Participated · Series B · Mar 2023

RangeForce provides cloud-based cyber defense upskilling solutions that deliver real-world interactive exercises simulating live attacks. Its platform helps cybersecurity professionals and operations teams continuously upskill employees while using their existing software tools. The simulated exercises are designed to protect teams against current and emerging cyber threats. The company intends to use the new funding to expand its product line. RangeForce has experienced rapid growth with Fortune Global 2000 customers across finance, technology, and healthcare. Its customer roster includes Equifax, Barclays, and federal government entities. RangeForce provides a cloud platform that delivers prescriptive, individualized learning paths with hundreds of real-world training modules for security, DevOps, web application engineers and industrial control teams. The platform supports cross-training, custom reporting for management, and orchestration of incident detection and response across multiple vendor tools. RangeForce has developed vendor-specific training modules for Recorded Future, Splunk, VirusTotal and Carbon Black and is expanding those integrations to build a full-stack security partner ecosystem. The company serves more than 100 organizations across financial services, technology, government, retail, telecom and healthcare. Leadership is headed by CEO Taavi Must. RangeForce plans to use new funding to accelerate go-to-market efforts, advance product development, expand its ecosystem of training orchestration partners and drive global growth. RangeForce, founded in Estonia and operating out of Tallinn and New York, offers a learning platform that simulates cyber attack scenarios to train and assess security professionals. Its core product is a problem-based learning environment designed to provide enterprise IT and cybersecurity teams with hands-on defensive experience. The company says its customers span the financial, technology and healthcare sectors, and include Microsoft, Barclays, Santander, and Pipedrive. Taavi Must is the CEO and co-founder and has positioned the platform as an alternative to one-size-fits-all classroom training. Financially, RangeForce has just secured external funding as reported in the articles.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2020

BRAVO SIERRA develops clean, high-performance personal care products designed with and for the U.S. military community. Its formulas are paraben-free, sulfate-free, phthalate-free, phenoxyethanol-free, vegan, cruelty-free and made in the USA. The brand operates a proprietary community called BATTALION of roughly 2,500 Special Operations, active service members and veterans who field-test products, and it donates 5% of sales through a partnership with Department of Defense military exchanges. Since launching in 2019 the company says revenue has doubled year-over-year, it has amassed more than 10,000 five-star reviews, and its deodorant reached #8 on Amazon after six months. Products are sold across military exchanges and nationwide at Walmart, Target, Amazon, HEB, GNC, Ulta and bravosierra.com. The company has surpassed six-figure contributions to the DoD exchanges and positions itself for further retail and product innovation growth. Bravo Sierra is a NYC-based non-traditional defense contractor that engineers performance consumer products for military and civilian patrons. The company launched personal care products exclusively within the Department of Defense’s Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps exchanges globally. It has developed a proprietary software platform that enables field testing by over 1,000 U.S. active duty service members, allowing product development iteration based on real-time feedback. Led by co-CEOs Justin Guilbert and Benjamin Bernet, Bravo Sierra focuses on performance-focused personal care and is expanding product development into new categories. The company plans to use the new capital to launch omni-channel distribution, accelerate product development into new categories, and deploy its social manufacturing technology platform at scale. It closed a $12M Series A to fund these strategic initiatives.