Led · Equity · Aug 2023

Symmetry Systems offers a platform that maps an organization’s data across cloud stores, shows who has access, and surfaces misconfigurations and risky data flows. The product lets customers adjust account access on individual data objects and monitor future accesses while running in the customer’s cloud using a ‘‘software-as-a-service, but in customer’s cloud’’ deployment model. The company is developing an AI/large-language-model interface to let customers ask plain-English questions about data risk and mitigation steps. Symmetry says it is building a federal sales program but declined to disclose revenue or customer names. The startup employs around 40 people and expects to grow to 50–55 by year-end. Its most recent financing brought total capital raised to $36 million. Symmetry Systems delivers Data Store and Object Security (DSOS) via its DataGuard product, which the company says maintains authority over data when credentials are exploited, malicious applications act, or security tools generate false positives. Led by CEO Mohit Tiwari, the platform provides full visibility and unified access control over data assets regardless of where or how they are stored. The company originated from the Spark Lab at UT Austin and is based in San Francisco, CA. Symmetry Systems recently raised $15m in a Series A and plans to use the funds to drive rapid growth in revenue, customers, and employees. The company is also participating in Accenture Ventures’ Project Spotlight, an engagement program connecting emerging software startups with the Global 2000. Symmetry Systems offers DataGuard, a DSOS platform that provides unified visibility into data objects across all data stores and answers data security and compliance questions that traditional tools cannot. The system learns how data is used, accessed, and managed by an organization or a partner to deliver actionable visibility, least-privilege policies, and guided response. The company emerged from stealth and was born within the Spark Lab at UT Austin. It is led by CEO and co-founder Mohit Tiwari and is based in San Francisco, CA. Symmetry has active pilot deployments in healthcare, fintech, manufacturing and technology organizations. The company raised a $3M seed round to support product development and customer support tied to those pilots.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2021

Base Operations operates a SaaS platform that aggregates, visualizes, and interprets the world's threat data to help companies keep people and assets safe. The platform increases organizational resilience by surfacing tailored insights and notifying security teams about changes and drivers of threats around thousands of business-relevant locations. In November the company launched an Enterprise offering that enhanced its database of global threat patterns into a tailored platform for security teams. The product helps prevent incidents such as retail and cargo theft and property damage, supports duty of care for traveling or remote employees, and aids strategic initiatives like new market entry, business continuity planning, and dynamic allocation of security resources. Financially, Base Operations recently closed a $9.1M Series A, an up round that reflects traction under difficult market conditions. The company intends to use the funding to augment forecasting capabilities, expand data strategies in emerging markets, programmatically generate detailed reports and analysis, and enhance tailored recommendations. Base Operations also plans to hire across go-to-market, product, and technology roles. Base Operations offers a SaaS threat-intelligence platform that aggregates and visualizes hundreds of millions of crowdsourced and official data points to deliver granular, street-level analysis for enterprise security operations. The product integrates with multinational companies' global security operations centers to help protect people, assets, and operations from violence, crime, and unrest. Customers include Moderna and other Fortune 500 firms across life sciences, technology, financial services, and consulting with complex global footprints. This month the company announced a partnership with ESRI to visualize Base Operations data inside ESRI's spatial intelligence GIS mapping software. The company added Dean Geribo, Head of Corporate Security at Moderna, to its advisory board. Base Operations plans to use the new funding to accelerate recruiting, enhance its product, expand globally, and advance its AI/ML capabilities. Founded in 2018 by Cory Siskind, Base Operations offers a Micro Intelligence platform that delivers street-level threat assessments to support enterprise security operations. The product aggregates government statistics, social media, local news and partnered data from NGOs and universities, using machine learning to surface actionable insights. Its current focus areas include travel security, real estate and supply chain security, helping companies keep people safe while maintaining operations. The company recently launched its street-level threat mapping platform and doubled its employee base in the past month. Base Operations positions physical security as a strategic, SaaS-optimized function distinct from cybersecurity. The startup raised a seed round to fund hiring, product extension and global expansion. Base Operations, founded by former security and risk management consultant Cory Siskind, offers a suite of hosted software services and mobile applications to provide security updates, geo-tagged alerts and check-in capabilities for corporate workforces. The platform includes a dashboard for customers to monitor employee locations and an app that delivers location-based risk alerts and nudges toward safer behavior. In a simulated test with a Fortune 500 insurance client, Base Operations identified 80% of the workforce in under two days and more than half of employees checked in within 24 hours. The company has three customers so far, including an undisclosed insurance provider, energy company Enel and another unnamed corporation. It provides services in 15 cities, including Mexico City, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, San Juan and San Jose. Base Operations graduated from the Techstars Impact Accelerator in 2018 and recently raised $1 million to expand sales and marketing and continue research and development.

Led · Equity · Aug 2021

VIDROVR offers an end-to-end video analysis platform that indexes and manages live stream and archival video content and turns multimedia into actionable data. Its multimodal computer vision and VRPA technology ingests sources including live television, internet and social media, and CCTV footage to create real-time actions, strategic reports, and workflow automations. The company has launched two products, VIDROVR AMI for making multimedia assets actionable and VIDROVR AWARE for localizing people, objects, and events to modernize physical operations. VIDROVR plans to further enhance its technology and expand sales and marketing following recent funding. Leadership frames the product as a solution to the exponential growth of video content and related misinformation, enabling faster decision-making from image, video, and audio data. The company says it has experienced tremendous growth over the past 12 months. Vidrovr offers search and indexing technology that helps publishers find the most relevant videos to accompany their content. Its system combines transcription, face detection and scene detection to extract granular information from video. The product aims to help publishers better monetize licensed or owned video assets and to recommend related videos, articles, and social posts. Co-founder and CEO Joe Ellis says the company will bring the technology “all the way to the consumer,” enabling publishers to host Vidrovr-style search on their sites. The team developed the core technology while Ph.D. students at Columbia University and was incubated at Techstars NYC and the Verizon Media Tech Venture Studio. The company recently completed a seed financing to support product rollout and expansion.

Participated · Series C · Feb 2021

VidMob provides an end-to-end Intelligent Creative platform to help brands produce, track, measure, score and optimize the performance of their creative advertising across major digital advertising platforms. Its platform integrates with channels including Google, Meta, Amazon Ads, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snap, Pinterest, Hulu and Reddit. Led by CEO and Co-Founder Alex Collmer, the company highlights the breadth of its solution. VidMob raised $110m in a Series D funding round. The company will use the funding to continue to invest in sales and marketing, accelerate platform development and expand its global presence. VidMob is based in London, UK. VidMob operates the Intelligent Creative platform, which uses AI to measure creative performance and unifies creative and data to help marketers optimize ad design. The platform connects brands to a global network of elite content creators trained on best practices for digital channels and next‑gen ad formats. Originally focused on major social platforms, VidMob has expanded distribution into the programmatic web and CTV/OTT. The company says it will use new capital to support global expansion, new e-commerce initiatives, and ongoing investments in advanced technology and data science. VidMob counts clients including Johnson & Johnson and Colgate Palmolive and highlights certifications as a creative partner across major social and digital platforms. A portion of revenue funds its 501(c)(3) VidMob Gives, which has supported 84 nonprofit organizations across 63 countries. VidMob began as a marketplace connecting marketers with professional video editors, animators and designers and has expanded into a broader product called the Agile Creative Studio. The platform lets marketers find talent and, with a single click, send hundreds or thousands of custom ads to partners like Facebook, Google/YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. VidMob analyzes how different creative elements affect audience response and uses that data to iteratively improve campaign performance; the CEO says the decay curve can invert as ads improve over time. Brands using VidMob include Bayer, InterContinental Hotels Group, Ikea, Neutrogena and startups like Acorns. The company has raised $25 million in a Series B and more than $45 million in total funding. Founder and CEO Alex Collmer describes a vision of VidMob as an "API for creativity" that could expand beyond social video into future media types such as augmented reality. VidMob is a video creation platform that combines proprietary technology and a network of trained creators to develop insight-driven, personalized, and scalable marketing video content across social and digital channels. Founded in 2014 and led by CEO Alex Collmer, the company produces video content across every channel, format and language. VidMob serves global brand clients including InterContinental Hotel Group, Mondelez and BMW, and works with agency partners such as Mindshare, Wavemaker and Universal McCann. The company recently opened a London office and plans to use new capital to support continued international growth and to expand its creative insights platform. VidMob has now raised $20m in total funding after an additional extension to its Series A round. VidMob is a New York-based video creation platform and network that connects brands and advertisers with a global network of professional creatives. Clients use VidMob to collaborate with expert creatives to develop suites of video assets optimized for every digital channel. The company, led by founder and CEO Alex Collmer, operates offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Massachusetts. VidMob plans to use the Series A proceeds to grow headcount across its four offices, expand technology capacity and tools, and deepen agency and brand partnerships. Earlier in 2017 the company was awarded official marketing partner badges by Facebook and Snap and won innovation awards from Instagram and Twitter for its creative solutions. VidMob has raised more than $13m in total since its 2015 founding.