Mountain View · Pre-Seed–Late Stage
Investment thesis
S Ventures is SentinelOne's corporate investment vehicle focused on backing market-defining companies across artificial intelligence, data, and cybersecurity. Led out of the company's M&A and ventures organization, it has made roughly 25 investments in leading AI, quantum, and security companies. The strategy is closely tied to SentinelOne's broader goal of accelerating AI-driven cybersecurity innovation, complementing acquisition activity that strengthens the firm's AI and data capabilities. Investments target category-defining businesses that align with and advance SentinelOne's technology roadmap and innovation ecosystem.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 7, 2026.
What they invest in
from 16 of 25 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×11Cybersecurity ×9Enterprise Software ×9SaaS ×7Cloud Computing ×4Data & Infrastructure ×4Deep Tech ×3Developer Tools ×2
HQs:United States×8Australia×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 11 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×42 founders×23 founders×24+ founders×3
Where their founders worked beforefrom 15 founders with career history
Stanford University ×3Together AI ×3Boss Consulting SA ×2Facebook ×2
Investments · 25 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12022 · 23 dated
Infleqtion develops quantum-enabled hardware and AI-powered products for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), including optical atomic clocks, quantum sensing, and quantum computing, serving commercial organizations and government/defense customers.
Deep TechDefense TechHardwareQuantum ComputingLouisville, US
Dana Anderson(Founder)Pranav Gokhale(Chief Technology Officer)inPaul Lipman(Chief Revenue Officer)inJason D. Hall(Chief Legal Officer)Ilan Hart(Chief Financial Officer)inMatthew J. Kinsella(Chief Executive Officer)
Co-investorsBreakthrough VictoriaCaruso VenturesForma PrimeGlynn Capital ManagementIn-Q-TelS32+4 more
Poolside builds open-weight foundation models and agentic coding models, including the Laguna family, along with the systems and infrastructure needed to train, refine, and improve these models.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Jason Warner(Founder & CEO)inEiso Kant(Founder)
Co-investors7GC & CoAbstraction CapitalAir Street CapitalB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBain Capital Ventures+24 more
AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Armorblox provides email security services, including customer support for handling security issues for its business customers.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsMango CapitalNext47Point72 VenturesTau VenturesGeneral CatalystUnusual Ventures
Auguria is an AI-driven security platform that acts as a connective layer between SIEMs and data lakes, automatically curating and enriching security data for SecOps teams without relying on rule-based approaches.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareLadera Ranch, US
Chris Coulter(Co-founder)Jessvin Thomas(CEO)inKeith Palumbo(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsSYN VenturesSyn Ventures Seed Management Llc
Enterprise AI platform offering large language models and RAG capabilities for enterprises.
Builds language models that understand compiled code for AI supply chain security.
Drata offers a compliance automation platform that centralizes controls and evidence, continuously monitors controls, and tracks remediation so teams can maintain audit readiness across multiple frameworks.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Diego, US
Adam Markowitz(Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder)inDaniel Marashlian(Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder)inTroy Markowitz(Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder)Tim Jackson(Director)William Griffith(Director)Oren Yunger(Director)
Co-investorsAAF Management Ltd.Alkeon InnovationBallistic VenturesBasis Set VenturesComcast VenturesConverge+11 more
AI-powered secure software infrastructure.
End-to-end platform for Generative AI evaluation, experimentation, observability, and protection.
Guardz offers a unified, AI-powered cybersecurity platform with 24/7 managed detection and response (MDR) that consolidates security controls across identities, endpoints, email, cloud, and data.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Co-investorsAtento CapitalBRM CapitalClearSkyGlilot Capital PartnersHanaco Venture CapitalLumir Ventures
Platform providing full data observability across public cloud environments.
Co-investorsCRV (Charles River Ventures)General CatalystJMI EquitySmartGateVC
Noetic Cyber offers a continuous red team service and attack surface management tools that give organizations a unified view of assets across their digital estate to identify high-risk assets and potential exposures.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsEnergy Impact PartnersGlasswing Ventures
PsiQuantum builds fault-tolerant quantum computers using photonic qubits and semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum ComputingSemiconductorsMoreton Bay, AU
Prof. Jeremy O'Brien(Co-founder & Executive Chairman)Prof. Terry Rudolph(Co-founder & Chief Architect)Dr. Pete Shadbolt(Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer)Prof. Mark Thompson(Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer)Jeremy O'Brien(Founder)inVictor Peng(Chief Executive Officer)
Co-investorsBlackbird VenturesC4 VenturesCold Start VenturesFounders FundFPVHARPER COURT VENTURES+23 more
Reco is a security platform that discovers and inventories AI apps, agents, and identities across an enterprise's SaaS environment, mapping their permissions, connections, and risk.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Co-investorsAngular Venturesboldstart venturesInsight PartnersJibe VenturesZeev VenturesWorkday Ventures
Replit is a platform for software development that aims to make app creation accessible to non-programmers through intuitive tools and AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsEdTechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Haya Abdalla(Founder)inAmjad Masad(Co-founder & CEO)inHaya Odeh(Co-Founder, Design)inLuis Héctor Chávez(CTO)
Co-investors137 Ventures7BC Venture CapitalA.Capital VenturesAbstract VenturesAllied Venture PartnersAmino Capital+31 more
Generative AI training and evaluation platform.
Theom provides data and AI infrastructure security solutions for enterprises in the cloud.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Navindra Verma(Founder & CEO)Ravi NetravaliFarid NajaDanesh IraniinNavindra Yadav(Executive Officer, Director)inSupreeth Hosur Nagesh Rao(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsFoothill VenturesM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Ridge VenturesWingDatabricks VenturesGeneral Partnership
TileDB builds a database platform for organizing, cataloging, and analyzing large-scale data across organizations.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareCambridge, US
Stavros Papadopoulos(Executive Officer, Director)inSamuel Madden(Director)in
BoardAbhishek Sharma(Director)inMichael Goguen(Director)in
Co-investorsAlleyCorpBig Pi VenturesIntel CapitalNTT DOCOMO VenturesSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Two Bear Capital+2 more
Together AI builds a full-stack platform for production AI systems, serving teams that need to deploy and scale machine learning models reliably.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSan Francisco, US
Vipul Ved Prakash(Founder)inCe ZhanginChris RéTri DaoinPercy Liangin
Co-investors137 VenturesA.Capital VenturesBrave CapitalBrilliant Phoenix CapitalCambium CapitalChapter One+28 more
Unframe provides an enterprise AI platform for deploying agentic workflows and AI solutions, where each deployed use case refines the company's data and shares context to speed up and improve subsequent deployments.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Shay Levi(Founder)inAdi Azarya(Founder)in
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersHighland EuropeSnowflake VenturesTLV PartnersVintage Investment Partners
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 VenturesTen ElevenLytical Ventures
XBOW is an autonomous AI system that tests web applications and APIs to find and prove exploitable security vulnerabilities, chaining flaws into working attacks and delivering reproducible exploit evidence with remediation guidance.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSSeattle, US
Oegerikus de Moor(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardKonstantine Buhler(Director)inApoorv Agrawal(Director)Ron Gabrisko(Director)
Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationNorthzoneSequoia CapitalAltimeter CapitalNVIDIA
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioInfleqtionNYSE: INFQ
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Replit · techcrunch.com · Jul 30, 2026
Infleqtion · kavout.com · Jul 16, 2026
Together AI · techtimes.com · Jul 3, 2026
Auguria · citybiz.co · Jun 22, 2026
AI for software development · datacenterdynamics.com · Jun 18, 2026
Unframe · businessinsider.com · Jun 2, 2026
XBOW · geekwire.com · May 6, 2026
Pelanor · finopsweekly.com · Dec 22, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has S Ventures made?
- S Ventures has 25 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does S Ventures invest at?
- S Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What is S Ventures's typical check size?
- S Ventures typically writes checks of $1M – $5M.
- What sectors does S Ventures focus on?
- S Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Quantum Computing.
- Where is S Ventures located?
- S Ventures is headquartered in Mountain View, US.
- Does S Ventures lead rounds?
- S Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does S Ventures co-invest with?
- S Ventures most often shares deals with SV Angel, A.Capital Ventures, Felicis Ventures, among 157 tracked co-investors.
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