Congratulations to these SVCI portfolio companies on making this year’s Fortune #Cyber60, presented by Lightspeed and AWS Startups: 🔹Act 🔹Descope 🔹Drata 🔹Endor Labs 🔹Island 🔹Noma 🔹Scanner 🔹Tines At SVCI, we back founders early as they set to tackle some of cybersecurity’s toughest problems. One of the best parts of that work is watching their ideas become products that security teams rely on every day. Behind each company on this list are founders and teams putting in the work and building with purpose. Congratulations to all eight teams and everyone named to this year’s Cyber60. A well-deserved moment to celebrate what you’ve built. #Cybersecurity #CISO #VentureCapital #Startups #SVCI
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SVCI is a group of leading Chief Information Security Officers who operate as an angel investor syndicate.
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Silicon Valley CISO Investments (“SVCI”) is a group of Chief Information Security Officers (“CISO”) that operate as an angel investor syndicate. Founded in 2019, SVCI is already successfully pursuing its mission of fuelling the next generation of cybersecurity innovation. The group identifies promising startups, invests in them and leverages its members’ unmatched industry expertise to help the companies thrive.
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Big congrats Michael Fey and the Island team on your Series F! Glad to be on your corner since the early days! https://lnkd.in/p/g6tVDZfA
Today we announced a $400 million Series F, valuing Island at $6.4 billion — more than double where we were in 2024. That valuation reflects something far bigger than Island. It reflects how fast the enterprise IT and security landscapes are shifting, and how enterprises are fundamentally rethinking the way they work. Today, they're deploying AI agents at scale and redesigning networks around both human and machine end users. They're simplifying stacks that have become too complex and burdened with outdated tools. This funding accelerates our ability to meet enterprises’ new demands as they scale AI and modernize networks. To Evolution Equity Partners and all our investors: thank you for your continued belief in this vision. To our customers: thank you for trusting us to enable the future of work. To Dan Amiga and the Island team: thank you for working relentlessly to build game-changing technology from scratch. This milestone represents all of you. https://lnkd.in/dp59j3Gt
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This week, we're celebrating 7 years of connections, community, and ecosystem impact. 🤝💫 SVCI began as a small group swapping notes and has grown into one of the most active and trusted networks in cybersecurity. Over the past seven years, SVCI has brought leaders together across borders, time zones, and disciplines - through Pitch Days, intimate dinners, Black Hat gatherings, roundtables, and global virtual syncs. But the real heartbeat of SVCI has always been what happens behind the scenes: the access, camaraderie, and trust built over time. We don’t just exchange ideas. We open doors, connect founders directly with top security leaders, strengthen ties across the broader security ecosystem, and help leaders tackle hard problems in real time. To our members, partners, and the founders who have joined us along the way: thank you for making this community what it is. Seven years strong. Here’s to what comes next.
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7️⃣ years of backing bold bets. We founded SVCI in 2019 to give visionary cybersecurity start-up founders an unfair advantage: direct alignment with the CISOs they are solving for. Today, we look across our portfolio with immense pride. The caliber of innovation speaks for itself. From cloud posture and identity to compliance automation, product and data protection, browser isolation, and enterprise AI security, these ambitious teams are solving the industry’s most critical challenges head-on. To our portfolio founders: thank you for trusting us in your corner from the early days. To our co-investors: thank you for championing these teams alongside us. Here’s to these builders! 🛠️
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Today marks 7 years of SVCI. The engine behind every single win: our hands-on practitioner-investors. Seven years ago, SVCI started around a dinner table with a handful of CISOs and one frustration. Too many security products were being built in isolation, completely detached from the leaders who actually have to defend the enterprise. The hypothesis was simple: What if the operators in the trenches had direct impact in creating the future of defense? Fast forward seven years. That dinner table conversation has grown into the most elite practitioner syndicate in cybersecurity, bringing together dozens of the industry’s foremost CISOs. When SVCI backs a team, capital is only the baseline. The real game-changer is active operator firepower: hard-won operational conviction, candid architecture teardowns, immediate enterprise road-testing, and real-world validation at scale. To our members: thank you for pouring your time, deep expertise, and relentless conviction to our portfolio companies. You are the reason this model works. Celebrating 7 years of impact with the best in the business. Here is to what comes next. 🥂
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Congrats Echo on acquiring Minimus (acquired by Echo)! Beyond the technology and customers joining the Echo ecosystem, this marks an important moment for the category. What started as a crowded secure-by-default software market is increasingly consolidating around two market leaders. We are proud that Echo is one of them. In less than two years, Echo has built the customer momentum, differentiated platform, and market position to not only emerge as a leader – but also help drive that consolidation. Proud to support this awesome team! https://lnkd.in/g-y8wEkr
Big news: Echo has acquired Minimus. When we heard Minimus was winding down, we saw more than another company leaving the market. Their team spent years building technology around a belief we share deeply: software should be secure by default. There was valuable work there, and customers who had already made the move to build securely from the start. We didn’t want either to be left behind. So we reached out to the Minimus founders to give their technology a new home at Echo and, most importantly, give their customers a seamless path forward. For Echo, this is also a very strategic move. We’re gaining technology that can expand our distro coverage, add new integrations across the security ecosystem, and bring additional research and data into the proprietary agents behind our software factory. This move says something important about where this category is heading. Secure-by-default software started as a market with several companies pursuing different approaches, and it’s now consolidating to two market leaders. We are proud that Echo is one of them. In less than two years, Echo has built the customer trust, technology, and momentum to be in this position and to help carry forward valuable work from others who helped build this category. Thank you to everyone who has helped us get to where we are today - stay tuned for big things coming.
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The SVCI community came together last night in our annual Black Hat reception in Vegas. From security leaders evaluating tools daily to the founders shaping what's next. Engaged, hands-on, and collaborative - SVCI is truly special. Grateful to everyone who made the trip out and to our partners HSBC Innovation Banking and Riviera Partners! 🎲
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Excited to announce our investment in Scanner! Security operations are going agentic, and the data layer underneath has to keep pace. That means querying petabytes in seconds and running detections continuously across the full stream, not sampling a slice of it. Scanner built for exactly that shape of workload. Excited to partner with Cliff Crosland, Steven Wu, and the team as they build toward the agentic SOC. https://lnkd.in/gPC4sZ5j
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We're thrilled to announce our investment in Act! Act Security is building the preemptive layer: a single converged control plane that unifies identity and network access, generates a Business Access Graph across every cloud and identity, and closes the gap between permitted, used, and intended access through ranked Access Hardening Campaigns. Cloud security has spent more than a decade on visibility. It’s time to take action. It’s time for Act. We’re proud to support Jonathan Langer and their exceptional team on their mission to change the cloud security paradigm. Time to Act! https://lnkd.in/ghVYd_7H
It's officially time to Act! 🏛️ Every single breach eventually comes down to the same root cause: access. Access lets attackers break into your cloud, move through your environment to their target, and - when the time comes- slip out the back door with your data. For a decade, the security industry has obsessed over chasing exposures and racking up endless findings while access quietly sprawled out of control. Today, 96% of cloud access goes completely unused. Yet every single one of those unused paths is a wide-open road to your crown jewels - and AI is now riding all of them at machine speed. Today, Act is officially exiting stealth to secure the cloud from its foundation - and eliminate that sprawl once and for all 🤚 We don’t give you another list to triage. We build a truly secure foundation by: ✔️ Closing the unneeded access paths every breach depends on before an exploit ever finds them. ✔️ Putting real boundaries in place to prevent access from ever drifting back. ✔️ Controlling what every human or AI agent can reach and act on, without slowing down business. Go check out our brand-new website to see what Act is all about >> https://act.security/
