The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

Bloom Security offers a platform that surfaces every tool, browser extension, agent, and code package running on an endpoint and provides contextual analysis of how each interacts with data and systems. The platform assesses supply-chain risk and configurations to measure exposure and enables teams to block risky installs, enforce secure configurations, and remediate risks without manual approval workflows. The company says its product addresses gaps in traditional endpoint detection and response solutions that were built for malware rather than modern, agentic software ecosystems. Bloom is already deployed at dozens of large enterprises across the United States and Europe and employs roughly 30 people. Its founding team previously held engineering and research leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, Dig Security, and Demisto.

Participated · Series A · May 2026

Geordie builds a security and governance platform that helps enterprises discover, understand, secure and govern AI agents across their systems. The platform provides real-time visibility into which agents exist, what they can access, how they behave, and the risks they create. Geordie is led by CEO Henry Comfort and is headquartered in London. The company has reported strong commercial momentum, including winning the 2026 RSAC Innovation Sandbox and achieving 1,300% ARR growth five months into 2026. Geordie has raised $36.5M to date, including a $30M Series A recently led by Balderton Capital, and plans to use the new capital to enhance product capabilities and expand engineering and go-to-market teams, with a focus on extending U.S. operations.

Led · Series A · Mar 2026

Variance provides an agentic AI platform that models investigative workflows using a proprietary context engine and data lake to reason over fragmented enterprise data and return auditable decisions. Its agents automate KYC, KYB, AML, transaction monitoring, fraud detection, and investigations, reportedly processing more than 70 million context signals per day and executing approximately 300,000 automated enforcement actions across customer environments. The platform connects to over 150 global registries, sanctions lists, court dockets, adverse media sources, and identity verification services and supports on-premise and air-gapped deployments with customer-managed encryption keys and field-level controls. Variance says its agents have reduced multi-week investigations to minutes for large retailers and Fortune 500 customers and achieved human-level precision replacing manual review queues in some deployments. Founded in 2023 by Karine Mellata and Michael Lin, the team draws on experience from Apple’s fraud engineering and algorithmic risk group. The company is focused on expanding infrastructure and enterprise adoption as it scales.

Led · Series A · Mar 2026

BlueFlag Security develops security solutions for AI-driven systems, focusing on protecting AI models and data pipelines. Its platform helps enterprises detect vulnerabilities, monitor model behavior, and ensure safe deployment of AI applications. The company raised $28 million in a Series A to accelerate its product roadmap and expand adoption. BlueFlag plans to use the capital to scale product development and support customers as organizations build AI security frameworks. The article does not disclose revenue, user metrics, year of founding, or location. No additional operating metrics were provided.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

Eclypsium provides a supply chain security platform that unifies inventory, hardening, threat detection, and response for devices across the technology lifecycle. The company analyzes millions of firmware binaries and reports having scanned and secured hundreds of thousands of endpoints, servers, network devices, and AI servers. Eclypsium expanded platform capabilities in FY2025, adding GPU server support and broader edge device coverage, and grew its partner ecosystem through alliances with vendors like SHI, WWT, Getac, GuidePoint, Panasonic, SentinelOne Singularity Marketplace, and NVIDIA Inception. Leadership and product teams were strengthened with senior hires in technology, research, and product management during the year. Eclypsium reported a record FY2025, including closing its largest single customer deal, and is positioning to expand further into financial services and AI infrastructure markets. The company is based in Portland, Ore.