• HYAS

  Participated · Equity · Feb 2021

  HYAS, based in Victoria, British Columbia, is a leader in threat intelligence, adversary infrastructure, and network defense. Its flagship HYAS Protect combines infrastructure expertise and multi-variant communication pattern analysis to preemptively detect and block phishing, ransomware, and other attacks at the network layer. HYAS Insight helps SOC and fraud teams speed investigations and reduce threat and fraud costs, and the company also provides intelligence services to accelerate cyber investigations. The company has built what it describes as arguably the world’s largest data lake of attacker infrastructure, including extensive domain-based intelligence. HYAS reports multiple Fortune 100 companies among its customers and plans to use new funding to accelerate product development and global market expansion. HYAS develops the Comox attribution intelligence engine and related online detection, analysis and investigation tools for cybersecurity teams. Its proprietary database contains billions of cybercrime indicators, with millions of new data points added every day, and serves Fortune 100 companies. HYAS plans to expand Comox into a holistic platform and to launch Saltspring, a cloud-based tool that delivers real-time early warnings of global attacks. The company emphasizes pinpointing perpetrators and collaborates with clients and international law enforcement. HYAS recently entered a financing agreement to support aggressive product development and platform expansion. The company previously raised a $6.7 million Series A led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, with additional funding from Susa Ventures. HYAS develops attribution intelligence tools and its flagship Comox platform to give analysts real-time visibility and attribution into cyber attacks. The Comox platform provides access to billions of exclusive threat indicators and cross-references a broad array of proprietary data. Its proprietary database contains billions of cybercrime indicators, with millions of new points added every day. Comox is used by Fortune 100 companies, governments, law enforcement and intelligence agencies. HYAS raised $6.2 million in a Series A and will use the funds to build out current products and introduce next-generation technology for improved visibility and attribution. The company is led by founder and CEO Chris Davis, an industry-recognized information security expert honored by the FBI and Microsoft for his role in the Mariposa botnet takedown. HYAS focuses on pinpointing perpetrators of digital attacks and works closely with clients and international law enforcement to pursue cybercriminals. HYAS Infosec provides cloud-based cyber-threat intelligence and protection services to OEMs, enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Founded in 2014 by chief technologist Chris Davis and based in Victoria, BC, the company offers two core services: Saturna DNS for OEM and enterprise protection and Borderless Internet for consumer and SMB online threat protection. Both products are powered by Comox, a deep-analysis threat-intelligence platform built on HYAS’s proprietary historical database containing billions of Internet domains, addresses and malware samples. Customers include large information-security firms and Fortune 500 companies. Following a seed financing led by Wesley Clover International, the company intends to use the funds to increase R&D investment and expand market-development activities. The funding amount was not disclosed in the announcement.

• Modumate

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2018

  Modumate develops a next-generation 3D design environment that can automatically generate construction- and permit-ready drawings for architects. The software is intended to modernize architects' business processes to save time, improve design and better serve clients. Modumate will sell the product as a monthly or annual subscription license. The company is accepting pre-orders and planned alpha and beta customer testing in the fall, with a public production release scheduled for the end of 2018. Modumate raised $1.5M in seed funding to support hiring, product development and marketing. The company is led by CEO Richman Neumann.

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