Participated · Equity · Nov 2025

Founded in 2023, Oleria builds identity security software that continuously maps which employees and partners have access to back-end systems and analyzes their activity across the corporate infrastructure. The platform is positioned as a faster, more adaptive alternative to fragmented legacy identity tools, an issue the company believes has been magnified by the rise of AI. Led by CEO and former Salesforce chief trust officer Jim Alkove and co-founder Jagadeesh Kunda, Oleria is already generating revenue and counts multiple Fortune 500 companies as customers. The startup employs about 86 people, according to LinkedIn. Investors include Salesforce Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Tapestry VC, and Zscaler. Oleria has now raised more than $60 million in total funding. Management says the fresh capital will be used to accelerate product development and meet urgent demand from chief information security officers seeking a modern identity security solution.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2024

P0 Security offers the first unified IGA and PAM platform designed for cloud environments, providing visibility and control over who or what is accessing cloud resources. Its agentless architecture deploys in minutes and manages the cloud-access lifecycle for developers and non-human identities using developer-friendly workflows. The platform is positioned to address the limitations of legacy access governance tools that relied on network boundaries. The company reports traction since emerging from stealth ten months ago and counts some of the largest technology and financial services companies as customers. P0 Security plans to use the new funding to significantly scale its go-to-market and engineering teams. The company is based in San Francisco and is backed by SYN Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Zscaler. P0 Security offers a unified platform to secure cloud access and developer entitlements, providing deep visibility into which human and machine identities have excessive permissions to sensitive cloud resources. Its flagship product automates granular, just-in-time, time-bound and ephemeral privileged access and includes a developer-friendly Slackbot for access requests. The company positions its solution as an alternative to patchworks of point products (CNAPP, CIEM, PAM, etc.) that fail to address cloud-native complexity and engineering adoption. P0 announced general availability of its solution on November 1, 2023 and says it is already working with several paying customers. With $5 million in seed funding, the company plans to build out additional functionality and expand go-to-market efforts. Customers cited in the article report reduced approval times from hours to minutes and improved ability to right-size roles and identify attack paths to critical resources.

Participated · Series C · Jun 2023

Cyware builds a platform that integrates threat intelligence, threat hunting, vulnerability and incident data and provides no-code and low-code capabilities for automating security operations. The platform includes collaboration features that let enterprise security teams and third-party vendors share threat intelligence in real time and hosts a network connecting teams with threat data providers. Cyware uses AI to extract and score threat intelligence, cluster similar threats, generate reports with key insights, provide code suggestions for security orchestration, and create detection rules and signatures for existing systems. The company was founded in 2016 by Anuj Goel and Akshat Jain and employs over 200 people. Cyware says it has a growing customer base that includes Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and regulatory bodies, and does not plan to grow headcount in the near term. It plans to use the Series C proceeds to expand go-to-market efforts, market presence, channel business and strategic partnerships. Cyware is a New York startup that provides a Virtual Cyber Fusion platform enabling organizations to build and operate virtual cyber fusion centers for threat intelligence sharing, security automation, and coordinated responses. The platform leverages security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) to help teams collaborate, improve threat scoring, and respond to alerts across IT, compliance, trust & safety, and security functions. Customers include large enterprises, information sharing communities (ISACs), managed security service providers, and computer emergency response teams. Cyware reported 120% year-over-year growth in annual recurring revenue but does not disclose absolute revenue figures. The company says it will use the new funding to continue growing the business, expand its team, and improve its platform to better unite security operations and threat intelligence teams. Prior to this round the startup had raised around $13 million; it is not disclosing its valuation. Cyware delivers a Virtual Cyber Fusion Center platform built around next-generation SOAR technology. The platform includes threat intelligence (TIP), vendor-agnostic security automation, and security case management designed by SecOps practitioners. Cyware's solutions aim to increase speed and accuracy while reducing costs and analyst burnout for enterprise security teams. The company targets enterprises, sharing communities (ISAC/ISAO), MSSPs, and government agencies. Leadership says recent investments and hires will support the build-out of a sustainable, scalable cybersecurity business. The announcement followed recent executive appointments to the leadership team. Cyware offers a suite of virtual cyber fusion solutions, including a situational awareness platform (CSAP), threat intelligence eXchange (CTIX), a vendor-agnostic security orchestration layer (CSOL), and fusion and threat response (CFTR). The company positions separate but integrated capabilities—an advanced threat intel platform (TIP), SOAR automation, and security case management—to increase speed and accuracy while reducing costs and analyst burnout. Cyware serves enterprises, sharing communities (ISAC/ISAO), MSSPs, and government agencies. Led by CEO and co-founder Anuj Goel, the company focuses on secure collaboration, information sharing, and enhanced threat visibility. Cyware raised $10M in a Series A to support product enhancements and continued use-case innovation. The company plans to use the funds to expand sales and marketing and double down on customer success. Cyware Labs develops threat intelligence sharing and cyber fusion product-based security solutions, including Cyware Fusion and Threat Response (CFTR), Cyware Threat Intelligence eXchange (CTIX), and Cyware Situational Awareness Platform (CSAP). CFTR is positioned as a “Cyber Fusion Center–in-a-box” for intel and ops teams; CTIX is a client-server Threat Intelligence Platform for ingestion, enrichment, and AI-based analysis; CSAP delivers mobile-powered strategic threat intelligence and real-time alerts. The company announced it raised $3 million in seed funding and will deploy the capital to support research and product development, accelerate sales and marketing, and expand its global footprint by strengthening partnerships in the Asia-Pacific and Gulf regions. Cyware reported a rapidly growing roster of clients and has diversified its customer base to include Fortune 500 organizations across financial services, healthcare, energy, and retail, as well as ISACs/ISAOs, MSSP, and National CERTs. The company also cited key appointments to its board of advisors and momentum in threat intelligence, situational alerting, and orchestrated threat response.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2022

FireTail offers an application-layer API security solution that provides continuous visibility, monitoring, and run-time blocking to prevent API-based breaches in cloud-native applications. The company has a library that enables inline, preventative checks against common API attack vectors and is focused on embedding security natively within APIs. FireTail is engaged with early adopters across North America, Asia‑Pacific, and Europe, reporting hundreds of APIs secured and millions of events observed. The company plans to expand coverage to multiple programming languages, cloud platforms, and geographies, and is developing new end-to-end API security initiatives with customers. FireTail is headquartered in Northern Virginia and maintains an additional office in Dublin, Ireland. The company raised $5 million in early-stage financing to support these product and geographic expansion efforts.