PICO Venture Partners

PICO Venture Partners, established in 2015, is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel, with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York, USA. The firm specializes in investing in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs developing future-defining technologies, with a focus on software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data sectors. PICO supports its portfolio companies through close partnerships, leveraging its domain expertise, advisor network, collaborative workspaces, and go-to-market channels to facilitate growth. The firm has successfully exited from four investments and has made a total of 48 investments across two funds. Notable portfolio companies include Vroom (Nasdaq: VRM) and Spot.io (acquired by NetApp).

Claudia De Antoni

Partner

Seth Hochhauser

Associate

Todd Kesselman

Investor

Elie Wurtman

Managing Partner

Past deals in Network Security

Sepio

Series B in 2024
Sepio is a developer of an asset risk management platform focused on protecting organizations from hardware-based attacks. The company's innovative solution operates on asset existence rather than activity, utilizing physical layer asset DNA profiling to deliver actionable visibility and policy enforcement. This platform enables security teams to gain comprehensive insights into their hardware assets and monitor their behavior in real-time. With the ability to define granular device usage rules, Sepio allows administrators to continuously oversee and safeguard their infrastructure. The solution is asset agnostic, accommodating various environments including IT, OT, and IoT, and can report on existing assets and their associated risk factors within 24 hours. Ultimately, Sepio aims to enhance clients' cybersecurity posture by providing robust control over hardware assets and mitigating the risks posed by rogue devices.

Salvador Technologies

Seed Round in 2023
Salvador Technologies specializes in developing system solutions for recovering computers from cyber attacks. Their products include cyber recovery stations, USB devices for organization-wide recovery, workstation-specific instant recovery tools, and pre-configured servers. The company leverages over a decade of experience from its founders in Israel's National Cyber Unit and elite intelligence corps to provide robust cybersecurity solutions.

Zero Networks

Series B in 2023
Zero Networks Inc. is a network security software developer founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in automating the definition, enforcement, and adaptation of network access policies for users and machines within an organization. Its cloud-based technology customizes access controls by learning how users and devices communicate, thereby enhancing security without the need for agents or complex policy configurations. Additionally, Zero Networks incorporates a two-factor authentication mechanism that allows legitimate but unusual connections through a secure wall on mobile devices. This approach ensures robust protection against potential breaches while maintaining operational continuity, making it an effective solution for organizations seeking to strengthen their network security posture.

Zero Networks

Series A in 2022
Zero Networks Inc. is a network security software developer founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in automating the definition, enforcement, and adaptation of network access policies for users and machines within an organization. Its cloud-based technology customizes access controls by learning how users and devices communicate, thereby enhancing security without the need for agents or complex policy configurations. Additionally, Zero Networks incorporates a two-factor authentication mechanism that allows legitimate but unusual connections through a secure wall on mobile devices. This approach ensures robust protection against potential breaches while maintaining operational continuity, making it an effective solution for organizations seeking to strengthen their network security posture.

Zero Networks

Seed Round in 2020
Zero Networks Inc. is a network security software developer founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in automating the definition, enforcement, and adaptation of network access policies for users and machines within an organization. Its cloud-based technology customizes access controls by learning how users and devices communicate, thereby enhancing security without the need for agents or complex policy configurations. Additionally, Zero Networks incorporates a two-factor authentication mechanism that allows legitimate but unusual connections through a secure wall on mobile devices. This approach ensures robust protection against potential breaches while maintaining operational continuity, making it an effective solution for organizations seeking to strengthen their network security posture.

Sepio

Series A in 2019
Sepio is a developer of an asset risk management platform focused on protecting organizations from hardware-based attacks. The company's innovative solution operates on asset existence rather than activity, utilizing physical layer asset DNA profiling to deliver actionable visibility and policy enforcement. This platform enables security teams to gain comprehensive insights into their hardware assets and monitor their behavior in real-time. With the ability to define granular device usage rules, Sepio allows administrators to continuously oversee and safeguard their infrastructure. The solution is asset agnostic, accommodating various environments including IT, OT, and IoT, and can report on existing assets and their associated risk factors within 24 hours. Ultimately, Sepio aims to enhance clients' cybersecurity posture by providing robust control over hardware assets and mitigating the risks posed by rogue devices.

Sepio

Seed Round in 2019
Sepio is a developer of an asset risk management platform focused on protecting organizations from hardware-based attacks. The company's innovative solution operates on asset existence rather than activity, utilizing physical layer asset DNA profiling to deliver actionable visibility and policy enforcement. This platform enables security teams to gain comprehensive insights into their hardware assets and monitor their behavior in real-time. With the ability to define granular device usage rules, Sepio allows administrators to continuously oversee and safeguard their infrastructure. The solution is asset agnostic, accommodating various environments including IT, OT, and IoT, and can report on existing assets and their associated risk factors within 24 hours. Ultimately, Sepio aims to enhance clients' cybersecurity posture by providing robust control over hardware assets and mitigating the risks posed by rogue devices.

Sepio

Venture Round in 2018
Sepio is a developer of an asset risk management platform focused on protecting organizations from hardware-based attacks. The company's innovative solution operates on asset existence rather than activity, utilizing physical layer asset DNA profiling to deliver actionable visibility and policy enforcement. This platform enables security teams to gain comprehensive insights into their hardware assets and monitor their behavior in real-time. With the ability to define granular device usage rules, Sepio allows administrators to continuously oversee and safeguard their infrastructure. The solution is asset agnostic, accommodating various environments including IT, OT, and IoT, and can report on existing assets and their associated risk factors within 24 hours. Ultimately, Sepio aims to enhance clients' cybersecurity posture by providing robust control over hardware assets and mitigating the risks posed by rogue devices.

Cy oT

Seed Round in 2016
Cy-oT delivers an Enterprise-Grade defense that fills the IoT cybersecurity gap, continuously identifying and monitoring all the smart connected devices in your surrounding airspace, so you have total visibility, active threat detection and real-time attack mitigation to protect your assets and operations, while safely embracing IoT and wireless technologies.

Sepio

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Sepio is a developer of an asset risk management platform focused on protecting organizations from hardware-based attacks. The company's innovative solution operates on asset existence rather than activity, utilizing physical layer asset DNA profiling to deliver actionable visibility and policy enforcement. This platform enables security teams to gain comprehensive insights into their hardware assets and monitor their behavior in real-time. With the ability to define granular device usage rules, Sepio allows administrators to continuously oversee and safeguard their infrastructure. The solution is asset agnostic, accommodating various environments including IT, OT, and IoT, and can report on existing assets and their associated risk factors within 24 hours. Ultimately, Sepio aims to enhance clients' cybersecurity posture by providing robust control over hardware assets and mitigating the risks posed by rogue devices.
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