Bryson Bort

CEO and Founder at SCYTHE

📍 Arlington, Virginia, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Jul 2025
Luminai helps automate repetitive manual work away from your mission critical business processes. We serve customers across healthcare, financial services, and more.
Seed Investor
Mar 2024
Revic AI turns historical revenue data into a dynamic strategic asset, enabling sales and marketing teams to focus on truly winnable accounts.
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
Frenos is the first AI-native OT penetration testing platform, purpose built for critical infrastructure, defense, and industrial control environments. We enable organizations to safely and continuously test the defensibility of their operational technology without touching production systems. Our platform combines digital twin modeling, AI adversary reasoning, and attack path simulation to uncover real-world exposures, validate controls, and prioritize mitigations all without disruption. By emulating the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of nation-state and ransomware actors, Frenos reveals exactly how adversaries could move through your OT environment and what defensive actions matter most. Built by OT security experts and offensive practitioners, Frenos empowers red teams, blue teams, and CISOs to shift from periodic assessments to continuous validation moving beyond visibility to measurable resilience. Whether deployed as a laptop-based assessment tool or an enterprise-grade continuous red teaming platform, Frenos delivers the automation, consistency, and insight needed to stay ahead of modern OT threats.
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Nov 2023
Knostic is the world’s first provider of need-to-know based access controls for LLMs. With knowledge-centric capabilities, Knostic enables organizations to accelerate the adoption of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation without compromising value, security, or safety. RSA Launch Pad finalist and Black Hat Startup Spotlight winner, 2024.
Seed Investor
Sep 2023
In a world where future regulation drives technology markets at scale, and only selected few lobby governments - OpenPolicy is the world’s first policy intelligence and engagement platform, unlocking future markets by connecting businesses of all sizes with policymakers globally, to drive advocacy more effectively. Our goal is to democratize access to the most important market intelligence out there: future regulatory, government and policy action. We believe that access to policy can be powered by tech and access to markets can be powered by policy. If you want to learn more about #OpenPolicy and our mission, lets connect!
Investor
Dec 2022
We make small business cybersecurity compliance easy for managed service providers.
Seed Investor
Jul 2022
Phalanx secures business files at every step—whether sending, receiving, or storing them. With Phalanx, businesses can confidently share and store sensitive information, knowing they are protected from leaks and breaches.
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Jun 2022
Binarly is a U.S.-based firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021. The flagship Binarly Transparency Platform helps device manufacturers, OEMs and enterprise product security teams to detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, and malicious code in devices and software supply chains. Leveraging decades of research and program analysis expertise, we secure businesses, critical infrastructure, and consumers, while also assisting organizations in transitioning to a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) environment.
Seed Investor
Dec 2021
Smart security for your smart devices. Perygee is a cyber-physical security platform that improves operational efficiency by unifying your data, protecting your assets, and automating your mission-critical workflows. The digitization of small and large companies is a competitive advantage and a vulnerability. Unfortunately, traditional security best practices can’t simply be replicated in IoT/OT environments, and modern security teams are required to do more with inadequate tools. We’re on a mission to help companies securely embrace IoT/OT. If you want to be a part of building a next-gen cybersecurity platform and advance this mission as an employee or customer, we’d love to hear from you.
Investor
Sep 2021
Galvanick protects the industrial world against cyber attacks. Our threat detection platform for factories and critical infrastructure defends the modern world against criminals and nation-states that target SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) and ICS (Industrial Control Systems).
Investor
Feb 2021
Adventr.ai lets anyone turn ideas into interactive videos, games, and voice-powered stories - no code required. Generate media with AI, map interactive logic visually, and publish across web, mobile, and TV. Built for creators, brands, filmmakers, educators, and studios shaping the future of entertainment. Imagine. Create. Play.
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Mar 2019
There are enough cyber security companies telling you what to freak out about. We tell you all of the things not to freak out about.
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2025
Seed Investor
Jul 2025
Luminai helps automate repetitive manual work away from your mission critical business processes. We serve customers across healthcare, financial services, and more.
2024
Seed Investor
Mar 2024
Revic AI turns historical revenue data into a dynamic strategic asset, enabling sales and marketing teams to focus on truly winnable accounts.
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
Frenos is the first AI-native OT penetration testing platform, purpose built for critical infrastructure, defense, and industrial control environments. We enable organizations to safely and continuously test the defensibility of their operational technology without touching production systems. Our platform combines digital twin modeling, AI adversary reasoning, and attack path simulation to uncover real-world exposures, validate controls, and prioritize mitigations all without disruption. By emulating the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of nation-state and ransomware actors, Frenos reveals exactly how adversaries could move through your OT environment and what defensive actions matter most. Built by OT security experts and offensive practitioners, Frenos empowers red teams, blue teams, and CISOs to shift from periodic assessments to continuous validation moving beyond visibility to measurable resilience. Whether deployed as a laptop-based assessment tool or an enterprise-grade continuous red teaming platform, Frenos delivers the automation, consistency, and insight needed to stay ahead of modern OT threats.
2023
Investor
Nov 2023
Knostic is the world’s first provider of need-to-know based access controls for LLMs. With knowledge-centric capabilities, Knostic enables organizations to accelerate the adoption of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation without compromising value, security, or safety. RSA Launch Pad finalist and Black Hat Startup Spotlight winner, 2024.
Seed Investor
Sep 2023
In a world where future regulation drives technology markets at scale, and only selected few lobby governments - OpenPolicy is the world’s first policy intelligence and engagement platform, unlocking future markets by connecting businesses of all sizes with policymakers globally, to drive advocacy more effectively. Our goal is to democratize access to the most important market intelligence out there: future regulatory, government and policy action. We believe that access to policy can be powered by tech and access to markets can be powered by policy. If you want to learn more about #OpenPolicy and our mission, lets connect!
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