Cybersecurity Focused Venture Capital Investors
We're a D.C.-based venture capital firm on a mission to find cutting-edge cybersecurity startups that advance U.S. national security.
Our commitment to our founders extends far beyond our strong financial backing. We offer 25+ years of cybersecurity experience, dedicated time and promising opportunities to founders weekly, all geared towards fostering their growth and success in both the commercial and federal sectors.
PREPARED. FUNDED. FOCUSED. CONNECTED.
Hank Thomas
Managing Partner
Chris Ahern
Partner
OUR STRONG NETWORK AND EXPERTISE AT YOUR SERVICE
Get to know us! You will find that our stellar team and a reliable investor network is responsive and dedicated. The SCV network consists of CISOs, ingenious founders, strategically positioned executives, trustworthy financial partners, and influential government officials. We guide founders towards potential customers, assist in building strategic partnerships, and attract the attention of potential buyers.
CISO Board
Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are a major driving force behind the innovation taking place in cybersecurity. We are adding to our extensive cadre of existing SCV advisors by creating a new board made up exclusively of exceptional CISOs. Our CISO Board will work directly with our portfolio companies to help guide product development and hone product-market-fit.
Charles Tango
CISO at Sysco
Jeff Lunglhofer
CISO at Coinbase
Christopher Smedberg
Director of Cyber Security at Advance
Theodore Bruckbauer
Executive Director of Technology Risk and Compliance at CME Group
Benjamin Eason
Managing Director, Cyber at Apollo Global
Ryan Field
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer at Bank of Hawaii
David Mackey
CISO at Nordson
Alfred Grossklaus
Head of IT Infrastructure & Enterprise Security at Hudson Bay Capital
CYBERSECURITY FUNDING & UNPARALLELED SUPPORT
The unique structure of our VC fund provides our portfolio companies an advantage. Instead of constantly focusing on fundraising efforts, SCV's single LP fund structure allows us to allocated our time to making valuable business connections for our founders, rapidly accelerating their growth.
OUR PORTFOLIO
Social engineering defense
Account protection with Deepfake Defense
AI-Powered Threat & Risk Intelligence
AI-based RFP automation
Dynamic identity security
Crypto threat intelligence
IAM built for MSPs
Public cloud for SecOps
The Future of Modern Nation States
Actionable threat intelligence
Building something new...
Privacy forward infrastructure
Portal to the P2P internet
Threat and risk informed cyber defense
Acquired by Dataminr
Detection engineering and threat hunting
Acquired by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)
Data centralization platform
Acquired by ThreatConnect
Deception technology pioneer
Acquired by Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT)