About Cyberstarts
Cyberstarts is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. It is primarily based out of Atlanta, United States. As of Jun 2025, Cyberstarts is an active investor, having invested in 22 companies, with 2 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Enterprise Infrastructure and FinTech. Most recently it led the $50M Series A round of Dazz along with Greylock. This round also saw participation from Index Ventures and other investors.
Overall, Cyberstarts portfolio has seen 3 unicorns and 9 acquisitions including key companies like Fireblocks, Wiz and Spot. A lot of funds co-invest with Cyberstarts, with names like Insight Partners sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.
Cyberstarts has team of 32 people including 5 partners.
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Cyberstarts' List of Top Investments
Cyberstarts has a portfolio of 22 companies, including 3 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Trustmi and Trustmi.Their portfolio spans across United States and Israel. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, FinTech听补苍诲 2 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Seed 听补苍诲 1 more. Here is the list of top investments by Cyberstarts:
1. Fireblocks
Provider of an online platform for crypto custody, payments, tokenization, and wallet-as-a-service. The platform offers APIs to custody, manage treasury operations, access Defi, mint and burn tokens, and manage their digital asset operation.
Key facts about Fireblocks
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: New York (United States)
- Valuation: $8B as on Jan 27, 2022
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $1.04B
- Investors: General Atlantic, CapitalG and 33 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Jan 27, 2022, $550M
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Wiz
Provider of cloud security posture management and application protection platform. This platform offers unified visibility and security across code, CI/CD, and cloud environments. The platform also includes runtime protection and threat detection and response capabilities, all designed for cloud-native environments. It connects to various cloud environments, scans all layers, and covers all aspects of cloud security, including agentless solutions.
Key facts about Wiz
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $12B as on May 07, 2024
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $1.9B
- Investors: Wellington, Blackstone and 21 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Aug 07, 2024
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Spot
Platform offering cloud spend management software. It offers data driven metrics to understand the areas of enhancement. The platform provides a view of cloud cost across tags, usage types, accounts, workloads, and more. The features of the product include real time optimization, cloud cost analysis, and cloud application auto scaling. Its offering includes capacity management, big data, container infrastructure, and more.
Key facts about Spot
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Annual Revenue: 鈧�1,340Cr as on Mar 31, 2022
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $52M
- Investors: Highland Capital Partners, Intel Capital and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Aug 28, 2018, $35M
- Highlight: Acquired
4. Dazz
Cyber risk and vulnerability assessment solutions. It provides visibility into vulnerabilities and risks, automates manual processes, and verifies backlogs. Its features include risk identification and prevention, reduction of security alerts by fixing security issues, and more.
Key facts about Dazz
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $110M
- Investors: Greylock, Index Ventures and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jul 24, 2024, $50M
- Highlight: Acquired
5. Island
Provider of enterprise browser that offers SaaS governance, visibility, and productivity controls. It allows organizations to secure critical data and apps. It provides users with a custom homepage tailored for individual roles, groups, and workplace locations, offering specific workplace apps for productivity and enabling contextual search within the workspace. The solutions provided by the company includes SaaS and web Apps, BYOD workforce, third party contractors, VDI reduction, and many more. It provides customizable auditing capabilities that adapt to the context of user interactions. Platform features automatic phishing protection, web filtering, and exploit prevention mechanisms.
Key facts about Island
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Dallas (United States)
- Valuation: $4.8B as on Mar 26, 2025
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $730M
- Investors: EDBI, Sequoia Capital and 14 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Feb 12, 2025, $250M
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Cyberstarts' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Cyberstarts has invested in 22 companies over the last 6 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2024, it made 9 investments, while as of Jun 2025, it has made 2 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Trail Security and most recent follow-on round was in Cyera.
Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st听搁辞耻苍诲 | Follow-on | Total | |
2025 (YTD) | 0 | 2 | 2 |
2024 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
2023 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
2022 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2021 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
2020 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Cyberstarts' Investments by Stage
Cyberstarts has made 11 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $83.1M, 5 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $5.9M and 3 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $73.3M.Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 11 |
Seed | 5 |
Series B | 3 |
Cyberstarts' Investments by Sector
Cyberstarts has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, High Tech, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications. Notably, it has invested in 21 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 21 Tech companies, 19 Software companies and at least 15 companies focusing on Saas.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 18 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 17 |
High Tech | 5 |
FinTech | 4 |
Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications | 3 |
Others | 5 |
Cyberstarts' Investments by Geography
Cyberstarts has made most investments in United States (15), followed by Israel where it has made 5 investments.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 15 |
Israel | 5 |
Cyberstarts' recent investments
Here are the most recent investments by Cyberstarts:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 11, 2025 | United States | Series E | $540M | Georgian [+8] | |
Feb 18, 2025 | United States | Series B | $50M | Ribbit Capital [+2] | |
Dec 02, 2024 | United States | Series A | $100M | Craft Ventures [+7] | |
Oct 2024 | Israel | Series A | $35M | ||
Jul 24, 2024 | United States | Series A | $50M | Greylock [+2] |
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Here is a list of unicorns in Cyberstarts' portfolio:
秘密研究所 Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
58 | Provider of enterprise browser that offers SaaS governance, visibility, and productivity controls | 2020 | Dallas | Series E | hgvawgx | ||
72 | Provider of an online platform for crypto custody, payments, tokenization, and wallet-as-a-service | 2018 | New York | Series E | cugt{{v | ||
53 | Customer identity management solution provider | 2014 | Boston | Series A | novbzlw |
Acquired companies in Cyberstarts' Portfolio
Here are Cyberstarts' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 18, 2025 | Dec 09, 2020 | Series A | $100M | |
Jan 15, 2025 | - | - | - | |
Nov 04, 2024 | 2021 | Seed | $10M | |
Oct 17, 2024 | Oct 2024 | Series A | $35M | |
May 07, 2024 | Dec 15, 2020 | Series A | $25M |
Team profile of Cyberstarts
Cyberstarts has a team of 32 members听颈苍肠濒耻诲颈苍驳 5 Partners and 22 Principals聽located in Israel, United States and . Cyberstarts' team sits on the board of 1 company.Here is a list of top team members in Cyberstarts:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | Israel | - | ||
Partner | Tel Aviv | - | ||
Partner | Atlanta | - | - | |
Partner | San Francisco | - | ||
Partner | Israel | - | - | |
Principal | Tel Aviv | - | ||
Principal | Tel Aviv | - | - | |
Principal | Israel | - | ||
Principal | Israel | - | ||
Principal | Medfield | |||
Principal | Boston | - | - |
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Over the past 6 years, 114 investors have co-invested in Cyberstarts's portfolio companies.
- Invested before Cyberstarts:听Dharmesh Thakker, Ren茅 Bonvanie and 7 others have invested in rounds before Cyberstarts. There are 1 company where Dharmesh Thakker has invested before Cyberstarts and 1 company where Ren茅 Bonvanie has invested before Cyberstarts.
- Top Co-investors of Cyberstarts:听43 investors entered a company along with Cyberstarts. These include investors like Insight Partners (6 companies).
- Invested after Cyberstarts:听A total of 62 investors have invested in Cyberstarts's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Coatue (3 companies), Spark Capital (3 companies) and Georgian (3 companies).
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