• UrbanFootprint

  Participated · Series B · May 2022

  UrbanFootprint positions itself as the world’s first Urban Intelligence platform, delivering geospatial software and data to inform infrastructure and community resilience decisions. The platform compiles and analyzes thousands of previously siloed data points and connects them to a proprietary canvas of 160 million land parcels covering nearly every inch of the United States. Customers across energy, government, finance, real estate, and urban planning use sector-specific data products and mapping tools to evaluate conditions, measure risk, and prioritize investments and interventions. Use cases cited include utility grid hardening, EV charger siting, targeting food/housing/disaster relief, and ESG and finance risk analysis for insurers and banks. UrbanFootprint announced a $25 million Series B and says it will deploy the capital to accelerate delivery of climate and community intelligence to energy, government, finance, and real estate sectors. The company has received industry recognition, including Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and the GovTech 100. UrbanFootprint provides a location intelligence and urban-planning software platform with built-in data, analysis, and advanced scenario-planning tools. The platform surfaces critical urban insights such as climate and hazard impacts and accessibility to transportation hubs and points of interest. It supports cities and urban planners in designing sustainable, equitable, and resilient communities and serves mobility, energy, insurance, and real estate customers. UrbanFootprint enables businesses to plan expansions, identify where to devote resources, and understand current and future economic, social, and environmental implications across markets. The company is led by CEO Joe DiStefano with co-founder Peter Calthorpe. In February 2020 it raised $11.5M in Series A funding to advance its offerings and grow its customer base.

• 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.

• Stardog

  Participated · Series B · May 2020

  Stardog provides an Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform that makes real-world context machine-understandable, enabling organizations to unify data without changing underlying sources by endlessly linking concepts. Its semantic data layer connects data silos across data lakes, warehouses, and other enterprise sources to accelerate insights. Coupled with fine-tuned large language models, Stardog’s knowledge graphs enable contextualized question-answering and help extract structured data from documents. The platform is positioned to help enterprises customize foundation models using curated domain data and to enhance productivity for data engineers and data scientists. Customers referenced in the article include Boehringer Ingelheim, Schneider Electric, and NASA. The company is presented as a tool for enterprises to advance data unification and take advantage of generative AI advancements. Stardog provides an Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform used by enterprise customers to integrate data via combined graph storage and virtualization capabilities. Its platform supports use cases such as operational resilience, pharmaceutical R&D, and situational awareness. Customers named in the article include Morgan Stanley, NASA, Schneider Electric, Bayer and Bosch. The company is led by CEO and founder Kendall Clark. With the announced extension to its Series B, Stardog plans to scale go-to-market operations, expand EU operations, strengthen work in the public sector, and develop tools and partnerships to broaden access to knowledge graphs. The article frames the company as focused on broadening adoption of knowledge graphs across industry and government customers. Stardog provides an enterprise data unification platform that leverages knowledge graph technology to unify and manage enterprise data. The platform supports deployment on-premise or in customers' private cloud instances. Led by CEO and founder Kendall Clark, Stardog plans to expand its offering to include a Knowledge Graph as a Service to enable hybrid cloud environments and improved data control and management. Customers include Morgan Stanley, Dow Jones, Siemens and the U.S. Air Force. The company has raised a total of $20 million in equity financing to date, including a $9 million Series B. It intends to use the new funds to launch product offerings, scale go-to-market initiatives and add roles across engineering, customer success, sales and marketing. Stardog Union offers an enterprise knowledge graph platform that combines a graph database with a knowledge toolkit to unify all enterprise data sources and databases of every type, regardless of structure. Led by CEO and co‑founder Kendall Clark, the platform is designed for simplicity of implementation while allowing customers to query massive, disparate, heterogeneous data. Enterprise customers include Fortune 500 companies across finance, healthcare, life sciences, energy, media, and government. The company raised additional capital as part of its Series A, expanding the round to $9M. New funds will be used to expand operations, including sales and marketing, and to accelerate product development. Stardog Union provides an enterprise knowledge graph technology platform that enables customers to query across disparate, heterogeneous, and massive arrays of siloed data regardless of structure. The platform emphasizes flexibility and reusability and is led by CEO and co-founder Kendall Clark. Enterprise customers include Fortune 500 companies across finance, healthcare, life sciences, energy, media, and government. The company plans to use new funding for product development and to accelerate sales and marketing growth for its platform. Stardog serves large enterprises seeking to unify and query siloed data and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

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