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Theory Ventures

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Dropzone AI

Dropzone AI’s platform delivers pre-trained autonomous AI security agents that work alongside human analysts on security operations teams. It handles the frontline work of investigating the mountain of alerts from security systems. Using cutting-edge LLMs, Dropzone’s agents perform end-to-end investigations mimicking the techniques of elite analysts and enable human analysts to focus on what matters the most to them and real threats.

Dropzone AI, founded in 2023 by Edward Wu, is a Seattle-based startup developing autonomous AI security agents for Security Operations Centers (SOCs). The company's platform uses large language models (LLMs) to mimic the techniques of elite human analysts, autonomously investigating security alerts 24/7 across various domains including cloud, network, identity, endpoint, and phishing. Dropzone AI's solution integrates with existing security tools and data sources, performing end-to-end investigations without requiring playbooks, code, or chat prompts. The company claims its AI agents can reduce manual alert investigation work by up to 90%, cutting the time from 5-40 minutes per alert to just three minutes for human analysts to review reports on the most pressing threats. In April 2024, Dropzone AI was named a finalist in the RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest.

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Dropzone AI, founded in 2023 by Edward Wu, is a Seattle-based startup developing autonomous AI security agents for Security Operations Centers (SOCs). The company's platform uses large language models (LLMs) to mimic the techniques of elite human analysts, autonomously investigating security alerts 24/7 across various domains including cloud, network, identity, endpoint, and phishing. Dropzone AI's solution integrates with existing security tools and data sources, performing end-to-end investigations without requiring playbooks, code, or chat prompts. The company claims its AI agents can reduce manual alert investigation work by up to 90%, cutting the time from 5-40 minutes per alert to just three minutes for human analysts to review reports on the most pressing threats. In April 2024, Dropzone AI was named a finalist in the RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest.
Key customers and partnerships
Critical Insight, a Managed XDR provider, has leveraged Dropzone AI's technology to improve the depth and speed of its investigations. Garrett Silver, CEO of Critical Insight, has reported that the use of Dropzone allows their SOC analysts to focus on tasks requiring human intelligence while AI handles routine SOC tasks. Lemonade Insurance's CISO, Jonathan Jaffee, has reported that Dropzone's solution leads to issue resolution in 10% of the time and improves with use, allowing teams to resolve more issues faster while reducing burnout. The company has also deployed its technology in over six production environments as of April 2024.

Axonius is a cybersecurity asset management company founded in 2017 by Dean Sysman, Ofri Shur, and Avidor Bartov. The company offers a platform designed to help organizations identify and secure devices on their networks by leveraging existing security and management tools. Axonius' solution integrates with over 300 security and management solutions to provide customers with a comprehensive asset inventory, uncover security gaps, and automatically validate and enforce security policies. The platform covers hardware, software, SaaS applications, cloud services, and user identities.
Axonius' approach focuses on correlating asset data from a customer's existing infrastructure and controls rather than deploying new agents or sensors. This allows for quick deployment, often within minutes, and provides immediate value by creating an up-to-date inventory of assets. The platform helps organizations mitigate threats, navigate risks, decrease incident response time, and eliminate manual, repetitive tasks.
In 2023, Axonius crossed the USD 100 million mark in annual recurring revenue. The company's growth has been rapid, with Amit Karp of Bessemer Venture Partners noting that Axonius took less than 15 months to grow from USD 1 million ARR to USD 10 million ARR, making it one of the fastest-growing companies in BVP's history. As of March 2024, Axonius has raised nearly USD 600 million in funding and is valued at USD 2.6 billion.
Key customers and partnerships
Axonius has built a significant customer base that includes more than a dozen Fortune 500 and global organizations. Notable customers include Schneider Electric, News Corp, Anheuser-Busch InBev, The New York Times, and Cimpress. The company also supports four of the five major US Department of Defense service agencies.
In February 2020, Axonius appointed Mark Daggett as Vice President of Channels and Alliances to expand its partner program and meet increasing customer demand. The company has partnerships with various channel programs and professional services partners, including 443 Technologies, Alta Technologia, Artha Mitra Interdata, Ascent Global, ePlus, CloverIT, Ignition Technology, and Netpoleon. Axonius has also formed strategic alliances with major technology providers such as CISCO, Okta, AWS, and ServiceNow.
In March 2024, Axonius announced a partnership with Claroty to bring enterprise attack surface management to cyber-physical systems (CPS) environments. This collaboration aims to provide organizations with a unified view of assets across various environments, extending from cloud to on-premises infrastructure.

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JupiterOne is a cloud-native cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) platform that helps organizations map, analyze, and secure complex cloud environments. Founded by Erkang Zheng, JupiterOne uses a graph-based approach to provide visibility and context across an organization's entire cyber asset universe. The platform connects to over 180 systems and data sources to collect, integrate, and model cyber asset data, including cloud resources, devices, identities, access rights, code repositories, and more. JupiterOne's technology allows teams to discover, monitor, understand, and act on changes in their digital environments.
The platform's core features include a custom query language (J1QL), pre-built queries, and natural language search capabilities that enable users to ask complex questions about their environment and get answers within seconds. JupiterOne offers over 500 out-of-the-box English-language questions and the ability to create custom queries. The company's graph-based data model exposes intricate relationships between cyber assets, providing contextual insights for security investigations and incident response.
JupiterOne addresses multiple use cases, including cloud security posture management, security operations and engineering, and governance and compliance. The platform helps organizations assess and monitor compliance with regulations like GDPR and identify vulnerabilities.
As of June 2022, JupiterOne had raised a total of USD 119 million in funding and achieved a valuation of over USD 1 billion.
Key customers and partnerships
JupiterOne's client base includes cloud-native enterprises such as Cisco, Databricks, Indeed, and Robinhood. The company has formed strategic partnerships with several major technology firms. In November 2021, JupiterOne and Cisco announced the launch of Secure Cloud Insights, an expanded cloud security and security operations partnership. This solution integrates JupiterOne's cyber asset context into Cisco technologies to provide enhanced cybersecurity capabilities for Cisco customers.
JupiterOne has also established partnerships with other cybersecurity companies. In April 2023, the company announced an integration with Splunk to provide better data visibility for Splunk users. Additionally, JupiterOne is part of the AWS Partner Network (APN) and was recognized as an AWS Rising Star Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner of Year 2022.

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Noetic Cyber is a cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) company founded in 2019 by Paul Ayers, Allen Hadden, and Allen Rogers. The company provides a cloud-based continuous cyber asset management and controls platform that aims to give organizations better visibility into their digital infrastructure and help them identify and address security gaps. Noetic's platform uses API aggregation and correlation to gather data from various security and IT management tools, leveraging graph database technology to create a dynamic map of cyber connections between entities in both cloud and on-premises environments. This approach enables the discovery of cyber risks and non-compliant systems.
The Noetic platform employs automation and orchestration to deliver remediation capabilities and help cybersecurity teams anticipate and react to changing IT and security requirements. In September 2023, Noetic introduced significant enhancements to its platform, including Data Insights, Unified Model Explorer, and Machine Learning Classifiers. These features are designed to streamline the process of managing large volumes of security data from disparate systems and help users quickly uncover critical insights and coverage gaps.
Noetic Cyber's technology addresses common security asset management challenges, such as establishing relationships between different assets and business applications, managing assets across various tools and business units, and handling the volume and pace of change in IT environments. The company's goal is to improve security tool and control efficacy by breaking down existing data silos and enhancing the entire security ecosystem.

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Nagomi Security, founded in January 2023, is a company that specializes in proactive security and threat exposure management. The company offers a Proactive Defense Platform designed to help cybersecurity teams optimize the effectiveness of their existing security tools against real-world threats. Nagomi's platform provides end-to-end visibility of defense capabilities mapped against the MITRE ATT&CK framework, enabling organizations to prioritize risks based on their unique threat profiles and receive actionable remediation plans. The platform integrates with solutions from vendors such as CrowdStrike, Microsoft, SentinelOne, Okta, Qualys, Rapid7, and Google through read-only API connections. Nagomi's technology aims to address the issue that over 80% of breaches occur in organizations that already had tools in place to prevent them. The platform can identify misconfigurations, highlight critical gaps, and prescribe clear steps for improvement. As of September 2024, Nagomi reported that its customers had identified over 13 million misconfigurations out of more than 40 million total configurations, with over 3.6 million exposures fixed.
Key customers and partnerships
Nagomi Security has established partnerships with several prominent organizations in the cybersecurity industry. In September 2024, the company announced a partnership with CrowdStrike to integrate CrowdStrike's threat intelligence feeds with Nagomi's Proactive Defense Platform. This collaboration aims to enable organizations to convert threat insights into concrete, prescriptive actions. Nagomi's customer base includes notable organizations such as Applied Systems, HFW, and WELL Health Technologies. The company has also reported working with a Fortune 500 manufacturing company, which saw a 9% improvement in CrowdStrike utilization after implementing Nagomi's solution. Additionally, Nagomi has assisted various companies across industries, including healthcare, technology, law, insurance, and energy, in improving their security postures and addressing specific cybersecurity challenges.

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DoControl is a SaaS Security Posture Management solution that provides automated data access controls for SaaS applications. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York, DoControl offers comprehensive visibility, threat detection, and remediation for SaaS data exposure and insider threats. The company's platform is designed to secure sensitive data and files within business-critical SaaS applications such as Google Drive, Slack, Microsoft SharePoint, Salesforce, and Box.
DoControl's solution combines CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) and DLP (Data Loss Prevention) capabilities to ensure protection across major SaaS ecosystems. It harnesses user interactions and API access across SaaS applications and feeds them into powerful no-code workflows that automatically identify, respond to, and remediate threats stemming from SaaS data policy violations. The platform incorporates business and security context to ensure quick response to emerging threats and effective insider risk management.
The company's technology uses an event-based approach for near-real-time threat detection, replacing industry standards of days and weeks. Leveraging automated security workflows and end-user interactions, DoControl significantly reduces SaaS data exposure over time, ensuring robust security with minimal effort and no impact on productivity.
In March 2024, DoControl released a report which found that companies were generating approximately 286,000 new SaaS assets each week. The report also highlighted that one out of six employees shared company data with their personal email, emphasizing the need for comprehensive security strategies to mitigate insider threats and control data exposure.
Key customers and partnerships
DoControl has gained recognition for its innovative approach to SaaS security. In 2024, the company won two gold awards at the 20th Annual Globee Cybersecurity Awards in the categories of Insider Threat Management and Most Innovative Security Software of the Year. Additionally, DoControl received a silver award for its achievements in Data Loss Prevention.
Vox Media, a modern mass media company, is a notable customer of DoControl. The company uses DoControl to proactively detect and mitigate accidental data oversharing within their cloud collaboration environments. DoControl's advanced monitoring and alerting capabilities ensure sensitive information is not exposed to unauthorized individuals. When oversharing incidents are detected, DoControl automatically takes appropriate actions to restrict access or notify administrators for further review.
DoControl has also integrated its solution with Zoom to provide comprehensive SaaS data protection for the video conferencing platform. This integration allows users to gain visibility into specific details on account users and cloud recordings, enforce strong password protection for high-risk users, provide secure access to sensitive video recordings and text-based files, and establish robust data access control policies to protect sensitive data and files within Zoom.

DoControl

Platforms that help proactively reduce an organization's exposure to cyber attacks by locating and managing infrastructure, including SaaS, apps, and devices.

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Platforms that use AI and other methods to automate cybersecurity workflows, such as threat detection and remediation.

Platforms that manage or automate compliance with cybersecurity industry standards.

Solutions that help organizations test their security measures through simulated cyber attacks.

Platforms that help organizations ensure the security of open-source or third-party components used in software development.

Organizations that track and collate cyber threats, making them easier to detect and repel.

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Cybersecurity copilots or AI assistants leverage GenAI to display information in simple language or to generate remediation code.

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 Dropzone AI, a provider of AI-based security operations centers (SOCs), has secured USD 16.85 million in a Series A funding round. The round saw participation from Theory Ventures, Decibel Ventures, Pioneer Square Ventures, and In-Q-Tel (IQT).
 The funding will be allocated towards further development of their AI technology, strengthening their engineering team, and expanding their go-to-market (GTM) strategy.
 The company uses autonomous AI SOC analysts that work in conjunction with human security teams to streamline investigations and deliver quicker, more accurate responses to cybersecurity threats. Dropzone AI aims to tackle security operation problems by integrating automation to reduce manual analysis, which in turn decreases alert fatigue and enhances response times.
 
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