Justin Label

Managing Director at Inner Loop Capital

📍 Baltimore, Maryland, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 12 investments📅 22 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
12
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6
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1
Mid stage
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22y
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Portfolio

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Seed Investor
Mar 2018
NanoVMs is the only production ready, fully managed unikernel platform in the industry today. NanoVMs was the first company to produce a Go unikernel, a .Net unikernel and the first company to offer a fully integrated unikernel platform. NanoVMS is the maintainer of the Nanos unikernel and the OPS unikernel orchestrator. Nanos can run any linux binary as a unikernel. NanoVMs offers managed services for both public and private cloud environments including AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean and Vultr and its platform targets KVM, Xen, bare metal, and ESX. In addition to the industrys leading Unikernel Platform, NanoVMs offers training, service integration, custom development and other unikernel services.
Seed Investor
Aug 2017
Tala prevents client-side attacks like Magecart, XSS, code injections and session re-directs. Our innovative solution is designed to secure customer data and ensure data privacy, without degrading site performance or top-line revenue. Tala's technology automates policy generation, deployment and maintenance of powerful web standards, including CSP, SRI, Feature Policy, Referrer Policy, HSTS and others. Tala also leverages JavaScript virtualization synthetically to prevent unauthorized data access or leakage. This innovative combination of capabilities ensures attacks are prevented in real-time, data privacy and integrity is assured and the need for costly and continuous administration or incident response is minimized. Tala is led by industry veterans and successful entrepreneurs. We are backed by an impressive collection of well-known tech investors, angels, former executives at Symantec and by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our technology has garnered multiple awards including being named a Gartner Cool Vendor and an RSA Innovation Sandbox Finalist.
Seed Investor
Mar 2017
NS8 safeguards online businesses against advertising fraud, transaction fraud, and poor site performance. NS8 protects against threats and offers better insight into real customers by utilizing behavioral analytics, real-time user scoring, and global monitoring. Available through easy-to-install plugins on multiple platforms, our solutions empower merchants to quickly minimize risk, better automate fraud management and realize savings throughout the customer lifecycle.
Seed Investor
Aug 2015
Virgil Security, Inc., makes every software developer into an applied cryptologist. Virgil provides password-free authentication, encryption, distributed immutable data storage via Blockchain, and verification of data, devices, and identities that is quickly and easily integrated into developer products. Virgil provides this via a cloud-based service in combination with open sourced libraries that are available for desktop, embedded (IoT), mobile, and cloud / web applications with support for a wide variety of modern programming languages. • Finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 North America <​http://bit.ly/VS-RNHA> • One of "region's hottest emerging companies"​ for Cooley LLP's Capital Call DC <​http://bit.ly/VS-Cooley> • TiE50 Top Start-up Winner at TiEcon 2016 <​http://tiecon.org>. • Top 40 DC-area innovators in the cyber community by Trending40.com. • Showcased at the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards as "one of the most interesting, creative & successful"​ 2015 Startup Alley exhibitors by TechCrunch Disrupt. • Finalist for a Timmy Award as DC’s Best Tech Startup by Tech in Motion <​http://bit.ly/VS-TiM> • One of five "innovative seed & growth-stage cybersecurity companies with outsized potential to transform the trillion dollar mobile space"​ by CTIA Startup Lab <​http://bit.ly/VS-CTIA> • One of the sixteen hottest up-and-coming early & seed stage technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic by the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association <​http://bit.ly/VSBuzz2015> • One of the Southeast’s thirty-six most innovative startups by 36|86’s Village 36 <​http://bit.ly/Village36> • One of the Top 10 area startups by 36|86’s Southern Series <​bit.ly/Virgil-3686> • One of Cybersecurity Ventures “500 Hot Cybersecurity Companies to Watch in 2015” • Graduate of the Fall 2014 cohort of the MACH37™ <​http://Mach37.com> cyberaccelerator program #SecureTheFuture #NoMorePasswords #EncryptEverything #SecuredByVirgil
Seed Investor
Aug 2015
Cybrary is the premier cybersecurity professional development platform, providing the collective knowledge of the industry’s top experts and leading organizations to equip IT and security professionals with both the knowledge and skills to achieve their career goals. Recognized as an industry pioneer and innovator since 2015, Cybrary has grown its cyber-focused community to nearly 3 million users, including multiple Fortune 100 companies. To get more information and learn more about Cybrary, visit www.cybrary.it.
Seed Investor
May 2015
At Terbium Labs, we know that sensitive data will always be at risk. That’s why we developed Matchlight, the world’s first fully private, fully automated Dark Web Data Intelligence System. We monitor the dark web for your private data fingerprints and notify you immediately if even a trace of your information shows up where it shouldn’t. With fingerprint monitoring and automated tracking for key terms and patterns, such as email addresses or payment card numbers, we can monitor your sensitive assets like customer and employee information and financial data without you having to reveal any information to us. Let us help reduce the risk of inevitable data exposure.
Board Member
Aug 2008
PowerGenix, was a San Diego-based company developing and manufacturing Nickel-zinc (NiZn) rechargeable batteries, prior to being acquired by ZincFive in 2016. ZincFive manufacturers cell and monobloc nickel-zinc batteries and is the world leader in innovation and delivery of nickel-zinc battery-based uninterruptible power supplies for mission critical applications in Data Centers and Intelligent Transportation and offer batteries for stationary, motive and start-stop applications. With 95 patents awarded, ZincFive leverages nickel-zinc chemistry within its solutions to provide high power density and performance simultaneous with superior safety and environmental advantages. ZincFive has global operations in the US and China. The location near Portland, OR serves as corporate headquarters and UPS solutions design and manufacturing. The two China locations provide nickel-zinc battery design, development, testing and high volume battery manufacturing operations. ZincFive has commercially available products using nickel-zinc batteries in the intelligent transportation and mission critical IT/data center markets in the form of uninterruptible power supplies. Also available is nickel-zinc batteries for stationary, motive and start-stop applications.
Board Member
Aug 2008
Exclara is a fabless semiconductor company which leverages its digital capabilities and highly efficient power management platforms to provide the highest possible system performance and reliability, enabling a wide range of LED lighting products.
Board Member
Apr 2006
Delivery Agent is the market leader in turning audiences into customers for the world’s largest brands and media companies. Delivery Agent’s proprietary technology allows audiences to engage with and transact directly from advertisements and television shows through web, mobile, and advanced television applications. Currently in market with leading broadcasters, advertisers, MVPDs and smart TV manufacturers, Delivery Agent brings scalability, organization and economic incentive to a disparate ecosystem that has traditionally lacked uniform technical standards and has been challenged by complex rights and revenue sharing issues. The company is deployed and maintains long term partnerships with NBC, FOX, CBS, HBO, Live Nation, Bravado, Tiger Woods, Pepsi, Visa, Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and Samsung, among others. More information about Delivery Agent is available at www.deliveryagent.com and @deliveryagent.
Board Member
Jul 2004
We protect the world’s leading organizations against the most damaging cyber attacks. And we’ve been doing it for more than 20 years, keeping pace with rapidly changing tech complexities to defend against ever-evolving threats. Tripwire is proud to be part of Fortra’s comprehensive cybersecurity portfolio. On site and in the cloud, our diverse solutions find, monitor and minimize risks to your digital infrastructure—all without disrupting day-to-day operations or productivity. Think of us as the invisible line that keeps systems safe. With a portfolio built on maintaining the most critical cybersecurity practices at the highest standards, we deliver the technology and expertise to stay on top of unauthorized changes, vulnerabilities and weaknesses, and drifts outside your security policy. We have more than 40 patents under our belt and never stop inventing new ways to detect issues and defeat intruders. Known and trusted, we keep complex digital systems protected in a world of unknowns. Learn more at tripwire.com, get security news, trends and insights at tripwire.com/blog or follow us on Twitter @TripwireInc.
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2019
Managing Director
Jan 2019
Venture Capital
2018
Seed Investor
Mar 2018
NanoVMs is the only production ready, fully managed unikernel platform in the industry today. NanoVMs was the first company to produce a Go unikernel, a .Net unikernel and the first company to offer a fully integrated unikernel platform. NanoVMS is the maintainer of the Nanos unikernel and the OPS unikernel orchestrator. Nanos can run any linux binary as a unikernel. NanoVMs offers managed services for both public and private cloud environments including AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean and Vultr and its platform targets KVM, Xen, bare metal, and ESX. In addition to the industrys leading Unikernel Platform, NanoVMs offers training, service integration, custom development and other unikernel services.
2017
Seed Investor
Aug 2017
Tala prevents client-side attacks like Magecart, XSS, code injections and session re-directs. Our innovative solution is designed to secure customer data and ensure data privacy, without degrading site performance or top-line revenue. Tala's technology automates policy generation, deployment and maintenance of powerful web standards, including CSP, SRI, Feature Policy, Referrer Policy, HSTS and others. Tala also leverages JavaScript virtualization synthetically to prevent unauthorized data access or leakage. This innovative combination of capabilities ensures attacks are prevented in real-time, data privacy and integrity is assured and the need for costly and continuous administration or incident response is minimized. Tala is led by industry veterans and successful entrepreneurs. We are backed by an impressive collection of well-known tech investors, angels, former executives at Symantec and by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our technology has garnered multiple awards including being named a Gartner Cool Vendor and an RSA Innovation Sandbox Finalist.
Seed Investor
Mar 2017
NS8 safeguards online businesses against advertising fraud, transaction fraud, and poor site performance. NS8 protects against threats and offers better insight into real customers by utilizing behavioral analytics, real-time user scoring, and global monitoring. Available through easy-to-install plugins on multiple platforms, our solutions empower merchants to quickly minimize risk, better automate fraud management and realize savings throughout the customer lifecycle.
2015
Seed Investor
Aug 2015
Virgil Security, Inc., makes every software developer into an applied cryptologist. Virgil provides password-free authentication, encryption, distributed immutable data storage via Blockchain, and verification of data, devices, and identities that is quickly and easily integrated into developer products. Virgil provides this via a cloud-based service in combination with open sourced libraries that are available for desktop, embedded (IoT), mobile, and cloud / web applications with support for a wide variety of modern programming languages. • Finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 North America <​http://bit.ly/VS-RNHA> • One of "region's hottest emerging companies"​ for Cooley LLP's Capital Call DC <​http://bit.ly/VS-Cooley> • TiE50 Top Start-up Winner at TiEcon 2016 <​http://tiecon.org>. • Top 40 DC-area innovators in the cyber community by Trending40.com. • Showcased at the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards as "one of the most interesting, creative & successful"​ 2015 Startup Alley exhibitors by TechCrunch Disrupt. • Finalist for a Timmy Award as DC’s Best Tech Startup by Tech in Motion <​http://bit.ly/VS-TiM> • One of five "innovative seed & growth-stage cybersecurity companies with outsized potential to transform the trillion dollar mobile space"​ by CTIA Startup Lab <​http://bit.ly/VS-CTIA> • One of the sixteen hottest up-and-coming early & seed stage technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic by the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association <​http://bit.ly/VSBuzz2015> • One of the Southeast’s thirty-six most innovative startups by 36|86’s Village 36 <​http://bit.ly/Village36> • One of the Top 10 area startups by 36|86’s Southern Series <​bit.ly/Virgil-3686> • One of Cybersecurity Ventures “500 Hot Cybersecurity Companies to Watch in 2015” • Graduate of the Fall 2014 cohort of the MACH37™ <​http://Mach37.com> cyberaccelerator program #SecureTheFuture #NoMorePasswords #EncryptEverything #SecuredByVirgil
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