Strategic Cyber Ventures
Venture capitalWashington · Seed–Growth · 10 people tracked
Investment thesis
Strategic Cyber Ventures backs cutting-edge cybersecurity startups aimed at advancing U.S. national security. Leveraging over 25 years of cybersecurity experience, the firm supports founders across both commercial and federal markets. Its single-LP fund structure frees the team from constant fundraising, allowing them to devote more time to making business connections, guiding founders toward customers, building strategic partnerships, and attracting potential acquirers. The firm maintains a network of CISOs, founders, executives, financial partners, and government officials, and is establishing a dedicated CISO Board to help portfolio companies refine product development and achieve product-market fit.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 10 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 16 of 21 portfolio companiesCybersecurity ×11AI & Machine Learning ×9Enterprise Software ×7SaaS ×7Data & Infrastructure ×4Fintech ×4Crypto & Web3 ×3GovTech ×3
HQs:United States×9
Who they back
founder profiles across 9 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×52 founders×33 founders×1
Investments · 21 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 22024 · 12022 · 12015 · 15 dated
Burst.cloud provides an OSINT-based intelligence platform that collects open-source data, enriches it (translation, transcription, classification, tagging), links entities, and calculates risk scores for individuals, organizations, and cryptocurrency activity.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechNew York, US
Evan Kohlmann(Founder)in
BoardHank Thomas(Director)
Co-investorsBloccelerate VCBorderless VentureCoinbase VenturesBorderless CapitalCoinFundIn-Q-Tel
Dataminr provides AI-powered real-time event detection by synthesizing text, images, video, audio, and sensor signals across public data sources.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareGovTechImpact & Social GoodNew York, US
Edward Bailey(Executive Officer, Director)Ted Bailey(Founder)inPeter Bailey(Executive Officer)Daniel O'Connor(Executive Officer)Nella Domenici(Executive Officer)Jeffrey Kinsey(Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsAdit Ventures Management, LlcAllied Venture PartnersAlpha Square GroupBlue Ivy VenturesCastor Ventures (an Alumni Ventures Fund)Conversion Capital+19 more
Doppel is an AI-native platform that protects organizations from social engineering attacks, AI-powered impersonation, phishing, and fraud through threat detection, infrastructure disruption, and employee security awareness training.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareCovina, US
Kevin Tian(Executive Officer, Director)inRahul Madduluri(Executive Officer, Director)Bobby Ford(Chief Security Officer)
BoardZane Lackey(Director)inElliott Robinson(Director)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzBessemer Venture PartnersScript CapitalSozo Ventures9Yards CapitalNTT DOCOMO Ventures+6 more
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-investorsInner Loop CapitalTechOperators Venture Capital
GovEagle provides AI-powered knowledge management software for government contractors to preserve and reuse institutional context across business development, capture, and proposal teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareGovTechSaaSNew York City, US
Akash Mandavilli(Founder)inGabe Villasana(Founder)inAkash M(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
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 StartsLytical Ventures
ID Dataweb offers a low-code, cloud-native SaaS platform that combines adaptive identity verification, behavioral analytics, device and credential intelligence, and dynamic risk scoring to detect and prevent identity fraud and account-related threats.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSVienna, US
David Coxe(Executive Officer, Director)Steven Mast(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardPromod Sharma(Director)Christopher Ahern(Director)Patrick Gorman(Director)Thomas Kellerman(Director)
Impervious offers a suite of peer-to-peer tools built into a web browser, providing end-to-end encrypted messaging, file-sharing, multi-party video calls, shared workspaces, and payments via DIDComm and decentralized identifiers (DIDs).
ConsumerCrypto & Web3Cybersecurity
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 VenturesStreamlined VenturesCoFound Partners VentureLong Journey Ventures+3 more
Mash provides AI knowledge agents built for B2B revenue teams, connecting a company's own data across tools to answer product, technical, and sales questions with verifiable sources.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsSpacecadet VenturesWhitecap Venture PartnersMaple VC
Modveon offers a "Verified Operating System" that combines verified identity, AI orchestration, and payment rails into one platform for verifying people, coordinating communities, moving money, and delivering public services.
AI & Machine LearningFintechGovTechPalo Alto, US
Durgesh Kaushik(Founder)inNana Murugesan(Founder)in
Co-investorsCoinbase Ventures
Nametag provides an identity-verification meta-layer that connects user data across an organization's IAM providers, SIEM, ITSM, and HRIS systems.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsConvergeGlasswing VenturesJ2 Ventures
Co-investors83NorthAccompliceAllegisCyber CapitalAndreessen HorowitzAristos VenturesAugust Capital+10 more
Flashnet operates a non-custodial Bitcoin liquidity and orchestration layer that handles routing, bridging, and settlement against native Bitcoin liquidity, offering an API for teams to buy, sell, and move BTC and stablecoins.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesChapter OneTranspose Platform ManagementGula Tech AdventuresShasta VenturesTechOperators Venture Capital
Co-investorsShasta Ventures
Co-investorsVolition Capital
ThreatConnect (Dataminr for Cyber Defense) offers an intelligence-driven threat and exposure management platform that delivers real-time, client-tailored intelligence connecting emerging threats, internal exposure, and business impact.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSArlington, US
Adam Vincent(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Leigh Reichel(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardStephen M Fredrick(Director)inMichele Perry-Boucher(Director)
Co-investorsGrotech VenturesGula Tech Adventures
Voltage provides payment infrastructure built on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, letting financial platforms send Bitcoin and USD instantly and globally with low fees and reliable settlement.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechWichita, US
Graham Krizek(Founder)in
Co-investorsFulgur VenturesSTILLMARKTrammell Venture Partners (TVP)GV (Google Ventures)Trammell Venture Partners
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesVoltage · datacenterdynamics.com · Jul 27, 2026
Modveon · americanbazaaronline.com · Mar 27, 2026
ThreatConnect · siliconangle.com · Mar 23, 2026
Doppel · securityweek.com · Nov 20, 2025
Cloudburst · ventureburn.com · Sep 24, 2025
GovEagle · pulse2.com · Mar 11, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Strategic Cyber Ventures made?
- Strategic Cyber Ventures has 19 tracked investments, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Strategic Cyber Ventures invest at?
- Strategic Cyber Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth stages.
- What is Strategic Cyber Ventures's typical check size?
- Strategic Cyber Ventures typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
- What sectors does Strategic Cyber Ventures focus on?
- Strategic Cyber Ventures focuses on Cybersecurity, Defense Tech.
- Where is Strategic Cyber Ventures located?
- Strategic Cyber Ventures is headquartered in Washington, US.
- Does Strategic Cyber Ventures lead rounds?
- Strategic Cyber Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Strategic Cyber Ventures co-invest with?
- Strategic Cyber Ventures most often shares deals with Andreessen Horowitz, Streamlined Ventures, 83North, among 66 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the team#215 - Inside cyber warfare and intelligence with Hank Thomas, Founder at Strategic Cyber Ventures
LimaCharlie · Hank Thomas
Quarterly Market Review with a VC: Strategic Cyber Ventures - Hank Thomas - ESW #338
Security Weekly - A CRA Resource · Hank Thomas
Evo CEO & Chris Ahern - Strategic Cyber Ventures invests $1M into Evo Security
Evo Security Inc · Chris Ahern
Meet Andrew Morris from GreyNoiseIO | Security Leaders Series Episode 2 Announcement
Strategic Cyber Ventures
Interview: Deep Dive with John Hultquist, Chief Analyst at Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud)
Strategic Cyber Ventures
Strategic Cyber Ventures Leads $7 million Series A Funding Round for HackNotice
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Co-investors · 3
Lytical Ventures is a New York City-based venture firm focused on early-stage investing at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI.
March Capital is an early-growth venture capital firm investing in frontier technology companies focused on the AI revolution, partnering with founders to build category-defining businesses.
Sorenson Capital collaborates with B2B, product-first founders, investing in B2B software companies across their lifecycle from early-stage to pre-IPO through separate venture and growth-stage funds.
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