Samir Afzal

Invicti Security is transforming the way web applications are secured. An AppSec leader for more than 15 years, Invicti enables organizations in every industry to continuously scan and secure all of their web applications and APIs at the speed of innovation. Invicti provides a comprehensive view of an organization’s entire web application portfolio, and powerful automation and integrations enable customers to achieve broad coverage of even thousands of applications. Invicti is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and serves more than 3,500 organizations of all sizes all over the world.

Netsparker develops a leading-edge web application security solution. The combination of dead accurate scanning with proprietary automatic exploitation technology brought Netsparker early success, and the company is now a recognized leading player in the web application security industry. Netsparker can identify vulnerabilities in all types of modern web applications, regardless of the underlying architecture or platform. Upon identifying an exploitable vulnerability, the Netsparker scanner uses unique Proof-Based Scanning™ technology to generate a proof of exploit that shows the result is not a false positive. Netsparker is available as desktop software, a managed service, or an on-premises solution. It is trusted and used by world-renowned organizations from all industry verticals, including Samsung, NASA, Microsoft, ING Bank, and Ernst & Young.

In April 2023, Trakstar was acquired by Mitratech. Mitratech is a proven global technology partner for corporate legal, risk, and compliance professionals, offering a proven portfolio of end-to-end solutions that spread operational best practices throughout the enterprise, standardizing processes and accelerating time-to-value. That helps legal and governance, risk, and compliance teams rise to the challenge of serving the evolving needs of the modern, dynamic enterprise. Trakstar’s talent management platform, including Hire, Learn, Perform, and Insights, delivers purpose-built solutions for attracting, retaining, and engaging the best people while providing deeper analytics to help HR leaders manage their workforces. For over 20 years, Trakstar has helped over 3,000 clients, including Forbes, PepsiCo, Guitar Center, Sharp, Dole, State Farm, Gorilla Logic, and more. Trakstar believes people are happier and healthier when they know their work matters.

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FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised over $10.2 billion to invest in high-growth companies offering a range of innovative solutions in financial technology and services, vertical software, enterprise technology and services, and healthcare technology and services. FTV’s experienced team leverages its domain expertise and proven track record in these sectors to help motivated management teams accelerate growth. FTV also provides companies with access to FTV Propel®, experienced executives dedicated to driving value for our portfolio companies across a range of business functions, and FTVs Global Partner Network®, a group of the world’s leading enterprises and executives who have helped our portfolio companies for over 28 years. Founded in 1998, FTV Capital has invested in over 150 portfolio companies. FTV has offices in New York, San Francisco, London and Connecticut.

Bishop Fox is recognized as the leading authority in offensive security, providing solutions ranging from continuous penetration testing, red teaming, and attack surface management to product, cloud, and application security assessments. Enterprises have been told that breaches are inevitable. But we don’t accept that. We focus on offensive security because we believe securing modern organizations requires a "forward defense" approach that proactively uncovers and eliminates exposures before they are exploited. Over the past 20 years, we’ve worked with more than 25% of the Fortune 100, 8 of the top 10 global tech companies, and hundreds of other organizations to improve their security. Security isn’t just a job to us. We do this because we love it — and because were committed to the common good. In fact, we have authored 20+ open-source tools, shared groundbreaking research, and published more than 50 security advisories in the last 5 years. Learn more about us at bishopfox.com or follow us on X @bishopfox for the latest updates.

NextEquity Partners backs innovative consumer and enterprise technology companies for their next phase of growth. NextEquity makes mid-stage investments in companies capitalizing on technology disruption to address large markets. We look for leading companies with high quality products, substantial revenue (typically $10-50m+), rapid growth, compelling business models, and strong management teams. NextEquity is led by senior executives from Apple and Elevation Partners who have been investing together for over ten years. We leverage our industry relationships and our technology, operating, and growth investing experience to help our portfolio companies scale their businesses.

With ActiveState, developers can develop applications faster as they focus on writing code, not building runtimes. And enterprises can secure their open source supply chain while meeting compliance and reducing management costs. ActiveState, provides enterprise grade programming language distributions backed with cross-platform consistency, commercial technical support, security reviews, license reviews, and indemnification. Our products and services directly address the challenges faced by enterprises trying to manage the risks and complexities of large scale open source language implementations. From ActivePerl®, ActivePython®, ActiveTcl®, and the popular Komodo IDE® development environment. ActiveState is uniquely positioned to help address these challenges through its experience with enterprises, developers and code. More than two million developers and 97% of Fortune-1000 companies including Toyota, GE Aviation, Pepsico and Siemens use ActiveState’s solutions to save time, minimize risk and accelerate time to market. Come be a part of the future of open source!

Invicti Security is transforming the way web applications are secured. An AppSec leader for more than 15 years, Invicti enables organizations in every industry to continuously scan and secure all of their web applications and APIs at the speed of innovation. Invicti provides a comprehensive view of an organization’s entire web application portfolio, and powerful automation and integrations enable customers to achieve broad coverage of even thousands of applications. Invicti is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and serves more than 3,500 organizations of all sizes all over the world.