Inner Loop Capital
Venture capitalBaltimore · Pre-Seed–Series A · 16 people tracked
Also known as INNER LOOP CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
Investment thesis
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.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 16 people
from the firm's website & public directories
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 38 of 42 portfolio companiesCybersecurity ×22AI & Machine Learning ×21Enterprise Software ×20SaaS ×20Data & Infrastructure ×8Cloud Computing ×6Developer Tools ×6EdTech ×2
HQs:United States×23Canada×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 20 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×122 founders×74+ founders×1
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 42 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 12024 · 12023 · 22022 · 12020 · 17 dated
Check Point Software Technologies is a cybersecurity company providing security products and solutions.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Co-investorsBlumberg CapitalBRM CapitalGlilot Capital PartnersJAL Ventures Ltd.TLV PartnersUS Venture Partners+1 more
GreyNoise collects primary scanning and exploitation data to provide actionable threat intelligence for cybersecurity defenders.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareWashington, US
Andrew Morris(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatJustin Label· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsCRV (Charles River Ventures)Gula Tech AdventuresIn-Q-TelPaladin Capital GroupRadian CapitalStoneMill Ventures
Phin provides a security awareness training and phishing simulation platform built for MSPs and MSSPs, offering multi-tenant management, automated client onboarding, and in-help-desk phishing analysis.
CybersecurityEdTechSaaSWilmington, US
CONNOR SWALM(Executive Officer, Director)JOSHUA SIMMONS(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMargaret Roth(Director)
Board seatJustin Label· per SEC Form D · $6M raise · filed Apr 2026
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)Bridget Gleason(CRO and Chief Customer Officer)Tina Hawk(Chief People Officer)
BoardAriel Tseitlin(Director)inPatrick Heim(Director)
Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsClearSkyProsperity7 VenturesScale Venture PartnersSilicon Valley Data CapitalCostanoa Ventures+2 more
Base Operations provides standardized, location-level threat intelligence and risk analytics for corporate security teams, offering 0-100 risk scores, mapped incident data, and forecasting across thousands of cities worldwide.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investorsGlasswing VenturesGood Growth CapitalGrotech VenturesMagma PartnersMindset VenturePrefix Capital+2 more
Canoe Intelligence provides AI-based software that collects alternative investment documents from GP portals and inboxes, then extracts and structures data such as capital calls, distribution notices, and partner capital account statements.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
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 VenturesTechstars
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 TEDCOTCP Venture CapitalTEDCOUlu VenturesJAM FINTOP
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)Michael Tweddle(Executive Officer, Director)
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
Co-investorsMenlo 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)
Co-investorsGlasswing VenturesGreycroftHigh AlphaLa FamigliaMillennium New HorizonsMillennium Technology Value Partners
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-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersGaia VenturesNotable CapitalRocketship.vcSalesforce VenturesTiger Global Management
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)Jeremy Gehring(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardKlee Kleber(Executive Officer, Director)inRon Gula(Director)inJim Curry(Director)in
Co-investorsBuildGroupGula Tech AdventuresNew Stack VenturesStoneMill VenturesArthur 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
Evo Security offers a multi-tenant identity and access management (IAM) platform for managed service providers (MSPs), consolidating MFA, SSO, PAM, and RADIUS into a single tool.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsStrategic Cyber VenturesTechOperators Venture Capital
Fritz is an AI-driven platform that reviews, ranks, and analyzes AI tools, apps, and websites based on ethics, functionality, and innovation.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment
Gigasheet transforms large healthcare price transparency datasets into market intelligence and benchmarking tools for providers, payers, and self-insured benefits partners.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureHealthtech
Jason Hines(Founder)in
Co-investorsFounder CollectiveREV Venture Partners
Gula Tech Adventures invests in and supports cybersecurity companies, combining venture investments with philanthropy and cyber advocacy.
Cybersecurity
Ron Gula(Co-founder)Cyndi Gula(Co-founder)
Leen provides a unified API and data fabric for security, offering standardized data models that normalize data across dozens of security tools and let developers integrate via REST API or SDKs.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsPreface Ventures
MLtwist provides AI data pipelines for processing and labeling unstructured, multimodal data.
AI & Machine LearningData & Infrastructure
Co-investorsACADEMY INVESTORAIN VenturesStage 2 CapitalHike Ventures
PerfectScale provides an autonomous Kubernetes optimization platform that right-sizes workloads, tunes autoscaling, and maximizes node capacity to reduce cloud costs and prevent misconfigurations that affect reliability.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Eli Birger(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlumberg CapitalUpWest
Perimeters, now integrated as WatchGuard Cloud Detection and Response (CloudDR), provides cloud application security for MSPs, covering identity threat detection, misconfiguration management, and shadow IT/AI discovery with automated remediation.
Cloud ComputingCybersecuritySaaS
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)
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 VenturesLegalTechTech Square Ventures
Qualytics is a data control layer that validates data at the point of use, using AI to automatically generate and maintain data quality rules while teams define governance standards.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Eric(Co-founder)inGorkem Sevinc(CEO)in
PartnerJustin Label· solo GP
Co-investorsKnoll VenturesTCP Venture CapitalTech Square VenturesBMW i VenturesConductive Ventures
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)Shane Fry(Chief Technology Officer)Bill Stulb(Director)
BoardJoe Addiego(Director)inPatricia Muoio(Director)in
Co-investorsAlsop Louie PartnersSINEWAVE VENTURESBMW i VenturesCritical VenturesIronGate Capital AdvisorsNextGen Venture Partners+2 more
Kempton, US
Keith Engelbert(Director)Charles Buck(Executive Officer, Director)Seth 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.StoneMill VenturesAlumni Ventures
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)
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 Combinator
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
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
Tom(Founder & CEO)Shankar(Co-Founder & CTO)inBenji Loney(Founder)Shankar Ponnekanti(Founder)Tom Siegel(Founder)Benji(CPO)in
Co-investorsNext Frontier CapitalFoundation CapitalU.S. Venture Partners
Trustible provides an AI governance platform that helps regulated enterprises manage and oversee AI use cases, models, and vendors across their full lifecycle—from intake and risk assessment through compliance and monitoring.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
Co-investorsTau VenturesVamosVentures
xtype provides an automated governance and control layer for ServiceNow, tracking and proving every change, access decision, and configuration across all instances, including actions made by people, pipelines, or AI agents.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSCovina, US
Peter Szulman(Founder)Tobias Stanzel(Founder)
Co-investorsColumbia CapitalNorwest Venture PartnersServiceNow Ventures
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioCheck Point SoftwareNASDAQ: CHKP
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesCheck Point Software · gurufocus.com · Aug 17, 2026
Craft · eu-startups.com · Aug 14, 2026
Canoe Intelligence · citywire.com · Jul 29, 2026
DNSFilter · siliconangle.com · Jun 30, 2026
Tall Poppy · aniobrien.substack.com · Jun 21, 2026
Synthesize · venturecapital.com · Sep 18, 2025
Qualytics · nasdaqprivatemarket.com · Jul 12, 2025
Qualytics · nasdaqprivatemarket.com · Jul 12, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Inner Loop Capital made?
- Inner Loop Capital has 38 tracked investments, including 1 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, Blumberg Capital, among 79 tracked co-investors.
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