ForgePoint Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in cybersecurity companies. The firm provides entrepreneurs with the capital, expertise, and connections they need to build successful businesses in the cybersecurity sector.

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Founded in 2015, Forgepoint is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in transformative companies protecting the digital future. In a rapidly digitizing world, we believe that cybersecurity is now synonymous with software.

Our diverse team draws upon nearly a century of combined domain expertise to make early and growth stage investments in Cybersecurity and adjacent sectors like AI/ML, Blockchain, Cloud, DevOps, Insurtech, Fintech, and Privacy. To help our entrepreneurs succeed, we involve our seasoned operating team and trusted advisory council of industry-leading practitioners, founders, executives, partners, and government officials for strategic guidance and connections.

Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, the firm is one of the most prolific investors in cybersecurity with 35+ active early and growth stage startups. For more information, visit www.forgepointcap.com or follow @forgepointcap on Twitter.

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📣 Big news today: Mastercard and VERITUITY announce major partnership to accelerate secure domestic and cross-border payouts: https://lnkd.in/eEKve56B

🏦 Now, with Mastercard Move, commercial banks and payers can leverage faster and more secure payouts via Verituity’s white label payments platform.

💡“In today’s global economy, the ability to make and receive payments quickly and easily is crucial,“ said Sherri Haymond, executive vice president, Global Digital Partnerships at Mastercard. “Mastercard Move enables secure, near real-time payment transfers to and from billions of card, bank and digital accounts globally. We’re delighted to join forces with Verituity to deliver a seamless and secure payment experience that banks, businesses and consumers can trust.”

🎉 Congratulations, Ben Turner and the VERITUITY team! 

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Coming to #RSAConference 2024? With the theme of The Art of Possible, this year's conference leans into innovation and creativity, and the truly limitless opportunities for the industry. Whether you're immersed in the program, hitting the expo floor, or hopping from event to event, get to know several of our exceptional companies. Here's what's in store, stay tuned for more!

Featuring 1Kosmos | Bishop Fox | Cyberhaven | Huntress | Lumu Technologies | NowSecure | RAD Security | ReversingLabs | SPHERE | Symmetry Systems | Uptycs | Whistic

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99% of companies are small and mid-sized SMBs, yet most cybersecurity innovations cater more to the enterprise. Kyle Hanslovan’s cyber warfare experience at the NSA taught him the power of small teams leveraging automation. He saw an opportunity to make global change by protecting SMBs at scale with a SaaS platform. The result: Huntress. In this episode, Forgepoint Capital Managing Director Ernie B. speaks with Kyle about his experience supporting cyber operations in the U.S. Intelligence community, the importance of complementary founders and teams, raising capital as a Silicon Valley outsider, scaling Huntress from a point solution to a platform, and the company’s exciting path forward. 

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Surefire Cyber Inc. has seen an increase in the number of #ransomware attacks that involve #MFA bypass. One of the ways this can be done is where a #threatactor adds their own method for authentication such as #SIM swapping. Learn more in their recent blog: https://lnkd.in/ediWPQ-d 

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DLP isn’t dying - it’s shifting left to DSPM. Symmetry Systems delves into how cloud, API's and Data Gravity allows organizations to control data better within the cloud. Discover how this impacts DLP strategies and why they need to shift left in their recent blog: https://lnkd.in/gUbVH6DS 

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The promise of AI to software engineers is undeniably appealing. Yet, the journey towards full AI integration in the enterprise has challenges ahead. AppMap's Elizabeth Lawler paves a way forward to a secure and compliant way to adopt #AI in their recent blog: https://lnkd.in/gHq6qCeq 

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