Evolution Equity Partners

Founded in 2008, Evolution Equity Partners is an international venture capital firm headquartered in New York. It focuses on cybersecurity, enterprise software, and consumer-related opportunities, providing significant resources to portfolio companies for expansion into global markets.

Yuval Ben-itzhak

Partner

Ollie Bone

Investor

Heather Fraser

CFO and COO

Sylwia Hadaj

Principal

Eduardo Martinez

Vice President

Ash Rathi

Analyst

Stephan Riesen

CFO

Heather Rodriguez

Venture Partner

Richard Seewald

Managing Partner

J.R. Smith

Partner

Dennis Smith

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Bernhard Vogeli Ph.D

COO and Partner

Austin Walter

Associate

Past deals in Network Security

Pentera

Series D in 2025
Pentera is a leading provider of Automated Security Validation solutions. It empowers organizations to test the integrity of their cybersecurity layers across the entire attack surface continuously. By simulating real-world attacks, Pentera identifies genuine security vulnerabilities and guides remediation efforts.

Anvilogic

Series C in 2024
Anvilogic develops an AI‑driven cybersecurity detection platform that integrates with existing SIEM systems. The solution replaces costly, siloed detection tools with a modular engine, thousands of curated threat scenarios, and an AI security copilot. It leverages a scalable data lake to ingest high‑volume data sources, enabling rapid threat identification and triage without disrupting current operations. Clients in banking, aviation, and technology use the platform to improve detection coverage and reduce costs.

Phosphorus Cybersecurity

Series A in 2023
Phosphorus Cybersecurity is an IoT security management and breach prevention platform for the xTended Internet of Things. Designed to secure the rapidly growing and often unmonitored world of Things across the enterprise xIoT landscape, our Unified xIoT Security Management Platform delivers attack surface management across every industry vertical, providing intelligent active discovery and risk assessment, hardening and remediation, and detection and response. It brings enterprise xIoT security to every cyber-physical system in your enterprise environment. With unrivaled IoT Intelligent Active Discovery and risk assessment, Phosphorus automates the remediation of the most significant IoT, OT, IoMT, and IIoT device vulnerabilities – including unknown and inaccurate asset inventory, out-of-date firmware, default credentials, risky configurations, and out-of-date certificates.

Pentera

Series C in 2022
Pentera is a leading provider of Automated Security Validation solutions. It empowers organizations to test the integrity of their cybersecurity layers across the entire attack surface continuously. By simulating real-world attacks, Pentera identifies genuine security vulnerabilities and guides remediation efforts.

TrueFort

Series B in 2021
TrueFort specializes in real-time application and cloud workload protection. Founded in 2015, the company offers solutions such as application-first security, out-of-box analytics for applications, and bring-your-own-agent capabilities. Its flagship product, Fortress, employs advanced behavioral analysis and automation to enhance security across diverse environments.

SecurityScorecard

Series E in 2021
SecurityScorecard, Inc., founded in 2013 by Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, is a leading provider of cybersecurity ratings and continuous monitoring services. The company's platform assesses the cybersecurity strength of third-party vendors and businesses, offering solutions like ThreatMarket, a cloud-based vulnerability search engine, and Score Planner for remediation paths. SecurityScorecard serves Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide, providing tools for vendor risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting. Its patented technology rates over a million companies continuously, enabling organizations to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. The company is based in New York, New York.

CounterCraft

Seed Round in 2020
CounterCraft specializes in advanced cyber deception technology to detect and control targeted attacks. Its Threat Deception platform creates decoy environments, fooling attackers into engaging with false information instead of real systems. This provides more time for response and generates relevant threat intelligence. CounterCraft serves Fortune500 companies globally, including financial institutions and governments.

Arista NDR

Series C in 2020
Awake Security, Inc. specializes in network traffic analysis, providing a platform that autonomously identifies and assesses threats within various network environments. Founded in 2014 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company offers its Awake platform, which leverages machine learning, threat intelligence, and human expertise to analyze vast amounts of communication data. This platform profiles and classifies users, devices, and applications, enabling the detection of malicious intent from both insider and external threats. With capabilities for automated investigation and response, Awake enhances security team productivity by delivering actionable insights rather than mere alerts. Furthermore, the company offers security strategy and advisory solutions, ensuring comprehensive protection across traditional, IoT, and cloud networks. Awake Security operates as a subsidiary of Arista Networks, Inc. as of October 2020.

TrueFort

Series A in 2019
TrueFort specializes in real-time application and cloud workload protection. Founded in 2015, the company offers solutions such as application-first security, out-of-box analytics for applications, and bring-your-own-agent capabilities. Its flagship product, Fortress, employs advanced behavioral analysis and automation to enhance security across diverse environments.

SecurityScorecard

Series D in 2019
SecurityScorecard, Inc., founded in 2013 by Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, is a leading provider of cybersecurity ratings and continuous monitoring services. The company's platform assesses the cybersecurity strength of third-party vendors and businesses, offering solutions like ThreatMarket, a cloud-based vulnerability search engine, and Score Planner for remediation paths. SecurityScorecard serves Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide, providing tools for vendor risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting. Its patented technology rates over a million companies continuously, enabling organizations to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. The company is based in New York, New York.

Arqit

Funding Round in 2018
Arqit is a London-based cybersecurity company that develops quantum encryption technology. It focuses on quantum key distribution and symmetric key agreement to secure communications and data against current and future cyber threats, including those posed by quantum computers. The company delivers its technology through its SKA-Platform, a platform that enables secure key agreement for networked devices and data at rest. Arqit leverages quantum properties to generate and share cryptographic keys, applying these protections across communications links and stored information. The business operates primarily in the United Kingdom and pursues a platform-based model to provide quantum-enabled cybersecurity services.

CounterCraft

Seed Round in 2018
CounterCraft specializes in advanced cyber deception technology to detect and control targeted attacks. Its Threat Deception platform creates decoy environments, fooling attackers into engaging with false information instead of real systems. This provides more time for response and generates relevant threat intelligence. CounterCraft serves Fortune500 companies globally, including financial institutions and governments.

SecurityScorecard

Series C in 2017
SecurityScorecard, Inc., founded in 2013 by Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, is a leading provider of cybersecurity ratings and continuous monitoring services. The company's platform assesses the cybersecurity strength of third-party vendors and businesses, offering solutions like ThreatMarket, a cloud-based vulnerability search engine, and Score Planner for remediation paths. SecurityScorecard serves Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide, providing tools for vendor risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting. Its patented technology rates over a million companies continuously, enabling organizations to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. The company is based in New York, New York.

SecurityScorecard

Series B in 2016
SecurityScorecard, Inc., founded in 2013 by Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, is a leading provider of cybersecurity ratings and continuous monitoring services. The company's platform assesses the cybersecurity strength of third-party vendors and businesses, offering solutions like ThreatMarket, a cloud-based vulnerability search engine, and Score Planner for remediation paths. SecurityScorecard serves Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide, providing tools for vendor risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting. Its patented technology rates over a million companies continuously, enabling organizations to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. The company is based in New York, New York.

SecurityScorecard

Series A in 2015
SecurityScorecard, Inc., founded in 2013 by Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, is a leading provider of cybersecurity ratings and continuous monitoring services. The company's platform assesses the cybersecurity strength of third-party vendors and businesses, offering solutions like ThreatMarket, a cloud-based vulnerability search engine, and Score Planner for remediation paths. SecurityScorecard serves Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide, providing tools for vendor risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting. Its patented technology rates over a million companies continuously, enabling organizations to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. The company is based in New York, New York.

SecurityScorecard

Seed Round in 2014
SecurityScorecard, Inc., founded in 2013 by Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, is a leading provider of cybersecurity ratings and continuous monitoring services. The company's platform assesses the cybersecurity strength of third-party vendors and businesses, offering solutions like ThreatMarket, a cloud-based vulnerability search engine, and Score Planner for remediation paths. SecurityScorecard serves Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide, providing tools for vendor risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting. Its patented technology rates over a million companies continuously, enabling organizations to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. The company is based in New York, New York.

Cognitive Security

Series A in 2011
Cognitive Security develops advanced products focused on Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) to combat sophisticated cyber threats, including Advanced Persistent Threats, exploit kits, and various forms of malware. Leveraging research funded by the US Army, the company integrates Artificial Intelligence techniques such as statistical analysis and game-theoretic self-optimization into its security architecture. Their solutions can be deployed as appliances, virtual appliances, or as OEM software modules, ensuring compatibility and ease of integration with existing networks through NetFlow/IPFIX inputs. Cognitive Security primarily serves enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses, providing them with innovative network security solutions.
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