Aviso Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingSeattle Β· Pre-SeedβSeries A Β· 3 people tracked
Investment thesis
Aviso Ventures invests in early-stage enterprise software companies, specializing in cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, and AI. The firm positions itself as an operator-led investor, drawing on the founders' own experience building and leading technology companies.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 7, 2026.
Team Β· 3 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 22 of 53 portfolio companiesCybersecurity Γ14Enterprise Software Γ13AI & Machine Learning Γ12Developer Tools Γ8SaaS Γ6Cloud Computing Γ5Data & Infrastructure Γ5Deep Tech Γ1
HQs:United StatesΓ7
Investments Β· 53 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathauthentik is a self-hosted, open source identity provider that lets organizations run their own authentication infrastructure with customizable policies, APIs, and prebuilt workflows.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Bowtie provides a Zero Trust network security platform that replaces VPN, ZTNA, and Secure Web Gateway tools, running in a company's own cloud or data center so traffic and encryption keys never pass through a vendor cloud.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Marco Schnabl(Director)Jason Gabbard(Executive Officer, Director)
Clairvoyant provides an enterprise software control plane that inspects and governs every package, update, extension, and AI-generated artifact crossing an organization's software perimeter, integrating with tools like SCCM, Intune, Jamf, secure web gateways, CASBs, CI/CD pipelines, and artifact registries.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
DagsHub is a platform for AI and machine learning teams to curate and annotate multimodal datasets (vision, audio, and LLM data), track experiments, and manage model versions and deployments.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsDover, US
Dean Guy Smoilovsky(Executive Officer, Director)Rami Lachter(Director)
Dreadnode builds infrastructure for deploying AI-powered security agents at scale, serving security teams and operators who need to operationalize artificial intelligence for offensive and defensive security operations.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Will Pearce(CEO and Co-Founder)in
Impart provides runtime security controls for API and application protection, operating inline in production environments to detect and block attacks in real time.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Jonathan DiVincenzo(CEO & Co-Founder)inMarc Harrison(CTO & Co-Founder)inBrian Joe(CPO & Co-Founder)in
InstaSecure is a preventive cloud security platform for AWS that installs organization-wide guardrails β service control policies, resource control policies, and data-perimeter rules β to block classes of attacks at the control plane.
Cloud ComputingCybersecuritySaaS
Security company acquired by Dropbox
Nucleus Security offers a unified exposure management platform that consolidates security data from 200+ sources, prioritizes vulnerabilities with threat intelligence, and automates remediation workflows.
CybersecurityGovTechSaaSSarasota, US
NICHOLAS FLEMING(Director)MICHAEL NIXON(Director)RYAN KRUIZENGA(Director)STEPHEN CARTER(Executive Officer, Director)SCOTT KUFFER(Director)Steve Carter(Co-founder & CEO)
Security company acquired by Veracode
Protect AI develops security solutions for artificial intelligence systems.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSeattle, US
Ian Swanson(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Badar Ahmed(Director)Daryan Dehghanpisheh(Director)
BoardRichard Seewald(Director)Mark Kraynak(Director)Ed Sim(Director)
DevOps company acquired by Cursor
RiskProfiler is an AI-powered external exposure management platform that unifies attack surface management, brand protection, dark web monitoring, cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and third-party risk management for enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
RunWhen builds AI-powered tools and workflows for engineers to automate incident response, infrastructure management, and operational tasks across diverse technology stacks including cloud platforms, Kubernetes, databases, and mainframes.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software<UNKNOWN>
Dev data company acquired by DoiT
SGNL provides privileged identity management and access control solutions for enterprises, helping CISOs manage and secure access to sensitive information across human and non-human identities.
CybersecurityEnterprise Software
Scott Kriz(Co-founder & CEO/CPO)inErik Gustavson(Co-founder & CTO)in
SpecterOps is a cybersecurity platform focused on identity attack path management, built by the creators of BloodHound.
CybersecurityEdTechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSAlexandria, US
JASON FRANK(Executive Officer, Director)David McGuire(Chief Executive Officer)Jared Atkinson(Chief Technology Officer)KELLY COFFMAN(Executive Officer)
BoardKEVIN MANDIA(Director)JON SAKODA(Director)
Veracode provides an application security platform for scanning, identifying, and remediating software flaws across the software development lifecycle and supply chain.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Aviso Ventures invest at?
- Aviso Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Aviso Ventures focus on?
- Aviso Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Aviso Ventures located?
- Aviso Ventures is headquartered in Seattle, US.
Co-investors Β· 1
Andreessen Horowitz's Strategic Partnerships page describes collaborations that connect its portfolio companies with established institutions to help scale and deploy their technology.
Firms observed investing alongside Aviso Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Aviso Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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