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Lytical Ventures

Venture capitalActively deployingoperating company · company profile

New York · Seed–Series A · 32 people tracked

Also known as Lytical Ventures CI · LYTICAL VENTURES, LLC

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Investment thesis

Lytical Ventures invests at the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, backing early-stage companies. The team draws on more than six decades of collective early-stage investing experience, with cybersecurity roots dating back to the 1990s. The firm positions itself as a deeply connected and helpful partner to founders and co-investors, emphasizing its long-standing presence in the cybersecurity community — moderating DEFCON and sitting on the innovation board of Black Hat. Its aim is to be a well-connected, trusted source of judgment for founders, investors, and others involved in cybersecurity and adjacent domains.

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Stage
Seed–Series A
Check
$100K – $5M
HQ
New York, New York, US
Leads rounds
Follows
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2018
Last 12 months
5 investments
AUM
$10B
VC funds
19
Tracked investments
58
Acquisitions
4

Team · 32 people

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What they invest in

from 35 of 58 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×22Enterprise Software ×21Cybersecurity ×17SaaS ×17Developer Tools ×7Data & Infrastructure ×5Cloud Computing ×3Deep Tech ×3

HQs:United States×20United Kingdom×2Switzerland×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 7 portfolio companies
55%
repeat founders
of 11 founders with career history

What their founders studiedfrom 10 founders with field-of-study data

Computer Science ×3Business & Management ×2Finance & Accounting ×2

Investments · 58 tracked

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Carevisocareviso.comin𝕏✓ verified

Careviso automates prior authorization and administrative workflows in healthcare using its seeQer platform, helping patients understand treatment options and financial implications while reducing provider burden.

Digital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSaaSFalls Church, US

Andrew Mignatti(Founder)inPerry Dimas(Founder)in

Co-investorsMercury FundBallast Point Ventures

Cmtsolutionscmtsolutions.comin𝕏✓ verified

careviso operates seeQer, a platform for US healthcare providers that handles prior authorizations, benefits investigation, patient eligibility verification, and out-of-pocket cost estimation.

Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS

Co-investorsMercury Fund

HourWorksprockets.aiin𝕏✓ verified

A hiring platform that matches applicants to roles based on job fit, performance potential, and cultural alignment, helping businesses identify candidates who will succeed and remain with the company.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS

Co-investorsHealthy VenturesThayer VenturesVentureSouthDorm Room

Accern (Now Wand AI)wand.aiin𝕏

Wand provides infrastructure for enterprises and governments to create, manage, and scale hybrid workforces that combine human workers with AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of Work

Co-investorsBeni Venture CapitalEvolution VC PartnersFusionLiebenthal VenturesMighty CapitalRebellion Ventures+3 more

AgileViewagileview.ai

AgileView provides a perception engine that refines artificial intelligence models for mission-critical applications, particularly in satellite imagery analysis and intelligence work.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense Tech

agoloagolo.comSeries A · Mar 2023

Implicit is an AI-powered knowledge platform that aggregates technical content from manuals, tickets, and procedures to provide cited answers to both human workers and AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsAAF Management Ltd.Cerity Partners VenturesDentsu VenturesM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Point72 VenturesPrime Partners+5 more

Arcannaarcanna.aiin𝕏

Arcanna.ai builds AI-driven decision intelligence software for security operations centers (SOCs) to reduce false positives and improve incident response speed and accuracy.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Denis Stefan(AI Engineer)

Co-investorsOsage Venture Partners

Bold Metricsboldmetrics.comin𝕏Feb 2022

Bold Metrics provides AI and machine learning technology to apparel brands and retailers to optimize product fit, reduce returns, and improve supply chain efficiency.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceSaaSSan Francisco, US

Daina Burnes(Executive Officer, Director)inMorgan Linton(Director)in

BoardKent Bennett(Director)inBraden Pollack(Director)

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersCorsa VenturesGeekdomTechstarsValuestream Ventures

Coginiticoginiti.coin

Coginiti offers a "Semantic Intelligence" platform that lets data teams develop, govern, and deploy trusted business logic — from SQL-based data workbench to an AI-ready semantic layer — across more than 21 database platforms.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareAtlanta, US

Matthew Mullins(Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder)inRick Hall(CEO)

Co-investorsBeresford VenturesCircadian VenturesCreativeCoOUTBOUND CAPITALService Provider CapitalTech Square Ventures

Cynomicynomi.comin

Cynomi offers an AI-driven security program management platform that lets managed service providers and security consultancies run assessments, generate risk registers, remediation roadmaps, policies, and compliance mappings, and manage the full security program lifecycle across their client portfolios.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

David Primor(Co-founder and CEO)inRoy Azoulay(Co-founder and COO)inOhad Chereshniya(CFO)inShane Deegan(CRO)inErin McLean(CMO)inReut Roich(VP Product)in

Co-investorsCanaan PartnersEntrée CapitalInsight PartnersFlint CapitalSelah Ventures

Ghost Securityghostsecurity.aiin𝕏

Ghost builds AI agents that perform security operations and incident response work autonomously within enterprise environments, designed to investigate, contain, and resolve security events while maintaining full auditability and human oversight.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Josh LarseninGreg Martinin

Co-investors468 CapitalDnx VenturesSecure OctaneTAU Ventures

Hack Noticehacknotice.comin𝕏Series A · May 2022 · $7M

HackNotice provides adversary intelligence monitoring for security teams, tracking activity on ransomware leak sites, underground forums, and criminal marketplaces to help organizations detect breaches and threats across their vendor ecosystem.

CybersecurityAustin, US

Stephen Thomas(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Takla(Executive Officer)

BoardChris Ahern(Director)in

Co-investorsGeekdomSocial StartsStrategic Cyber Ventures

Integrisonetrust.comin𝕏Acquired

OneTrust provides a governance platform for privacy, risk, data, and compliance across organizations' technology stacks.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSAtlanta, US

Alan J. Dabbiere(Manager)inJohn Marshall(Manager)Kristina Bergman(Founder)inKabir Barday(Founder)in

BoardRichard Wells(Manager)inDavid K. Dabbiere(Manager)

Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAdams Street PartnersAmplify PartnersAspect VenturesBitkraft Esports VenturesBlackRock+19 more

KeyCaliberkeycaliber.cominSeed · Nov 2021 · $2.6M

KeyCaliber is a security platform that builds a single deduplicated record for every asset, identity, SaaS app, and AI tool by pulling from an organization's existing tools, then computes each asset's business importance to rank exposures and track control coverage.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Roselle Safran(Founder)in

Co-investorsHearstLabUnusual Ventures

Lima Charlielimacharlie.ioin𝕏Series A · Feb 2024 · $5.5M

LimaCharlie provides security infrastructure for MSSPs and enterprise security teams, using AI "agentic operators" that connect to clients' existing tools via API to automate queue work such as email quarantine, endpoint approvals, DLP violations, and alert triage.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS

Co-investorsHumba VenturesIronGate Capital AdvisorsStoneMill VenturesStrategic Cyber VenturesStreamlined VenturesCoFound Partners Venture+6 more

MontyCloudmontycloud.comin𝕏Seed · Nov 2019 · $3M

MontyCloud is a no-code, autonomous CloudOps platform that helps IT teams optimize and operate cloud services using intelligent automation and AI.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareRedmond, US

Venkat Krishnamachari(Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder)inKannan Parthasarthy(Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder)Rajkumar Sivarajan(Executive Officer)Walter A. Rogers(Executive Officer, Director)inVENKATESWARAN HARIHARA SUBRAMANIAN(Executive Officer)

BoardSteve Berg(Director)in

Co-investors1809 CapitalMadrona Venture GroupRaptor GroupRiverside Acceleration CapitalS3 Ventures

Netmakernetmaker.orgin𝕏

Netmaker offers a WireGuard-based networking tool that lets administrators provide remote access to a private network through an ingress/Remote Access Gateway, generating config files for devices that cannot run its native client (such as iPhones, Android phones, and IoT devices).

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsChandler, US

Alex Feiszli(Founder)in

Co-investorsUncorrelated VenturesY Combinator

Open Policyopenpolicy.coin

OpenPolicy is a platform for government affairs and public policy teams that connects policy intelligence and government engagement activities to measurable business impact and commercial outcomes across regulated organizations.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareGovTechSaaS

Amit Elazari, Dr. J.S.D(Founder)inDavid Uzan(Founder)in

Co-investorsKyber Knight Capital

Paperspacepaperspace.comin𝕏acquired by DigitalOcean · Jul 2023

Paperspace provided cloud GPU infrastructure and a machine learning development platform, Gradient, for training and deploying AI models.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareMedical DevicesNew York City, US

Dillon Erb(Founder/CEO)inDaniel Kobran(Founder)inOuwen Huang(CEO)

Co-investorsDCVC (Data Collective)FusionLudlow VenturesRocketship.vcSINEWAVE VENTURESTransmedia Capital+7 more

RAD Securityradsecurity.aiinSeries A · Feb 2025 · $14M

Brooke M.(Founder)in

Co-investors.406 VenturesForgePoint CapitalVertex Ventures

Realityreality.aiin

Reality AI develops an Edge AI software development environment that combines signal processing, machine learning, and anomaly detection for microcontrollers and microprocessors, enabling industrial, automotive, and commercial applications with minimal hardware footprint impact.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsIoTSemiconductors

Resurface API Securitygraylog.orgin𝕏

Graylog provides a security information and event management (SIEM) and log management platform that collects, routes, and stores log data to detect threats, automate investigations, and manage data tiers and storage costs.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareHouston, US

Co-investorsAlerion VenturesFirstMile VenturesFrontera Technology VenturesMercury FundSilver Lake PartnersHarbert Partners

RiskProfilerriskprofiler.ioin𝕏

RiskProfiler is a platform that automates the detection, validation, and execution of takedown workflows for digital abuse and brand threats across domains, hosting providers, social platforms, and marketplaces.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Setu Parimi(Founder)in

Co-investorsAviso Ventures

Senteonsenteon.coin𝕏Seed · Nov 2024 · $2M

Senteon provides continuous secure configuration hardening, turning system hardening into an enforceable, ongoing control rather than a periodic project.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSMatawan, US

Zach Kromkowski(Executive Officer)inHenry Zhang(Executive Officer, Director)inCliff Chao(Executive Officer)Nicole Wraback(Director)inJoger Rogers(Executive Officer)Chris Harris(Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsGula Tech AdventuresTachles VCValor Ventures

Start Left® Securitystartleftsecurity.comin𝕏Seed · Nov 2022 · $3M

Start Left provides execution intelligence for software teams to optimize product security, supply chain security, and code quality.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Switchboardswitchboard-software.comin𝕏

Switchboard provides a data platform that ingests and normalizes revenue and marketing data from many digital and monetization systems (such as GAM and SSPs) into a unified, audit-ready dataset with dashboards and AI-driven monitoring.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Ju-kay Kwek(CEO & Co-founder)inMichael Manoochehri(Founder)in

Co-investorsGFT VenturesQuest Venture PartnersCleo CapitalSequoia CapitalSpark CapitalXYZ Venture Capital

ThirdLovethirdlove.com𝕏Series B · Feb 2019 · $55M

ThirdLove is a direct-to-consumer brand selling women's intimates and accessories, including reusable silicone nipple covers, bras, and underwear.

ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce

Heidi Zak(Founder)inRa'el Cohen(Founder)in

Co-investorsBling CapitalElizabeth Street VenturesFelicis VenturesGrace Beauty CapitalHalogen Ventures Management Company LlcJames Beshara Fund+4 more

TrueForttruefort.com

Weehawken, US

Nazario Parsacala(Founder)

Co-investorsCanaan PartnersEvolution Equity PartnersStoneMill VenturesShasta Ventures

Truffleitsalltruffles.com𝕏Nov 2025 · $25M

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Co-investorsCollab+CurrencyHummingbird VenturesAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzIntel Capital

Truffletruffle.net𝕏Nov 2025 · $25M

Truffle makes the Truffle1, a hardware device that runs a personal AI assistant entirely on-device with local processing and no cloud dependency.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerHardware

Austin Hallock(Founder)in

Co-investorsValhalla VenturesAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzIntel Capital

Truffletrufflesuite.comin𝕏Nov 2025 · $25M

Truffle Suite provides developer tools for building, testing, and deploying smart contracts to Ethereum networks.

Crypto & Web3CybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsDeepTech VenturesAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzIntel Capital

Truffletrufflesystems.ioin𝕏Nov 2025 · $25M

Truffle provides digital ordering, kitchen automation, and automated pickup lockers for restaurants, ghost kitchens, cafeterias, amusement parks, and educational institutions.

Enterprise SoftwareFoodTechRetail TechSaaSSparks, US

Co-investorsSproutxAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzIntel Capital

Truffle Securitytrufflesecurity.comin𝕏Nov 2025 · $25M

Truffle Security develops TruffleHog, an open-source secrets scanning tool that identifies and remediates exposed credentials such as encryption keys in cloud and SaaS environments before exploitation.

CybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Dylan Ayrey(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzExpaHarpoon VenturesESSENCE VCEssence Venture Capital+2 more

Vaultreevaultree.comin𝕏

Vaultree develops data-in-use encryption technology that keeps sensitive data encrypted while it remains searchable, shareable, and usable across cloud and third-party systems.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise Software

Co-investorsMolten VenturesS VenturesTen ElevenEnterprise IrelandUnpopular Ventures

Visoviso.aiinNov 2024 · $7M

Viso.ai offers a computer vision platform with two products: Visonow, a tool to build vision agents from a text prompt and video, and Visosuite, an enterprise operating system to connect cameras across sites and run governed, agentic vision workflows at scale.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSchaffhausen, CH

Declan F(Founder)Gaudenz Boesch(Founder)inNico Klingler(Founder)in

Co-investorsAccelBain Capital VenturesCisco InvestmentsSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Sierra VenturesWork-Bench

Viso Trustvisotrust.com𝕏Seed · Nov 2024 · $7M

VISO TRUST is an AI-powered third-party risk management (TPRM) platform that helps security teams assess and monitor vendor cyber risk across 3rd, 4th, and nth parties.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS

Paul Valente(Founder)in

Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsGTM CapitalRecall CapitalSierra VenturesStoneMill VenturesWork-Bench+1 more

Wickrwickr.comin𝕏Acquired

AWS Wickr is an enterprise-grade secure communication platform offering end-to-end encrypted messaging, voice, and video collaboration for organizations handling sensitive information, with compliance certifications including FedRAMP High and DoD IL4/5.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSChicago, US

Christopher Howell(Executive Officer)inJennifer DeTrani(Executive Officer)Nico Sell(Co-Founder & Chairman)Kara Coppa(Executive Officer)Braden Seely(Executive Officer)York Sell(Executive Officer)

Co-investorsAlsop Louie PartnersBreyer CapitalGen CapitalIronGate Capital AdvisorsDolby Family Ventures

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

SmartCareOS10ClearBoldmetricsBorneoChannel1Hero SecurityHero Security AiHyddenImplicitKeysNS8RADReality AIRiskFrontRiskOpticsSprocketsStart LeftThe Keys AIThreatKeyValente Sherman, Inc.

Exits · 4

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Paperspaceacq. by DigitalOcean

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Lytical Ventures made?
Lytical Ventures has 58 tracked investments, 4 of which have exited, including 9 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Lytical Ventures invest at?
Lytical Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
What is Lytical Ventures's typical check size?
Lytical Ventures typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
What sectors does Lytical Ventures focus on?
Lytical Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software.
Where is Lytical Ventures located?
Lytical Ventures is headquartered in New York, US.
Does Lytical Ventures lead rounds?
Lytical Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
Who does Lytical Ventures co-invest with?
Lytical Ventures most often shares deals with Mercury Fund, Aspect Ventures, Bitkraft Esports Ventures, among 34 tracked co-investors.

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$1M – $3M
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