Gaingels

Founded in 2014, Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate dedicated to supporting the LGBT+ community. It invests globally in companies led by LGBT+ founders or C-suite executives at all stages of growth, focusing on inclusivity and positive social change.
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Marc Baum

Investor

David Beatty

Managing Partner

Jesse Curran

Principal

Paul Grossinger

Investor

Todd Havill

Research Operations and Principal, Investment

Surya Jayaweera

Angel Investor

Jennifer Jeronimo

CEO and General Partner

Jake Prigoff MD

General Partner

Peter Steinberg

General Partner

Alexandra Tanner

Investor

Lorenzo Thione

Managing Director

Past deals in Cyber Security

Jericho Security

Series A in 2025
Jericho Security is a cybersecurity company specializing in protecting businesses from generative AI-based threats. It has developed a proprietary generative AI platform, cyberGPT, which simulates realistic cyberattacks, creates new defense strategies, and provides personalized training to enhance cybersecurity efficiency and prevent potential losses.

Germ Network

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Germ Network develops a secure messaging application focused on user control, privacy, and multifaceted identity management. Its app offers features like multiple editable profile cards, end-to-end encryption, instant messaging, and friend card annotation, ensuring users' privacy and autonomy.

PrivacyHawk

Venture Round in 2024
PrivacyHawk is a consumer privacy platform that empowers individuals to manage their personal data effectively. The company provides an automated solution for opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting personal information from numerous databases that may exploit clients' data. By streamlining these processes, PrivacyHawk helps users reduce their digital footprint and enhance their privacy, thereby lowering the risks associated with scams, spam, and identity theft. The platform focuses on enabling individuals to regain control over their private information, promoting a safer online experience.

PAXAFE

Series A in 2024
Paxafe Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, specializes in developing hardware and software solutions for secure packaging and supply chain management. The company offers Internet of Things (IoT) enabled products that are reusable, traceable, and secure, designed to protect high-margin freight from theft and chain-of-custody failures. Paxafe's solutions cater to various industries such as jewelry, luxury watches, diamonds, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and more. Its AI-enabled risk management platform integrates telematics and other data sources to predict adverse supply chain events, enabling intelligent cargo insurance and improving operational efficiencies for shippers, carriers, and insurance providers.

Anzenna

Seed Round in 2024
Anzenna is a security risk management company that specializes in mitigating insider threats. Its agentless platform employs artificial intelligence to calculate a security risk score for each employee and team, empowering organizations to proactively identify and address potential security breaches caused by insiders, which account for 68% of all security breaches.

Base Operations

Series A in 2023
Founded in 2015, Base Operations provides a threat intelligence platform that aggregates, visualizes, and interprets street-level crime data. Its solutions include threat assessments, sophisticated visualizations, neighborhood threat ratings, and deployment services, helping organizations minimize risk and protect people and assets globally.

Upfort

Series A in 2023
Upfort is a cybersecurity and insurance platform dedicated to providing comprehensive protection for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) against evolving cyber threats. The company offers an integrated solution that encompasses various essential services, including phishing simulation, public Wi-Fi protection, inbox protection, password management, and cyber liability insurance. By consolidating these critical tools into a single, user-friendly platform, Upfort enables organizations to effectively manage their cyber security needs and safeguard their business activities from modern cyber risks.

PrivacyHawk

Seed Round in 2023
PrivacyHawk is a consumer privacy platform that empowers individuals to manage their personal data effectively. The company provides an automated solution for opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting personal information from numerous databases that may exploit clients' data. By streamlining these processes, PrivacyHawk helps users reduce their digital footprint and enhance their privacy, thereby lowering the risks associated with scams, spam, and identity theft. The platform focuses on enabling individuals to regain control over their private information, promoting a safer online experience.

Judy Security

Series A in 2023
Judy Security is a cyber security company servicing small and medium businesses. The company's technology Judy uses a secure and private vault to create, store and protect all their passwords, keeping unauthorized users out of their login data.

Flyby Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Flyby Robotics develops American-made autonomous drones designed for on-device machine learning at the edge, with no critical Chinese electronic components. The company provides a platform that simplifies running ML-heavy applications on drones and delivers a practical field experience for operators to execute complex autonomous missions. Its drones support applications across drone delivery, critical infrastructure, renewable energy, and public safety. Flyby Robotics also offers programmable drones engineered for GPU-based edge computing, featuring advanced processing power, user-friendly interfaces, and reliable connectivity to enable operators in various industries to perform sophisticated missions with confidence and efficiency.

Staging Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Staging Labs is a technology company that develops an infrastructure-layer platform aimed at securing cryptocurrency in a user-friendly manner. The platform is designed to enhance the safety of digital transactions by continuously scanning for potential threats and automatically transferring digital assets from vulnerable wallets to secure backup wallets in the event of a malicious attack. Through these measures, Staging Labs provides users with a robust security solution to protect their crypto assets and facilitate safer transactions in the evolving digital landscape.

Polygraf

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Polygraf Inc. specializes in AI-powered data integrity monitoring and governance solutions for organizations utilizing AI tools. It helps mitigate risks such as confidential data leakage, breaches, and fake content by providing advanced, locally deployed solutions that ensure secure AI adoption and compliance with evolving regulations.

ThreatKey

Seed Round in 2023
ThreatKey is a cybersecurity company that provides a platform designed to enhance the visibility and control of security solutions for cloud infrastructure and SaaS applications. The platform offers tools that monitor for potential threats and manage misconfigurations, effectively reducing digital security risks. By automatically identifying and remediating security issues, ThreatKey enables businesses to focus on their core activities and prioritize value-adding work, thereby fostering a more secure digital environment.

Second Front Systems

Series A in 2022
Second Front Systems develops software that facilitates government access to innovative commercial technologies for national security missions. Its flagship product, Atlas Fulcrum, enables identification, assessment, and secure deployment of these technologies. The company also offers program management services and High Technology Council, an enterprise consortium fostering collaboration between market players.

PeakMetrics

Venture Round in 2022
PeakMetrics offers a narrative intelligence platform that helps businesses and governments detect and mitigate emerging online narrative threats in real-time. Utilizing machine learning technology, it analyzes over 1.5 million media sources across various social media platforms to identify manipulative content before it causes harm.

Sunscreen

Seed Round in 2022
Sunscreen develops advanced privacy technology, specializing in fully homomorphic encryption. Its platform enables engineers to perform complex computations directly on encrypted data without decryption, ensuring the protection of sensitive information while allowing operations on that data.

Unit21

Series C in 2022
Unit21 Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that develops a no-code platform designed to streamline risk and compliance operations for businesses. The platform features an application programming interface and a dashboard that enable users to detect and manage money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across various industries. In addition to risk detection, Unit21's solutions encompass case management, transaction monitoring, identity verification, operations management, as well as analytics and reporting capabilities. The company emphasizes security, employing best practices to safeguard its systems against potential threats.

Lumos

Venture Round in 2022
Lumos is an IT company specializing in secure management processes. It offers SaaS management and access management services, along with flexible workflows and spend management solutions.

Secureframe

Series B in 2022
Secureframe provides a compliance automation platform that helps organizations achieve and sustain information security and privacy standards. The platform automates security audits and continuous monitoring to simplify compliance with standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, supporting service providers in securely managing data and protecting client privacy. Thousands of fast-growing companies rely on Secureframe to streamline their compliance programs and maintain up-to-date certifications, enabling them to build trust with customers. Founded and based in San Francisco, the company focuses on delivering automated, ongoing compliance across global frameworks.

Judy Security

Seed Round in 2022
Judy Security is a cyber security company servicing small and medium businesses. The company's technology Judy uses a secure and private vault to create, store and protect all their passwords, keeping unauthorized users out of their login data.

Nvisionx

Seed Round in 2022
Nvisionx is a SaaS cybersecurity company that addresses the challenges of data breaches and privacy compliance. It extracts meaning from critical data and aligns it with existing security controls to optimize their effectiveness.

Spectrum Labs

Series B in 2022
Spectrum Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in creating an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to identify and monitor online behavior. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers its flagship product, Guardian, which features an analytics dashboard and tools for community guidelines enforcement, model upgrades, data labeling, and policy consultation. Spectrum Labs serves a diverse range of clients, including those in dating, gaming, marketplaces, and social platforms, by enabling trust and safety teams to detect harmful behaviors in text and audio content. The company's solutions aim to reduce content moderation costs while enhancing the identification of toxic behaviors, ultimately contributing to a safer online environment.

Base Operations

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2015, Base Operations provides a threat intelligence platform that aggregates, visualizes, and interprets street-level crime data. Its solutions include threat assessments, sophisticated visualizations, neighborhood threat ratings, and deployment services, helping organizations minimize risk and protect people and assets globally.

Kentik

Series C in 2021
Kentik is a network observability company that provides a real-time, cloud-based platform for planning, operating, and optimizing complex networks. Its Network Observability Cloud unifies cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to deliver actionable insights, fast search, and AI-driven analytics for IT and network engineers. The core product, Kentik Detect, is a SaaS solution that enables visibility, performance monitoring, anomaly detection including DDoS, capacity planning, and optimization for enterprises, service providers, and cloud environments. The company also offers self-service analytics via My Kentik and an AIOps platform for network operations, along with additional capabilities for visibility, alerting, planning, and open integrations. Kentik serves organizations across financial services, media, hosting and cloud infrastructure, research and education, digital enterprises, carriers, CDNs, and ISPs, helping them improve operational efficiency, protect services, and support scalable application delivery.

Codelock

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2021, Codelock specializes in assessing and monitoring software security. It develops cybersecurity software focused on enhancing the security of the software supply chain and securing software development practices.

Corelight

Series D in 2021
Corelight, Inc. is a provider of network visibility solutions aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for enterprises, government entities, and educational institutions. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company develops a suite of products that includes Corelight sensors and a fleet management system. Its flagship offering is based on Bro, an open-source network analysis framework that delivers actionable, real-time data, enabling security professionals to comprehensively understand network traffic and effectively detect and mitigate cyber threats. In addition to its headquarters, Corelight maintains offices in Santa Clara, California, and Columbus, Ohio, further supporting its commitment to improving network security across various sectors.

PrivacyHawk

Pre Seed Round in 2021
PrivacyHawk is a consumer privacy platform that empowers individuals to manage their personal data effectively. The company provides an automated solution for opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting personal information from numerous databases that may exploit clients' data. By streamlining these processes, PrivacyHawk helps users reduce their digital footprint and enhance their privacy, thereby lowering the risks associated with scams, spam, and identity theft. The platform focuses on enabling individuals to regain control over their private information, promoting a safer online experience.

AttackIQ

Series C in 2021
AttackIQ, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in providing a Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) platform designed to help organizations assess the effectiveness of their security controls. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, the company's platform allows security teams to simulate real-world attack scenarios based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework. This enables organizations to validate their security measures, uncover vulnerabilities, and prioritize remediation efforts. The platform integrates into existing networks, offering visibility into security programs and facilitating continuous testing against adversary techniques. By automating security assessments, AttackIQ empowers organizations to identify weaknesses in their defenses and ensure that their security architecture is robust and responsive to emerging threats.

Synctera

Series A in 2021
Synctera Inc. is a digital banking solutions provider based in San Carlos, California, and was incorporated in 2020. The company specializes in offering technology infrastructure, sponsor bank connections, and a compliance framework to facilitate the launch of FinTech and embedded banking products for businesses of all sizes. Synctera’s platform employs a unified set of APIs, allowing companies to efficiently introduce and expand various financial products such as debit cards, bank accounts, charge cards, lines of credit, and money movement services. By examining the specific needs of traditional banks and connecting them with appropriate FinTech firms, Synctera manages relationships and regulatory compliance, enabling regional and community banks to transition to digital operations effectively.

ThreatQuotient

Venture Round in 2021
Founded in 2013, ThreatQuotient develops a threat intelligence platform that centralizes management of external sources with internal security solutions. Its platform integrates with various tools for contextual intelligence and automates processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness of security operations.

ThreatQuotient

Debt Financing in 2021
Founded in 2013, ThreatQuotient develops a threat intelligence platform that centralizes management of external sources with internal security solutions. Its platform integrates with various tools for contextual intelligence and automates processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness of security operations.

Base Operations

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2015, Base Operations provides a threat intelligence platform that aggregates, visualizes, and interprets street-level crime data. Its solutions include threat assessments, sophisticated visualizations, neighborhood threat ratings, and deployment services, helping organizations minimize risk and protect people and assets globally.

Qualytics

Seed Round in 2021
Qualytics is a technology company based in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 2020, that specializes in data quality surveillance. The company has developed a platform designed to monitor and protect against data pipeline corruption. Its core technology includes a data firewall that captures erroneous data at the source, preventing it from affecting downstream data platforms. This system integrates with data pipelines and flows, alongside a surveillance hub, to ensure comprehensive monitoring. Additionally, Qualytics leverages machine learning to automatically generate and refine data rules through supervised workflows, enabling organizations to detect and respond to anomalies in real time. The platform includes active measures such as message-level quarantining to address potential issues swiftly.

Circadian Risk

Seed Round in 2020
Circadian Risk is a company that specializes in physical risk assessment through its proprietary software platform. This platform employs a score-based methodology to analyze risk data across various sectors and locations, enabling enterprises to evaluate and improve their physical security measures. By digitizing security and safety information, Circadian Risk identifies potential threats and incidents, helping organizations to generate, resolve, and communicate critical data effectively. This innovative approach allows businesses to mitigate vulnerabilities in the workplace and enhance overall safety.

Zeguro

Seed Round in 2018
Zeguro Inc. is a cyber security and insurance platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016. The company focuses on helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) identify and mitigate cyber risks. Zeguro's platform enables these businesses to assess their vulnerabilities and offers tailored insurance solutions to cover potential losses from incidents such as data breaches, business interruptions, cyber extortion, and payment fraud. In addition to insurance, Zeguro provides cybersecurity training and monitoring services, ensuring that SMEs can effectively protect themselves against cyber threats while benefiting from affordable and comprehensive cyber insurance coverage.

Barndoor AI

Barndoor AI specializes in enterprise AI infrastructure, providing a centralized governance layer to manage, scale, and control agent-based AI applications across organizations. Its platform includes tools for orchestrating AI agent workflows, secure data sharing, system integrations, and data governance, enabling teams to coordinate distributed AI efforts, maintain oversight, and deploy AI systems while adhering to internal policies and ensuring data security and accountability.
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