Participated · Series D · Jul 2025

Vanta is an AI-powered trust management platform that began in 2018 by helping startups automate SOC 2 and today provides continuous, automated verification across security and compliance controls. The product offers zero-touch verification, vendor risk management, access reviews, Trust Centers, Policy Builder, an AI Agent, and AI-powered Questionnaire Automation to speed evidence collection and reviews. Vanta serves over 12,000 companies in 58 countries, monitors 200 million resources, and records 10 million Trust Center views; it reports AI assessments completed up to 81% faster and IDC-measured customer ROI and productivity gains. The company recently acquired Riskey and has launched features such as Vanta for Marketplaces and expanded support for FedRAMP, CMMC, and NIST 800-53. Vanta has grown to 1,000+ employees with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney. Vanta provides a trust management platform that automates security and compliance workflows, initially focused on certifications like ISO 27001, HIPAA and SOC 2. The company has expanded beyond automated compliance toward broader "trust" features, including trust centers, real-time security status pages, questionnaire automation and building integrations into existing security tools. Vanta has built roughly 200 integrations in-house and reports another ~100 built by customers. It has launched AI products and is increasing use of large language models, with its questionnaire automation showing about 80% of answers immediately accepted by human reviewers. Financially, Vanta surpassed $100M in ARR for the financial year ending in January, serves over 8,000 customers, and employs about 500 people; roughly a quarter of customers are outside the U.S. The company is focused on moving upmarket and expanding its global presence while continuing to build AI-driven features and some of its own security tooling. Vanta provides a compliance automation platform that collects data from customers’ SaaS apps and cloud stacks, runs analyses to surface potential security threats, and offers workflows and controls to meet standards like HIPAA and GDPR. Its platform enables auditors to complete audits within Vanta and delivers alerts and guidance via email and apps like Slack. The company says each new customer benefits from aggregated, data-driven insights drawn from thousands of prior customers. Vanta serves more than 4,000 organizations, including Quora, Modern Treasury and Autodesk, and employs over 350 people. CEO Christina Cacioppo founded the company in 2016 and says revenue has grown “significantly faster” than its valuation; she also said the company bootstrapped to $10M ARR before raising outside capital. The new funding will be used to support customer acquisition, product R&D and go-to-market efforts. Vanta offers a platform that automates much of the manual work involved in achieving and maintaining cybersecurity compliance, with dozens of integrations that evaluate application configurations against standards. The product continuously monitors systems to surface compliance issues, highlights remediation steps, and simplifies creation of security reports. Vanta says its platform can reduce the manual effort of security audits by up to 90%. The company supports SOC 2, ISO 27001 and helps with industry-specific data-protection and privacy regulations such as GDPR. After its prior funding round last May Vanta reported more than $10 million in annual recurring revenue and over 1,000 customers; the company now says its platform is used by more than 3,000 organizations. Vanta plans to use the new proceeds to further enhance its compliance and cybersecurity capabilities. Vanta provides a platform that automates security monitoring and helps companies prepare for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA certifications. The platform connects to services including Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, GitHub, Okta, and Slack. Founded in 2017 and led by CEO Christina Cacioppo, Vanta serves nearly 1,000 companies, including Clubhouse, Lattice, Calm, Loom, Notion, and UserTesting. In two and a half years the company has surpassed $10 million in annual recurring revenue. Vanta plans to use the new funding to meet customer demand, launch new products, and open a second office in New York.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2022

Talon Cyber Security offers TalonWork, a secure enterprise browser that provides controlled access to corporate applications and data on any device and operating system. Led by CEO Ofer Ben-Noon and CTO Ohad Bobrov, the product gives security teams visibility into browser and application activity and includes native features such as authentication, data loss prevention and Zero Trust controls. The company says TalonWork simplifies security for managed and unmanaged devices and recently released the industry’s first secure enterprise browser for mobile devices. Talon has completed numerous customer deployments at large organizations and established partnerships with CrowdStrike and Microsoft. Talon raised $100M in a Series A and intends to use the funds to accelerate go-to-market efforts and deliver new product enhancements to meet global demand. Talon Cyber Security offers a next-generation secure browser and workspace, TalonWork, designed to give enterprises control and visibility over employee work-related activities across locations, devices and SaaS. The product emphasizes employee experience and privacy while providing enterprise-grade protections such as advanced data isolation, screenshot prevention, clipboard restrictions, policy enforcement and defenses against browser vulnerabilities. Talon positions its service as a simpler alternative to complex legacy stacks like VPNs, VDI or desktop-as-a-service for securing hybrid and distributed workers. The company launched TalonWork in October and says the workspace can be created on any device with built-in data leakage protection and granular control of web in-app activities. Talon has raised new funding to accelerate commercialization and expand development to meet market demand. Financially, the company announced a $43 million raise to date, including $17 million in SAFE instruments. Talon Cyber Security develops a cyber security technology platform aimed at protecting organizations from threats that arise with distributed work. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It is led by CEO Ofer Ben-Noon and CTO Ohad Bobrov, both alumni of Unit 8200. Talon plans to use the raised capital to further develop its technology and expand its development team. The product focus is on securing the distributed workforce rather than traditional perimeter-focused security. The article does not disclose revenue, user metrics, or prior financing history.

Participated · Seed · May 2022

Hubble Technology offers an agentless platform that lets organizations see and understand complex technology environments and provides continually updated asset data. The platform delivers actionable information to improve compliance, eliminate cyber risks, and increase operational rigor in security and IT. Customers use Hubble’s insights to reduce costs and support informed planning and digital transformation. The company is led by CEO and founder Tom Parker and is based in Reston, VA. Hubble intends to use the new funding to grow its engineering team in the Washington, D.C. area and to scale the business. The company is responding to increased demand from a global customer base.

Participated · Series D · Sep 2021

Corelight provides open network detection and response (NDR) solutions that transform network and cloud activity into evidence security teams use to proactively hunt for threats, accelerate incident response, gain complete network visibility, and create analytics. The company serves global customers including Fortune 500 companies, major government agencies, and large universities. Led by CEO Brian Dye, Corelight plans to accelerate AI-driven security innovation, expand cloud-native security capabilities, and grow data fusion partnerships with cybersecurity platforms. Those initiatives aim to deliver enhanced capabilities for SOC analysts and incident response teams. Corelight raised $150M in Series E funding to support these product and partnership investments. Corelight is a San Francisco-based startup that provides an open network detection and response (NDR) platform built on the Zeek open-source framework. The company’s product is a network visibility solution that leverages Zeek, which has been widely deployed by thousands of organizations including U.S. government agencies, the Department of Energy, and major research universities. Corelight positions itself as a fast-growing NDR player at scale and competes with incumbents such as FireEye and McAfee/STG. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate its global market presence and to develop new data and cloud-based offerings. Corelight says it will invest in growth and product development to ensure its insights continue to lead the industry and are readily usable by customers of all types. The company was founded in 2013 by Dr. Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer and Seth Hall; Brian Dye is quoted as CEO. Corelight provides network traffic analysis (NTA) solutions that transform network traffic into rich logs, extracted files, and security insights to support incident response, threat hunting, and forensics. Its sensors run on Zeek (formerly Bro), the open-source network security monitoring tool, and Corelight Sensors simplify Zeek deployment while expanding performance and capabilities. The company’s solution is used in production by large public- and private-sector organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, major government agencies, and large research universities. Corelight was founded by Dr. Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer and Seth Hall and is led by CEO Greg Bell. The company recently secured additional capital and has raised a total of $84M to date. It plans to use new funds to accelerate product development, research, sales, and marketing to deliver new capabilities for network defense. Corelight provides enterprise-class network visibility solutions for cybersecurity built on the open-source Bro framework. Its product features include an intuitive management UI, native NIC shunting, sensor health metrics, and automated data export to Splunk, Elastic, Kafka, Syslog, S3, and more. The company recently launched the Corelight Virtual Sensor to enable pervasive monitoring across virtual infrastructure at speeds up to 2 Gbps and scalable across four reference configurations for VMware. Corelight plans to use the new funding to accelerate product development, research, sales, and marketing, expand internationally with increased investment in global sales infrastructure, and build additional strategic partner alliances. The company was founded by Dr. Vern Paxson, Dr. Robin Sommer and Seth Hall and is led by CEO Greg Bell. It is based in San Francisco, CA. Corelight produces the Corelight Sensor, a turn‑key enterprise network-visibility product that acts as a “flight data recorder” for networks to investigate and prevent ransomware and other threats. The sensor is built atop the Bro open-source framework originally developed by co‑founder Dr. Vern Paxson and is integrated with tools such as Splunk, Amazon S3 and Kafka. Paying customers include dozens of enterprises, among them six of the Fortune 100 and one of the largest private companies in the US. The appliance offers a comprehensive API, a high-performance FPGA-based network interface card, optimized file extraction and log filtering, and claims 3–4x higher data processing throughput compared to standard servers. Corelight commercializes the open-source project via turnkey solutions designed to reduce deployment time and complexity. The company said it will use its new funding to accelerate product feature development and invest in sales, marketing and engineering to meet market demand and to shift customer effort toward analysis, threat hunting and incident response.