In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in companies to keep the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability. The name "In-Q-Tel" is an intentional reference to Q, the fictional inventor who supplies technology to James Bond.
UST, formerly known as UST GLOBAL, is a provider of digital technology and transformation, information technology and services, headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, United States. Stephen Ross founded UST in 1998 in Laguna Hills. The company has offices in the Americas, EMEA, APAC, and India.
The Metasploit Project is a computer security project that provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development. It is owned by Boston, Massachusetts-based security company Rapid7.
Galvanize is a privately owned software as a service (SaaS) company founded and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Company builds security, risk management, compliance and audit software for the governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) market.
Qualys, Inc. is an American technology firm based in Foster City, California, specializing in cloud security, compliance and related services.
CyberArk Software, Inc. is a publicly traded information security company offering identity management. The company's technology is utilized primarily in the financial services, energy, retail, healthcare and government markets. CyberArk is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. The company also has offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, Asia Pacific and Japan.
DigiCert, Inc. is a digital security company headquartered in Lehi, Utah. DigiCert provides public key infrastructure (PKI) and validation required for issuing digital certificates or TLS/SSL certificates, acting as a certificate authority (CA) and trusted third party.
Bain Capital Ventures LLC is the venture capital division within Bain Capital, which has approximately $160 billion of assets under management worldwide. The firm's early-stage investments have included Attentive, Bloomreach, Billtrust, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Justworks, Turbonomic, Rent the Runway, Twilio, Rapid7, and Redis. Bain Capital Ventures manages $10 billion of committed capital, has over 400 active portfolio companies, and has offices in New York City, Palo Alto, and San Francisco.
Qualtrics is an American experience management company, with co-headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and Provo, Utah, in the United States. The company was founded in 2002 by Scott M. Smith, Ryan Smith, Jared Smith, and Stuart Orgill.
Core Security by HelpSystems is an American computer and network security company provides cyber threat prevention and identity access management software products and services, including penetration testing, network traffic analysis, threat detection, privileged access management, and identity governance The company’s research arm, CoreLabs, identifies new IT security vulnerabilities, publishes public vulnerability advisories, and works with vendors to assist in eliminating the exposures they find.
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The core product is a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves over 70,000 organizations in over 150 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference. It is a partner organization of the World Economic Forum.
Rescale is a software technology company that provides "Intelligent Computing for Digital R&D", with a focus on high-performance computing, cloud management, and computer aided engineering.
Vectra AI, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that uses AI for hybrid attack detection, investigation, and response (NDR) solutions. The company was established in 2012 and operates in 113 countries from its San Jose, California headquarters.
SafeBreach is a cybersecurity company based in Sunnyvale, California and Tel Aviv, Israel. The company has developed a platform that simulates hacker breach methods, running continuous "war games" to identify breach scenarios across network systems. SafeBreach is a pioneer in the emerging category of breach and attack simulation. The company's platform provides a “hacker's view” of an enterprise’s security posture to predict attacks, validate security controls and improve SOC analyst response. SafeBreach is funded by Sequoia Capital, Hewlett-Packard pathfinder, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners and others.
Cylance Inc., is an American software firm based in Irvine, California, that develops antivirus programs and other kinds of computer software that prevents viruses and malware.
Anomali Inc. is an American cybersecurity company that develops and provides threat intelligence products. In 2023, the company moved into providing security analytics powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
Blue Cloud Ventures is a Miami-based venture capital fund specializing in software-as-a-service, infrastructure, and open source software companies. The fund focuses primarily on growth stage companies with annual revenue between $10 and $50 million that are expected to reach an exit within three years. Blue Cloud is noted for offering a relatively high degree of flexibility with regards to financing terms, including the exit timeline, board representation, and the amount of funding.
SkyHive Technologies Inc. is a cloud-based workforce management and reskilling software provider founded by Sean Hinton and Sergiy Osypchuk in 2017. It has headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, and offices in California, United States. Its platform matches employees' skill gaps against job and future job requirements, identifies career pathways, and recommends training. This connects workers to new opportunities within and outside their current organizations.
Wiz is a cloud security startup headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in January 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Roy Reznik, and Ami Luttwak, all of whom previously founded Adallom. Rappaport is CEO, Costica is VP of Product, Reznik is VP of Engineering, and Luttwak is CTO. The company's platform analyzes computing infrastructure hosted in AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Kubernetes for combinations of risk factors that could allow malicious actors to gain control of cloud resources and/or exfiltrate valuable data.
StrongDM is an American technology company that develops an infrastructure access platform.
