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Mountain View · Pre-Seed–Late Stage
Not to be confused with S Ventures (Corporate VC · Sapporo, JP)
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Investment thesis
S Ventures backs companies working in security, data, and AI, drawing on SentinelOne's own path from startup to cybersecurity leader. It invests across all stages, from pre-seed to later series rounds, with high conviction in early opportunities and an agile, hands-on partnership approach. Beyond capital, it provides portfolio companies with strategic support including access to its team, technology ecosystem, deep market insights, and extensive customer networks, and it emphasizes helping companies build security into their products and organizations from the start. It frequently co-invests alongside a broad network of venture capital funds to amplify collective impact.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 27, 2026.
What they invest in
from 22 of 28 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×16AI & Machine Learning ×15Cybersecurity ×11SaaS ×10Developer Tools ×8Data & Infrastructure ×7Cloud Computing ×6Deep Tech ×5
HQs:United States×11Australia×1Canada×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 20 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×52 founders×13 founders×54+ founders×9
Where their founders studiedfrom 33 founders with education data
Stanford University ×3Carnegie Mellon University ×2Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram ×2Duke University ×2Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×2UCLA ×2University of Arizona ×2University of California, Santa Cruz ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 36 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×22Physics ×5Mathematics & Statistics ×4Business & Management ×3Design & Architecture ×2Engineering ×2Humanities ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 39 founders with career history
Google ×8OpenAI ×8Stanford University ×3Apple ×2Boss Consulting SA ×2Cisco ×2GitHub ×2Israeli Military Intelligence - Unit 8200 ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
12 founders hold a PhD · 1 hold an MBA (of 38 with degree data)
Investments · 28 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 22025 · 12022 · 25 dated
Infleqtion builds neutral-atom quantum computers, precision quantum sensors, and related software, and works on integrated photonics to scale quantum systems.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum ComputingLouisville, US
Dana Anderson(Founder)inPranav Gokhale(Chief Technology Officer)inPaul Lipman(Chief Revenue Officer)inJason D. Hall(Chief Legal Officer)inIlan Hart(Chief Financial Officer)inMatthew J. Kinsella(Chief Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsBreakthrough VictoriaCaruso VenturesForma PrimeGlynn Capital ManagementIn-Q-TelMaverick Ventures+7 more
Anthropic is an AI safety research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Dario Amodei(Founder)inDaniela Amodei(Founder)inTom Brown(Founder)inJack Clark(Founder)inJared Kaplan(Founder)inChris Olah(Founder)in
Co-investors3Comma Capital7BC Venture Capital7GC & CoA.Capital VenturesAccelAkka+151 more
Armorblox provides email security services, including customer support for handling security issues for its business customers.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Anand Raghavan(Founder)Arjun Sambamoorthy(Founder)Chetan Anand(Founder)Dhananjay Sampath(Founder)
Co-investorsMango CapitalNext47Point72 VenturesTau VenturesA.Capital VenturesGeneral Catalyst+3 more
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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)inJessvin Thomas(CEO)inKeith Palumbo(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsSyn Ventures Seed Management Llc
Cohere builds foundational AI models and enterprise solutions that help businesses automate tasks, accelerate workflows, and enhance decision-making.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSToronto, CA
Aidan Gomez(Co-founder & CEO)Ivan Zhang(Founder)inNick Frosst(Founder)inAidan N. Gomez(Founder)Rahul Sengottuvelu(Founder)inYunyu Lin(Founder)in
Co-investors1802 VenturesAccess Ventures (New York)Advaita CapitalAju IB InvestmentAlumni VenturesBasecamp Fund+36 more
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(Founder)inDaniel Marashlian(Founder)inTroy Markowitz(Founder)in
BoardTim Jackson(Director)William Griffith(Director)Oren Yunger(Director)in
Co-investorsAAF Management Ltd.Alkeon InnovationBallistic VenturesBasis Set VenturesComcast VenturesConverge+19 more
Provides vulnerability-free container images, packages, helm charts, and secure libraries, along with hardened VMs and serverless runtimes, to eliminate OS and language-level vulnerabilities across the software supply chain.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Eilon Elhadad(Founder)in
Co-investorsHyperwise VenturesNext47Notable Capital
Eon is a cloud backup posture management platform that automates backup and recovery for modern cloud infrastructure, turning backups into an accessible and usable data asset.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Ofir Ehrlich(CEO, Co-founder)inGonen Stein(President, Co-founder)inRon Kimchi(CTO, Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAlpha Square GroupBond Capital ManagementGeneral CatalystGeorgianKesha VenturesLightspeed Venture Partners+6 more
Splunk Agent Observability is a platform that monitors and secures AI agents in production by combining evaluation, observability, cost tracking, and guardrails.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Vikram Chatterji(Founder)inAtindriyo Sanyal(Founder)inYash Sheth(Founder)inClay Wilkes(Founder)Dave Wilkes(Founder)
Co-investorsBattery VenturesCategory VenturesFPVPremji InvestScale Venture PartnersWalden Catalyst+10 more
Guardz is a unified cybersecurity platform built for managed service providers that integrates identity threat detection, endpoint protection, email security, and data defense.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Alon Lavi(Founder)Alon Lavi Dor Eisner(Founder)Dor Eisner(Founder)
Co-investorsAtento CapitalBRM CapitalClearSkyGlilot Capital PartnersHanaco Venture CapitalLumir Ventures+2 more
Noetic Cyber provides an attack surface management platform that gives security teams a unified view of assets across an organization's digital estate to identify high-risk assets and potential exposures.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsEnergy Impact PartnersGlasswing Ventures
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)inEiso Kant(Founder)Jason Warner Eiso Kant(Founder)
Co-investors20VC7GC & CoAbstraction CapitalAir Street CapitalB Capital GroupB4 Capital+29 more
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PsiQuantum builds fault-tolerant quantum computers using photonic qubits and semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum ComputingSemiconductorsMoreton Bay, AU
Prof. Terry Rudolph(Co-founder & Chief Architect)Dr. Pete Shadbolt(Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer)inProf. Mark Thompson(Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer)Jeremy O'Brien(Founder)inVictor Peng(Chief Executive Officer)inMark Thompson(Founder)
Co-investorsAtomicoBlackbird VenturesC4 VenturesCold Start VenturesFOG VenturesFounders Fund+38 more
Reco secures AI and agent sprawl across enterprise ecosystems by detecting and controlling unauthorized AI usage with 260+ app integrations and 1,000+ detection controls.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Gal Nakash(Founder)Ofer Klein(Founder)Tal Shapira(Founder)
Co-investorsAngular Venturesboldstart venturesCrew CapitalIngka InvestmentsInsight PartnersJibe Ventures+3 more
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 EconomyData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEdTechEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Haya Abdalla(Founder)inAmjad Masad(Founder)inHaya Odeh(Founder)inLuis Héctor Chávez(CTO)Faris Masad(Eng Manager)designer(Founder)
Co-investors137 Ventures7BC Venture CapitalA.Capital VenturesAbstract VenturesAIspace VenturesAllied Venture Partners+66 more
Scale provides high-quality training data, model evaluations, and full-stack AI systems for enterprises and governments to build and deploy AI applications.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Alexandr Wang(CEO)inLucy Guo(Founder)inFrancis deSouza(CEO)inTim Dingman(Strategic Product Manager)inCharles Lambert(Web Developer)Jesse Tinsley
Co-investors1435 CapitalAccelAdit Ventures Management, LlcAIspace VenturesAlpana VenturesAlpha Square Group+103 more
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(Founder)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(Founder)inSamuel Madden(Director)in
BoardAbhishek Sharma(Director)inMichael Goguen(Director)in
Co-investorsAlleyCorpBig Pi VenturesIntel CapitalNTT DOCOMO VenturesSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Two Bear Capital+3 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 & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Vipul Ved Prakash(Founder)inCe Zhang(Founder)inChris Ré(Founder)Tri Dao(Founder)inPercy Liang(Founder)inVipul Prakash(Founder)
Co-investors137 VenturesA.Capital VenturesAlumni VenturesBrave CapitalBrilliant Phoenix CapitalCambium Capital+40 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)inLarissa Schneider(Founder)Shay Levi Larissa Schneider(Founder)
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
Ryan Lasmaili Tilo Weigandt(Founder)
Co-investorsLytical VenturesMolten VenturesTen ElevenEnterprise IrelandUnpopular 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)inNico Waisman(Founder)Oege de Moor(Founder)
BoardKonstantine Buhler(Director)inApoorv Agrawal(Director)Ron Gabrisko(Director)
Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationLiberty GrowthNorthzoneSequoia CapitalAltimeter CapitalNVIDIA+1 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
DelphosDetectionsLaminarMeshMETA Group
Exits · 3
1 IPOs · 2 acquisitionsInfleqtionNYSE: INFQArmorbloxacq. by CiscoGalileoacq. by Cisco
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Anthropic · Anthropic Newsroom · Aug 4, 2026
Together AI · pymnts.com · Jul 1, 2026
XBOW · xbow.com · May 22, 2026
Replit · techcrunch.com · Mar 11, 2026
Echo · prnewswire.com · Dec 16, 2025
Theom · finsmes.com · May 12, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has S Ventures made?
- S Ventures has 28 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited, including 3 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, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Quantum Computing, SaaS.
- 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 Felicis Ventures, General Catalyst, Notable Capital, among 247 tracked co-investors.
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