• Deep Instinct

  Led · Series B · Jul 2017

  Deep Instinct is the first company to apply deep learning to cybersecurity, offering a natively architected, prevention-first threat prevention platform. The company says its platform stops >99% of threats before other solutions see them, reducing detection noise and false alert storms. Deep Instinct positions its product to improve SOC team productivity and lower total cost of ownership for customers. The firm intends to use investor support to accelerate growth and drive adoption of a prevention-first model across enterprises. It currently protects customers across North America, Europe, and APAC; enterprise customers tripled in 2022 and it has strategic wins with numerous Global 2000 companies. The article does not disclose revenue or other financial metrics. Deep Instinct offers a prevention-first cybersecurity platform that applies deep learning to stop ransomware and other malware across hybrid environments. Its Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is designed to add multilayered protection to existing security stacks. The company says it will use the new funding to further penetrate the market. Deep Instinct raised $62.5M in the reported financing. As part of the announcement, Lane Bess—who has more than 35 years of experience in cybersecurity and was formerly CEO of Palo Alto Networks and COO of Zscaler—took over as CEO effective immediately. Co-founder Guy Caspi moved from CEO to Board Chair and became Chief Product Officer. Deep Instinct offers an end-to-end deep learning framework and platform designed to predict, prevent, and analyze cyberattacks across endpoints and networks. Its platform is positioned to protect organizations at multiple touchpoints and has expanded enterprise adoption rapidly. The company reports protecting customers across North America, Europe, and APAC, with enterprise customers tripling in the prior year and strategic Global 2000 wins in Q1 2021. Led by CEO Guy Caspi and Chairman Lane Bess, Deep Instinct intends to use the new funds to accelerate its growth plans for 2021 and beyond. The company has raised a total of $200M to date following this round. Deep Instinct applies deep neural network algorithms to cybersecurity, using end-to-end deep learning to identify and stop known and unknown malware, including zero-days and advanced persistent threats. Its system ingests raw data from servers, mobile devices and endpoints and is largely autonomous, with automated processes handled by its "deep learning brain." The company sells primarily to enterprise customers, both directly and via partners such as HP, which bundle or resell its solutions. Deep Instinct emphasizes cross-OS protection and claims higher detection and lower false positives than traditional machine-learning approaches that rely on human feature extraction. Management says the product can prevent first-seen, unknown attacks and is already used to counter rising spyware, ransomware and file-less attacks. The longer-term plan is to build a consumer-facing version of the product. The company is profitable, and highlights strategic relationships with large tech partners. Deep Instinct is a Palo Alto, Calif.-based company that applies deep learning to cybersecurity. Led by CEO and co-founder Guy Caspi, the company offers a deep learning platform that detects malicious behavior across multiple vectors and provides adaptive defenses for endpoints, servers, and mobile devices. The company raised $32M in a Series B financing led by CNTP, with participation from strategic investors including Nvidia, Coatue Management, and existing investors. It plans to use the funds to accelerate deployments in the U.S. and global markets. Mohsen Moazami, founding MD of CNTP and a former Cisco executive, was added to Deep Instinct’s board of directors in connection with the round.

• Frame

  Participated · Equity · May 2017

  Frame provides cloud-based virtual workspaces that let enterprises, service providers, and software vendors run Windows applications from any device using hyperscale cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. The platform is used by customers including Adobe, Autodesk, HP, Siemens and SolidWorks. Led by founder and CEO Nikola Bozinovic, Frame emphasizes secure remote delivery of Windows applications. The company said it will use the new funding to accelerate market growth and expand operations. Frame raised $16M in this round and has raised a total of $32M since 2013. The investment and customer traction position Frame to scale its operations and enterprise deployments. Frame is a cloud platform that lets users run any software in a browser and share applications with teams. The platform has been in use for more than a year by software vendors including Adobe Systems and Siemens PLM. Frame plans to launch a public beta of a new end-user service on July 8 across five continents, with plans starting under $10 per month. The company intends to use new funding to expand its technology and grow its leadership, sales and engineering teams. Founded in 2012 by Dr. Nikola Bozinovic, Frame is based in San Mateo, CA and also has offices in Nis, Serbia. Mainframe2 provides a cloud-based platform that allows developers and businesses to manage Windows applications from a single dashboard. Its app-streaming technology enables any software to run in a browser with no plugins required. The platform automates onboarding, provisioning compute resources, scaling, analytics and logs, and software entitlement. It also connects to third-party components such as storage and identity services. In November 2014 the company raised $2.2M in seed funding to develop its app-streaming technology and scale operations. The company is led by founder and CEO Dr. Nikola Bozinovic. Mainframe2 offers a cloud solution that lets users run and view Windows-based graphical applications (including AutoCAD and Adobe Photoshop) in any HTML5-capable browser. Applications are streamed as a video stream encoded using technology from NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD, removing the need for Java or Flash plugins. The company was founded in 2012 by graphics industry veterans from MotionDSP and is led by CEO Dr. Nikola Bozinovic; it emerged from stealth at DEMO 2013. Mainframe2 is targeting the professional application market—design, CAD, and HPC visualization—and explicitly plans to avoid cloud gaming. The service does not yet work on Safari; the team is working on broader browser compatibility and is in talks with large software vendors and enterprises. Mainframe2 reported "thousands of sign-ups" for its private beta in the first five days and is preparing for a service rollout by the end of the year. The company has raised $500,000 in seed capital from Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Plug and Play Tech Center and several Valley-based angels.

• DRIVIN

  Led · Equity · May 2016

  Drivin is a Chicago-based service for automotive dealers that uses data to help sell, source, acquire and deliver quality used vehicles. Launched in 2015 by CEO Kayne Grau, the company provides dealer-focused inventory and remarketing services. Drivin received a $6.5M senior debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank. The company says it will use the proceeds to accelerate growth initiatives, continue expansion with current dealer partners and establish new relationships with dealerships nationwide. Drivin plans to launch Drivin Marketplace in the fall to enable dealers to acquire recommended inventory optimal to their lot and to remarket unwanted inventory to Drivin’s nationwide network. The financing is positioned to support the rollout and scaling of its dealer marketplace and related services. Drivin, launched in mid-2015 by CEO Kayne Grau, operates a nationwide service that finds and vets quality, wholesale-priced used vehicles and connects them with dealer partners across the U.S. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois. Drivin currently works with over 500 buying dealer partners and sources inventory from more than 25,000 dealer rooftops. It plans to use new capital to continue expanding both its products and its network of dealer partners. As of this round, Drivin has raised a total of $17.5m in funding.

• HighGround

  Participated · Series A · Mar 2016

  HighGround offers a mobile- and social‑built HR cloud platform that enables continuous feedback, real‑time recognition, employee-created goals, and tools for more impactful manager coaching. The platform aggregates employee and manager interactions into a historical repository that gives leaders visibility into workforce activity, progress, and organizational health. HighGround positions itself to turn annual reviews into ongoing coaching and to capture the voice of the employee for improved retention and productivity. The company reported a high-growth 2015, with CAGR over 300% and customer count increasing by more than 200%. Collectively, HighGround has raised more than $19M to date. The company plans to use recent proceeds to aggressively expand sales and marketing and to further solidify its place as an employee engagement and development platform leader.

• Zoomdata

  Participated · Series C · Feb 2016

  Led by CEO Justin Langseth, Zoomdata is an open-platform vendor of visual analytics solutions for big data. The company uses patented data sharpening and micro-query technologies to let business users visually consume data in seconds, even across billions of rows. Its Zoomdata Fusion product enables interactive analytics across disparate sources by blending real-time streams and historical data and unifying enterprise and cloud data. Zoomdata signed a strategic investment and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel to extend the platform’s capabilities to meet Intelligence Community requirements. The agreement expands the company’s federal program—availability via GovCloud and C2S, federal pricing through SEWP, and development/delivery services via partners Deloitte, Northrop Grumman, and Unisys. Zoomdata is venture-backed by Accel, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Comcast Ventures, Goldman Sachs, NEA, and Razor’s Edge; the size of the In-Q-Tel investment was not disclosed. Zoomdata provides business-intelligence dashboards that connect to modern and traditional data sources at scale without copying data, enabling visualization of very large datasets. The product supports Hadoop (Cloudera, Hortonworks), Elasticsearch, NoSQL and SQL sources. It competes with legacy BI tools like IBM Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects as well as more modern vendors such as Tableau and Qlik, but was built for big-data sources from the start. The company reported 11x year‑over‑year growth and 35 customers, and has partnerships with Cisco, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and Microsoft. Management says the new funding will be used to speed the product roadmap and add features requested by strategic customers. Financially, Zoomdata has raised just over $47 million to date after the $25 million Series C. Zoomdata builds a business-intelligence and data-visualization platform natively designed for modern data platforms including Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL. Its product surfaces streaming and historical views of data with a video-like scrubbing interface to watch graphs transform over time. The tools are positioned to make modern platforms accessible to less technical users once ETL and machine-learning work has been completed. Zoomdata cites partnerships with Cloudera and Databricks and has been used by customers such as PlaceIQ for live mobile-location visualizations. The two-year-old, Reston, VA.–based company has about 50 employees and roughly 20 customers, one contract reportedly worth over $10M and others at least in the six figures. Management plans to use new capital to expand sales and marketing, including hiring a chief marketing officer and a team of salespeople. Zoomdata builds a data-visualization platform that connects and analyzes both historical and real-time (streaming) data. Its interface, designed with the iPad in mind, allows filtering and animated 'in motion' views, including rewinding and forwarding graphs. Users can change visualizations, drill down, drag-and-drop different data into a data palette, bookmark views, and take screenshots to share. Zoomdata is one of the first vendors specifically designed for Cloudera Impala and is certified on Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution. The company positions itself as a non-ETL provider focused on streaming data, differentiating from legacy BI vendors. Zoomdata raised $4.1 million in a Series A to support its product and growth. Zoomdata is a Reston, Va.-based big data visualization startup led by founder and CEO Justin Langseth. It offers a next-generation real-time big data visualization application that helps business analysts combine multiple data streams and share work using real-time interactive visualizations on tablet, web, and TV devices. The product is currently deployed in beta at several top-tier customers. The company raised $1.1M in seed funding from advisor Hemang Gadhia and other angel and institutional investors. Zoomdata intends to use the capital to expand its seven-person engineering team to drive product innovation. The company currently employs 12 people.

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