Fc Centripetal
1875 Explorer Street, Suite 900, Reston, VA, 20190, United States
Overview
Fc identifies, invests in, and propels the world’s most relentless and ambitious founders from idea stage to Series A – focused on enterprise software. Fc offers validation-at-scale, extensive venture client opportunities, technical mentors, and capital solutions to Founders and Venture Studio portfolio companies. The Fc enterprise IT community is compromised of over 3,000 high-level global IT decision makers, representing approximately $750B in Annual IT Spend. Over 65% of the Fortune 100 is represented in our community, as well as over 35% of the S&P 500. Over 33% of our community holds the title CIO, CTO, CSO, or CDO.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 2
Sector focus
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Cloud Computing
- Cloud Management
- Cloud Security
- Cyber Security
- Enterprise
- Enterprise Applications
- Enterprise Software
Investment portfolio
- Ciphero
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.