• 1Kosmos

  Led · Series B · Aug 2025

  1Kosmos offers a unified platform that combines identity proofing, credential verification, and phishing-resistant passwordless authentication using live biometrics. The platform encrypts PII and stores data on a private, permissioned blockchain to reduce centralized attack surface. 1Kosmos is enhancing its product with machine learning and generative AI for adaptive authentication, smarter identity verification, and threat detection. It holds enterprise-grade certifications including FIDO2, NIST 800-63-3, ISO 27001, SOC II Type 2, and FedRAMP High. The company conducts millions of authentications daily and was selected, via Carahsoft, for a 10-year, $194.5 million blanket purchase agreement to supply identity proofing to Login.gov. 1Kosmos plans to use new funding to advance R&D, scale direct and channel sales across North America, EMEA, and APAC, and deepen integrations with IAM, CIAM, PAM, and zero trust platforms. 1Kosmos unifies identity proofing and passwordless authentication through its BlockID platform. The platform creates distributed digital identities to prevent impersonation, account takeover, and fraud while delivering frictionless user experiences. BlockID is NIST, FIDO2, and iBeta biometrics certified and performs millions of authentications daily for large banks, telecommunications, and healthcare organizations. The company supports passwordless access, multi-factor authentication, Zero Trust, and distributed identity with privacy and user consent. 1Kosmos is funded by Forgepoint Capital and is headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey. Leadership has stated a roadmap to eliminate silos between authentication and identity verification to expand market leadership. 1Kosmos develops the BlockID distributed digital identity platform to unify identity proofing and passwordless authentication for employees, consumers and citizens. The FIDO2- and NIST 800-63-3–certified platform creates a portable digital wallet, performs millions of authentications daily, and is managing more than 50 million identities. In its first year of commercial sales the company established go-to-market partnerships with major telecom providers, Fortune 100 financial institutions, and expanded into APAC and Mexico via partnerships. 1Kosmos introduced app-less authentication, a Passwordless Identity Package for enterprises, and SIM-binding capabilities to reduce online fraud. The company reported record 2021 results including a 5X increase in bookings, 3X growth in new customers, and a doubling of its workforce. It also expanded its leadership team and received multiple certifications and analyst citations, positioning it for accelerated growth in 2022. Headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, the company is funded by Forgepoint Capital.

• Seclore

  Led · Series C · May 2022

  Seclore offers a Data-Centric Security Platform that enables organizations to discover, classify, protect, and track enterprise data both inside and outside their boundaries. The platform is open, automated, and browser-based, and is designed to integrate best-of-breed data-centric security solutions with existing enterprise systems. Seclore serves more than 2,000 companies and government organizations in 29 countries and counts big government and defense agencies plus over 500 global enterprises—including American Express, Applied Materials, ADM, Saudi Telecom, and the ICICI group—among its customers. The company says the funding will fast-track its journey to become the platform of choice for enterprise data protection and expand its global presence. Seclore positions its approach as shifting protection from infrastructure to protecting the data itself to address modern workplace and compliance risks. The announcement was issued from Milpitas, Calif. Seclore provides an enterprise digital rights management (EDRM) platform that lets organizations control file usage across environments, with dozens of pre-built connectors for EFSS, DLP, ECM, ERP and email. The solution automates protection as documents are downloaded, discovered, and shared to accelerate adoption and enable users to protect more files. Led by CEO Vishal Gupta, the company serves 400 customers across insurance, financial services, legal, telecom and manufacturing in 29 countries. Seclore is based in the US and India and was described as Santa Clara–based in coverage of the fundraise. The company intends to use the proceeds to continue to expand operations. Seclore Technology provides information security products focused on information rights management and secure outsourcing, enabling remote control of information and secure collaboration. Its core offerings target security, privacy and compliance for cloud computing, BYOD and external collaboration use cases. Customers deploy Seclore on-premise or via hosted pay-as-you-go services, with pricing largely based on number of users. The company started commercial operations in 2010 and has acquired more than three million users across over 300 enterprises, with presence in more than 15 countries. Seclore is already profitable and cash-flow positive for more than two years, and its revenues have grown almost fourfold in the last couple of years. The $6M Series A will be used primarily for global expansion and to expand the technology team; Seclore has around 80 employees with its development centre and headquarters in Mumbai and sales offices in Delhi, Bangalore, Singapore and London.

• Syxsense

  Led · Equity · May 2021

  Syxsense is a cloud-native IT management and security provider based in Aliso Viejo, CA. Led by CEO Ashley Leonard, the company offers a suite that combines IT operations management, patch management, and security vulnerability management to reduce infrastructure management costs regardless of device location. The product is designed to manage and secure infrastructure across distributed environments. Syxsense raised $6M in funding to support its growth. The company intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Investors in the round included Oquirrh Ventures, Origami Capital Partners, and existing investor Signal Peak Ventures.

• eFileCabinet

  Participated · Series C · Sep 2020

  eFileCabinet offers its Rubex SaaS product, which combines intelligent document automation, encrypted file-sharing, and workflow automation for organizations across multiple industries. The platform is positioned to help customers work more efficiently and compliantly by automating cumbersome processes. Leadership says the company is witnessing rapid growth as customers seek improved operational efficiency, particularly amid remote-work trends. eFileCabinet plans to use new capital to expand commercialization efforts deeper into industries including insurance, healthcare, and human resources. Management also intends to continue developing and refining products to solve real-world customer problems in an evolving world. Founded in 2001 and based in Lehi, Utah, the company frames its offering as one of the more advanced document management systems on the market. eFileCabinet provides on-premise and cloud document management platforms that automate organizing, managing, routing, retaining and sharing of files. The platform serves as a central repository and integrates with Salesforce, Microsoft Office and QuickBooks while supporting compliance requirements such as HIPAA, SEC/FINRA, FERPA, GLB and SOX. The company serves SMBs and enterprises across accounting, financial services, insurance, medical, HR, small government and other verticals and reports more than 153,000 users worldwide. eFileCabinet says its solution increases revenues for paper-heavy industries and reduces compliance workload. The company plans to invest the new funding into sales and marketing and pursue strategic partnership and OEM opportunities. Leadership positions the platform as scalable from SMB to enterprise and highlights strong market traction across multiple verticals.

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