SYN Ventures — 2025 Investments
6 investments dated 2025 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all
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
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
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
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
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
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