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We're excited to introduce our latest investment, Oryo.io - the security layer for agentic AI. Prashanth R. and Swaroop S., veterans of Okta and Wiz, are building agentic visibility and a trust layer on the MCP protocol for enterprise autonomous agents. Like Waymo’s cars today, agentic AI across enterprises will soon ingest data, make decisions, and take action. As adoption rises, the problem shifts from capability to control. CISOs manage identity and access for humans today. Okta anchors that trust layer for non-humans tomorrow. After our Agentic AI conference in Feb 2025 led by Anand Rao, we came with prepared minds to our first call with Oryo. Michael Marmor led diligence and is working closely with the founders as they build their MVP. We wrote the first check into Oryo. Village Global (Reid Hoffman) and Seven Hill Ventures (Michael Coates) followed soon after. Perhaps Nikesh Arora should take notice :) Venkat Raju, JB Michel, Rahul Harikumar, Quentin Staes-Polet Josh Cunningham

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At CRV, we’ve been fortunate to partner with some of the most visionary founders reshaping the future of cybersecurity over the past five decades. From cloud-native data protection to developer-first security and AI-driven detection, our portfolio reflects the breadth and depth of innovation happening in the industry today. Companies like Cyera, Cribl, Astrix Security, Tailscale, and Vega (among many others) are tackling the hardest problems facing CISOs and developers — from securing non-human identities, to modernizing log pipelines, to making zero-trust networking effortless. What’s exciting is not just the individual companies, but the ecosystem effect: each is building in complementary areas, and together they’re advancing how enterprises secure data, infrastructure, and applications in an AI-powered world. Cybersecurity has never been more mission-critical, and the next decade will see even greater disruption as AI, automation, and new architectures redefine what’s possible. We’re proud to support founders leading that charge.🚀 If you’re building in cyber, we’d love to connect!

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We're excited to lead the Series-A round of Cloudburst Technologies along with prior investors including Strategic Cyber Ventures (SCV), CoinFund, Coinbase (Coinbase Ventures), Bloccelerate VC, and IQT (In‑Q‑Tel). Operating at the intersection of #AI and crypto-related social media data, Cloudburst Technologies is redefining how the industry approaches risk and intelligence. While most blockchain analytics are limited to on-chain activity, Cloudburst focuses on the crucial off-chain ecosystem. By tracking social sentiment, fraud networks, illicit actors, scams, and emerging narratives, they deliver real-time intelligence and predictive market insights. This comprehensive approach gives regulators, law enforcement, exchanges, investors, and enterprises a proactive edge in spotting new trends and combating crypto-enabled financial crime. The Cloudburst platform is powered by proprietary AI and data science models. It leverages millions of off-chain data points, spanning everything from Telegram and Discord groups to regulatory filings and breaking news. This capability enables clients to detect emerging fraud, enhance KYC/KYT workflows with social media intelligence, quantify reputational and financial risk, and improve investment strategies with behavioral data. Cloudburst is already trusted by major crypto exchanges, compliance teams, and government agencies. With this latest funding, Cloudburst will expand its AI and data science teams, accelerate product development, and scale globally to serve financial institutions, regulators, and exchanges. More here: Coindesk: https://lnkd.in/dDxQBKMh Newswire: https://lnkd.in/dCRughTc Ventureburn: https://lnkd.in/dmP4NzJz

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Thrilled to announce Crosspoint Capital Partners' investment in WideField Security! As part of the Crosspoint team, it’s always a special moment when we meet 10x founders tackling one of the most strategic markets in cybersecurity: Identity Security. Before ITDR emerged, PAM was the closest identity-adjacent segment with real cyber impact — IAM and IGA, by contrast, have always been more about access hygiene than security. But if the last few years have taught us anything from breaches like UnitedHealth and MGM, it’s that identity has become the preferred initial attack vector. After all — why break in when you can just log in? The WideField Security team is building an identity security platform that spans on-prem (AD), SaaS (Okta, Entra), and cloud environments (AWS, Azure) — unifying posture (context) and detection (SecOps alerts) into a single, coherent layer (here comes the identity graph). That’s not a feature — it’s the foundation of a platform play. It takes 10x founders to go after such an ambitious vision. Abhay Kulkarni and the Widefield team are exactly that, and I couldn’t be more excited to see our firm partner with them on this journey. Onward and forward! 🚀 #itdr #identity #identitysecuritu #secops https://lnkd.in/gEyR6mG7

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