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Network Security Investors – Top 73 Venture Capitalists in Network Security

This list aims to provide a list of those recently active investors in the Network Security space.

Purpose of this list: Finding and meeting VC’s and investors is no easy task for any founder no matter how well connected they might be. This list is aimed to provide a starting point highlighting some of the most recently active investors.

Great list… now what: If you’re a founder looking to pitch your startup you first need to create a short list of investors you want to pitch to. This list could provide part of that. Pick a few companies in this list, see their past investments, which countries they invest in and craft a personal email or Linkedin message to them if you think they would be interested.

I sent a load of emails, but didn’t get any responses: Welcome to the startup world… But in all seriousness some VC’s will get back to you with feedback if you’re lucky, but most are simply too busy to deal with all the messages they get.

Do not get discouraged, send a follow up email asking for feedback and work on your pitching. Rejection is not a reflection on your company, just how you pitched it. There is countless stories of people getting rejected 100 times before finally getting funding. See the Qwil story.

Data sourced from Crunchbase.

True Ventures

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True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology startups.

Founders: John Burke, Jon Callaghan, Phil Black, Toni Schneider, Tony Conrad

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

Number of Employees: 11-50

Sierra Ventures

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Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on next generation enterprise and emerging technologies.

Founders: Peter Wendell

Location: San Mateo, California, United States

Number of Employees: 11-50

Dreamit Ventures

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Dreamit is a venture fund and growth-focused accelerator for Urbantech, Securetech, and Healthtech startups

Founders: David Bookspan, Michael Levinson, Steve Welch

Location: New York, New York, United States

Number of Employees: 51-100

NXTP Ventures

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NXTP Ventures backs early-stage technology companies led by extraordinary entrepreneurs throughout Latin America.

Founders: Ariel Arrieta, Francisco Coronel, Gonzalo Costa, Marta Cruz, Martin Hazan

Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina

Number of Employees: 11-50

Inovia Capital

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Inovia Capital specializes in investments in early stage, seed, mid venture, late venture, growth capital and start-up stage companies.

Founders: Chris Arsenault

Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Number of Employees: 11-50

Blumberg Capital

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Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in a range of technology companies.

Founders: David Blumberg

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Number of Employees: 11-50

Baseline Ventures

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Baseline is an investment company that aims to help founders build and grow their early-stage companies into change-effecting enterprises.

Founders: Steve Anderson

Location: Jackson, Wyoming, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

Oasis500

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Oasis500 is the leading seed investment company and business accelerator in the Tech and Creative Industry spaces based in Amman, Jordan.

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Location: Amman, Amman, Jordan

Number of Employees: 11-50

Mangrove Capital Partners

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Mangrove Capital Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Luxembourg.

Founders: Hans-Jurgen Schmitz, Mark Tluszcz

Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Number of Employees: 44105

.406 Ventures

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.406 Ventures provides capital and support for early stage technology companies.

Founders: Larry Begley, Liam Donohue, Maria Cirino

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

Google

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Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and products.

Founders: Dennis Brown, Larry Page, Lisa Oglesby Rocha, Sergey Brin, Subur Khan, weed shop, Wesley Chan

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Number of Employees: 10001

TELUS Ventures

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TELUS Ventures is the venture capital arm of TELUS, a North American telecommunications company.

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Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Number of Employees: 10001

Daiwa Corporate Investment

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Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group, have been engaged in overseas VC investments.

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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Number of Employees: 51-100

Blockchain Capital

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Blockchain Capital is a pioneer and the premier venture capital firm investing in Blockchain enabled technology companies.

Founders: P Bart Stephens, W Bradford Stephens

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Number of Employees: 11-50

Telstra Ventures

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Telstra Ventures invests in technology companies and offers synergy revenues to its portfolio companies.

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Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Number of Employees: 11-50

Ascent Venture Partners

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Ascent is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage, emerging B2B technology companies, backing over 110 companies since 1985.

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Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

TDF Ventures

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TDF Ventures is a venture capital firm that targets seed and Series A investments in technology companies.

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Location: Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

Rally Ventures

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Rally Ventures invests in early-stage enterprise technology companies.

Founders: Charles Beeler, Jeff Hinck

Location: Menlo Park, California, United States

Number of Employees: 11-50

CyLon

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CyLon is the world’s leading cyber security accelerator and seed investment programme.

Founders: Alex van Someren, Grace Cassy, Jonathan Luff

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Number of Employees: 44105

Visa

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Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.

Founders: Dee Hock

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Number of Employees: 5001-10000

Peter Thiel

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Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor.He first gained attention for innovations in banking and startup finance. Today he is …

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Location: San Francisco, California, United States

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Kinetic Ventures

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Kinetic Ventures is a leading venture capital investor in high growth, industry defining communications, information and power/clean

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Location: Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

GF Xinde Investment Management

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GF Xinde is a direct investment brokerage in China.

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Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Number of Employees: 44105

Finch Capital

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Finch Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focusing on the FinTech sector in Europe and South East Asia.

Founders: Hans de Back, Radboud Vlaar

Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Number of Employees: 11-50

Motorola Solutions

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Motorola Solutions creates mission-critical communication solutions and services for public safety and commercial customers.

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Location: Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

Number of Employees: 10001

Stage 1 Ventures

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Stage 1 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is seeking to build partnerships with great entrepreneurs that are flexible

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Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Number of Employees: 11-50

TechOperators

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TechOperators is a venture capital firm which focuses on solutions in software, internet, cloud computing, security, and infrastructure.

Founders: David Gould

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

Shlomo Kramer

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Shlomo is co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo has co-founded Check Point …

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Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Hongtai Capital Holdings

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Hongtai Capital Holdings is a full life cycle comprehensive investment management platform.

Founders: Minhong Yu, Xitai Sheng

Location: Beijing, Beijing, China

Number of Employees: 11-50

Startup Sesame

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Startup Sesame is an alliance of European tech events, helping scale-ups, investors, and corporates to engage with the startup ecosystem.

Founders: Ben Costantini, Joanna Kirk, Moojan Asghari

Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Number of Employees: 11-50

Mistral Venture Partners

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Mistral Venture Partners invests in early stage technology companies (Seed stage) in Canada

Founders: Bernie Zeisig, Code Cubitt

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Number of Employees: 44105

Juniper Networks

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Juniper Networks is a news network that designs, develops, and sells products and services, along with network infrastructure.

Founders: Pradeep Sindhu

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Number of Employees: 5001-10000

YL Ventures

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YL Ventures invests in seed stage Israeli innovations in cybersecurity, enterprise software & autonomous vehicle sectors

Founders: Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Number of Employees: 11-50

Hotung Venture Capital

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Hotung Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Taiwan and operates as a subsidiary of Hotung Investment Holdings

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Location: Taipei, T’ai-pei, Taiwan

Number of Employees: 44105

TIIN Capital

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TIIN Capital invests in promising and innovative early-stage and later-stage companies in the Netherlands.

Founders: Michiel Bloemer

Location: Naarden, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Number of Employees: 44105

Toppan Printing

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Toppan Printing is a developer and manufacturer of a variety of communication based electronics.

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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Number of Employees: 10001

Finistere Ventures

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Finistere Ventures venture capital firm that seeks investments in the agriculture sector.

Founders: Spencer Maughan

Location: San Diego, California, United States

Number of Employees: 11-50

Barclays Accelerator, Powered by Techstars – Tel Aviv

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Barclays Accelerator, Powered by Techstars – Tel Aviv offers entrepreneurs unprecedented access to world banks and mentorship.

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Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Breed Reply

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Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.

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Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Number of Employees: 44105

Citrix Systems

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Citrix aims to power a world where people, organizations are securely connected and accessible to make the extraordinary possible.

Founders: Ed Lacobucci, Srikanth Tirumala

Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Number of Employees: 5001-10000

WeLikeStartup

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WeLikeStartup specializes in crowd funding and support for innovative startups.

Founders: Alain Ilhe

Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Number of Employees: 11-50

SCP Partners

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SCP Partners is a U.S.-based investment firm focused on investments in ICT, life sciences, services, and defense and security.

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Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States

Number of Employees: 11-50

Good News Ventures

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Good News Ventures invest in tech companies founded by true grit entrepreneurs. We back founders as they turn their ideas into businesses.

Founders: Marat Mukhamedyarov, Mohan Markandaier, Mona Kung

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Number of Employees: 44105

Everbright

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Everbright is China’s cross-border investment and asset management company.

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Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

Number of Employees: 251-500

11.2 Capital

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We focus on emerging technologies such as AI, cybersecurity, robotics, quantum, new space, computational therapeutics, synthetic biology.

Founders: Shelley Zhuang

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

Lucas Venture Group

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Lucas Venture Group is a venture capital firm investing in robotics, networking, software analytics/big data and cyber security.

Founders: Donald Lucas

Location: Menlo Park, California, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

Nomura

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Nomura is an investment banking and securities firm that serve the needs of individuals, institutions, corporate and governments.

Founders: Tokushichi Nomura

Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Number of Employees: 10001

VMware

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VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.

Founders: Diane Greene, Edouard Bugnion, Edward Wang, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

Number of Employees: 10001

Sonae IM

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Growth stage investor focused mainly in B2B technologies for retail, telecom and cybersecurity

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Location: Maia, Porto, Portugal

Number of Employees: 11-50

Sparkland Capital

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Sparkland Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in frontier technologies.

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Location: San Jose, California, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

MACH37

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MACH37 is the premier accelerator for entrepreneurs and startups that are solving important cyber problems.

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Location: Mclean, Virginia, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

NCSC Cyber Accelerator

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NCSC Cyber Accelerator aims to drive cyber security ideas and innovation in the U.K.

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Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Number of Employees: 44105

KCRise Fund

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KCRise Fund co-invests with institutional venture capital investors in early stage companies based in the Greater Kansas City area

Founders: Darcy Howe

Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

MizMaa Ventures

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MizMaa is working with the deep technology innovators emerging from Israel’s high tech sector.

Founders: Catherine Leung, Isaac Applbaum

Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Number of Employees: 44105

Barry Sternlicht

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Barry Sternlicht is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Starwood Capital Group, the private investment firm he formed in 1991 focused on g…

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Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

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HPE Growth

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Long-term growth investor in European technology companies.

Founders: Tim van Delden

Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Number of Employees: 11-50

VMS Asset Management

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VMS Asset Management is a leading alternative asset management firm in the region, specializing in private equity, and structured finance.

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Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

Number of Employees: 51-100

Comcast

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Comcast Corporation is a global media and technology company.

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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Number of Employees: 10001

KPN Ventures

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KPN Ventures aims to partner with innovative technology companies, providing access to capital, expertise, network, and customer channels.

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Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Number of Employees: 44105

NEC Corporation

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NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world.

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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Number of Employees: 10001

AcceliCITY

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A smart city startup accelerator with a web-based curriculum followed by an intensive workshop boot camp for Finalists in Boston.

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Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Trailblazer Capital

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Trailblazer Capital is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage and startup companies in the network and telecommunications sectors.

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Location: Dallas, Texas, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

CyRise

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CyRise is an investor, supporter and champion of cyber security startups in the Asia Pacific

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Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Number of Employees: 44105

Guotai Junan Securities

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Guotai Junan Securities is a company that specializes in investment management services.

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Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Number of Employees: 5001-10000

RSE Ventures

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RSE Ventures is a private investment firm that focuses on sports & entertainment, media & marketing, food & lifestyle and technology.

Founders: Matt Higgins, Stephen M. Ross

Location: New York, New York, United States

Number of Employees: 11-50

Telefónica Innovation Ventures

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Telefónica Innovation Ventures invests and builds strategic partners aligned with Telefónica’s strategy.

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Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Number of Employees: 11-50

Daiwa Securities Group

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Daiwa Securities Group Inc. operates as a securities brokerdealer, providing services, including brokerage, trading, underwriting, advice,

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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Number of Employees: 10001

CivStart

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CivStart is a non-profit accelerator focused on identifying startup technologies that address the challenges and meet the needs of state.

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Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

Gula Tech Adventures

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Cybersecurity industry veterans helping the next generation with funding and experience.

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Location: Ellicott City, Maryland, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

Phystech Ventures

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Venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technology in IoT, connected platforms, energytech, robotics, cybersecurity.

Founders: Olga Maslikhova, Petr Lukyanov

Location: Menlo Park, California, United States

Number of Employees: 44105

Sebastien Breteau

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Sebastien Breteau is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of QIMA, a global supply chain compliance solut…

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Location: London, England, United Kingdom

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Akamai Technologies

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Akamai® is the provider of cloud services for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.

Founders: Jonathan Seelig, Kent Roberts, Randall Kaplan, Tom Leighton

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Number of Employees: 10001

SmartGateVC

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SmartGateVC is Tim Draper backed pre-seed VC investing in deep tech startups

Founders: Ashot Arzumanyan, Hambardzum Kaghketsyan, Vazgen Hakobjanyan

Location: Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia

Number of Employees: 44105

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