They like to partner the entrepreneur that is trying to avoid doing the commonplace; one that is growing with the current trend but is preparing to lead the next trend. You are a mature India based businessman; you are a tech-savvy entrepreneur returning from overseas; or you are a corporate/scientific establishment employee â€¦all are appealing to them, your drive to make a difference is what they are looking for.

VenturEast

Helion Venture Partners is a stage independent, India-focused venture fund, investing in high growth technology powered businesses and consumer services.

Helion Venture Partners

Sistema is a large private investor operating in Russia, CIS, Europe, USA and India. Sistema's investment portfolio comprises stakes from various sectors of economy, including telecommunications, utilities, retail, high tech, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, railway transportation, agriculture, finance, mass media, tourism, etc. Sistema's competencies focus on improvement of its portfolio companies through innovation, operational excellence and attracting industry partners to enhance expertise and reduce financial risks.

Sistema Asia Capital

India Alternatives Private Equity Fund is a domestic private equity

India Alternatives Private Equity Fund

Oquirrh Ventures is a private equity firm that invests in worldwide technology and software firms. They offer various finance structures and significant operational experience to help their portfolio partners accelerate commercialization projects.

Oquirrh Ventures

Origami Capital Partners believes innovative investment ideas can come from anywhere (maybe from you). Enter to get your ideas in front of investment management big-wigs. We are awarding $130,000 in cash prizes and the chance to work with Origami as partners or employees.

Origami Capital Partners

Seclore

Seclore offers the world’s first open, automated, browser-based, Data-Centric Security Platform for enterprises. The platform allows organizations to utilize best-of-breed solutions to discover, classify, protect, and track enterprise data, both within and outside the organization’s boundaries. Over 2000 companies and government organizations in 29 countries use Seclore to achieve their data security, governance, and compliance objectives.

Seclore began its commercial operations in 2010 and offers an automated data-centric security platform (DCSP), which facilitates data protection, data privacy, cloud data security, and third-party risk management. Seclore’s DCSP also facilitates governance and compliance with privacy standards such as GDPR and CCPA. The platform automates data discovery, data loss prevention, data classification, and data encryption across third parties, public clouds, and personal devices instead of securing data as it moves from enterprise systems throughout the cloud and to third parties. Seclore’s DCSP integrates data-centric security solutions with existing enterprise systems to automate secure sharing and downloads of documents while ensuring full protection, tracking, and revocation of access to sensitive data.

New data privacy regulations have opened up space for a new wave of compliance-focused startups.

Digital Privacy Tools

Seclore is a leading provider of data-centric security solutions that enable enterprises to protect and control their sensitive digital assets. The company's platform takes a data-centric approach to security, allowing organizations to set dynamic enterprise-level policies and granular controls to maintain authority over their data, even when it leaves the enterprise. Seclore's solutions prevent data theft, ransomware, insider threats, data exfiltration, and protect intellectual property and cloud data.

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AI-based solutions to level the playing field against email threats

Next-gen Email Security

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Seclore began its commercial operations in 2010 and offers an automated data-centric security platform (DCSP), which facilitates data protection, data privacy, cloud data security, and third-party risk management. Seclore’s DCSP also facilitates governance and compliance with privacy standards such as GDPR and CCPA. The platform automates data discovery, data loss prevention, data classification, and data encryption across third parties, public clouds, and personal devices instead of securing data as it moves from enterprise systems throughout the cloud and to third parties. Seclore’s DCSP integrates data-centric security solutions with existing enterprise systems to automate secure sharing and downloads of documents while ensuring full protection, tracking, and revocation of access to sensitive data.Key customers and partnershipsSeclore’s customers as of September 2024 included EA, Ford, Suzuki, Prudential, American Express, Flex, AIG, and Adani. The company serves the financial services, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and government sectors.

OneTrust provides compliance solutions that leverage AI tools and automation across all areas of privacy compliance. The company’s AI-powered solution sees widespread use, providing automation in the areas of data discovery, data subject rights management, consent management (with a user-facing preference center for greater control), data protection impact assessments, third-party risk management, incident response reporting, and monitoring.The company also provides regulatory research software that companies can use to train staff and even benchmark their own privacy programs. The company’s Government Records Request Automation solution helps government organizations intake requests, automate data discovery and redaction, and provide a secure two-way communication portal that demonstrates compliance with FOIA, PRR, and the Privacy Act. OneTrust’s products were backed by over 200 patents as of September 2024.OneTrust has strengthened its position in the digital privacy space through several acquisitions in recent years. In March 2021, OneTrust acquired DocuVision, an AI-powered data redaction platform to bolster its data subject rights capabilities through automatic redaction of non-relevant sensitive information. During the same month, OneTrust acquired Convercent to enhance its platform through advanced ethics and compliance capabilities, and helpline and disclosure management. OneTrust acquired the security assurance and certification platform Tugboat Logic in September 2021, to automate its InfoSec assurance and certification processes. Other notable acquisitions include Privacy Core e-learning, DataGuidance, and Integris Software.In March 2023, OneTrust announced the addition of certification automation to the OneTrust GRC and Security Assurance Cloud. This solution which combines automation, pre-built policies and controls spanning 29 industry frameworks, over 100 integrations, compliance content, and expert guidance enables customers to simplify and streamline compliance tasks according to OneTrust.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, OneTrust said it served over 14,000 active customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100. The company claims it serves notable organizations from all industries, with Adobe, Walgreens, Samsung, and Mearsk among its customer base.OneTrust entered a partnership with Dow Jones Risk and Compliance in April 2023, to incorporate risk and compliance data into its third-party due diligence solution.

OneTrust

CENTRL provides automated risk management and privacy management solutions. Through its Privacy360 platform, the company provides solutions to identify compliance gaps, automate data discovery, manage data subject rights requests, consent management (with a user-facing preference center), carry out impact assessments, third-party risk management, monitoring, and reporting.

CENTRL

HighSide provides a secure communications platform for organizations, enterprise archiving solutions, data discovery, and supervision tools in compliance with GDPR, CCPA, etc. In 2019, the company announced the acquisition of Hotshot Technologies, a secure team messaging platform.

HighSide

SecuPI provides a patented platform enabling organizations to achieve compliance with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. The platform achieves this by providing multiple features to protect data such as pseudonymization, consent controls, audit logs, streamlining breach notifications, etc. SecuPI’s platform is deployed in organizations in the banking, insurance, telecommunications, and health industries.

SecuPi

JoinPrivacy is a B2C solution that allows users to manage their personal data from the websites they use, all from one place.

JoinPrivacy

Solutions to prevent the tracking and collection of the personal data of end-users.

Encrypted communications and data exchanges for internal and external collaboration around sensitive data.

Tools to provide compliance with privacy regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, and carry out tasks such as data discovery, data governance, consent management, Data Subject Rights (DSR) management, Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) and managing incident response as mandated by these privacy regulations.

Synthetic data generation, data de-identification and anonymization, and other solutions for managing sensitive data.

Storage infrastructure for holding data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR or data residency requirements.

Central management of data access and data privacy and security policies.

Uses AI/ML to automate workflows such as data discovery and data classification

Uses generative AI to provide conversational recommendations to users to remain compliant with privacy regulations

Solutions in this industry hub are offered under a B2B SaaS model

Seclore is a leading provider of data-centric security solutions that enable enterprises to protect and control their sensitive digital assets. The company's platform takes a data-centric approach to security, allowing organizations to set dynamic enterprise-level policies and granular controls to maintain authority over their data, even when it leaves the enterprise. Seclore's solutions prevent data theft, ransomware, insider threats, data exfiltration, and protect intellectual property and cloud data.
The Seclore platform provides visibility into an enterprise's most sensitive assets, tracking who has access, what access they have, and any unauthorized actions blocked. It allows enterprises to protect digital assets from data theft and non-compliance risks by setting granular policies. Regardless of how far data travels, Seclore enables controlling and revoking access permissions to sensitive assets effortlessly.
Seclore acquired the data classification company Watchful Software in February 2023. The acquisition expanded Seclore's data-centric security capabilities by adding automated data classification and discovery capabilities to its platform.
Key customers and partnerships
Seclore partners with global enterprises like American Express, Ford, Applied Materials, ADM, Saudi Telecom, ICICI Group, Electronic Arts, GM Financial, Flextronics, Cipla, QIB, Suzuki, Prudential, AIG, Adani, STC, SBI, and KLA to secure their digital assets. As of 2022, over 2000 companies and government organizations across 29 countries leveraged Seclore's solutions to address data security, governance, and compliance objectives.
In April 2024, Seclore launched its Verified Partner Network, collaborating with partners like HCL, Nagarro, NovaCoast, and s3ntry to offer professional services, training, custom integrations, and support for its data-centric security platform.

Abnormal Security is a cloud-based email security platform that leverages AI and behavioral data science to detect and block sophisticated email attacks that evade traditional email gateways. The company's core offering is an inbound email security solution that protects against business email compromise, phishing, malware, ransomware, social engineering, and other advanced threats.
Abnormal's platform establishes a baseline of normal behavior for each employee, vendor, and application within an organization's email environment. By understanding "known good" activity patterns, the AI can precisely identify anomalies and remediate malicious emails in real-time before they reach inboxes. This behavioral analysis approach provides more effective threat detection compared to traditional email security focused on indicators of compromise.
The platform integrates directly with cloud email providers like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace via an API, enabling rapid deployment without the need for a secure email gateway. Beyond inbound email protection, Abnormal also offers account takeover protection and SOC automation capabilities.
Abnormal expanded its platform in April 2023 to provide security monitoring and threat detection for collaboration apps like Slack, Microsoft Teams and Zoom. By ingesting identity signals from these additional data sources, the AI models can better understand cross-channel behavior and identify lateral movement by attackers across an enterprise's cloud environment.
Key customers and partnerships
Abnormal Security works with organizations across industries including government, finance, energy, manufacturing, technology, and consulting. Notable customers include PagerDuty, UserTesting, and Vungle, amongst others.
In January 2022, Abnormal announced a partnership with Microsoft to enhance native protection capabilities within Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

Abnormal Security

Menlo Security provides cloud-based security solutions centered around its patented Isolation Core technology. This technology creates an "air gap" between users and the internet, isolating the browsing process in the cloud to protect against web-based threats like phishing, drive-by exploits, and zero-day attacks. The company's Cloud Security Platform leverages this Isolation Core to enable secure internet access and browsing without compromising user experience.
Menlo Security's solutions aim to eliminate malware infections, including ransomware, by moving the fetch and execute functions of web browsing away from users' devices and networks. Only safe, non-executable content is rendered on users' devices, providing a seamless browsing experience while mitigating risks. The platform is designed to help organizations embrace cloud transformations securely without sacrificing data visibility, control, or user experience.
In March 2019, Menlo Security partnered with By Light to deliver a cloud-based internet isolation (CBII) solution for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), protecting over 3.5 million users worldwide across the US Department of Defense and its branches. This solution leverages Menlo's Cloud Platform and Isolation Core to secure internet access for defense officials deployed globally.
In January 2023, Menlo Security's Cloud Security Platform powered by its Isolation Core received Authorization to Operate (ATO) at the moderate level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). The company also announced the detection of "Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats" (HEAT) that bypass traditional security defenses, highlighting the need for its Zero Trust approach.
Additionally, Menlo Security acquired an undisclosed company in February 2023, expanding its capabilities to address the evolving threat landscape.

Menlo Security

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 Darktrace is a global cybersecurity company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and respond to cyber threats in real-time. Founded in 2013 in Cambridge, UK, Darktrace has developed an AI-powered &quot;Enterprise Immune System&quot; that learns the normal behavior patterns within an organization's digital systems and identifies anomalies that may indicate cyber attacks or vulnerabilities.
 
 
 
 
 Darktrace's core product offerings include Darktrace PREVENT, DETECT, RESPOND, and HEAL. The PREVENT module proactively identifies risks and vulnerabilities. DETECT uses machine learning to spot threats in real-time across networks, cloud environments, IoT devices, and email systems. RESPOND provides autonomous response capabilities to contain active threats within seconds. The HEAL module, slated for release in 2023, aims to restore systems to pre-attack states.
 
 
 
 
 The company's technology can monitor up to 1 million devices and is compatible with major cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Darktrace claims its AI can reduce threat investigation time by 92% compared to manual methods. The platform provides visualization tools like the Threat Visualizer to help analysts investigate anomalies.
 
 
 
 
 In April 2021, Darktrace went public on the London Stock Exchange at a USD 2.37 billion valuation. The company reported having over 9,400 customers across more than 100 countries. The company's AI cybersecurity solutions are used by organizations of all sizes across various industries.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 
 Darktrace's client base includes notable companies like Allianz, Airbus, and the city of Las Vegas. In June 2024, Darktrace won Microsoft UK's Partner of the Year Award, highlighting the growing collaboration between the two companies. Darktrace's AI tools are now fully compatible with Microsoft Copilot for Security, allowing customers to analyze Darktrace's security data using natural language processing. This integration aims to speed up threat response and investigations for joint customers.
 
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Darktrace

Material Security is an email security company that pioneered the use of zero-trust techniques to protect email accounts and their contents. The company's platform automatically classifies and reacts to sensitive content in emails, securing critical messages without impacting productivity. Its key product offerings include account takeover protection, which prevents attackers from hijacking other services by adding a verification step before granting access to password resets and critical messages. The platform also offers phishing "herd immunity" that allows a single report from any employee to protect the entire organization instantly.
Material Security provides visibility and control over an organization's entire email footprint, surfacing foundational risk factors and offering one-click remediation tools claimed to expedite investigations. The service integrates with Office 365 and Google Workspace via APIs without affecting MX records or email delivery. As of May 2022, the company served customers such as Chubb Ltd., Compass Group plc, Roblox Corp., Brex Inc., Lyft Inc., Mars Inc., Databricks Inc., and DoorDash Inc.
In May 2022, Material Security raised USD 100 million in Series C funding at a USD 1.1 billion valuation, achieving unicorn status just two years after its official product launch. The company planned to use the funding to expand its sales, marketing, and engineering teams, extend into new areas like government, and grow internationally. As of May 2024, Material Security had been acquired, with details of the acquisition included in the "Overview" section.

Material Security

Tessian is an email security company that focuses on protecting enterprises from threats arising due to human error. It leverages machine learning to build behavioral models for all employees and automatically detect security threats such as business email compromise, data exfiltration, phishing, and accidental data loss. Tessian's platform, referred to as "human layer security," notifies employees of these issues to help improve individual security behaviors.
In May 2021, Tessian had raised a total of USD 123.7 million in funding and was valued at USD 500 million. At that time, the company planned to invest in research and development, expand its product offerings beyond email security, and grow its workforce globally.
Tessian's approach proved effective, as evidenced by a report from July 2022 that found US employees sent an average of four emails to the wrong person each month in the first nine months of 2021. Nearly one-third of employees who reported such incidents indicated their business lost a client or customer due to the error.
In December 2023, Proofpoint, a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, acquired Tessian. The acquisition aimed to combine Proofpoint's threat and data loss protection technology with Tessian's AI-powered behavioral and dynamic detection capabilities. This integration was expected to provide organizations with a comprehensive defense against human-targeted threats and prevent data loss across various collaboration channels.

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

Seclore

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