Start Pill
This list aims to provide a list of those recently active investors in the Network Security space.
Purpose of this list: Finding and meeting VC’s and investors is no easy task for any founder no matter how well connected they might be. This list is aimed to provide a starting point highlighting some of the most recently active investors.
Great list… now what: If you’re a founder looking to pitch your startup you first need to create a short list of investors you want to pitch to. This list could provide part of that. Pick a few companies in this list, see their past investments, which countries they invest in and craft a personal email or Linkedin message to them if you think they would be interested.
I sent a load of emails, but didn’t get any responses: Welcome to the startup world… But in all seriousness some VC’s will get back to you with feedback if you’re lucky, but most are simply too busy to deal with all the messages they get.
Do not get discouraged, send a follow up email asking for feedback and work on your pitching. Rejection is not a reflection on your company, just how you pitched it. There is countless stories of people getting rejected 100 times before finally getting funding. See the Qwil story.
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True Ventures
True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology startups.
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Founders: John Burke, Jon Callaghan, Phil Black, Toni Schneider, Tony Conrad
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Sierra Ventures
Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on next generation enterprise and emerging technologies.
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Founders: Peter Wendell
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Dreamit Ventures
Dreamit is a venture fund and growth-focused accelerator for Urbantech, Securetech, and Healthtech startups
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Founders: David Bookspan, Michael Levinson, Steve Welch
Location: New York, New York, United States
Number of Employees: 51-100
NXTP Ventures
NXTP Ventures backs early-stage technology companies led by extraordinary entrepreneurs throughout Latin America.
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Founders: Ariel Arrieta, Francisco Coronel, Gonzalo Costa, Marta Cruz, Martin Hazan
Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
Number of Employees: 11-50
Inovia Capital
Inovia Capital specializes in investments in early stage, seed, mid venture, late venture, growth capital and start-up stage companies.
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Founders: Chris Arsenault
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Number of Employees: 11-50
Blumberg Capital
Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in a range of technology companies.
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Founders: David Blumberg
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Baseline Ventures
Baseline is an investment company that aims to help founders build and grow their early-stage companies into change-effecting enterprises.
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Founders: Steve Anderson
Location: Jackson, Wyoming, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Oasis500
Oasis500 is the leading seed investment company and business accelerator in the Tech and Creative Industry spaces based in Amman, Jordan.
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Location: Amman, Amman, Jordan
Number of Employees: 11-50
Mangrove Capital Partners
Mangrove Capital Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Luxembourg.
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Founders: Hans-Jurgen Schmitz, Mark Tluszcz
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Number of Employees: 44105
.406 Ventures
.406 Ventures provides capital and support for early stage technology companies.
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Founders: Larry Begley, Liam Donohue, Maria Cirino
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and products.
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Founders: Dennis Brown, Larry Page, Lisa Oglesby Rocha, Sergey Brin, Subur Khan, weed shop, Wesley Chan
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
TELUS Ventures
TELUS Ventures is the venture capital arm of TELUS, a North American telecommunications company.
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Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Number of Employees: 10001
Daiwa Corporate Investment
Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group, have been engaged in overseas VC investments.
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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Number of Employees: 51-100
Blockchain Capital
Blockchain Capital is a pioneer and the premier venture capital firm investing in Blockchain enabled technology companies.
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Founders: P Bart Stephens, W Bradford Stephens
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Telstra Ventures
Telstra Ventures invests in technology companies and offers synergy revenues to its portfolio companies.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Ascent Venture Partners
Ascent is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage, emerging B2B technology companies, backing over 110 companies since 1985.
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Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
TDF Ventures
TDF Ventures is a venture capital firm that targets seed and Series A investments in technology companies.
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Location: Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Rally Ventures
Rally Ventures invests in early-stage enterprise technology companies.
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Founders: Charles Beeler, Jeff Hinck
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
CyLon
CyLon is the world’s leading cyber security accelerator and seed investment programme.
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Founders: Alex van Someren, Grace Cassy, Jonathan Luff
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Number of Employees: 44105
Visa
Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
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Founders: Dee Hock
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor.He first gained attention for innovations in banking and startup finance. Today he is …
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
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Kinetic Ventures
Kinetic Ventures is a leading venture capital investor in high growth, industry defining communications, information and power/clean
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Location: Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
GF Xinde Investment Management
GF Xinde is a direct investment brokerage in China.
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Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Number of Employees: 44105
Finch Capital
Finch Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focusing on the FinTech sector in Europe and South East Asia.
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Founders: Hans de Back, Radboud Vlaar
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Number of Employees: 11-50
Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions creates mission-critical communication solutions and services for public safety and commercial customers.
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Location: Schaumburg, Illinois, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
Stage 1 Ventures
Stage 1 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is seeking to build partnerships with great entrepreneurs that are flexible
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Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
TechOperators
TechOperators is a venture capital firm which focuses on solutions in software, internet, cloud computing, security, and infrastructure.
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Founders: David Gould
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Shlomo Kramer
Shlomo is co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo has co-founded Check Point …
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Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Hongtai Capital Holdings
Hongtai Capital Holdings is a full life cycle comprehensive investment management platform.
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Founders: Minhong Yu, Xitai Sheng
Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
Number of Employees: 11-50
Startup Sesame
Startup Sesame is an alliance of European tech events, helping scale-ups, investors, and corporates to engage with the startup ecosystem.
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Founders: Ben Costantini, Joanna Kirk, Moojan Asghari
Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Number of Employees: 11-50
Mistral Venture Partners
Mistral Venture Partners invests in early stage technology companies (Seed stage) in Canada
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Founders: Bernie Zeisig, Code Cubitt
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Number of Employees: 44105
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is a news network that designs, develops, and sells products and services, along with network infrastructure.
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Founders: Pradeep Sindhu
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
YL Ventures
YL Ventures invests in seed stage Israeli innovations in cybersecurity, enterprise software & autonomous vehicle sectors
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Founders: Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Hotung Venture Capital
Hotung Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Taiwan and operates as a subsidiary of Hotung Investment Holdings
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Location: Taipei, T’ai-pei, Taiwan
Number of Employees: 44105
TIIN Capital
TIIN Capital invests in promising and innovative early-stage and later-stage companies in the Netherlands.
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Founders: Michiel Bloemer
Location: Naarden, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Number of Employees: 44105
Toppan Printing
Toppan Printing is a developer and manufacturer of a variety of communication based electronics.
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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Number of Employees: 10001
Finistere Ventures
Finistere Ventures venture capital firm that seeks investments in the agriculture sector.
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Founders: Spencer Maughan
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Barclays Accelerator, Powered by Techstars – Tel Aviv
Barclays Accelerator, Powered by Techstars – Tel Aviv offers entrepreneurs unprecedented access to world banks and mentorship.
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Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Breed Reply
Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.
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Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Number of Employees: 44105
Citrix Systems
Citrix aims to power a world where people, organizations are securely connected and accessible to make the extraordinary possible.
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Founders: Ed Lacobucci, Srikanth Tirumala
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
WeLikeStartup
WeLikeStartup specializes in crowd funding and support for innovative startups.
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Founders: Alain Ilhe
Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Number of Employees: 11-50
SCP Partners
SCP Partners is a U.S.-based investment firm focused on investments in ICT, life sciences, services, and defense and security.
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Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Good News Ventures
Good News Ventures invest in tech companies founded by true grit entrepreneurs. We back founders as they turn their ideas into businesses.
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Founders: Marat Mukhamedyarov, Mohan Markandaier, Mona Kung
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Number of Employees: 44105
Everbright
Everbright is China’s cross-border investment and asset management company.
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Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Number of Employees: 251-500
11.2 Capital
We focus on emerging technologies such as AI, cybersecurity, robotics, quantum, new space, computational therapeutics, synthetic biology.
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Founders: Shelley Zhuang
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Lucas Venture Group
Lucas Venture Group is a venture capital firm investing in robotics, networking, software analytics/big data and cyber security.
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Founders: Donald Lucas
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Nomura
Nomura is an investment banking and securities firm that serve the needs of individuals, institutions, corporate and governments.
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Founders: Tokushichi Nomura
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Number of Employees: 10001
VMware
VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
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Founders: Diane Greene, Edouard Bugnion, Edward Wang, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
Sonae IM
Growth stage investor focused mainly in B2B technologies for retail, telecom and cybersecurity
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Location: Maia, Porto, Portugal
Number of Employees: 11-50
Sparkland Capital
Sparkland Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in frontier technologies.
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Location: San Jose, California, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
MACH37
MACH37 is the premier accelerator for entrepreneurs and startups that are solving important cyber problems.
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Location: Mclean, Virginia, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
NCSC Cyber Accelerator
NCSC Cyber Accelerator aims to drive cyber security ideas and innovation in the U.K.
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Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Number of Employees: 44105
KCRise Fund
KCRise Fund co-invests with institutional venture capital investors in early stage companies based in the Greater Kansas City area
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Founders: Darcy Howe
Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
MizMaa Ventures
MizMaa is working with the deep technology innovators emerging from Israel’s high tech sector.
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Founders: Catherine Leung, Isaac Applbaum
Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Number of Employees: 44105
Barry Sternlicht
Barry Sternlicht is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Starwood Capital Group, the private investment firm he formed in 1991 focused on g…
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Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
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HPE Growth
Long-term growth investor in European technology companies.
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Founders: Tim van Delden
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Number of Employees: 11-50
VMS Asset Management
VMS Asset Management is a leading alternative asset management firm in the region, specializing in private equity, and structured finance.
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Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Number of Employees: 51-100
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is a global media and technology company.
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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
KPN Ventures
KPN Ventures aims to partner with innovative technology companies, providing access to capital, expertise, network, and customer channels.
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Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
Number of Employees: 44105
NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world.
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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Number of Employees: 10001
AcceliCITY
A smart city startup accelerator with a web-based curriculum followed by an intensive workshop boot camp for Finalists in Boston.
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Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Trailblazer Capital
Trailblazer Capital is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage and startup companies in the network and telecommunications sectors.
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Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
CyRise
CyRise is an investor, supporter and champion of cyber security startups in the Asia Pacific
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Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Number of Employees: 44105
Guotai Junan Securities
Guotai Junan Securities is a company that specializes in investment management services.
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Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
RSE Ventures
RSE Ventures is a private investment firm that focuses on sports & entertainment, media & marketing, food & lifestyle and technology.
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Founders: Matt Higgins, Stephen M. Ross
Location: New York, New York, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50
Telefónica Innovation Ventures
Telefónica Innovation Ventures invests and builds strategic partners aligned with Telefónica’s strategy.
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Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Number of Employees: 11-50
Daiwa Securities Group
Daiwa Securities Group Inc. operates as a securities brokerdealer, providing services, including brokerage, trading, underwriting, advice,
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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Number of Employees: 10001
CivStart
CivStart is a non-profit accelerator focused on identifying startup technologies that address the challenges and meet the needs of state.
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Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Gula Tech Adventures
Cybersecurity industry veterans helping the next generation with funding and experience.
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Location: Ellicott City, Maryland, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Phystech Ventures
Venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technology in IoT, connected platforms, energytech, robotics, cybersecurity.
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Founders: Olga Maslikhova, Petr Lukyanov
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Number of Employees: 44105
Sebastien Breteau
Sebastien Breteau is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of QIMA, a global supply chain compliance solut…
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Location: London, England, United Kingdom
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Akamai Technologies
Akamai® is the provider of cloud services for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
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Founders: Jonathan Seelig, Kent Roberts, Randall Kaplan, Tom Leighton
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
SmartGateVC
SmartGateVC is Tim Draper backed pre-seed VC investing in deep tech startups
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Founders: Ashot Arzumanyan, Hambardzum Kaghketsyan, Vazgen Hakobjanyan
Location: Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
Number of Employees: 44105
