What a way to close out 2024! The final SVCI Pitch Day of the year was held this morning, bringing together 50+ CISOs and 5 bold founding teams ready to disrupt cybersecurity. Big ideas, big energy -- 2025 is going to be game-changing.🔥
SVCI - Silicon Valley CISO Investments
Financial Services
San Francisco, California 4,614 followers
SVCI is a group of leading Chief Information Security Officers who operate as an angel investor syndicate.
About us
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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http://svci.io
External link for SVCI - Silicon Valley CISO Investments
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Partnership
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San Francisco, California, US
Employees at SVCI - Silicon Valley CISO Investments
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Gerhard Eschelbeck
Cybersecurity Executive, Advisor, Board Member
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Justin Dolly
CSO - Board Member - Investor - Advisor - Technology Leader
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Jason Woloz
CISO, Verily Life Sciences Security, Privacy and Compliance Leader, Investor, Mentor
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Iftach Ian Amit
CEO & Co-Founder @ Gomboc.ai | 2x ex-CSO/CISO
Updates
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Non Human Identities are a focus area for many security leaders. We are excited to partner with Itamar Apelblat, Ido Shlomo, Nissim Pariente, and the entire Token Security team to solve that. 🛡️
🚀 Big News! After a thorough review of the non-human identity space, SVCI - Silicon Valley CISO Investments has chosen to invest in Token Security! 🛡️ After emerging from stealth in March, Token Security continues its rapid growth, revolutionizing how companies secure non-human identities with backing from top CISOs at Adobe, Coinbase, and more. As automation and AI adoption accelerate, non-human identities are becoming a key focus for attackers. Token Security’s advanced solution offers unparalleled visibility, automated remediation, and actionable insights to keep security teams one step ahead. Read more about the announcement 👇 https://lnkd.in/dDwFEa-G #identitysecurity #nonhumanidentities #nhis #tokensecurity
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We're 5(!) Thank you Nasdaq and all our partners who have been supporting us. Excited for the next 5!
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🚀 Happy 5th Birthday to SVCI! 🚀 Today we celebrate a significant milestone at SVCI—five years of driving innovation in cybersecurity through angel investing! Our network of 60 CISOs is more engaged than ever, shaping the startup ecosystem and identifying future trends. Teamwork is key. We collaborate, discuss, and innovate together, embracing a model that demands dedication and openness to risk. Our systematic approach is deliberate and driven by high conviction. Every member of our group is 100% engaged, balancing their demanding day jobs with our mission - Fuel the next generation of cybersecurity innovation. We remain steadfast in our values and integrity, building trust and addressing conflicts of interest with the utmost seriousness. As we look ahead, we’re excited for the next five years of impact and innovation. Thank you to our partners, founders, and the CISOs who have made this half-decade journey possible.
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Get ready, Vegas! The cybersecurity community is gearing up for an electrifying week with Black Hat, DEF CON, and Security BSides Las Vegas all in town! 🔒⚡ Amidst the hustle and bustle, don't miss the chance to engage with SVCI's strong lineup of portfolio companies, including Drata, Descope, Endor Labs, Orca Security, Island, Wing Security, Tonic.ai, Cyral, Lucidum, Traceable, Tines, Tromzo, Incode, Wing Security, and Opal. See you there!
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Congrats Incode and MetaMap creating a holistic identity verification platform! https://lnkd.in/gjWfjshc
I’m excited to announce that Incode has acquired MetaMap, an innovative provider in identity mapping. The result is a forward-looking company that will accelerate the future of identity verification. The combined strengths of both companies create a powerhouse built to both capture the emerging opportunities and tackle the evolving challenges in identity today. Combining these two companies creates a long list of benefits for both our customers and the new combined entity. A few highlights: Building a Smarter, Larger Trust Network: Enhanced fraud capabilities through a joined fraud network that has seen hundreds of millions of identities in the past year. This network will allow us to more quickly identify good users from bad ones. Strengthened Market Position: The combination creates a leading solution across more than a hundred countries. We combine the enterprise-grade technology that has made Incode the global leader in trust and identity with MetaMap’s low-touch expertise to offer a platform that suits every need. Commitment to Innovation: Generative AI has lowered barriers for fraud, making it more accessible than ever. By combining Incode’s constantly evolving liveness technology to detect deep fakes with MetaMap’s continuous optimization platform, Incode will revolutionize how identity verification is done today. Much more to come but, for now, a warm welcome to both the customers and employees of MetaMap! https://lnkd.in/gkQhKJka
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Congratulations to the 30 startups recognized as “Rising in Cyber” by Notable Capital! This accolade highlights the key priorities for security leaders and the most critical areas of innovation in the market. We’re especially proud to see 9(!) SVCI portfolio companies among the honorees! Congrats Descope, Drata, Endor Labs, Island, Opal Security, Orca Security, Tines, Tonic.ai, and Wing Security!
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Big congrats Tonic.ai for the launch of Textual - the world’s first secure data lakehouse for LLMs, designed to eliminate integration and privacy challenges ahead of RAG ingestion or LLM training. 🤖 https://lnkd.in/g_zDBpAN
🚀 It’s Launch Day for Tonic Textual! AI, meet enterprise unstructured data. Tonic Textual is the world’s first Secure Data Lakehouse for LLMs. Say goodbye to the integration and privacy headaches of activating your organization’s unstructured data for generative AI initiatives. Starting your AI journey is now as simple as connecting Textual to your cloud data stores and configuring a few lines of SDK code. From there, Textual takes over, constructing fully automated, secure unstructured data pipelines that extract, govern, enrich, and deploy your unstructured data for RAG and fine-tuning. With Tonic Textual, you can: 🛠️ Extract Identify and access unstructured data from siloed and complex sources, parse it into its component structures, and seamlessly unify it across a variety of formats and locations. Along the way, we’ll also harvest valuable document metadata to enrich your datasets. 🛡️Govern Categorize sensitive information and important entities within your unstructured data using Textual’s proprietary NER models and optionally redact and replace sensitive data with synthetic data to safeguard privacy and adhere to data protection regulations and standards. ✨ Enrich Enhance the quality and utility of your data with metadata enrichment, contextual entity tags, synthetic data replacement, format standardization and optimization, and chunking. 📦 Deploy Deploy your enriched data for fine-tuning LLMs and RAG. Generate embeddings, integrate with vector databases, and maintain continuous data delivery pipelines to ensure a steady flow of high-quality data ready for embedding, fine-tuning, or RAG ingestion. Learn more and sign up for a free account: https://hubs.la/Q02yqvn-0 The Tonic Textual team will also be responding to comments on ProductHunt throughout the day, so please stop by, say hi, and show us some love! #ai #generativeai #data #producthunt