Participated · Series A · May 2026

Lastwall develops IDCommand, an identity verification platform that assesses over 200 characteristics of each login attempt—such as keystroke cadence, mouse movement, and hardware configuration—to prompt additional authentication and alert security teams when anomalous activity is detected. The company pursued enterprise-grade customers from the outset, working with the U.S. Department of Defense and earning FedRAMP Moderate Authorization for use across the U.S. federal ecosystem. Lastwall’s technology is positioned to protect government agencies and critical infrastructure providers across North America, and the company plans to scale its deployments with the new financing. Leadership highlighted the growing threat of nation-state cyberattacks and the expanding blast radius of identity compromise in the AI era as drivers for demand. The company has existing investors including Blue Bear Capital, 18West, and Blue Wing Ventures, and noted the possibility of future fundraising and venture debt from banking partners.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

Ciphero is a New York City–based startup creating an AI verification and security layer for enterprise environments. Its platform captures, verifies, and governs every AI interaction, flagging risky behavior and guaranteeing trustworthy outputs. By addressing Shadow AI, agentic deployments, data-leak risks, and compliance standards such as SOC 2, Ciphero enables companies to integrate generative AI safely and ethically. The product is currently being tested with select design partners as the team refines enterprise-wide deployment and explores new AI investment opportunities. Leadership comprises CEO Saoud Khalifah, COO Rob Gross, and Chief AI Officer Sen Tian, all alumni of Fakespot, an AI fraud-detection company acquired by Mozilla. Having recently emerged from stealth, Ciphero has secured $2.5 million in pre-seed capital to fund product development and operational expansion.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

Bricklayer.ai, founded in 2024 and headquartered in Arlington, VA, delivers a platform that lets Security Operations Centers build, manage, and orchestrate teams of specialized AI agents. These agents perform multi-step tasks such as alert triage, vulnerability management, threat intelligence gathering, and reporting while maintaining auditability and human-level context. The company targets Fortune 500 enterprises and managed security providers, helping customers automate thousands of analyst hours each month. Bricklayer.ai reports that its monthly recurring revenue has expanded more than 14-fold year-to-date and more than doubled in the most recent quarter, underscoring rapid market adoption. The fresh capital will be directed toward accelerating product development, expanding go-to-market efforts, and enhancing customer experience to meet rising demand for AI-driven security automation. By enabling SOC teams to create cohesive AI agent teams, Bricklayer.ai aims to establish an AI-native model for security operations.

Participated · Seed · May 2024

Bleach Cyber provides a one-stop, streamlined solution for managing security and compliance across applications and networks for startups and small businesses. Its process begins with a thorough analysis of a customer's security and compliance posture through fast integrations with existing tools. Using advanced algorithms, the company identifies potential vulnerabilities within a user's systems in only a few minutes and then provides fast, effective remediations for compliance requirements and risks. Bleach Cyber was co-founded in 2022 by CEO Craig Goodwin and Steve Daniels and is a 2023 Techstars graduate. The company raised $2M in Pre-Seed funding and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and development efforts.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2022

Tidal Cyber offers a Threat-Led Defense platform that helps organizations measure and improve the effectiveness of their security stack against real-world threats and adversary behavior. The platform operationalizes MITRE ATT&CK and delivers independent tools and services to align security efforts to the threats that matter without vendor bias. Tidal Cyber plans to build a comprehensive CTI and adversary behavior–driven platform to shift organizations from managing intel to proactive, threat-informed defense. The company raised $10 million in Series A funding to accelerate product innovation and fuel company growth. Tidal Cyber was founded in 2022 and is based in Reston, Va. It was co-founded by three former MITRE experts — Rick Gordon, Richard Struse, and Frank Duff — who bring extensive experience in threat-informed defense and related standards and programs. Tidal Cyber offers a Threat-Informed Defense SaaS platform (Enterprise Edition) that aggregates MITRE ATT&CK®, third-party threat intelligence, and internal research to produce Tidal Confidence Scores and Coverage Maps. The platform recently integrated Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) test results to compare tests against existing confidence scores. The company also maintains a freely available Community Edition used by over 3,000 security professionals globally. Tidal Cyber plans to use new investment to accelerate go-to-market activities, expand sales and marketing, and enhance both Community and Enterprise Editions. The company reported customer and financial growth exceeding 10x over the past year. Founded in January 2022 by threat-intelligence veterans with experience at MITRE and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Tidal Cyber aims to lead adoption of Threat-Informed Defense across critical infrastructure segments. Tidal Cyber offers a threat-informed defense platform that embeds the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base to help security operations teams focus on the most relevant adversarial tactics and techniques. The platform includes a threat profile builder to identify and prioritize relevant threats, a prioritized to-do list for daily defensive actions, a map to optimize defensive tooling, and a proprietary confidence score to assess cyber posture. Tidal’s tools aim to align threats with the right defensive capabilities and streamline communication about an organization’s security program. The company is led by CEO Rick Gordon, CTO Richard Struse, and CINO Frank Duff. Tidal plans to use newly raised capital to accelerate growth of its platform. The company is based in Reston, VA. Tidal Cyber offers a SaaS-based threat-informed defense platform that maps an organization’s security capabilities to adversary tactics and techniques, including MITRE ATT&CK and additional intelligence sources. The platform includes a registry of vendor product capabilities mapped to adversary behaviors to produce actionable insight on defensive coverage, gaps, and overlaps. Tidal provides a free Community Edition that was made generally available at Black Hat USA in early August, featuring enriched technique data and the Tidal Product Registry. The company plans an enterprise edition with enhanced features, including reporting driven by a Tidal Confidence Score to help evaluate and communicate cyber risk reduction. Led by CEO Rick Gordon, Tidal intends to use the new funding to expand the platform and ramp up customer acquisition. Financially, the company raised $4M in funding to support these product and go-to-market efforts.