Investors in Penetration Testing

Insight Partners is the most trusted scale-up firm in the software industry. Their team of industry-leading experts partner with companies to drive extraordinary success that is fueled by know-how, grit, and hands-on collaboration. Founded in 1995, Insight currently has over $20 billion of assets under management and has cumulatively invested in more than 300 companies worldwide. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief: growth equals opportunity.

LiveOak Venture Partners LP is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, series A, startups, and early stage lead investments. It prefers to invest in startups and technology companies with a focus on information technology, cleantech, wireless, enterprise, components and technology enabled services. The firm prefers to invest in Texas, with a focus on Austin, North Texas with a focus on Dallas, and the Southwest. The firm seeks to make an initial investment between $0.25 million and $4 million and further investments between $5 million and $8 million in the companies. The firm prefers to take a board seat on its portfolio companies. LiveOak Venture Partners was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas.

C5 Capital a family capital-backed investment firm, they build long-term relationships with committed investors, innovative founder teams and global companies keen to maintain their edge. Operating out of London, Luxembourg, Cape Town, Washington D.C. and Manama, they identify, nurture and support partners, whether they’re just starting out, or embarking on the next phase of their growth. Given their specialist industry knowledge and execution capability throughout EMEA, they are able to offer a powerful combination of expertise, funding and growth opportunities, all the while ensuring that they are contributing to the public good.

Paladin Capital Group, established in 2001, is a global investor specializing in venture investment, expansion, and growth capital for innovative companies. With a focus on technologies, products, and services with dual-use applications in commercial and governmental markets, Paladin brings financial expertise, national security knowledge, and technical competence to add value across various industries and company stages. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with additional offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, London, and Luxembourg, Paladin actively invests in digital infrastructure resilience, supporting advanced technologies and solutions that safeguard critical cyber-dependent infrastructure worldwide.

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors who manage portfolios in the U.S., China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. The firm is a trusted partner to some of the world’s most innovative entrepreneurs, supporting them with unmatched operating experience and deep access to the capital, talent, partners and customers they need to build truly global businesses.

Toba Capital is an investment firm committed to helping create incredible technology companies. We specialize in business applications, IT, and internet infrastructure markets.

Lightspeed is a global venture capital firm investing in earliest stages companies. Since 1999, Lightspeed has backed more than 350 companies in the enterprise and consumer sectors—companies that have gone on to redefine the way we live and work. And many of them have chosen Lightspeed as a lead investor in their subsequent ventures.

Serra Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in technology companies in emerging Midwest technology centers and selected other geographies. Sectors we focus on include information technology, devices/instrumentation and agricultural technologies.

ABS Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers early-stage investment services to firms in the education, healthcare, and tech-enabled service industries. It was founded in 1990 by Tim Weglicki and Don Hebb and is based in Maryland.

Established in 1995, Valor Equity Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm that is focused on providing investments in consumer, infrastructure, industrial services and manufacturing sectors in the United States.