Summary of: “CyberSecurity Startup Showcase" held on Friday, August 11, 2017 from 8:00-10:00 AM.
We collaborated with Greenspring Associates and Ignition Partners to bring leading entrepreneurs backed by top-tier VC firms, primarily from the San Francisco Bay Area. Each entrepreneur spent a few minutes introducing their technology, followed by a short Q&A session. Here is a list of the companies and executives who participated:
Moogsoft – Richard Whitehead, CTO
Moogsoft develops AIOps technology that helps enterprise ITOps and DevOps teams become faster, smarter and more effective. Moogsoft AIOps’ real-time machine learning algorithms reduce operational noise and allow operators to proactively detect and remediate issues that impact their customers’ experience. Investors include Wing Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures. For more information, please visit https://www.moogsoft.com/
Acalvio - Ram Varadarajan, CEO
Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter. The solutions are anchored on patented innovations in Deception and Data Science. This enables a DevOps approach to ATD, enabling ease of deployment, monitoring and management. Acalvio enriches its threat intelligence by data obtained from internal and partner ecosystems, enabling customers to benefit from defense in depth, reduce false positives, and derive actionable intelligence for remediation. Investors include Ignition Partners and Accel. For more information, please visit http://www.acalvio.com/
Aviatrix - Steven Mih, CEO
Aviatrix develops software that enables enterprises to build secure hybrid clouds and enable networking for CloudOps for enterprise SaaS vendors. The Aviatrix Cloud Services Gateway is the first scale out and highly available VPN access solution with multi factor authentication and User Profile based access policy. Investors include Ignition Partners and CRV. For more information, please visit http://aviatrix.com/
Bromium – Sherban Naum, VP East & Federal
Bromium delivers the benefits of micro-virtualization and hardware based security to enterprise desktops, reducing the enterprise attack surface for all users without the need for new management tools or skillsets. The company’s solutions enable an exceptional end-user experience with its protect-first design, isolating threats before they can harm the enterprise.try™. Investors include Ignition Partners, Lightspeed, and Meritech. For more information, please visit https://www.bromium.com/
Nymi – Karl Martin, Founder
Nymi develops biometric and authentication technologies and applications for consumer electronics. The Nymi Band is a wearable, multi-factor authenticator that can be used with any application, device or service to deliver Always On Authentication™. Investors include Ignition Partners. For more information, please visit https://nymi.com/
Tempered Networks – Jeff Hussey, CEO
Tempered Networks provides connectivity solutions for critical infrastructure, industrial control systems, and the industrial Internet of Things applications in water, energy, petroleum, manufacturing, and other industries. The company offers HIPswitch Conductor, a scalable orchestration engine that coordinates configuration, security policies, trust relationships, monitoring, and analytics between the SimpleConnect management console and distributed HIPswitches. Investors include Ignition Partners. For more information, please visit http://www.temperednetworks.com/
Hacker One – Marten Mickos, CEO
HackerOne is the #1 vulnerability management and bug bounty platform. Our products and services - along with our community of more than 100,000 hackers who have earned more than $14M in bounty payouts as a result of their creative, intelligent work - empower security teams to take a proactive approach to protecting their applications, networks, and customers. HackerOne's mission is to make the Internet safer for everyone and was founded by the pioneers behind bug bounty programs at Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. Investors include Benchmark Capital and New Enterprise Associates. For more information, please visit https://www.hackerone.com/
Aporeto – Dimitri Stiliadis, CEO
Aporeto is a cloud-native security startup that offers comprehensive security solutions for applications, containers, and microservices. The company offers Trireme, an open-source project that simplifies application segmentation for distributed applications. Investors include Wing Venture Partners. For more information, please visit https://www.aporeto.com/
Tigera – Ratan Tipirneni, CEO and Founder
Tigera is solving the networking and security problems inherent in deploying and enforcing policy in large private, public, and hybrid enterprise clouds. Tigera’s founders combine extensive networking and security experience with a track record of engagement with the cloud native, open source developer and user communities. Investors include Wing Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates. For more information, please visit https://www.tigera.io/