Foundation Capital

Foundation Capital, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 1995. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage and growth-stage information technology companies, with a focus on sectors such as enterprise software, fintech, consumer technology, digital energy, and marketing technology. Foundation Capital aims to support entrepreneurs by providing capital and strategic guidance, believing that innovative ideas can transform industries. The firm has a diverse portfolio that includes investments in over 60 high-growth ventures, such as Lending Club, Sunrun, and Netflix. It typically invests between $1 million and $10 million per company and prefers to take the lead in investments, often securing board seats. Foundation Capital's successful track record includes 26 initial public offerings, reflecting its commitment to fostering transformative businesses.

Joanne Chen

General Partner

Angus Davis

General Partner

Bill Elmore

General Partner and Founder

Ashu Garg

General Partner

Rodolfo Gonzalez

General Partner

Paul Holland

General Partner

Ted Meyer

Administrative Partner

Charles Moldow

General Partner

Lauri Moore

Partner

Zach Noorani

Partner

Apoorva Pandhi

Partner

Mike Schuh

General Partner

Nico Stainfeld

Partner

Siddhant Trivedi

Partner

Melissa Tucker

Director of Finance

Warren Weiss

General Partner

Past deals in Cyber Security

Anvilogic

Series C in 2024
Anvilogic, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in developing a detection automation platform designed to enhance automated threat detection and modernize security operations. Anvilogic's offerings include a modular detection engine, a collection of curated threat scenarios, and an AI security copilot, all of which help security teams improve detection coverage and reduce costs. The platform allows organizations to maintain their existing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems while integrating a scalable and cost-effective data lake for high-volume data sources. This approach minimizes the need for extensive changes in existing processes, enabling security operations teams in various sectors, including banking and technology, to effectively accelerate the identification and triage of threats.

Breach Insurance

Venture Round in 2023
Breach develops, underwrites, and distributes insurance solutions for the digital asset marketplace. The company insures the loss of crypto assets due to cryptocurrency exchange hacks. It creates an intuitive dashboard that allows users to easily set up their policy, customize policy notifications, and submit a claim. It was founded in 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts.

TrustLab

Series A in 2023
Trust Lab develops software for social media platforms that helps in detecting misinformation, hate speech, and harmful content.

CoinCover

Series B in 2023
Coincover is a provider of insurance-backed technology aimed at safeguarding digital assets, particularly cryptocurrencies. The company offers a range of services designed to protect end-users against the loss or theft of their crypto holdings due to hacks, human error, or fraudulent transactions. Key features include Cryptocurrency Theft cover, which shields users from phishing, hacking, and criminal extortion, ensuring that if theft occurs, the full value of the assets is recovered without any deductible. Additionally, Coincover provides a Deposit Protection Guarantee that secures user access to their cryptocurrency, even in cases of password loss, device failure, or business insolvency. The company also employs a Transaction Checker that monitors transactions in real-time to identify and flag suspicious activities, further enhancing the security of users' digital assets. Overall, Coincover aims to deliver peace of mind to its customers by ensuring that their digital currencies are both safe and accessible.

Fortanix

Venture Round in 2022
Fortanix Inc. specializes in developing advanced security solutions for mobile, cloud, and enterprise platforms. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Singapore, the company offers a range of services including the Self-Defending Key Management Service (SDKMS), which is a cloud-native solution for enterprise encryption needs that integrates key management, encryption-as-a-service, and tokenization. Its Runtime Encryption technology utilizes Intel SGX to safeguard data, keys, and applications even when infrastructure is compromised, allowing businesses to securely process sensitive information in public and remote cloud environments. Fortanix also provides the Confidential Computing Enclave Manager, which manages the lifecycle of applications running in secure environments. The company has established partnerships with firms like Equinix and IBM Cloud and serves a diverse clientele, including several Fortune 50 companies. Fortanix has earned recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and was a runner-up in the RSA Innovation Sandbox. The company holds more than ten patents pending for its innovative security technologies.

Anvilogic

Series B in 2022
Anvilogic, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in developing a detection automation platform designed to enhance automated threat detection and modernize security operations. Anvilogic's offerings include a modular detection engine, a collection of curated threat scenarios, and an AI security copilot, all of which help security teams improve detection coverage and reduce costs. The platform allows organizations to maintain their existing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems while integrating a scalable and cost-effective data lake for high-volume data sources. This approach minimizes the need for extensive changes in existing processes, enabling security operations teams in various sectors, including banking and technology, to effectively accelerate the identification and triage of threats.

Permiso Security

Seed Round in 2022
Permiso Security delivers an identity-based cloud detection and response solution for cloud infrastructures. Permiso simplifies cloud security so that technology and security professionals can protect the cloud like a pro. Permiso's solution matches key events to key identities, allowing clients to see who is doing what with a quick alert in plain English and a response plan.

OpsMx

Series B in 2021
OpsMx specializes in automating software delivery with a focus on security. The company provides a data intelligence platform that enables organizations to deploy software with minimal human intervention. By utilizing machine learning, OpsMx enhances performance and fault modeling for microservices and serverless computing architectures. This approach helps developers minimize manual errors and improve the overall quality of their products. OpsMx serves a diverse clientele, including several Fortune 10 companies, and aims to integrate security into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes through its Deployment Firewall, ensuring a robust and secure software delivery pipeline.

Anvilogic

Series A in 2021
Anvilogic, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in developing a detection automation platform designed to enhance automated threat detection and modernize security operations. Anvilogic's offerings include a modular detection engine, a collection of curated threat scenarios, and an AI security copilot, all of which help security teams improve detection coverage and reduce costs. The platform allows organizations to maintain their existing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems while integrating a scalable and cost-effective data lake for high-volume data sources. This approach minimizes the need for extensive changes in existing processes, enabling security operations teams in various sectors, including banking and technology, to effectively accelerate the identification and triage of threats.

DataDistillr

Seed Round in 2021
DataDistillr is an enterprise platform designed to enhance data discovery and management for organizations. It provides a robust toolset that enables data scientists to connect with various data sets across different locations and formats. The platform facilitates the uploading, managing, filtering, and sharing of data, allowing users to simulate and visualize information effectively. Additionally, DataDistillr offers specialized capabilities for security professionals, helping to detect and mitigate security threats early on. Its features include the enhancement of key data attributes such as MAC addresses, port numbers, and IP addresses, while also providing intuitive charts, dashboards, and graphs that deliver clear visual insights into cyber data. Through these functionalities, DataDistillr empowers organizations to extract greater value from their data assets.

Levo.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Levo offers a security platform that uses machine learning models to automatically generate security tests that run continuously in CI and CD pipelines. They also offer features that include API contract testing, codeless API security testing, and API observability.

Anvilogic

Seed Round in 2020
Anvilogic, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in developing a detection automation platform designed to enhance automated threat detection and modernize security operations. Anvilogic's offerings include a modular detection engine, a collection of curated threat scenarios, and an AI security copilot, all of which help security teams improve detection coverage and reduce costs. The platform allows organizations to maintain their existing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems while integrating a scalable and cost-effective data lake for high-volume data sources. This approach minimizes the need for extensive changes in existing processes, enabling security operations teams in various sectors, including banking and technology, to effectively accelerate the identification and triage of threats.

DataDistillr

Pre Seed Round in 2020
DataDistillr is an enterprise platform designed to enhance data discovery and management for organizations. It provides a robust toolset that enables data scientists to connect with various data sets across different locations and formats. The platform facilitates the uploading, managing, filtering, and sharing of data, allowing users to simulate and visualize information effectively. Additionally, DataDistillr offers specialized capabilities for security professionals, helping to detect and mitigate security threats early on. Its features include the enhancement of key data attributes such as MAC addresses, port numbers, and IP addresses, while also providing intuitive charts, dashboards, and graphs that deliver clear visual insights into cyber data. Through these functionalities, DataDistillr empowers organizations to extract greater value from their data assets.

CloudKnox Security

Series A in 2020
CloudKnox Security Inc. is a cloud security software company based in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in a multi-cloud permissions management platform that offers comprehensive visibility and automated management of permissions for cloud infrastructure resources and identities. The platform utilizes patented Activity-Based Authorization technology to continuously monitor and assess risks associated with user activities. It detects and remediates over-permissioned identities, whether human or machine, ensuring that only necessary permissions are granted. Additionally, the software provides insights for tracking risks and allows for the restriction of activities by suspicious users, as well as the creation and editing of reports.

MistNet

Series A in 2019
MistNet specializes in advanced multi-entity threat detection and response solutions aimed at enhancing cybersecurity in connected environments. Utilizing innovative mist computing and edge AI technologies, the company's platform identifies concealed threats and minimizes the workload of Security Operations Centers (SOCs). It effectively eliminates blind spots in security monitoring, halts ongoing attacks, and provides comprehensive logs of all user, device, and network transactions within an organization. This functionality allows companies to swiftly detect and neutralize threats in real-time, thereby protecting sensitive data from potential breaches.

Respond Software

Series B in 2019
Respond Software is a provider of automated cyber security threat protection. Respond Software helps companies achieve high performance and efficiency in people-intensive security operations. It redefines security operations by allowing expert analyst capability and capacity at dramatically lower cost. The company emulates the decision-making of an expert security analyst, effectively becoming a security team member that specializes in high-volume, low signal use cases while it applies, adapts, and maintains an organization’s tribal knowledge. Respond Software was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

CloudKnox Security

Venture Round in 2018
CloudKnox Security Inc. is a cloud security software company based in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in a multi-cloud permissions management platform that offers comprehensive visibility and automated management of permissions for cloud infrastructure resources and identities. The platform utilizes patented Activity-Based Authorization technology to continuously monitor and assess risks associated with user activities. It detects and remediates over-permissioned identities, whether human or machine, ensuring that only necessary permissions are granted. Additionally, the software provides insights for tracking risks and allows for the restriction of activities by suspicious users, as well as the creation and editing of reports.

CoverWallet

Series B in 2017
CoverWallet is an online platform that offers insurance management services to its clients. CoverWallet’s range of insurance include general liability, workers’ compensation, commercial property, BOP, professional liability, E&O, medical malpractice, umbrella insurance, D&O, cyber liability, inland marine, EPLI, commercial auto, disability, health, and product and pollution liability. Its services are provided to firms in the administrative, agricultural, construction, consulting, contractor, education, finance, food, healthcare, management, manufacturing, mining, non-profit, scientific, and real estate industries. CoverWallet was launched in 2015 by Inaki Berenguer and Rashmi Melgiri and is based in New York.

Respond Software

Series A in 2017
Respond Software is a provider of automated cyber security threat protection. Respond Software helps companies achieve high performance and efficiency in people-intensive security operations. It redefines security operations by allowing expert analyst capability and capacity at dramatically lower cost. The company emulates the decision-making of an expert security analyst, effectively becoming a security team member that specializes in high-volume, low signal use cases while it applies, adapts, and maintains an organization’s tribal knowledge. Respond Software was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Fortanix

Series A in 2017
Fortanix Inc. specializes in developing advanced security solutions for mobile, cloud, and enterprise platforms. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Singapore, the company offers a range of services including the Self-Defending Key Management Service (SDKMS), which is a cloud-native solution for enterprise encryption needs that integrates key management, encryption-as-a-service, and tokenization. Its Runtime Encryption technology utilizes Intel SGX to safeguard data, keys, and applications even when infrastructure is compromised, allowing businesses to securely process sensitive information in public and remote cloud environments. Fortanix also provides the Confidential Computing Enclave Manager, which manages the lifecycle of applications running in secure environments. The company has established partnerships with firms like Equinix and IBM Cloud and serves a diverse clientele, including several Fortune 50 companies. Fortanix has earned recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and was a runner-up in the RSA Innovation Sandbox. The company holds more than ten patents pending for its innovative security technologies.

Phantom

Series B in 2017
Phantom is a purpose-built, community-powered security automation, and orchestration platform. The company's mission is to close the security gap by enabling enterprise security operations to be smarter, faster, and stronger. Phantom Cyber orchestrates key stages of security operations from prevention to triage and resolution, delivering dramatic increases in security operations productivity and effectiveness. Codifying the “rules of engagement,” approval authorities, and escalations allows skilled first responders bring to bear all of their experience to make better decisions and act quickly and confidently. Phantom was established in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Skycure

Series B in 2016
Skycure Ltd. specializes in enterprise mobile threat defense solutions designed to protect against a variety of mobile cyber threats, including malware, network-based attacks, and device vulnerabilities. Founded in 2012 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers a suite of products that integrates with platforms such as AirWatch, MobileIron, Citrix, and Microsoft Exchange and Office 365. These solutions facilitate real-time detection and remediation of potential threats, thereby helping organizations secure both corporate-owned and bring-your-own-device (BYO) environments. Skycure utilizes a dual protection mechanism that combines client-side modules on devices with server-side analysis, leveraging crowd intelligence and machine learning to enhance its predictive capabilities. The company's research team is recognized for its contributions to mobile security, ensuring that Skycure remains equipped to address emerging threats. As of 2017, Skycure operates as a subsidiary of Symantec Corporation.

Kaymera

Venture Round in 2016
Kaymera is a company founded by experts in the cyber industry, specializing in mobile security. The firm has developed a comprehensive threat defense platform aimed at safeguarding organizations, governments, and individuals from various mobile security threats. This platform provides tailored security solutions that align with the specific risk levels, user contexts, and organizational policies of its clients. By anticipating emerging risks, Kaymera ensures that its security measures have minimal impact on usability and privacy, allowing users to maintain freedom of use on popular smartphone models while enhancing their protection against cyber threats.

Guardian Analytics

Series E in 2015
Guardian Analytics, Inc. is a provider of behavior-based fraud prevention solutions aimed at protecting financial institutions from online and mobile banking fraud. Established in 2005 and based in Mountain View, California, the company offers a range of services tailored for enterprise banks, community banks, and credit unions. These services include omni-channel fraud prevention, visual analytics, integrated risk databases, and cross-channel risk scoring. The platform utilizes behavioral analytics and machine learning to detect fraud in real-time across various payment methods, including online, mobile, ACH, and wire transfers. Additionally, Guardian Analytics provides a managed service called FraudDESK, which helps institutions mitigate fraud with minimal staffing impact. The company's solutions not only enhance fraud detection but also support anti-money laundering compliance, making them essential for over 400 financial institutions seeking to safeguard their operations and improve customer trust.

Venafi

Series F in 2015
Venafi, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in enterprise key and certificate management solutions. It offers a comprehensive platform that provides organizations with visibility and control over cryptographic keys and digital certificates across various environments including on-premises, mobile, virtual, and cloud. Key products include the Venafi Director platform for managing keys and certificates, Server Certificate Manager for securing certificate inventories, and SSH Key Manager for enhancing threat intelligence by managing SSH key pairs. Additionally, Venafi provides tools for symmetric key management, a mobile certificate manager, and a cloud service tailored for DevOps. The company’s solutions aim to mitigate risks associated with machine identities, ensure compliance, and protect against trust-based attacks. Venafi serves a diverse range of clients, including Global 2000 organizations across sectors such as finance, healthcare, and technology. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Venafi continues to focus on securing machine-to-machine communications and safeguarding organizational data.

Cyphort

Series C in 2015
Cyphort Inc. specializes in developing software and appliance-based solutions aimed at safeguarding enterprises and government entities from cybercrime attacks. Founded in 2008 and based in Santa Clara, California, Cyphort employs a distributed software platform that enhances enterprise visibility and accurately detects advanced threats, including zero-day attacks. By utilizing behavioral analytics and machine learning, the platform analyzes raw data from various sources, including web and email traffic, to identify and prioritize security threats in the context of the organization's ecosystem. This innovative approach allows for seamless integration across multiple environments, including cloud and virtual infrastructures. Additionally, Cyphort offers an Anti-SIEM security analytics platform that focuses on threat detection and provides actionable intelligence to enhance overall security posture. As of September 2017, Cyphort operates as a subsidiary of Juniper Networks, Inc.

Phantom

Seed Round in 2015
Phantom is a purpose-built, community-powered security automation, and orchestration platform. The company's mission is to close the security gap by enabling enterprise security operations to be smarter, faster, and stronger. Phantom Cyber orchestrates key stages of security operations from prevention to triage and resolution, delivering dramatic increases in security operations productivity and effectiveness. Codifying the “rules of engagement,” approval authorities, and escalations allows skilled first responders bring to bear all of their experience to make better decisions and act quickly and confidently. Phantom was established in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Guardian Analytics

Series E in 2014
Guardian Analytics, Inc. is a provider of behavior-based fraud prevention solutions aimed at protecting financial institutions from online and mobile banking fraud. Established in 2005 and based in Mountain View, California, the company offers a range of services tailored for enterprise banks, community banks, and credit unions. These services include omni-channel fraud prevention, visual analytics, integrated risk databases, and cross-channel risk scoring. The platform utilizes behavioral analytics and machine learning to detect fraud in real-time across various payment methods, including online, mobile, ACH, and wire transfers. Additionally, Guardian Analytics provides a managed service called FraudDESK, which helps institutions mitigate fraud with minimal staffing impact. The company's solutions not only enhance fraud detection but also support anti-money laundering compliance, making them essential for over 400 financial institutions seeking to safeguard their operations and improve customer trust.

Cyphort

Series B in 2013
Cyphort Inc. specializes in developing software and appliance-based solutions aimed at safeguarding enterprises and government entities from cybercrime attacks. Founded in 2008 and based in Santa Clara, California, Cyphort employs a distributed software platform that enhances enterprise visibility and accurately detects advanced threats, including zero-day attacks. By utilizing behavioral analytics and machine learning, the platform analyzes raw data from various sources, including web and email traffic, to identify and prioritize security threats in the context of the organization's ecosystem. This innovative approach allows for seamless integration across multiple environments, including cloud and virtual infrastructures. Additionally, Cyphort offers an Anti-SIEM security analytics platform that focuses on threat detection and provides actionable intelligence to enhance overall security posture. As of September 2017, Cyphort operates as a subsidiary of Juniper Networks, Inc.

Guardian Analytics

Series E in 2013
Guardian Analytics, Inc. is a provider of behavior-based fraud prevention solutions aimed at protecting financial institutions from online and mobile banking fraud. Established in 2005 and based in Mountain View, California, the company offers a range of services tailored for enterprise banks, community banks, and credit unions. These services include omni-channel fraud prevention, visual analytics, integrated risk databases, and cross-channel risk scoring. The platform utilizes behavioral analytics and machine learning to detect fraud in real-time across various payment methods, including online, mobile, ACH, and wire transfers. Additionally, Guardian Analytics provides a managed service called FraudDESK, which helps institutions mitigate fraud with minimal staffing impact. The company's solutions not only enhance fraud detection but also support anti-money laundering compliance, making them essential for over 400 financial institutions seeking to safeguard their operations and improve customer trust.

PrivateCore

Seed Round in 2012
PrivateCore enables private computing in the cloud by validating and securing OpenStack servers, enabling enterprises and service providers to create trusted computing pools. PrivateCore vCage Manager software attests OpenStack servers to ensure their trustworthiness, and optional vCage Host software provides a hardened hypervisor, and optional memory encryption. By encrypting memory, PrivateCore vCage software protects data from unauthorized physical access and malicious hardware devices, making it safe to run any application in outsourced, hosted, or cloud environments.

Averail

Series A in 2012
Founded in 2011 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Averail is focused on providing secure mobile content solutions for the enterprise. The company’s product, Averail Access, uses the power of cloud computing to give employees mobile access to their business documents while preserving IT control and keeping business content within IT-managed systems. With Averail Access, enterprises can now confidently provide mobile employees secure and easy access to the information they need to stay productive and deliver business results. The Averail executive team is comprised of enterprise technology and security software veterans from companies like McAfee, Cisco, Symantec and Microsoft. Averail investors include Foundation Capital and Storm Ventures. To learn more visit: www.averail.com.

Guardian Analytics

Series D in 2011
Guardian Analytics, Inc. is a provider of behavior-based fraud prevention solutions aimed at protecting financial institutions from online and mobile banking fraud. Established in 2005 and based in Mountain View, California, the company offers a range of services tailored for enterprise banks, community banks, and credit unions. These services include omni-channel fraud prevention, visual analytics, integrated risk databases, and cross-channel risk scoring. The platform utilizes behavioral analytics and machine learning to detect fraud in real-time across various payment methods, including online, mobile, ACH, and wire transfers. Additionally, Guardian Analytics provides a managed service called FraudDESK, which helps institutions mitigate fraud with minimal staffing impact. The company's solutions not only enhance fraud detection but also support anti-money laundering compliance, making them essential for over 400 financial institutions seeking to safeguard their operations and improve customer trust.

Guardian Analytics

Series C in 2010
Guardian Analytics, Inc. is a provider of behavior-based fraud prevention solutions aimed at protecting financial institutions from online and mobile banking fraud. Established in 2005 and based in Mountain View, California, the company offers a range of services tailored for enterprise banks, community banks, and credit unions. These services include omni-channel fraud prevention, visual analytics, integrated risk databases, and cross-channel risk scoring. The platform utilizes behavioral analytics and machine learning to detect fraud in real-time across various payment methods, including online, mobile, ACH, and wire transfers. Additionally, Guardian Analytics provides a managed service called FraudDESK, which helps institutions mitigate fraud with minimal staffing impact. The company's solutions not only enhance fraud detection but also support anti-money laundering compliance, making them essential for over 400 financial institutions seeking to safeguard their operations and improve customer trust.

Altor Networks

Series B in 2010
Altor Networks specializes in virtualization security solutions aimed at protecting virtualized data centers and internal clouds. The company's flagship product, the Altor VF virtual firewall, enhances security by providing unprecedented visibility and granular control over virtual network traffic. Designed specifically for virtual environments, this technology supports multiple virtualization platforms, including those from VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix, allowing enterprises to utilize a range of virtualization products both now and in the future. Altor's solutions include enforcing rule-based security policies on individual or groups of virtual machines, securing virtual machines during VMotion events, and offering low-cost intrusion detection by mirroring selected traffic to external devices. This comprehensive approach helps organizations maintain secure virtualized networks while reducing administrative overhead and improving overall security posture.

MarkMonitor

Series E in 2008
MarkMonitor, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, offers comprehensive solutions and services that safeguard brands, reputation and revenue from online risks. With end-to-end solutions that address the growing threats of online fraud, brand abuse and unauthorized channels, MarkMonitor enables a secure Internet for businesses and their customers. The company's exclusive access to data combined with its patented real-time prevention, detection and response capabilities provide wide-ranging protection to the ever-changing online risks faced by brands today.

Altor Networks

Series A in 2008
Altor Networks specializes in virtualization security solutions aimed at protecting virtualized data centers and internal clouds. The company's flagship product, the Altor VF virtual firewall, enhances security by providing unprecedented visibility and granular control over virtual network traffic. Designed specifically for virtual environments, this technology supports multiple virtualization platforms, including those from VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix, allowing enterprises to utilize a range of virtualization products both now and in the future. Altor's solutions include enforcing rule-based security policies on individual or groups of virtual machines, securing virtual machines during VMotion events, and offering low-cost intrusion detection by mirroring selected traffic to external devices. This comprehensive approach helps organizations maintain secure virtualized networks while reducing administrative overhead and improving overall security posture.

Guardian Analytics

Series B in 2007
Guardian Analytics, Inc. is a provider of behavior-based fraud prevention solutions aimed at protecting financial institutions from online and mobile banking fraud. Established in 2005 and based in Mountain View, California, the company offers a range of services tailored for enterprise banks, community banks, and credit unions. These services include omni-channel fraud prevention, visual analytics, integrated risk databases, and cross-channel risk scoring. The platform utilizes behavioral analytics and machine learning to detect fraud in real-time across various payment methods, including online, mobile, ACH, and wire transfers. Additionally, Guardian Analytics provides a managed service called FraudDESK, which helps institutions mitigate fraud with minimal staffing impact. The company's solutions not only enhance fraud detection but also support anti-money laundering compliance, making them essential for over 400 financial institutions seeking to safeguard their operations and improve customer trust.

CloudShield Technologies

Series D in 2007
CloudShield Technologies, Inc. specializes in deep packet processing (DPP) solutions that enable organizations to manage and secure network traffic effectively. Their offerings include a range of advanced platforms, such as the CloudShield CS-4000, which enhances network security by addressing vulnerabilities in standard servers, and the CloudShield PN41 module, designed for IBM BladeCenter, which provides protection against advanced malware and facilitates flexible traffic management. The CloudShield CS-2000 serves as a content processing platform that supports various simultaneous network security applications. Additionally, the company provides a trusted cyber solution orchestrator for integrating multiple security solutions, a DNS defender to mitigate specific DNS attacks, and Salient Assure6 for monitoring IPv6 traffic. Beyond its hardware and software solutions, CloudShield also offers cyber security training and application development services. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, CloudShield operates as a subsidiary of Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, LLC. Their technology supports clients across North America, Europe, and Asia, including significant federal government customers.

Venafi

Series B in 2006
Venafi, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in enterprise key and certificate management solutions. It offers a comprehensive platform that provides organizations with visibility and control over cryptographic keys and digital certificates across various environments including on-premises, mobile, virtual, and cloud. Key products include the Venafi Director platform for managing keys and certificates, Server Certificate Manager for securing certificate inventories, and SSH Key Manager for enhancing threat intelligence by managing SSH key pairs. Additionally, Venafi provides tools for symmetric key management, a mobile certificate manager, and a cloud service tailored for DevOps. The company’s solutions aim to mitigate risks associated with machine identities, ensure compliance, and protect against trust-based attacks. Venafi serves a diverse range of clients, including Global 2000 organizations across sectors such as finance, healthcare, and technology. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Venafi continues to focus on securing machine-to-machine communications and safeguarding organizational data.

Venafi

Series B in 2006
Venafi, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in enterprise key and certificate management solutions. It offers a comprehensive platform that provides organizations with visibility and control over cryptographic keys and digital certificates across various environments including on-premises, mobile, virtual, and cloud. Key products include the Venafi Director platform for managing keys and certificates, Server Certificate Manager for securing certificate inventories, and SSH Key Manager for enhancing threat intelligence by managing SSH key pairs. Additionally, Venafi provides tools for symmetric key management, a mobile certificate manager, and a cloud service tailored for DevOps. The company’s solutions aim to mitigate risks associated with machine identities, ensure compliance, and protect against trust-based attacks. Venafi serves a diverse range of clients, including Global 2000 organizations across sectors such as finance, healthcare, and technology. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Venafi continues to focus on securing machine-to-machine communications and safeguarding organizational data.

MarkMonitor

Series D in 2006
MarkMonitor, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, offers comprehensive solutions and services that safeguard brands, reputation and revenue from online risks. With end-to-end solutions that address the growing threats of online fraud, brand abuse and unauthorized channels, MarkMonitor enables a secure Internet for businesses and their customers. The company's exclusive access to data combined with its patented real-time prevention, detection and response capabilities provide wide-ranging protection to the ever-changing online risks faced by brands today.

Guardian Analytics

Series A in 2006
Guardian Analytics, Inc. is a provider of behavior-based fraud prevention solutions aimed at protecting financial institutions from online and mobile banking fraud. Established in 2005 and based in Mountain View, California, the company offers a range of services tailored for enterprise banks, community banks, and credit unions. These services include omni-channel fraud prevention, visual analytics, integrated risk databases, and cross-channel risk scoring. The platform utilizes behavioral analytics and machine learning to detect fraud in real-time across various payment methods, including online, mobile, ACH, and wire transfers. Additionally, Guardian Analytics provides a managed service called FraudDESK, which helps institutions mitigate fraud with minimal staffing impact. The company's solutions not only enhance fraud detection but also support anti-money laundering compliance, making them essential for over 400 financial institutions seeking to safeguard their operations and improve customer trust.

CloudShield Technologies

Series C in 2005
CloudShield Technologies, Inc. specializes in deep packet processing (DPP) solutions that enable organizations to manage and secure network traffic effectively. Their offerings include a range of advanced platforms, such as the CloudShield CS-4000, which enhances network security by addressing vulnerabilities in standard servers, and the CloudShield PN41 module, designed for IBM BladeCenter, which provides protection against advanced malware and facilitates flexible traffic management. The CloudShield CS-2000 serves as a content processing platform that supports various simultaneous network security applications. Additionally, the company provides a trusted cyber solution orchestrator for integrating multiple security solutions, a DNS defender to mitigate specific DNS attacks, and Salient Assure6 for monitoring IPv6 traffic. Beyond its hardware and software solutions, CloudShield also offers cyber security training and application development services. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, CloudShield operates as a subsidiary of Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, LLC. Their technology supports clients across North America, Europe, and Asia, including significant federal government customers.

Autonomic Networks

Series E in 2005
Autonomic Networks raises the bar for network security and compliance by automatically learning, auditing, and controlling user access to sensitive data, applications, and other assets on an enterprise network. Patent-pending risk-weighted clustering and profiling technologies automatically pinpoint the few significant incidents that require action from the multitude of questionable events that occur daily in a dynamic business environment. Risk-managed policy overrides enable business through on demand access to unexpectedly needed resources while monitoring that access for security and compliance. Autonomic Networks’ devices perform deep stream inspection with microsecond latency, eliminating the need for additional data integration or infrastructure changes. Bottom line – Autonomic Networks delivers highly adaptive access controls network security professionals need to achieve a new level of business enablement while minimizing security risks, maintaining regulatory compliance, and protecting against fraud and theft.

CloudShield Technologies

Series C in 2004
CloudShield Technologies, Inc. specializes in deep packet processing (DPP) solutions that enable organizations to manage and secure network traffic effectively. Their offerings include a range of advanced platforms, such as the CloudShield CS-4000, which enhances network security by addressing vulnerabilities in standard servers, and the CloudShield PN41 module, designed for IBM BladeCenter, which provides protection against advanced malware and facilitates flexible traffic management. The CloudShield CS-2000 serves as a content processing platform that supports various simultaneous network security applications. Additionally, the company provides a trusted cyber solution orchestrator for integrating multiple security solutions, a DNS defender to mitigate specific DNS attacks, and Salient Assure6 for monitoring IPv6 traffic. Beyond its hardware and software solutions, CloudShield also offers cyber security training and application development services. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, CloudShield operates as a subsidiary of Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, LLC. Their technology supports clients across North America, Europe, and Asia, including significant federal government customers.

Autonomic Networks

Series C in 2002
Autonomic Networks raises the bar for network security and compliance by automatically learning, auditing, and controlling user access to sensitive data, applications, and other assets on an enterprise network. Patent-pending risk-weighted clustering and profiling technologies automatically pinpoint the few significant incidents that require action from the multitude of questionable events that occur daily in a dynamic business environment. Risk-managed policy overrides enable business through on demand access to unexpectedly needed resources while monitoring that access for security and compliance. Autonomic Networks’ devices perform deep stream inspection with microsecond latency, eliminating the need for additional data integration or infrastructure changes. Bottom line – Autonomic Networks delivers highly adaptive access controls network security professionals need to achieve a new level of business enablement while minimizing security risks, maintaining regulatory compliance, and protecting against fraud and theft.

Autonomic Networks

Series B in 2001
Autonomic Networks raises the bar for network security and compliance by automatically learning, auditing, and controlling user access to sensitive data, applications, and other assets on an enterprise network. Patent-pending risk-weighted clustering and profiling technologies automatically pinpoint the few significant incidents that require action from the multitude of questionable events that occur daily in a dynamic business environment. Risk-managed policy overrides enable business through on demand access to unexpectedly needed resources while monitoring that access for security and compliance. Autonomic Networks’ devices perform deep stream inspection with microsecond latency, eliminating the need for additional data integration or infrastructure changes. Bottom line – Autonomic Networks delivers highly adaptive access controls network security professionals need to achieve a new level of business enablement while minimizing security risks, maintaining regulatory compliance, and protecting against fraud and theft.
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