fileless Malware from spreading. With Todyl, partners can deliver world-class, cost-effective security programs to businesses of any size.

LimaCharlie

Series A in 2024
Security Infrastructure as a Service (SIaaS). LimaCharlie abstracts away the hard parts of information security and delivers them on-demand (or à la carte) at scale in a manner similar to any major cloud provider drastically reducing costs and effort. We supply all the tools to run an MSSP or SOC as well as providing API’s that allow users to build and monetize their own products.

Binarly

Seed Round in 2022
Provider of an AI-powered platform intended to protect devices from emerging firmware and hardware threats. The company's platform performs in-depth introspection of firmware and uses proprietary machine learning and code analysis techniques to find known and unknown threats and vulnerabilities, enabling individuals and organizations to add the missing layer of defense and detect threats originating below the operating system.

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.