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CCL

111 Gordon Baker Road Suite 801, Toronto, ON, M2H 3R1, Canada

Overview

A global specialty packaging pioneer, CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions to the Home & Personal Care, Premium Food & Beverage, Healthcare & Specialty, Automotive & Durables and Consumer markets worldwide. The Company is divided into three reporting segments: CCL Label, CCL Container and its new consumer arm, Avery. With over 19,000 dedicated employees, CCL Industries operate 149 state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

Total investments
4
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Automotive
  • Consumer Goods
  • Food and Beverage
  • Health Care
  • Manufacturing
  • Packaging Services
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Investment portfolio

  • Huskeys

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

    Huskeys offers the industry’s first patent-pending Edge Security Management (ESM) platform that integrates an agentic intelligence layer across CDN-WAF-infrastructure-application flows. The platform sits on top of existing multi-cloud and multi-WAF environments with a plug-and-play deployment model and abstracts provider-specific syntax while enriching rules and policies with organizational context. Its AI engine continuously assesses, adapts, and orchestrates rules, policies, and configurations to optimize both security and business outcomes. Huskeys positions itself to reduce false positives and restore revenue lost to overly aggressive WAF rules; a cited customer case study describes eliminating false positives and restoring millions in revenue within hours. The company launched from stealth in 2025 and was founded by Itai Gafni (CEO) and Roy Weisfeld (CTO), both Unit 8200 alumni. Early enterprise customers named in the launch include TikTok, Merlin Entertainments, and Hugging Face.

  • Tracebit

    Participated · Series A · Mar 2026

    Founded in 2023 by former Tessian employees Andy Smith and Sam Cox, Tracebit develops cloud-native deception technology that deploys decoy assets (canaries) across cloud environments to detect malicious activity. The platform supports thousands of accounts, monitors about five billion events each week, and generates millions of canaries daily for customers including Riot Games, Snyk, Synthesia, Docker, and Admiral Insurance. Tracebit has expanded beyond AWS to support Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, developer workstations, and identity providers, and it plans support for Google Cloud Platform. The company is introducing new products such as Perimeter Canaries and Deceptive Artefacts to place decoys at SaaS and cloud edges for faster detection. Current plans include scaling its customer base and hiring across go-to-market and engineering functions funded by the Series A. The company reported total funding of $25 million after the Series A.

  • Seal Security

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2025

    Seal Security is an application security provider that automatically curates and delivers production-ready patches to eliminate open source vulnerabilities across the software stack, from dependencies and operating systems to container base images. Its platform installs fixes without requiring version upgrades or complex migrations, enabling teams to keep current environments secure and protect future deployments. The company emphasizes a patching-first approach powered by LLMs to reduce vulnerability backlogs and accelerate remediation. Seal reports rapid customer growth, substantial ARR expansion, and has more than doubled headcount over the past year. It commits to a 72-hour CVE remediation SLA and targets AppSec, DevOps, DevSecOps, and IT teams in regulated environments. Seal says customers achieve remediation in hours or minutes and that the product helps maintain compliance with standards such as PCI DSS, FedRAMP, DORA, CRA, and NYDFS. The company plans to use the new funding to enhance go-to-market efforts and accelerate expansion of its core platform. Seal Security builds tooling that goes beyond vulnerability scanning by creating and applying patches to remediate issues in open-source packages. Its platform integrates with GitHub to enable these patches in customers' CI/CD pipelines and automates much of the workflow. The company generates patches itself and leverages a large language model to help identify the commits that introduced fixes, which the team says enables scalability. Seal was founded by Itamar Sher (CEO), Lev Pachmanov (CTO) and Alon Navon (CPO); the team joined forces in summer 2022 after prior roles at Unit 8200, Cymmetria, Curv and PayPal. The product aims to reduce alert noise for developers and shift enterprise focus from triage to remediation. Financially, Seal announced a $7.4 million seed round led by Vertex Ventures Israel, with participation from Crew Capital, PayPal Alumni Fund and Cyber Club London.

  • Clutch Security

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

    Clutch builds a non-human (machine) identity security platform offering network visibility, posture and risk management, and lifecycle management via a zero-trust approach. The platform secures API keys, service accounts, tokens, secrets and other credentials and integrates with close to 60 infrastructure services, applications and identity providers. Founded in October 2023 in Tel Aviv by Ofir Har-Chen, Sagi Haas and Tal Kimhi, the company assembled an experienced engineering team and launched an MVP within months. Clutch plans to use the new funding for R&D, product development and to expand its business development efforts. The company is targeting a market where machine identities in large enterprises have ballooned—from 320,000 in 2022 to 1 million in 2024 per Venafi research—creating demand for non-human identity solutions. Clutch operates in a crowded competitive landscape alongside Semperis, Astrix Security, Oasis, CyberArk/Venafi, Silverfort and Token Security. Clutch Security offers a Universal NHI Security Platform that provides complete visibility and contextual insights into non-human identities across cloud, SaaS, on-prem, vaults code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and data warehouses. The platform includes Identity Lineage™ visualizations to show NHI context, risk identification and prioritization based on severity and business impact, and tailored remediation playbooks. Clutch detects suspicious or abnormal NHI behavior and integrates with existing security workflows for swift response and incident resolution. It also supports Zero Trust protections by certifying and verifying NHIs to reduce exposure and enforce trust-based controls. The company positions its solution as designed for scale and to preserve business velocity while improving security. Clutch emerged from stealth and announced an $8.5M Seed round to support its go-to-market and product efforts.

Team

  • Allison Phillips

    Vice President and General Manager, Avery North America Printable Media

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  • Jim Anzai

    Managing Director

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  • Kathleen Keller-Hobson

    Corporate Director

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  • Luis Jocionis

    Director

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