Strategic Cyber Ventures
1717 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20006, United States
Overview
Strategic Cyber Ventures is led by a combined team of national and international leaders in the cybersecurity space; Strategic Cyber Ventures, leveraging the executive team’s combined 45 years of focused cyber operational experience, offers next-generation cyber firms the strategic vision, roadmap, and infrastructure to create differentiated cyber products and services to achieve maximum sustainable growth. Our team is fully engaged at all levels supporting the growth strategies of our portfolio companies. Our investments are selected as the combined result of our proprietary evaluation process and final evaluation and selection by our leadership team. As offense must inform defense – the stratagems employed by elite cybercriminals and spies will serve as a compass for our leadership team to employ for strategic investments of SCV. Continued engagement with our portfolio companies is what makes SCV unique. Our leadership team guides our portfolio firms from an informed cybersecurity position, a distinction from typical venture capital funding partnerships. The portfolio’s purposeful synergistic make-up allows for applicable alignments between our cyber firms.
- Total investments
- 19
- Lead investments
- 7
- Investments · 12mo
- 3
- Active investors
- 1
Sector focus
- Bitcoin
- Cyber Security
- Financial Services
- Security
Investment portfolio
- Modveon
Participated · Equity · Feb 2026
Modveon, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Palo Alto, is creating an identity-centric operating system for modern societies. The platform provides verified digital identity, closed-loop communications, regulated digital payments, and automated services, giving governments and citizens a trusted digital environment. By addressing the widening gap between internet scale and trust infrastructure, the company aims to make real-world digital interactions reliable at societal scale. Initial government deployments are already live, backed by commercial agreements that are generating revenue. Modveon plans a broader public launch later this year, with additional product and partnership announcements expected. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Nana Murugesan, whose prior executive roles include Coinbase, Matter Labs (ZKsync), Snapchat, and Samsung.
- Doppel
Participated · Series C · Nov 2025
Doppel offers a social engineering defense (SED) platform that leverages agentic AI and a real-time threat graph to spot impersonation, phishing, fraud, and other attacks across social media, messaging apps, paid ads, and the dark web. Its Digital Risk Protection suite unifies threat alerts and automates attacker-infrastructure takedowns, while its Human Risk Management products provide deepfake-driven simulations and security-awareness training. Since launching its Simulation product in August, that module already represents a material share of Q3 bookings, signaling strong early demand. The company reports 3× year-over-year ARR growth and a more than 5× increase in Fortune 500 customers, now serving over 200 organizations including Coinbase, Ramp, Commerce, and Orrick. Doppel has doubled its headcount over the past year and continues to hire aggressively as it expands internationally. A collaboration with OpenAI has enabled the firm to fine-tune models that autonomously detect and neutralize complex social-engineering threats in real time. Following its latest $70 million Series C round, Doppel has raised $124 million to date at a valuation exceeding $600 million.
- Cloudburst Technologies
Participated · Series A · Sep 2025
Founded in 2022 and based in New York, Cloudburst Technologies aggregates and analyzes millions of off-chain data points from Telegram groups, forums, regulatory filings and news sites. Its proprietary AI models surface real-time intelligence on fraud networks, illicit actors, social sentiment and other risks that are not visible on the blockchain itself. The platform is used by regulators, law-enforcement agencies, crypto exchanges, compliance teams and investors seeking early warning signals and narrative monitoring. Cloudburst is already engaged with major exchanges, compliance teams and government agencies. With the new funding, the company plans to expand its AI and data-science teams, accelerate product development and scale globally. The firm aims to establish its product as the industry standard for off-chain crypto intelligence. To date, Cloudburst has raised $11 million in equity financing, including the recent Series A.
- GovEagle
Participated · Seed · Mar 2025
GovEagle is an AI-driven proposal platform that automates the government contracting bidding and proposal drafting process. The platform integrates with tools like SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Salesforce, HubSpot, and Box and tailors outputs to an organization's content, style, and voice. GovEagle says its AI can reduce draft time from 60 hours to as little as 60 minutes and since launching in 2022 has helped clients submit thousands of proposals across federal, state, and local opportunities. It operates in FedRAMP High cloud environments, is in the final stages of achieving FedRAMP Moderate Equivalency, and meets NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC controls; data is encrypted at rest and in transit and AI policies prohibit data retention or use for model training. The company will use new funding to expand its engineering team, accelerate product development, and advance AI-driven automation and quality improvements for enterprise customers. Backed by industry investors, GovEagle aims to streamline compliance-heavy proposal workflows while maintaining enterprise-grade security.
- Evo Security
Participated · Series A · Jul 2024
Evo Security is a cybersecurity SaaS company focused on delivering identity and access management solutions tailored for managed service providers (MSPs) and their SMB customers. The company offers a consolidated identity platform, including identity and privileged access management capabilities, designed to protect against evolving identity-based cyber threats. Evo emphasizes quality, innovation, and dedicated MSP support as core differentiators. Led by CEO Michael Roth, the company positions its platform to safeguard critical digital assets and help ensure SMB livelihoods. The business plans to use new capital to accelerate growth, enhance its consolidated product offerings, and expand market presence. The company is based in Austin, TX. Evo Security is an Austin, TX-based identity and access management company that builds enterprise-grade products for managed service providers (MSPs). Led by CEO Michael Roth, the company offers Secure Login, which provides MFA and SSO for Windows and Mac endpoints, web applications, and network devices. It also offers Evo Elevated Access, which lets MSP service delivery teams access client devices as administrators without copying administrative credentials. The company received a $1M investment and intends to use the funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. No operating metrics or prior financings are disclosed in the article. Evo Security provides a multi-tenant, highly scalable IAM platform engineered specifically for MSPs and their SMB customers. The platform combines MFA, SSO, PAM and Password Management to enable MSPs to manage identity and access across client environments. Led by founder and CEO Michael Roth, the company targets channel partners and service providers with a partner-centric architecture. Evo plans to use new funding to advance existing capabilities, expand product features, and build a partner success and support team. The company completed a seed financing, indicating early-stage funding to accelerate product development and partner growth.
Team
Charles Thomas
CEO and Co-Founder
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