Participated · Equity · Sep 2024

Sister Pitch is an event run by not-for-profit Global Sisters in partnership with Dentsu Australia that connects diverse, emerging women-led founders with investors and business leaders. In the most recent Sister Pitch, twelve Australian women-led businesses received more than $1 million in financial and strategic backing. The support comprised funding pledges alongside mentorship, industry connections and strategic advice intended to help ventures scale. Corporate supporters and funders named in the article include Afterpay, Meta, MECCA, The Iconic, Bunnings, American Express, KPMG and AMP. Global Sisters was founded by Mandy Richards in 2016 and focuses on supporting women who are often excluded from traditional business pathways. The programme leverages corporate partners to provide both capital and non-financial resources to participating founders.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2023

Cranium is an AI security and software firm that enables organizations to gain visibility, security, and compliance across their AI and GenAI systems. Its Cranium Enterprise software platform lets organizations map, monitor, and manage AI/ML environments against adversarial threats without interrupting how teams train, test, and deploy models. The platform also helps organizations quickly gather and share information about model trustworthiness and compliance with third parties, clients, and regulators. Led by CEO Jonathan Dambrot, the company was incubated and funded in stealth inside KPMG Studio. Cranium is based in Short Hills, New Jersey, and plans to use new funding for innovation, research and development, and business expansion. The company has raised $32M to date following its $25M Series A. Cranium provides a platform to discover and give visibility to AI systems at the client level, offering security reporting, monitoring, and supply chain visibility for AI lifecycles. Its core product maps AI pipelines, validates their security, and monitors for threats such as data poisoning and text-based attacks while operating within existing ML training and testing environments. Customers can capture both in-development and deployed AI pipelines and associated assets to establish an AI security framework for security and data science teams. The company plans to build a rich repository of telemetry and to use its own AI models to proactively identify risks across its client base. Cranium competes with other AI-robustness vendors such as HiddenLayer, Robust Intelligence, CalypsoAI and Troj.ai. It currently has no customers or revenue, employs about 30 full-time staff, and expects to grow to roughly 40–50 employees by year end.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2022

Valence Security offers a platform to detect and contextualize a company’s SaaS apps, surface vendor risk, spot misconfigured security controls and prioritize remediation across third-party integrations, keys and no-/low-code workflows. The product also includes identity-security flows to ensure central identity provider management, multi-factor authentication and proper offboarding. Demand is driven by SaaS sprawl and supply-chain attack risk; the article cites averages of ~80 SaaS apps per enterprise and >150 apps for firms with 1,000+ employees. Valence was cofounded in 2021 and is Tel Aviv–based. The company has a 25-person headcount and plans to double that by year-end while directing new capital toward product development. Matichin did not disclose customer count or projected revenue in the article. Valence brings zero‑trust security principles to the Business Application Mesh, a mix of SaaS and self‑hosted business applications interconnected via APIs and platforms like Zapier and Workato. Its platform provides immediate, nonintrusive risk‑surface management by mapping app‑to‑app integrations and spotlighting risky third‑party connections. The product enables enforcement of policies such as least privilege to reduce exposure from supply‑chain attacks, misconfigurations and data leaks. Valence positions itself as addressing gaps in existing third‑party risk solutions and cites incidents like the Mimecast/SolarWinds breach to illustrate the problem. Founded by cybersecurity veterans Yoni Shohet and Shlomi Matichin, the company says its platform is already deployed at select global enterprises that have significantly reduced their risk surface. Valence announced its public launch out of stealth alongside a $7M seed raise led by YL Ventures.

Participated · Series A · May 2022

ShardSecure develops Microshard™ technology that shreds, mixes, and distributes data to render it unintelligible and mitigate cloud data security and privacy risks. Its Microshard process includes self-healing data capabilities that can reverse unauthorized deletion and tampering, including ransomware, for data at rest. The platform uses virtual clusters for high-availability and failover, and distributes Microshard data across customer-provided storage locations to support business continuity and recreate data after storage outages. Key innovations highlighted include protection against data compromise, automated recovery similar to RAID-5 for outages, and support for regulated industries. The company cites customers in financial services, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, global technology firms, and other regulated industries. Led by Co-Founder and CEO Bob Lam and based in New York City, ShardSecure plans to continue product development, add third-party integrations, and expand sales and marketing in North America and Europe using the new funding. ShardSecure offers a data privacy and security technology platform, including its Microshard solution, to companies in technology and investment management, with deployments in biotech and commercial banking. Since general availability less than one year ago, the company expanded Microshard to support both structured and unstructured datasets and delivered performance and deployment upgrades. The product now features a streamlined deployment process that can be completed in under fifteen minutes and is available on AWS Marketplace. ShardSecure has built out senior enterprise sales coverage across the U.S. Northeast, West and South and signed reseller relationships with Red River, DC Consulting and FiveSky. Led by CEO and co-founder Bob Lam, the company is positioning to scale commercial adoption. Financially, the company has raised a total of $4.5M to date, including the most recent Pre-Series A. ShardSecure provides patent-pending Microshard technology that breaks sensitive data into tiny fragments, distributes them across multiple clouds, and poisons them with false shards to make reassembly nearly impossible. The system reduces data sensitivity to help regulated-industry customers lower compliance costs and complexity and accelerate cloud adoption. Led by CEO and co-founder Bob Lam, the company is working with select early adopter design partners, including Fortune 500 organizations in healthcare and financial services. ShardSecure secured a seed funding round of undisclosed amount to ramp product development and establish initial sales and marketing efforts. The product is planned to become generally available in the first half of 2020.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2022

Context Labs develops the Immutably™ enterprise data fabric and DaaS™ (Decarbonization as a Service™) platform to provide trusted, digitally‑provenanced and cryptographically‑attested ESG and climate data. The stack leverages machine learning and AI‑driven asset‑grade analytics together with a contextualized distributed ledger to render provenance and veracity across a 'supply chain of data.' The company says its platform aims to reduce greenwashing, transform ESG into quantitative tools, and inform asset‑grade decisions that accelerate capital deployment for climate action. Context Labs announced a $28 million strategic investor financing and a joint venture (Context Labs Energy) with BP Energy Partners to deliver trusted‑data solutions for the energy sector's decarbonization measurement, monitoring, and mitigation. Other strategic investors named include Equinor Ventures, KPMG LLP (US), Shamrock Ventures, Neglected Climate Opportunities LLC, and i(x) investments. The firm said the funding and partnerships will support commercialization with industry partners and scale deployments for energy‑sector stakeholders demanding asset‑grade disclosure and net‑zero transition tools.