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Seven Hill Ventures

Venture capital

San Francisco · Pre-Seed–Seed · 4 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Seven Hill Ventures invests at pre-seed and seed stages in cybersecurity startups, focusing on technical founders building the next generation of enterprise defense. The firm emphasizes operator-led support, combining over two decades of hands-on cybersecurity leadership (including CISO roles at Twitter, Mozilla, and CoinList, and OWASP chairmanship) with a founder's perspective from having built and sold a cloud security startup. It targets innovation across cybersecurity disciplines such as AI security, identity, secure software lifecycle, data protection, encryption, network security, cloud protection, and emerging cyber threats. Beyond capital, it offers hands-on help with product-market fit, build partnerships, and fundraising strategy, centering a trust-based approach to partnership.

Source: firm website, verified Oct 1, 2026.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Seed
HQ
San Francisco, US
Instruments
Equity
Tracked investments
15

Team · 4 people

from the firm's website
Ben Hagen· CISO, Axon

Member of the CISO Advisory Board, serving as CISO of Axon.

Dr. Yonesy Núñez· CISO, Surf AI

Member of the CISO Advisory Board, serving as CISO of Surf AI.

Tomás Maldonado· CISO, National Football League

Member of the CISO Advisory Board, serving as CISO of the National Football League.

What they invest in

from 7 of 15 portfolio companies

Cybersecurity ×7AI & Machine Learning ×6Enterprise Software ×5Developer Tools ×3SaaS ×2Digital Health ×1Healthtech ×1Medical Devices ×1

HQs:United States×3Israel×1

Investments · 15 tracked

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Adversa AIadversa.aiin

Adversa AI provides AI red teaming and security testing for enterprise AI agents and applications.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Sergey

Co-investorsFoundryMoxxie Ventures

ChatSeechatsee.ai

ChatSee provides infrastructure for monitoring, governing, and controlling autonomous AI agent behavior in production environments, addressing the gap between traditional software observability and the needs of enterprise AI systems.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Sekhar Sarukkai(Co-founder, CEO)inSanjay Agrawal(Co-founder, CTO)

Co-investorsFirst Rays Venture PartnersTrue Ventures

Devarmordevarmor.comin𝕏

DevArmor provides real-time application security feedback inside developer tools, catching design flaws and reviewing code changes against a team's architecture and security requirements before issues reach production.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US

Julian Mehnle(Founder)inAmir Kavousian(Founder)in

Co-investorsAviso VenturesWork-Bench

Noma Securitynoma.securityin𝕏

Noma provides automated red teaming for AI systems, testing models and applications against evolving attack techniques through intelligent agents.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMedical DevicesPittsburgh, US

Gilles Clermont(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inMilos Hauskrecht(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Seyedsalim Malakouti(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Niv Braun(Founder)in

Co-investorsBallistic VenturesEvolution Equity PartnersArtisanal VenturesBeta BoomGlilot Capital PartnersDatabricks Ventures

Project Discoveryprojectdiscovery.ioin𝕏

ProjectDiscovery offers Neo, an autonomous AI-powered security testing platform that continuously scans web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure to identify and verify vulnerabilities with high accuracy and minimal false positives.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Rishiraj Sharma(Founder)inSandeep Singh(Founder)in

Co-investorsAccelAngel Collective Opportunity FundCRV (Charles River Ventures)Lightspeed Venture PartnersMango CapitalPoint72 Ventures+5 more

Silmarilsilmaril.devin𝕏Seed

Silmaril is a security monitoring and threat detection platform that protects enterprise systems by identifying and blocking malicious tool calls and prompt injection attacks.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Aum Upadhyay(Founder)inEduardo Velasco(Founder)in

Co-investorsTranspose Platform ManagementY CombinatorGreylock PartnersMetsu CapitalRobinhoodSpot VC+1 more

Sola Securitysola.securityin𝕏

Sola is an AI-first enterprise security platform that connects a company's existing security and business tools to maintain a unified graph of identities, hosts, cloud resources, SaaS apps, and AI agents, letting practitioners query their stack in natural language and get evidenced answers.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareTel Aviv, IL

Guy Flechter(Co-founder)inRon Peled(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsGlilot Capital PartnersM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)New Era Capital PartnersS32S CapitalSequoia Capital

Other

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

Cider SecurityDefakto SecurityFletchKenzo SecurityLucidumNightVisionResourcelyStrongest Layer

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Seven Hill Ventures made?
Seven Hill Ventures has 15 tracked investments.
What stage does Seven Hill Ventures invest at?
Seven Hill Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
What sectors does Seven Hill Ventures focus on?
Seven Hill Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software.
Where is Seven Hill Ventures located?
Seven Hill Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.

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