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Conifers builds CognitiveSOC, a platform of coordinated AI agents that automate security operations tasks including threat investigation, detection engineering, and incident response for enterprise security teams and managed security service providers, without requiring replacement of existing security tools.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareDallas, US

Tom Findling(Founder)

Co-investorsPICUS CAPITALSyn Ventures Seed Management Llc

Tuskira offers FedSOC, a federated detection platform that generates security detections across distributed telemetry and correlates signals across 150+ security tools without centralizing logs.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareDanville, US

Piyush Sharma(Co-founder, CEO)Vipul Parmar(Co-founder, CTO)Om Moolchandani(Co-founder, CPO)Piyush Sharrma(Founder)om moolchandani(Founder)in

Co-investorsIntel CapitalRain CapitalSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcWipro Ventures

BigID is a data security platform that discovers, classifies, and governs enterprise data across cloud, SaaS, and unstructured environments to enable privacy, security, and compliance.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnergyEnterprise SoftwareMamaroneck, US

Nimrod Vax(Secretary, Director)inDimitri Sirota(President, Treasurer, Chief Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardGil Beyda(Director)inEd Sim(Director)in

Board seatJay Leek· per SEC Form D · $61.4M raise · filed Feb 2024

Co-investorsBessemer Venture Partnersboldstart venturesCisco InvestmentsClearSkyComcast VenturesGaia Ventures+8 more

Cranium provides AI security and governance software that discovers, monitors, and defends AI models, agents, and copilots across enterprise infrastructure.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareShort Hills, US

Jonathan Dambrot(Executive Officer, Director)Felix Knoll(Executive Officer, Director)Vivek Radia(Executive Officer)

BoardMarcus Bartram(Director)inGerhard Eschelbeck(Director)

Board seatJay Leek· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcTitanium VenturesCapra Ventures H1Telstra Ventures

Crash Override monitors code written by humans and AI agents, inspects each build layer, applies cryptographic tagging to artifacts, and tracks their provenance in production environments.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US

Mark Curphey(Director)John Viega(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardErik Nordlander(Director)inMichael Droesch(Director)inGerhard Eschelbeck(Director)

Board seatJay Allan Leek II· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersFirestreak VenturesSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcEssence Venture CapitalGV (Google Ventures)

Austin-based cybersecurity company building an AI-driven platform to prevent, mitigate and recover from ransomware attacks.

Austin, US

Ryan Smith(Director)Jon W. Miller(Executive Officer, Director)Marvin Tien(Director)

BoardEnrique Salem(Director)inRichard Seewald(Director)

Board seatJay Leek· per SEC Form D · $127.8M raise · filed Jan 2025

Co-investorsBain Capital VentureBain Capital VenturesEvolution Technology

Query.ai offers a federated search platform that lets security teams search and normalize data across multiple sources — including SIEMs, data lakes, cloud storage, EDR, identity, and threat intelligence tools — from a single search bar without writing complex queries.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBrookings, US

Dhiraj Sharan(Executive Officer, Director)inAndrew Maloney(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatJay Leek· per SEC Form D · $4.6M raise · filed Sep 2020

Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsClearSkyfama Ventures, LLCSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcTech Square Ventures

Sevco Security, now part of Arctic Wolf, provides an exposure management platform (branded Aurora) that discovers an organization's full attack surface, prioritizes vulnerabilities and misconfigurations by risk, and guides remediation.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSAustin, US

Jeffrey Guy(Executive Officer, Director)Mike Viscuso(Director)Kevin Cunningham(Director)Lori Fitzpatrick(Executive Officer)Greg Fitzgerald(Director)

BoardGreg Dracon(Director)in

Board seatJay Leek· per SEC Form D

Co-investors.406 Venturesfama Ventures, LLCSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcAccomplice

N-able delivers unified cybersecurity and data protection solutions including endpoint management (N-central), AI-powered threat detection and response (Adlumin), and disaster recovery services (Cove).

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareAlexandria, US

Robert S. Jonhston(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsBankTech VenturesSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcFirst InFirst In VenturesLeawood Venture Capital Llc

Arcade provides an MCP runtime layer that enables AI agents to securely connect to external tools and business systems through user authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Sam Partee(Founder)in

Co-investorsFlybridge Capital PartnersGaruda VenturesNeotribe VenturesSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcLaude Ventures

Arcade is an AI coaching platform for frontline sales teams that converts a company's existing playbooks, briefs, and decks into AI-powered training, roleplay practice, certifications, and weekly manager coaching.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSSales Tech

Anthony IndrausDavid CherrieJames McLaren

Co-investors500 GlobalNext Coast VenturesStage 2 CapitalTen13Morgan StanleyRevTech Ventures

Arcade is a platform where users create interactive worlds and games by describing ideas to an AI companion, then play and build them together with friends.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerGamingBurlingame, US

Gabriel(Co-Founder & CTO)inSAM PARTEE(Director)ALEXANDER SALAZAR(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsKima VenturesMorgan Stanley

BforeAI develops AI-powered predictive cybersecurity technology designed to prevent cyber attacks before they occur rather than detect them after the fact.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity

Luigi Lenguito(Chief Executive Officer)inLuciano Allegro(Chief Automation Officer)inSebastian Cesario(Chief Technology Officer)in

Co-investorsKaristaKarma VenturesSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcTheVentureCityTitanium Ventures

BreachRx provides a Crisis Incident Response Management (CIRM) platform that helps organizations coordinate and execute enterprise-wide incident response across functions during cyber attacks.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSFayetteville, US

Anderson Lunsford(Executive Officer, Director)inMatthew Hartley(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardSean O'Brien(Director)

Co-investorsBallistic VenturesOverlineSandalphon CapitalSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcVentureSouth

CodeIntegrity develops security controls for AI agents, enabling enterprises to govern agent access to systems and data while preventing sensitive information exposure across prompts and tools.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareBothell, US

Seungwon Jung(Executive Officer, Director)Abilash Raghuram(Executive Officer, Director)Steven Jung(Founder)in

BoardGlenn Chisholm(Director)inRyan Permeh(Director)in

Co-investorsSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcAntler

Helmet is a security platform for AI agents that discovers all agentic activity (agents, MCP servers, skills, plugins, and gateways) across an organization, maintains a verified registry, enforces policy in real time via agent hooks and an MCP gateway, and produces audit-ready compliance evidence.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSWashington, US

Fred Kneip(Co-founder & CEO)Kaushik Shanadi(Director)Frederick Kneip(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardRyan Permeh(Director)in

Co-investorsSyn Ventures Seed Management Llc

Batuta provides endpoint intelligence and monitoring software that delivers real-time visibility into organizational endpoints to reduce risk, enforce compliance, and mitigate security threats.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Mauricio Benavides(Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer and Secretary)Louise Ireland(Chief Operating Officer)

BoardJohn Watters(Director)Robert Rodriguez(Director)in

Co-investorsSyn Ventures Seed Management Llc

Miggo provides a runtime application security platform that maps how first- and third-party applications connect, validates which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable at runtime, and deploys vulnerability-specific WAF rules to mitigate exploitable risk without patching.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS

Daniel Shechter(Co-Founder & CEO)inItai Goldman(Co-Founder & CTO)Itai Goldman‏(Founder)in

Co-investorsSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcYL Ventures

NetFoundry provides identity-first zero trust connectivity for distributed workloads across AI, APIs, IoT, and enterprise infrastructure, eliminating attack surfaces without requiring open ports or VPN changes.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareIoT

Galeal Zino(Founder)inDavid Hart(Founder)in

Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsEnerdigm VenturesSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcCisco

Vectra AI provides real-time network observability and threat detection across hybrid environments spanning on-premises, multi-cloud, SaaS, edge, and IoT/OT systems.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureIoT

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzBessemer Venture PartnersHarpoon VenturesSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcWingMango Capital

Nullify is an autonomous AI system that automates product security tasks across detection, triage, remediation and closure, handling vulnerability discovery, impact scoring, exploit proof, and pull request creation without requiring human intervention in the critical path.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Shan Kulkarni(Founder)inTim Thacker(Founder)in

Co-investorsRoot Ventures Manager, LlcSyn Ventures Seed Management Llc

Obsidian Security provides visibility, controls, and threat detection for SaaS applications and AI tools across enterprise environments.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNewport Beach, US

Matt W.(Founder)inGlenn Chisholm(Co-Founder; former CEO, now Chairman & Chief Product Officer)Ben Johnson(Co-Founder & CTO)Matt Wolff(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist (also referenced as Chief AI Officer))inHasan Imam(Chief Executive Officer)inXinran Wang(Chief Technology Officer (formerly EVP of Engineering))in

Co-investorsArtisanal VenturesCRESCENT COVE CAPITALDnx Venturesfama Ventures, LLCGreylock PartnersGV (Google Ventures)+4 more

Phosphorus provides a cybersecurity remediation platform for Internet of Things (xIoT) devices in enterprise environments, offering visibility, patching, and compliance capabilities that integrate with existing security tools.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareIoTNashville, US

Christopher Rouland(Executive Officer, Director)Chris Rouland(Founder)inEarle Ady(Executive Officer, Director)Charles Andros(Director)Martin LeRoy(Executive Officer)

BoardJR Smith(Director)

Co-investorsEvolution Equity PartnersFirstMark CapitalMassMutual VenturesNeva Sgr.Syn Ventures Seed Management Llc

Qwiet AI is an application security testing platform that identifies and remediates software vulnerabilities with high accuracy through AI-powered analysis.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsClearSkyMayfield FundSINEWAVE VENTURESSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcWipro Ventures

Refine Intelligence provides an automated fraud alert resolution platform that verifies customer intent through automated multi-channel outreach, reducing alert investigation time from minutes to under a minute.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintech

Co-investorsFin CapitalGlilot Capital PartnersSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcGround Up Ventures

RegScale provides an AI-powered governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform that automates compliance workflows and continuous controls monitoring for DevSecOps and cloud-native environments.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareTysons, US

Travis Howerton(Co-Founder & CEO)inAnil Karmel(Co-Founder)inMichael Needel(Executive Officer)inEric Erston(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardMina Faltas(Director)Art Coviello(Director)in

Co-investorsAnkona CapitalHitachi VenturesM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)SINEWAVE VENTURESSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcHitachi, Ltd.

Synqly provides a unified API platform that delivers native integrations for security and IT operations vendors, enabling them to integrate once and gain access to multiple providers across categories.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Joel Bauman(Co-founder and CEO)

Co-investorsSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcOkta Ventures

Chandler, US

Jori VanAntwerp(Executive Officer, Director)Ron Fabela(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardPatrick Heim(Director)inZenas Hutcheson(Director)in

Co-investorsCyber Mentor FundRally Ventures Management, LlcSyn Ventures Seed Management Llc

Terra provides red teaming and offensive security testing for deployed AI systems, including models, copilots, chatbots, and agentic applications.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity

Gal Malachi‏(Founder)inShahar Peled‏(Founder)in

Co-investorsFelicis VenturesSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcUnderscore VCDell Technologies Capital

Titanium Ventures is an independent venture capital firm investing in technology startups using software and AI, offering a Revenue Acceleration Platform and hands-on support to help portfolio companies grow.

Co-investorsKPN VenturesCompanyon VenturesTitanium Ventures

Upfort provides software and automation solutions for managing cyber risk, combining security expertise with insurance and data analytics to improve organizational cyber resilience.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareInsurTechSan Francisco, US

Han Wang(Founder/CTO)inDaniel Bilbao(Founder)in

Co-investorsAltai VenturesClocktower VenturesFikaHemi Ventures, LlcSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcY Combinator+5 more