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 8 of 20 portfolio companiesCybersecurity ×7Enterprise Software ×6AI & Machine Learning ×5SaaS ×3Data & Infrastructure ×2GovTech ×2Cloud Computing ×1Impact & Social Good ×1
HQs:United States×4
Investments · 20 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathCommvault provides a cloud-native data resilience platform that unifies security, governance, identity management, and data recovery capabilities for enterprise organizations.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & Infrastructure
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
Peter Bailey(Executive Officer)Edward Bailey(Executive Officer, Director)Daniel O'Connor(Executive Officer)Nick Beim(Director)Nella Domenici(Executive Officer)Jeffrey Kinsey(Executive Officer)
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
Bobby Ford(Chief Security Officer)Zane Lackey(Director)Kevin Tian(Executive Officer, Director)Elliott Robinson(Director)Rahul Madduluri(Executive Officer, Director)
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.
Cybersecurity
Stephen Thomas(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Takla(Executive Officer)Chris Ahern(Director)
LimaCharlie provides an AI-powered automation platform that handles repetitive security queue tasks across multiple vendor tools used by managed service providers and enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Nametag provides a meta-layer that integrates user data from IAM providers, SIEM platforms, ITSM solutions, and HRIS systems to enable stronger identity verification and automate identity management tasks like self-service MFA and password resets.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Dataminr for Cyber Defense is an intelligence-driven threat and exposure solution suite that assembles and delivers real-time, client-tailored intelligence, linking emerging threats to internal exposure and business impact.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSArlington, US
Stephen M Fredrick(Director)Adam Vincent(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Leigh Reichel(Executive Officer, Director)Michele Perry-Boucher(Director)
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
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
Strategic Cyber Ventures
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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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