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Inner Loop Capital invests in technical founders — practitioners with deep domain expertise who understand the systems, pain points, and opportunities in their fields. The firm believes such founders build the most iconic companies when their product vision meets large markets and strong go-to-market strategy. It partners early, often before investing, and stays engaged to help founders connect product vision to a market path enabling durable scale. Trusting founders on product, the firm aims to earn trust as a partner in market strategy, the venture process, and company-building. Through its Strategic Advisor Network and sustained sector focus, it concentrates on cybersecurity, infrastructure, and AI, where category leaders are typically founded by domain practitioners.
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Team · 18 people
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Founder mafia
The Inner Loop Capital mafia →8 people who came through Inner Loop Capital went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 44 of 49 portfolio companiesCybersecurity ×28AI & Machine Learning ×27Enterprise Software ×27SaaS ×26Developer Tools ×12Data & Infrastructure ×9Cloud Computing ×7EdTech ×2
HQs:United States×31Canada×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 27 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×142 founders×83 founders×44+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 29 founders with education data
Tel Aviv University ×3University of Maryland ×3Stanford University ×2Stanford University Graduate School of Business ×2The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 26 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×13Engineering ×9Business & Management ×6Finance & Accounting ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 31 founders with career history
Google ×4Broadcom ×2Cyber Ready Clinic ×2Enterasys Networks ×2Fiscal Note ×2Kasisto ×2National Security Institute - George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School ×2Onyx Point, Inc. ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
2 founders hold a PhD · 6 hold an MBA (of 30 with degree data)
Investments · 49 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 62024 · 32023 · 42022 · 12021 · 22020 · 118 dated
Check Point Software Technologies is a cybersecurity company providing security products and solutions.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Gil ShwedMarius NachtinShlomo Kramerin
Co-investorsBlumberg CapitalBRM CapitalConnecticut InnovationsGlilot Capital PartnersJAL Ventures Ltd.TLV Partners+2 more
Phin provides a security awareness training and simulated phishing platform built for managed service providers (MSPs) to train and test their clients' end-users.
CybersecurityEdTechSaaSWilmington, US
CONNOR SWALM(Executive Officer, Director)inJOSHUA SIMMONS(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMargaret Roth(Director)in
Board seatJustin Label· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsMercato PartnersSQUADRA VENTURES
GreyNoise collects primary scanning and exploitation data to provide actionable threat intelligence for cybersecurity defenders.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareWashington, US
Andrew Morris(Founder and Chief Architect)inAsh Devata(Chief Executive Officer)in
Board seatJustin Label· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsCRV (Charles River Ventures)Gula Tech AdventuresIn-Q-TelPaladin Capital GroupRadian CapitalStoneMill Ventures
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AppOmni provides SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) software that secures enterprise SaaS and AI-driven applications to prevent data breaches, using threat research and continuous monitoring.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Brian Soby(Co-Founder)inBrendan O'Connor(Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder)inBridget Gleason(CRO and Chief Customer Officer)inTina Hawk(Chief People Officer)in
BoardAriel Tseitlin(Director)inPatrick Heim(Director)
Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsClearSkyProsperity7 VenturesScale Venture PartnersSilicon Valley Data CapitalBenchmark+4 more
Base Operations provides a platform for corporate security teams to proactively identify and analyze threats using street-level intelligence and data-driven insights.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSWashington, US
Co-investorsCapital B Private HoldingsGlasswing VenturesGood Growth CapitalGrotech VenturesMagma PartnersMindset Venture+6 more
Canoe Intelligence provides AI-driven software and data infrastructure for alternative investment management, processing capital call notices, distribution notices, and capital account statements from institutional fund managers to deliver real-time visibility into capital flows across trillions in assets under administration.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Jason Eiswerth(CEO)inNoel Calhoun(CTO)in
Co-investorsF-Prime CapitalGoldman Sachs
Cerbrec provides an orchestration platform that integrates sensor data and IoT signals across physical infrastructure operations and deploys AI agents to optimize performance in real time.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareIoTHoboken, US
David R. Winer(Founder)inGarrett Wang(Founder)in
Co-investorsA-Level CapitalACADEMY INVESTORAIN VenturesBDev VenturesGurtin VenturesTechstars+1 more
Cerebro Capital provides a technology-enabled platform for commercial lending that connects businesses with lenders to simplify and accelerate the business loan process.
B2B MarketplacesEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSBaltimore, US
Matthew Bjonerud(Founder & CEO)inKevin Dieter(Executive Officer)
BoardJames McGuire(Director)Douglas Becker(Director)Steve Reale(Director)in
Co-investorsFINTOP CapitalMaryland TEDCOSterling PartnersTCP Venture CapitalTEDCOUlu Ventures+1 more
HUMAN provides malvertising detection and prevention for publishers and ad platforms, using behavioral analysis and threat intelligence to identify and block malicious ads and landing pages in real-time.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSBaltimore, US
Geoff Stupay(Executive Officer, Director)Seth Demsey(Director)Alexey Stoletny(Executive Officer)Matt Gillis(Executive Officer, Director)Jay Crystal(Executive Officer, Director)Doug Stupay(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAlkemi Growth CapitalBlue Ashva CapitalInfo Edge VenturesTribeca Venture Partners
Clear Skye provides identity and access governance software built natively on the ServiceNow platform.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSEmeryville, US
Thomas Gryziec(Executive Officer, Director)Vahan Galachyan(Executive Officer, Director)inMichael Tweddle(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardArun Penmetsa(Director)inRajan Aggarwal(Director)M. Brinkley Morse(Director)
Co-investorsStorm VenturesToba Capital
ClearVector provides cybersecurity solutions focused on protecting organizations and customer data against sophisticated attackers.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareReston, US
John Laliberte(CEO)in
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Co-investorsMenlo VenturesScale Venture PartnersBallistic Ventures
Craft provides a data and AI-powered platform for supply chain risk management and supplier network visibility.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ilya Levtov(CEO)in
Co-investors515 VenturesGlasswing VenturesGreycroftHigh AlphaLa FamigliaMillennium New Horizons+2 more
Crosschq provides a platform that delivers data-driven insights throughout the hiring process to help talent leaders optimize recruitment efficiency and hiring outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSDanville, US
Mike Fitzsimmons(CEO)Pete Goettner(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardGlenn Solomon(Director)in
Co-investorsAlt CapitalBessemer Venture PartnersGaia VenturesNotable CapitalRocketship.vc83North+16 more
Cyberhaven provides data detection and response (DDR) software that helps security teams investigate incidents involving data exfiltration and insider threats by reconstructing the complete timeline and context of user actions and data movements.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Volodymyr Kuznetsov(Founder)in
Co-investorsCollective LiquidityCrane Venture PartnersCyber Mentor FundForgePoint CapitalLaunchBay CapitalRedpoint Ventures+8 more
Cybrary provides online cybersecurity training courses, certification prep programs, and hands-on labs for individuals and enterprise teams.
CybersecurityEdTechSaaSRiverdale, US
Ryan J. Cory(Executive Officer, Director)Ralph, Jr. P. Sita(Executive Officer, Director)inJeremy Gehring(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardKlee Kleber(Executive Officer, Director)inRon Gula(Director)inJim Curry(Director)in
Co-investorsBuildGroupGula Tech AdventuresNew Stack VenturesStoneMill VenturesArthur Ventures
Digma is a code analysis and observability tool for developers, now part of the JetBrains AI Platform.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSSunnyvale, US
Ron Dover(Executive Officer)inNir Shafrir(Chief Executive Officer)inRoni Doverin
Co-investorsAbstraction Capitalat.inc/Hetz VenturesSorenson Ventures
DNSFilter provides DNS security filtering that sorts malicious from legitimate DNS requests to protect users during work.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSWashington, US
Ken Carnesi(CEO and Co-founder)inKenneth B. Carnesi, Jr.(Executive Officer)Brian Gillis(Chief Architect)in
BoardRyan Kruizenga(Director)inThomas Krane(Director)inDmitri Alperovitch(Director)
Co-investorsInsight PartnersArthur VenturesGula Tech AdventuresTechstars
Empirical Security builds data-driven models for vulnerability exposure management that predict which CVEs are likely to be exploited in a given organization's environment.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSChicago, US
Edward Bellis(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Roytman(Director)inJason Jacobs(Executive Officer)Stephen Ward(Director)
BoardJohn Cowgill(Director)in
Co-investorsSixty Degree CapitalCostanoa VenturesHyde Park AngelsInsight Partners
Evo Security provides multi-factor authentication software for Windows and Mac endpoints deployed by managed service providers to strengthen login security and prevent identity-based attacks.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Michael Roth(CEO and Founder)inGreg Gage(CTO)in
Co-investorsStrategic Cyber VenturesTechOperators Venture CapitalSorenson Ventures
Fritz AI is a developer platform that provides machine learning tools and pre-trained models for integrating AI into mobile applications.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Borja Blanco Méndez(COO)inBogdan Tudoranceain
Co-investorsNextGen Venture PartnersEniac VenturesFoundryHack VCUncork Capital
Gigasheet processes large healthcare price transparency datasets and uses AI to produce benchmark and market intelligence reports through a spreadsheet-like interface.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureHealthtech
Jason Hines(Founder)in
Co-investorsArgon VenturesConvergeFounder CollectiveREV Venture PartnersAccomplice
Gula Tech Adventures invests in and supports cybersecurity companies, combining venture investments with philanthropy and cyber advocacy.
Cybersecurity
Ron Gula(Co-founder)inCyndi Gula(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsTwo Bear Capital
Knostic provides visibility and governance over AI tool adoption within organizations by detecting sanctioned and unsanctioned AI applications across logs, APIs, and integrations.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareHerndon, US
GadiJonathan
Co-investorsBright Pixel CapitalDnx VenturesShield Capital
Leen builds developer tools for security teams to improve their workflow and capabilities.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Kabir Mathur(Founder)in
Co-investors11.2 CapitalPreface Ventures
MLtwist provides a unified platform for preparing unstructured data for AI, handling ingestion, transformation, labeling, validation, and versioning across multiple data types.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investorsACADEMY INVESTORAIN VenturesStage 2 CapitalHike Ventures
PerfectScale provides an automated Kubernetes optimization tool that continuously right-sizes clusters to reduce cost and improve performance and availability.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Eli Birger(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlumberg CapitalUpWest
WatchGuard Cloud Detection and Response (formerly Perimeters) is a cloud security platform for MSPs that discovers shadow IT, detects misconfigurations and suspicious identity activity, and automates remediation across cloud applications.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Dor Margolin(Founder)inAtul S.in
Phin provides a security awareness training and phishing simulation platform built for MSPs and MSSPs, offering multi-tenant management, fast client onboarding, and phishing analysis integrated into help desks.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSMiddletown, US
Joshua Simmons(Founder)in
Co-investorsEarly Light VenturesSQUADRA VENTURES
Qualytics provides a data quality platform that uses AI and machine learning to help enterprises proactively detect and manage data quality issues at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMaryland, US
Gorkem Sevinc(CEO)inEric(Co-founder)inNicole(Chief Marketing Officer)inTonni(Chief Sales Officer)in
PartnerJustin Label· solo GP
Co-investorsBMW i VenturesConductive VenturesKnoll VenturesLegalTechTCP Venture CapitalTech Square Ventures+1 more
RunSafe Security develops cybersecurity software that hardens embedded systems and commercial/defense software against exploitation by disrupting the determinism attackers need to build reliable exploits.
CybersecurityDefense TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMclean, US
Joseph M. Saunders(Founder and CEO)Doug Britton(EVP)inShane Fry(Chief Technology Officer)inBill Stulb(Director)
BoardJoe Addiego(Director)inPatricia Muoio(Director)in
Co-investorsAlsop Louie PartnersSINEWAVE VENTURESBMW i VenturesCritical VenturesIronGate Capital AdvisorsNextGen Venture Partners+3 more
Steady is a coordination platform that keeps teams aligned across people and AI agents by tracking shared intent, progress, and outcomes in a system of record.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSNew York, US
Henry Poydar(Founder)inAdamJavan
Co-investorsEarly Light VenturesRiptide Ventures
Kempton, US
Keith Engelbert(Director)inCharles Buck(Executive Officer, Director)inSeth Bostock(Executive Officer, Director)James Lippie(Director)
Co-investorsInsight Partners
SCYTHE is a continuous Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) platform that emulates real adversary techniques (mapped to MITRE ATT&CK) against an organization's actual IT, cloud, and OT/ICS environments to validate that detection, alerting, and response controls work.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSArlington, US
Bryson Bort(Chief Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsEnergy Impact PartnersGula Tech AdventuresEvolution Equity PartnersSaas Ventures, L.L.C.Hacker.Capital LLCInspired Capital+4 more
Sicura automates security compliance and control management for organizations across government and enterprise.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareGovTech
Lisa Umberger(Co-founder)inKendall Moore(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsScout VenturesScout VenturesSQUADRA VENTURES
StepSecurity provides a platform to prevent, detect, and respond to software supply chain attacks across developer machines, code repositories, and CI/CD pipelines.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSammamish, US
Varun Sharma(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsRuntime Ventures
Sweet Security is a runtime security platform that detects and blocks threats as they happen across cloud workloads and AI agents, using a Learning Loop™ that continuously evolves defenses against zero-day threats.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCrypto & Web3CybersecurityGamingSports Tech
Orel Ben Ishay(Founder)inTom Mizzone(Founder)in
Co-investorsEvolution Equity PartnersGlilot Capital PartnersLIP Ventures BoutiquePure VenturesKey1 CapitalMunich Re Ventures+1 more
Synaptic helps enterprise leaders and government agencies adopt and scale artificial intelligence in their business processes through consulting, industry-specific agents, and delivery tools.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Tom H. Boosinger III(Founder & Chairman)inBill Karpovich(CEO)in
Co-investorsBoulder VenturesBloomberg Beta
Synthesize develops generative AI models that simulate human tissue responses to drugs and diseases for clinical trial design.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital Health
Robert Bradley, PhDinJeff Leek, PhDinAlice Walsh, PhDinGregory Koytiger, PhDin
PartnerJustin Label· solo GP
Co-investorsMadrona Venture GroupAI2 IncubatorSahsen Ventures
Tall Poppy provides digital safety tools and incident response services designed to protect individuals from online harassment and attacks.
Enterprise SoftwareHR TechOttawa, CA
Leigh Honeywell(Founder/CEO)inLogan Dean(Founder/CTO)inL G Dean(Executive Officer)
PartnerJustin Label· solo GP
Co-investorsBackbone AngelsY CombinatorAgrolimen VenturesLagomorphic Capital I A Series Of Lagomorpgic CapitalLightspeed Venture PartnersLucid Fog
Tamnoon offers an AI-assisted cloud security remediation service that triages, prioritizes, and fixes cloud misconfiguration alerts from CNAPP and cloud security tools.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecuritySammamish, US
Marina Segal(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
BoardZohar Alon(Director)inMarcos Castro Osorio(Director)inIdan Perez(Director)inShay Michel(Director)in
Co-investorsAlphaDriveBright Pixel CapitalMindset VenturetoDay VenturesElron VenturesMerlin Ventures+1 more
Terra provides red teaming and offensive security testing for deployed AI systems, including models, copilots, chatbots, and agentic applications.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
Gal Malachi(Founder)inShahar Peled(Founder)in
Co-investorsFelicis VenturesSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcUnderscore VCDell Technologies CapitalFXP
TrustLab provides AI-powered Trust and Safety solutions for internet platforms to combat abuse, protect user privacy, and ensure brand safety.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Shankar(Co-Founder & CTO)inBenji Loney(Founder)inShankar Ponnekanti(Founder)inTom Siegel(Founder)inBenji(CPO)in
Co-investorsFoundation CapitalNext Frontier CapitalU.S. Venture PartnersUS Venture Partners
Trustible provides an AI governance platform designed to help enterprises manage the full lifecycle of AI systems—from intake and risk assessment through monitoring and regulatory compliance.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareGovTechWashington, US
Gerald Kierce(CEO & Co-Founder)inAndrew Gamino-Cheong(CTO & Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesJHH vcTau VenturesVamosVenturesFoundersXHarlem Capital Partners+4 more
Developer tools for mutual authentication and end-to-end encrypted messaging between distributed applications.
Manassas, US
Michael W. Wellman(Executive Officer, Director)inDmitry Dain(Executive Officer, Director)inRonald F. Smith(Executive Officer)
BoardJeffrey Parkinson(Director)Michael Pesce(Director)
Co-investorsBloomberg BetaSINEWAVE VENTURESSparkland CapitalBlu Venture InvestorsKEC VenturesNextGen Venture Partners+1 more
xtype is an automated governance platform that gives enterprises visibility and control over their ServiceNow estate, enforcing policy compliance across every instance, environment, change, and configuration in real time.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSCovina, US
Peter Szulman(CTO)inTobias Stanzel(Founder)inRon Gidron(CEO)Amitai Tamir(Chief Financial Officer)in
Co-investorsColumbia CapitalNorwest Venture PartnersServiceNow Ventures
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Empirical Security · fintech.global · Jul 21, 2026
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Sweet Security · finance.yahoo.com · Nov 12, 2025
Synthesize · finsmes.com · Sep 17, 2025
Terra Security · fintech.global · Sep 16, 2025
Synaptic · citybiz.co · Jun 30, 2025
Qualytics · finsmes.com · Jun 23, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Inner Loop Capital made?
- Inner Loop Capital has 49 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 8 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Inner Loop Capital invest at?
- Inner Loop Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Inner Loop Capital focus on?
- Inner Loop Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Inner Loop Capital located?
- Inner Loop Capital is headquartered in Baltimore, US.
- Who does Inner Loop Capital co-invest with?
- Inner Loop Capital most often shares deals with Gula Tech Adventures, StoneMill Ventures, Techstars, among 93 tracked co-investors.
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