Ballistic Ventures
Actively deployingMenlo Park · Seed · 14 people tracked
Investment thesis
Ballistic Ventures is motivated by a moral imperative to address rising cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure. The firm leverages its collective expertise—accumulated through founding, funding, and operating over 90 companies—to support cybersecurity entrepreneurs in achieving their potential. The team's sense of urgency and deep domain knowledge position the firm to guide founders through the complex challenges of building in the security space.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 20, 2026.
Team · 14 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 55 of 63 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×45Cybersecurity ×35AI & Machine Learning ×33Cloud Computing ×13SaaS ×13Developer Tools ×12Data & Infrastructure ×6Fintech ×4
HQs:United States×21Ukraine×1
Investments · showing 60 of 63
founders shown can be your intro pathGetReal Security develops cybersecurity solutions to detect and protect against malicious synthetic content, including deepfakes and manipulated media in images, audio, and video. The company serves governments and enterprises globally.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Hany Farid(Founder)Ted Schlein(Founder)Matt Moynahan(CEO)
Magnitude is an AI-powered platform for third-party risk management that helps security teams monitor vendor ecosystems and supply chain vulnerabilities at speed. The platform serves enterprise security teams and CISOs managing cybersecurity risks across their vendor and supplier networks.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Rami Habal(Founder and CEO)
Noma provides automated red teaming for AI systems, testing models and applications against evolving attack techniques through intelligent agents. The platform enables enterprises to continuously test AI endpoints and agents for security vulnerabilities across their production environments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Veza provides identity security solutions that help organizations securely adopt and manage cloud data systems. The company serves enterprises across financial services and other sectors seeking to strengthen identity controls and reduce IAM attack surfaces.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
WitnessAI builds an AI-native security platform that helps enterprises protect and accelerate their AI adoption across evolving AI tech stacks. The platform provides a confidence layer for enterprise AI, enabling organizations to deploy AI safely and at scale.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Rick Caccia(CEO)Todd Chronert(Chief Revenue Officer)Stephanie Gilliam(SVP Marketing)Dan(Chief Product Officer)
DataRobot develops an AI and machine learning platform that automates model development and deployment for enterprises. The platform serves organizations across industries including financial services, healthcare, defense, and retail.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBoston, US
Cofense provides a cybersecurity platform focused on phishing defense, combining AI with real-time intelligence from millions of users to detect and remediate advanced phishing attacks. The platform serves enterprise security teams and augments existing email defenses through automated detection and employee security awareness training.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Aembit provides identity security for non-human entities, enabling businesses to safely connect applications to partners, customers, and services. The company focuses on workload identity management within the cybersecurity space.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Kevin Sapp(Founder)David Goldschlag(Founder)
Abnormal Security is an AI-native cybersecurity company that uses behavioral analysis and machine learning to detect and stop email-based attacks for enterprises. The company serves Fortune 500 organizations and large enterprises seeking AI-driven email security and threat prevention.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Evan Reiser(Founder)
Alethea provides an AI risk management platform that monitors online narratives and threats to help organizations identify and mitigate risks to their reputation, operations, and personnel before they escalate into crises.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Arkose Labs provides fraud and bot protection for enterprises including banks, gaming platforms, fintechs, and marketplaces. The company uses dynamic puzzles and risk-based profiling combined with AI agent classification to stop automated abuse while enabling legitimate automation.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Kevin Gosschalk(CEO)
ArmorCode provides unified vulnerability management and application security posture management for enterprises, aggregating findings across security tools to prioritize and remediate security risks in software, cloud infrastructure, and AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
AuthMind develops an AI-powered identity security platform that identifies and prevents identity access risks across on-premises and cloud applications, targeting enterprise organizations.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Shlomi Yanai(Co-Founder and CEO)Ankur Panchbudhe(Co-Founder and CTO)
BreachRx provides a Crisis Incident Response Management (CIRM) platform that helps organizations coordinate and execute enterprise-wide incident response across functions during cyber attacks. The platform replaces ad hoc manual processes with structured, documented workflows to improve speed, coordination, and decision-making during security incidents.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
IBM is a multinational technology company offering enterprise software, AI, hybrid cloud, automation, and data solutions to support business transformation across various industries.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise Software
Cado Security provides cloud-native forensics and incident response automation that captures disk-level evidence across multi-cloud environments. The platform enables faster alert triage and root cause analysis for organizations investigating security incidents in cloud infrastructure.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
CodeZero is building Cordon for Teams, a product in development with design partners. Limited information is available on this page.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Roofstock is a digital platform that enables individual and institutional investors to acquire and manage single-family rental homes using proprietary data analytics and local market expertise across the U.S. residential market.
FintechMarketplacesPropTech<UNKNOWN>, US
Unknown
Concentric AI provides AI-powered data security and governance solutions that help organizations discover, classify, and protect sensitive information across cloud and on-premises environments. The platform serves enterprises across financial services, healthcare, technology, insurance, energy, education, and government sectors globally.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Jose, US
Coro provides a unified security platform that consolidates endpoint, email, cloud, network, identity, data protection, and security awareness training for businesses. The platform serves enterprises seeking to simplify their security infrastructure as they scale.
CybersecurityEnterprise Software
Joe Sykora(CEO)
Cresta provides a unified platform combining human and AI agents to automate and augment customer service interactions for enterprise contact centers. The platform uses conversational AI to deliver customer support, training, and business insights across voice, chat, and other channels.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Sebastian Thrun(Co-founder)Tim Shi(Co-founder)Zayd Enam(Co-founder)Ping Wu(CEO)
DevRev Computer is an AI teammate for operations teams that unifies data across tools and systems to track project progress, automate administrative tasks, and surface risks. It serves business operations, product management, delivery, service desk, support, and sales teams across enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech<UNKNOWN>
Dexterity develops AI-powered robotic systems that enable autonomous manipulation and decision-making in unstructured physical environments. The company serves enterprise customers in logistics and material handling, deploying physical AI for tasks such as autonomous picking and truck loading.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsRedwood City, US
Samir Menon(Founder & CEO)
Brex provides financial services and software for companies, including corporate cards and expense management tools. The platform serves startups, scaled companies, and e-commerce brands to manage finances and spending.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Palo Alto Networks provides cybersecurity platforms and services to protect organizations' digital infrastructure across cloud, network, and security operations. The company serves enterprise organizations, governments, financial institutions, utilities, and healthcare providers globally.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Nir Zuk(Founder - Emeritus)
CrowdStrike provides cloud-native security software protecting endpoints, cloud workloads, identity systems, and data infrastructure to prevent breaches for enterprise customers.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Gomboc provides an AI-powered code security assistant that automatically generates production-ready fixes for cloud and infrastructure code vulnerabilities through Git and CI/CD workflows. The platform serves DevOps and platform teams seeking to reduce security risk without impacting delivery speed.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsLas Vegas, US
Ian Amit(CEO & Co-Founder)Matt Sweeney(CTO & Co-Founder)
Interos.ai provides supply chain risk management software that monitors financial, compliance, environmental, cybersecurity, and geopolitical risks across supplier networks using its i-Score metric.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain
Red Hat develops open source hybrid cloud software solutions including Linux, AI platforms, virtualization, and automation tools for enterprise organizations. The company serves large enterprises and Fortune 500 companies with infrastructure and application development platforms that operate across datacenters, cloud environments, and edge computing.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareRaleigh, US
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Lucidum provides a data integration platform with 500+ connectors that extracts, categorizes, and enriches data from disparate sources into actionable intelligence. The platform serves organizations seeking to reduce data silos, improve accuracy, and accelerate their data integration workflows.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Netskope provides cloud security technology and solutions, offering strategic and technical briefings to help security teams develop and manage cybersecurity programs that protect against cloud threats.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSanta Clara, US
Magnitude is an AI coding agent optimized for open-source language models like GLM, Kimi, and DeepSeek, designed to generate and execute code with improved reliability and efficiency. The platform serves software developers and teams looking to build with open weights models at lower cost than frontier API pricing.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Autonomous AI workforce for third-party risk management that continuously assesses, governs, and reduces risk across third- and Nth-party ecosystems.
Mimic provides enterprise ransomware and cyber extortion defense software for large organizations. The platform detects and deflects ransomware attacks earlier than traditional security approaches.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Native provides a control layer that helps enterprises operationalize and maximize the native security capabilities already embedded in their cloud infrastructure. The platform is designed for teams managing large-scale multi-cloud environments.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Amit Megiddo(CEO, Co-Founder)Gal Ordo(CPO, Co-Founder)Eyal Faingold(CTO, Co-Founder)
Nova Credit aggregates global credit bureau data, bank transaction data, and payroll information to help lenders assess borrowers and provide fairer access to credit for underserved populations including international newcomers, gig workers, and others traditionally excluded from the financial system. The company serves financial institutions, lenders, and property management platforms with credit reporting, cash flow underwriting, and income verification products.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York City, US
Misha Esipov(Founder and CEO)in
Nudge Security provides continuous discovery and visibility of an organization's SaaS and AI application ecosystem, including shadow IT and externally-facing apps, for security teams to identify and remediate risks. The platform automates security controls, vendor reviews, and incident response across enterprise SaaS environments.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Offchain provides enterprise infrastructure and blockchain products for the programmable economy, including scaling solutions, consensus clients, and smart account infrastructure. The company serves institutions and enterprises seeking to build and operate production-grade onchain financial systems.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintech
Automate secure, secretless access for agentic AI and workloads at runtime.
OverAI provides a platform with prebuilt modules and customizable components for building production-ready business applications and automations. It serves enterprises seeking to build internal tools faster without sacrificing structure, observability, and governance.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Veracode provides application security platform that analyzes code, dependencies, and runtime environments to identify and remediate software vulnerabilities at enterprise scale. The platform serves development teams, security teams, and C-level executives seeking to reduce security debt and manage application risk across their organization.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Qualia provides digital transaction software to streamline the residential home buying and selling process, replacing paper-based procedures with modern technology for real estate agents, lenders, title and escrow professionals, and consumers across all 50 U.S. states.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwarePropTechSaaS
Reach provides a platform for organizations to identify and remediate hidden security risks, exposures, and misconfigurations across their existing security tools. The company serves enterprise organizations seeking to reduce security risk and improve their overall security posture through guided, automated remediation.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Garrett Hamilton(CEO and Co-Founder)Colt Blackmore(Co-Founder and CTO)
Reveal Technology develops defense software solutions for warfighters, first responders, and military personnel. The company builds technology products that support tactical military and law enforcement operations.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense TechEnterprise Software
Root Evidence provides security assessment and evidence management services for cybersecurity professionals and organizations. The company serves teams focused on attack surface management and security strategy.
Cybersecurity
Jeremiah Grossman(CEO)
Semgrep develops a code scanning platform that detects security vulnerabilities and code issues across multiple programming languages, integrated with CI/CD tools like GitHub and GitLab. The solution helps development teams automate secure code practices at scale.
CybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Drew DennisonIsaac EvansLuke O'Malley
SpecterOps is a cybersecurity platform focused on identity attack path management, built by the creators of BloodHound. The company provides technology, training, and services to help organizations move from reactive defense to proactive identification and elimination of identity-based attack paths.
CybersecurityEdTechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
UnknownDavid McGuire(Chief Executive Officer)Jared Atkinson(Chief Technology Officer)
Stairwell provides cybersecurity threat intelligence solutions to help teams identify and address security threats. The company serves organizations seeking to strengthen their cybersecurity posture and mission execution.
Cybersecurity
Stellar Cyber provides an AI-powered threat hunting tool that allows security analysts to query security data using natural language, generating structured searches across on-premise and cloud data sources. The platform is designed for enterprise security teams to accelerate threat investigation and reduce mean time to investigate (MTTI).
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
ThoughtSpot builds data analytics and business intelligence software to make data accessible to organizations across industries.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
UFORCE manufactures unmanned military systems including naval, ground, and aerial drones for defense applications. The company serves allied governments seeking cost-effective deterrence capabilities, operating under a NATO-compatible architecture based on battlefield experience.
Defense TechHardwareRobotics
Unspecified Ukrainian-born founder(CEO)Oleksiy Honcharuk(Co-founder)Unspecified UK Defence Secretary(Co-founder)
Above provides AI-powered investigative agents that detect and correlate security risks across SaaS, email, identity, and AI systems in real-time. The platform automates threat detection and case building for security operations centers, HR, and legal teams.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Oligo provides runtime protection for AI systems, defending against exploitation chains created by language models. The platform addresses critical vulnerabilities in code that traditional human review processes fail to identify.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
GalNadavAvshalom
Hypernative provides machine learning-powered security monitoring and threat detection for blockchain and digital assets, protecting organizations operating across multiple blockchain networks.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Cybersecurity<UNKNOWN>, US
Board seats · per SEC filings · 5
what is this? ⓘ$41M raise · filed Jun 2025 · via Barmak Meftah
$75.6M raise · filed Oct 2024 · via Phil Venables
$6.3M raise · filed Oct 2022 · via Barmak Meftah
$16M raise · filed Dec 2021 · via Barmak Meftah
Raise · filed Jul 2020 · via Kevin O. Mandia
Inferred from directors named on each company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Ballistic Ventures invest at?
- Ballistic Ventures invests at the Seed stage.
- What sectors does Ballistic Ventures focus on?
- Ballistic Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity.
- Where is Ballistic Ventures located?
- Ballistic Ventures is headquartered in Menlo Park, US.
- Does Ballistic Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Ballistic Ventures leads investment rounds.
From the blog
visit blog ↗Ballistic has invested in two agentic AI security companies addressing evolving cybersecurity problems: Magnitude AI for autonomous third-party risk management, and Above Security for AI-driven insider threat investigation and prevention. AI summary
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