Jim Rutt

Early stage cybersecurity investment firm.

Lightspin (acquired by Cisco) is an agentless and easy to deploy Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that efficiently prioritizes and remediates cloud security risks in minutes using the industrys only Attack Path Engine built on the graph. Supporting Amazon Web Services, Google Public Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, Lightspin simplifies cloud security and compliance via its self-serve offering and graph-based algorithms. Leading companies such as ZoomInfo, ITV, Riskified, and Next Insurance trust Lightspin to protect their data and workloads in the cloud.

StrikeReady delivers a next-generation cybersecurity operations platform that seamlessly integrates key security processes—threat detection, alert management, incident response, threat intelligence, and threat simulation—into a single, cohesive solution. This unified platform fosters an interconnected and adaptive security architecture, ensuring that different security tools and processes work together effortlessly to provide SOC teams with a comprehensive 360° view of their operations. Designed with interoperability and flexibility in mind, StrikeReady is vendor-agnostic, offering over 650+ integrations with existing security tools and technologies. This extensive integration capability allows organizations to maintain a flexible, adaptive security posture that can respond swiftly to new threats and evolving technologies without being locked into a single vendor’s ecosystem. With StrikeReady, organizations can seamlessly connect and optimize their entire security stack for maximum effectiveness. At the heart of StrikeReady’s mission is the belief that technology should work for the people, not the other way around. We created a solution that unifies your operations, saves you time, and gives your team the tools to succeed, all while reducing complexity and costs. This is how we help you adapt, protect, and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable world. It’s time to stop letting tech control you. StrikeReady gives you the power to streamline, adapt, and stay secure in a world that doesn’t wait. See it live and take control. https://ow.ly/sa1F50SYSJQ

Axonius is the asset intelligence platform for unified security operations and exposure management. The Axonius Asset Cloud is the one source of truth for assets and exposures across an organization’s entire environment, providing all the right context to prioritize risks and coordinate fixes. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius supports millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world. The power to transform asset intelligence into intelligent action.

Which cloud-based Anti-Phishing do you use? Pixm uses a popular one too. But there are critical gaps. 1. Did you know the typical failure rate of cloud-based anti-phishing services is about 15%? i.e., About 15% of all bad emails make it to users'​ Inboxes. 2. What keeps the CISO/CIO up at night? In spite of adding top-notch anti-phishing protection and training, about 25% of employees still click on phishing links and give away their passwords. 3. When was the last time you called someone and asked to check their Junk folder for an email you sent? Quite often. About 18% of all legitimate emails get caught by spam filters. It's now a common employee behavior to pick up emails from the Junk folder and click on links. Did you know the Home Depot breach from 2014 happened this way? How do you close these critical gaps that are causing data breaches? Pixm Anti-Phishing is the world's first on-device phishing prevention that EXTENDS your existing cloud-based anti-phishing directly on to your devices and shuts down phishing attacks at the point of click using AI computer vision. Pixm is backed by former NSA Leaders and well-known Cybersecurity investors. Pixm has won several awards and was featued by CSO Online as Top 12 Hottest Startups of 2019.

Work-Bench is an enterprise venture capital firm based in New York City. We lead Seed rounds in enterprise software startups throughout the country. We are laser-focused on supporting early-stage startups on all things go-to-market and have built a dynamic enterprise tech community in New York City and beyond.

Early stage cybersecurity investment firm.

We not only take disruption to market – we make it mainstream. Emerging cybersecurity companies have options for where they take funding from. But Merlin Ventures brings much more than funding and is unlike any other strategic investment firm. We provide infrastructure for market readiness, cybersecurity engineering expertise, and go-to-market muscle for all of our partners. At Merlin Ventures, we have our finger on the pulse of what’s next in cybersecurity. We scour the globe for the world’s most innovative emerging cybersecurity technologies. We then invest and rapidly scale them – dramatically increasing their valuation while equipping enterprises with unique ways to solve critical cybersecurity challenges.

GTM Capital is an early-stage VC investing in Enterprise IT Startups at the post-product, post-revenue stage: the Seed Extension to Series A stage. We are singularly focused on helping our portfolio companies gain a massive competitive advantage by providing them access to hundreds of early-adopting CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and Channel Partners around the world and rapidly accelerate customer traction. To further enable our startups to become category winners, we do not invest in competing startups.

645 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders who are building iconic companies. We manage $550m AUM, and we invest at the Seed and Series A stages and leverage our Voyager software platform to enable our Success team and Connected Network to help founders scale to the growth stage. Select portfolio companies that have reached the growth stage include Iterable, Goldbelly, Resident, Eden Health, FiscalNote, and Squire. We invest in four main areas: SaaS for the Second Wave, Citizen Professionals, The Engineering Value Chain Revolution, and Personalized Consumer Applications.

Lightspin (acquired by Cisco) is an agentless and easy to deploy Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that efficiently prioritizes and remediates cloud security risks in minutes using the industrys only Attack Path Engine built on the graph. Supporting Amazon Web Services, Google Public Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, Lightspin simplifies cloud security and compliance via its self-serve offering and graph-based algorithms. Leading companies such as ZoomInfo, ITV, Riskified, and Next Insurance trust Lightspin to protect their data and workloads in the cloud.