Strategic Cyber Ventures

Strategic Cyber Ventures is led by a combined team of national and international leaders in the cybersecurity space; Strategic Cyber Ventures, leveraging the executive team’s combined 45 years of focused cyber operational experience, offers next-generation cyber firms the strategic vision, roadmap, and infrastructure to create differentiated cyber products and services to achieve maximum sustainable growth. Our team is fully engaged at all levels supporting the growth strategies of our portfolio companies. Our investments are selected as the combined result of our proprietary evaluation process and final evaluation and selection by our leadership team. As offense must inform defense – the stratagems employed by elite cybercriminals and spies will serve as a compass for our leadership team to employ for strategic investments of SCV. Continued engagement with our portfolio companies is what makes SCV unique. Our leadership team guides our portfolio firms from an informed cybersecurity position, a distinction from typical venture capital funding partnerships. The portfolio’s purposeful synergistic make-up allows for applicable alignments between our cyber firms.

Ann Barron-DiCamillo

Partner and CTO

13 past transactions

Cloudburst Technologies

Seed Round in 2023
Cloudburst Technologies provides realtime monitoring solutions and cyber threat intelligence tools.

Mash

Seed Round in 2022
The internet is fundamentally broken. It's because of monetization. “Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome.” Our mission is to remonetize the web by enabling value for value monetary exchanges between pubs/creators/orgs and their users. A new business model for the open internet. We are unlocking this with friction-minimized streaming payments that are no/low cost, instantly settled, trust-minimized. It is built on the best global digital monetary network ever conceived, Bitcoin. Enabled by Lightning Network. Most users don't need to know this or be a Bitcoiner. Over time we suspect many will.

HackNotice

Series A in 2022
HackNotice provides a company-wide threat intelligence service that alerts and informs employees of their risks and has them practice good security practices to protect themselves and the company. We help protect your business by making sure you know when hackers steal your data, identities, or threaten your partners and suppliers. With the largest collection of data breaches and leaks on the market, HackNotice alerts you to your business risks, preventing breaches and providing peace of mind.

Impervious.ai

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of Bitcoin’s third programmatic layer, Impervious.ai enables applications to utilize peer-to-peer streaming technology to circumvent intermediaries and harness censorship-resistant data transmission channels within their technology stacks. The company provides an API that allows any developer to build on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. The company's Dynamic VPN allows parties to securely send and receive information from behind hostile networks and denied access areas.

Voltage

Seed Round in 2022
Voltage is a Bitcoin infrastructure provider. It adds enterprise-grade capabilities to both Layer 1 and Layer 2 technologies. It provides Bitcoin-centric infrastructure to engineering teams, enabling enterprise-grade experiences. Users benefit from the fastest and most scalable Lightning solution that meets the highest security and privacy standards by leveraging Voltage. Users can build, deploy, and scale faster than ever before with modern modular tools and processes. Voltage brings to market a suite of node, liquidity, and data services that elevates your value proposition via Lightning Network architecture.

SnapAttack

Series A in 2021
SnapAttack is a collaborative platform for your security team, enabling them to better understand and stay ahead of threats, create robust behavioral analytics for your existing tools, and provide quantifiable evidence of your program’s effectiveness.

Impervious.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of Bitcoin’s third programmatic layer, Impervious.ai enables applications to utilize peer-to-peer streaming technology to circumvent intermediaries and harness censorship-resistant data transmission channels within their technology stacks. The company provides an API that allows any developer to build on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. The company's Dynamic VPN allows parties to securely send and receive information from behind hostile networks and denied access areas.

Polarity

Series A in 2019
Polarity is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of information technology and the Internet. Its software analyzes the contents of users'​ computer screens and gives them real-time access to information without affecting their existing workflow.

TrapX Security

Series C in 2019
TrapX Security provides deception-based cyber security defense that rapidly detect, deceive, and defeat advanced cyber attacks, and human attackers in real time. It provides an automated security grid for adaptive deception and defense that intercepts real-time threats while delivering the actionable intelligence to block attackers. The company's product, DeceptionGrid, provides automated, highly accurate insight into malicious activity unseen by other types of cyber defenses. It enables Global 2000 enterprises to detect, capture, and analyze Zero Day malware in use by effective Advanced Persistent Threat organizations. The TrapX Security customer base includes global 2000 commercial and government customers around the world in sectors including defense, healthcare, finance, energy, consumer products and other key industries. The company was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

TrapX Security

Series B in 2017
TrapX Security provides deception-based cyber security defense that rapidly detect, deceive, and defeat advanced cyber attacks, and human attackers in real time. It provides an automated security grid for adaptive deception and defense that intercepts real-time threats while delivering the actionable intelligence to block attackers. The company's product, DeceptionGrid, provides automated, highly accurate insight into malicious activity unseen by other types of cyber defenses. It enables Global 2000 enterprises to detect, capture, and analyze Zero Day malware in use by effective Advanced Persistent Threat organizations. The TrapX Security customer base includes global 2000 commercial and government customers around the world in sectors including defense, healthcare, finance, energy, consumer products and other key industries. The company was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Polarity

Series A in 2017
Polarity is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of information technology and the Internet. Its software analyzes the contents of users'​ computer screens and gives them real-time access to information without affecting their existing workflow.

ID Dataweb

Series B in 2017
ID Dataweb is the leading identity security platform, trusted by Fortune 500 companies and proven in the public sector. Our comprehensive solution enables identity verification and authentication across every channel—web, mobile, call center, and in-person. We never store PII. We integrate over 70 best-in-class tools through our patented Attribute Exchange Network (AXN), ensuring robust identity proofing and adaptive authentication. With low/no-code configuration of workflows and policies, centralized reporting across the entire identity lifecycle, and frictionless yet highly secure processes, ID Dataweb is your trusted partner in preventing account fraud and securing digital interactions.

E8 Security

Series B in 2016
E8 Security helps enterprises analyze and detect advanced attacks and malicious insider activities. The company was founded by security experts (Google, Visa, Loglogic) with complementary skills and experience in threat modeling and big data. The company is backed by top-tier investors and a strong advisory board.
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