The Dingman Center Angels is a Maryland based angel investment group that provides funding to early-stage companies located within the Mid-Atlantic region. Their members are entrepreneurs, CXO's, venture capitalists and business leaders who have founded, funded and built world-class companies. They come from a wide array of industry expertise and in association with the Dingman Center of Entrepreneurship, create an extensive entrepreneurial community.  They are looking for innovative, technology-driven startup companies addressing a significant market opportunity where their investment and expertise can make a difference. They introduce entrepreneurs to potential investors through presentations at monthly meetings which are held from September to June.  Their group looks to invests $100,000 to $1,000,000 in seed/early stage companies, and will often syndicate with other angel groups and VC’s for deals up to $2 million. The Dingman Center Angels is not a fund and does not invest as a group. Their members collaborate on due diligence but make individual investment decisions. Each member makes their own thorough review of all information, including speaking with representatives of the company.

Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship

ClearSky is a venture capital/growth equity group that invests in innovative companies, with a special focus on (i) technologies driving the energy transition, climate related technologies, and sustainability, (ii) the digital transformation of enterprise customers’ operations and communications, and (iii) disruptive solutions for cybersecurity, industrial security, and critical infrastructure security.

ClearSky

Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that invests in private equity, real estate, public debt, equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets, and secondary funds.

Blackstone Group

Gula Tech Adventures are cyber security industry veterans helping the next generation with funding and our experience. The Gulas are best known for their work at Tenable Network Security where Ron was co-founder and CEO and Cyndi built the operations, licensing and business practices. Before Tenable, they helped corporations and governments catch hackers with their Dragon intrusion detection system. Now they are running a cyber security investment fund and working with the next generation of cyber security start-ups assisting with their product roadmaps, participating in their capital raises and helping them build their companies.

Gula Tech Adventures

Trog Hawley Capital is a single-family office that aims to identify companies with outstanding founders and management teams and provide them with capital and strategic support.  Trog Hawley Capital adopts a long-term investment strategy, which enables them to align with founders and support them in realizing their vision. They invest across various stages of a company's growth, ranging from seed to pre-IPO. The company has a diverse portfolio that spans different industries, including big data, cybersecurity, e-commerce, energy infrastructure, enterprise, fintech, gaming/esports, and health tech.

Trog Hawley Capital

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Insight has a deep focus in Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare sectors. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief growth equals opportunity. As of December 31, 2022, the firm has over $75B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO.

Insight Partners

Inky

Inky is a cyber-security company that secures email against phishing. It is a cloud-based email security platform that make Inky Phish Fence, an email protection gateway that uses sophisticated AI, machine learning, and computer vision algorithms to block deep sea phishing attacks that get through every other system. Inky Phish Fence can either quarantine suspicious emails or deliver them with disabled links and user-friendly warnings. It is easy to deploy for Office 365, Exchange, or G Suite. Inky was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in College Park, Maryland.

<div><p>Inky is a cyber-security company that secures email against phishing. It is a cloud-based email security platform that make Inky Phish Fence, an email protection gateway that uses sophisticated AI, machine learning, and computer vision algorithms to block deep sea phishing attacks that get through every other system. Inky Phish Fence can eitherquarantine suspicious emails or deliver them with disabled links and user-friendly warnings. It is easy to deploy for Office 365, Exchange, or G Suite. Inky was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in College Park, Maryland.</p></div>

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    Inky is a cyber-security company that secures email against phishing. It is a cloud-based email security platform that make Inky Phish Fence, an email protection gateway that uses sophisticated AI, machine learning, and computer vision algorithms to block deep sea phishing attacks that get through every other system. Inky Phish Fence can eitherquarantine suspicious emails or deliver them with disabled links and user-friendly warnings. It is easy to deploy for Office 365, Exchange, or G Suite. Inky was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in College Park, Maryland.
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    Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises from targeted email attacks. The platform takes a data science approach to provide everything needed for comprehensive email protection, detection, and response. Abnormal Behavior Technology (ABX) models the identity of both employees and external senders, profilesrelationships, and analyzes email content to stop attacks that lead to account takeover, financial damage, and organizational mistrust. Though one-click, API-based Office 365, and G Suite integration, Abnormal sets up in minutes and does not disrupt email flow.
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Abnormal Security

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    Menlo Security provides a cloud-based isolation platform that protects organizations from cyberattacks by eliminating the threat of malware from websites, documents, and emails. Menlo Security is trusted by major global businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and financial services institutions, and backed by Vista Equity Partners, NeubergerBerman, General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures, Engineering Capital, Osage University Partners, American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase. Menlo Security was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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Menlo Security

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    Darktrace's self-learning AI is modeled on the human immune system and used by over 3,500 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks, and industrial systems. This includes insider threat, industrial espionage, IoT compromises, zero-day malware, data loss, supply chain risk, and long-term infrastructurevulnerabilities. Darktrace has over 1,200 employees, 44 offices and headquarters in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK. Every 3 seconds, Darktrace AI fights back against a cyber-threat, preventing it from causing damage.
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Darktrace

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    Material Security is an email security company that develops data-driven security software to protect an organization's users and data. Material Security started Material after the 2016 hacks changed history and showed everyone everywhere the importance and fragility of our private data. Material Security thinks it takes at least as muchcreativity to protect a technology as it does to invent it. We know that usable security means making people safe and productive. The company believes in common sense and not silver bullets, snake oil, or “next-generation” technobabble. Our goal is resilience, and we build security that works (and works simply). Material Security partnered closely with the world’s best organizations to protect their employees and the ordinary people that depend on them. We work incredibly hard because keeping people safe and helping them collaborate is the best job in the world.
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Material Security

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    Tessian’s mission is to secure the human layer. Using machine learning technology, Tessian automatically stops data breaches and security threats caused by human error - like data exfiltration, accidental data loss, business email compromise, and phishing attacks - with minimal disruption to employees' workflow. As a result, employees areempowered to do their best work, without security getting in their way. Founded in 2013, Tessian is backed by renowned investors like Sequoia, Accel, March Capital, and Balderton, and has offices in San Francisco and London.
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Tessian

Solutions that use AI to detect and block email-based attacks including phishing, business email compromise, malware, impersonation, spam, and data exfiltration.

Solutions that use AI to eliminate email-based attacks caused by inadvertent or malicious acts by internal users from leaving the network.

Solutions that encrypt emails for secure access and collaboration.

Solutions that automatically detect and prevent accidental data loss caused by sending emails to the wrong recipients or with wrong attachments.

Solutions that provide user awareness training on email-based threats.

Solutions that securely store emails in an accessible location for future retrieval.

Uses AI/ML and behavioral analysis to detect suspicious activity in emails

Uses NLP to detect suspicious activity in emails

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