Participated · Series C · Sep 2021

Sayari provides counterparty and supply chain risk intelligence by integrating global corporate ownership, trade transaction, and supply chain data to surface risk insights for investigations, analytics, and risk management. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., its platform was released in 2020 and is used by thousands of frontline analysts in over 35 countries and by more than 100 of the world’s largest public and private companies, including government agencies, law enforcement, and financial institutions. Since 2020 Sayari has experienced explosive growth, earning consecutive rankings by Deloitte and Inc. Magazine as one of North America's fastest-growing technology companies. In 2023 the company won contracts across the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and the EU supporting trade enforcement, forced labor risk, Military End Use restrictions, and complex investigations; its expansion into international governments accelerated 950% over the past year. Sayari’s product roadmap includes a new supply chain illumination platform and a fully automated supply chain screening product that will leverage its industry-leading knowledge graph alongside responsible AI to extract deeper insights. The company says its partnership with TPG will accelerate global expansion in 2024 and support these product launches. Sayari Labs operates a proprietary data intelligence platform that collects, extracts, enriches, matches and analyzes high-value information from more than 150 countries. The platform is used to fight global financial crime, increase corporate transparency in high-risk places, and support critical national security missions. Sayari serves financial institutions, Fortune Global 500 corporations, and financial crime regulators and enforcement agencies across 35 countries. Its client roster includes Coca-Cola, Facebook, State Street and Santander. Founded in 2015 and based in Washington, D.C., Sayari positions its product to give enterprises a complete picture of customers and competitors. The company has stated plans to expand its reach to businesses and governments around the world. Sayari Labs provides Sayari Graph, a tool for navigating global corporate ownership and commercial relationships to help clients mitigate risk and comply with KYC, AML, sanctions, beneficial ownership, and anti‑bribery & corruption regulations. The platform surfaces customers, vendors, counterparties, key personnel, hierarchies, subsidiaries, and related parties while maintaining provenance back to official documents from their countries of origin. Sayari says top global financial institutions, Fortune 100 corporations, financial crime regulators, and enforcement agencies in 35 countries use its product. Led by CEO and co‑founder Farley Mesko, the company focuses on financial intelligence and supply‑chain risk solutions. Sayari intends to use the newly raised funds to further develop its technology. The company is based in Washington, DC.

Led · Series D · May 2017

GoSecure provides an integrated Managed Detection and Response (MDR) platform that combines endpoint, network, and email threat detection with behavioral analysis, memory forensics, machine learning, and reputational techniques. The platform delivers predictive multi-vector detection, prevention, and response, and the company reports detecting and mitigating threats on average in less than 15 minutes. Since launching as CounterTack in 2012, GoSecure has acquired several companies and grown to about 200 employees with country headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, and San Diego, California. Management says the company continues to add new customers at the highest rate in its history and that growth accelerated prior to the COVID-19 pandemic has continued as organizations adopt a more mobile workforce. Future plans emphasized by management and investors focus on increasing awareness and adoption of GoSecure's MDR approach and going to market at full speed. Financially, the company recently closed an oversubscribed $35M Series E growth round. CounterTack is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based provider of behavior- and memory-based Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technology. Led by CEO Neal Creighton, the company offers an Endpoint Threat Platform (ETP) that supplies threat context, organizational resiliency, and broad visibility to mitigate endpoint risk and reduce the impact of advanced attacks in real time. CounterTack delivers its endpoint security solutions to over 250 customers globally. The company received an investment from NTT Docomo Ventures and intends to use the funds to continue to grow globally. The article does not disclose the amount or specific instrument of the investment. CounterTack offers a behavior- and memory-based Endpoint Threat Platform (ETP) that combines behavioral analysis, machine learning, and reputational techniques to detect and remediate advanced threats. The company is building its ETP on the SAP HANA in-memory analytics platform and incorporates Smart Data Streaming, machine learning, predictive analysis, natural language processing, and graph features. CounterTack says this architecture enables rapid ingestion of huge volumes of data and full-fidelity data persistence to provide situational awareness for security analysts. It announced a strategic partnership with SAP NS2 to deliver full-spectrum, highly scalable endpoint security to enterprise and government customers and to bolster ETP deployments at enterprise scale. CounterTack is investing in future capabilities to add detection algorithms, improve performance, and increase deployment flexibility on premise or in the cloud. Financially, the company recently announced a $20 million Series D growth financing and reports delivering its technology to over 250 customers globally. CounterTack sells behaviorally-based EDR technology—notably its Sentinel continuous monitoring and threat response platform and the Digital DNA (DDNA) in-memory binary analysis engine. The company emphasizes predictive, behavior-based detection combined with binary analysis to detect zero-days, rootkits, targeted malware and advanced persistent threats. CounterTack reported nearly 150% year-over-year growth in the APAC market and said over 225 customers use its solutions globally. The DDNA product licensing program has accelerated growth and has been integrated with more than five major cyber organizations. CounterTack has bolstered its Federal presence with the appointment of Matthew Addington and plans to accelerate hiring while unveiling multiple strategic initiatives and a major partner to scale its U.S. Federal business over the next six months. CounterTack builds the Sentinel platform, a real-time Big Data endpoint detection and response solution that provides visibility, forensic analysis, threat visualization and automated response across enterprise endpoints. The platform uses tamper-resistant collection for behavioral capture on laptops, servers, workstations and mobile devices to detect advanced, persistent threats at scale. CounterTack sells to enterprise and SMB customers and distributes via strategic MSSP partnerships. The company has reported strong growth, citing 300% year-over-year Q1 growth from 2014 to 2015. The new funding is intended to support an accelerated go-to-market strategy and further global expansion, including plans for Asian growth mentioned by investor EDBI. CounterTack positions its Big Data architecture as a scalable alternative to SQL-based detection approaches for enterprise security teams.

Led · Series B · Dec 2015

ThreatConnect offers an intelligence-driven security operations platform (TIP + SOAR) that brings intelligence, automation, analytics, and workflows together for security operations, threat intelligence, incident response, and security leadership. The company launched its Platform in 2014 and expanded it in 2017 with advanced orchestration and automation capabilities to address a broader security operations market. ThreatConnect serves more than 1,600 organizations worldwide. Usage of the Platform’s advanced orchestration and automation Playbooks grew more than 40% in the past year, now executing more than 23,000 Playbooks per month per customer on average. The company says the new growth investment will accelerate go-to-market efforts, further Platform development, and expand its customer and partner community; it plans to increase staff by more than 50% over the next 12 months domestically and abroad. ThreatConnect has been recognized by Inc. 5000 and the Washington Business Journal for fast growth. ThreatConnect develops the ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) to aggregate, analyze, and enable action against sophisticated cyberattacks. The platform is available in the cloud or on‑premises and is programmable by external developers via TC Exchange and an SDK, described as an open‑source workbench for sharing and modifying applications. The company says its product serves both analysts and executive management, aiming to give security operations executive‑level visibility. ThreatConnect plans to use its recent financing to increase global market penetration and to add a joint product built on SAP HANA to its portfolio in 2016. It positions itself as an enterprise‑class cybersecurity software platform and says SAP NS2 recognizes the product as mission‑critical for customers. Financially, ThreatConnect closed a Series B round in excess of $16 million. Founded in 2011 by a group of cybersecurity analysts and now operating as ThreatConnect, Inc., the company offers the ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform in the cloud and on-premises to aggregate, analyze, and automate defenses. The platform is designed to help security teams leverage multiple sources of threat intelligence and coordinate responses across existing security investments. Currently over 550 global companies, including more than 40 of the Fortune 100, use the ThreatConnect platform. The technology was officially launched at Black Hat 2013; the company recorded 450% revenue growth in 2014 and anticipates more than doubling revenues in 2015. ThreatConnect had been self-funded until this raise and earned the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s "Hottest Bootstrap" award in June 2014. The Cyber Squared brand will continue to be used for the company’s consulting services.