According to the latest research by the NVCA, Venture Forward, and the Keenan Institute of Private Enterprise, employment at VC-backed companies grew at roughly 8x the pace of non-VC-backed companies between 1990 and 2020. This month's newsletter is all about value creation, through every company's most critical resource: its people. We cover how to win the talent war, our new job board, and a profile of investor Connie Qian, the mastermind behind our Field Guide Series. We're also pleased to welcome three new leaders to our Advisory Council and share more achievements from the #ForgepointFamily of companies. Onwards!

Forgepoint Field Guide.

For this edition of the Field Guide, our talent aficionado Karl Sharman shares what's crucial to winning the Talent War in cybersecurity and tech recruiting. Read More >

New Job Board.

This week we unveiled our new job board, which aggregates career opportunities across the Forgepoint portfolio. Interested candidates can now easily search, discover, and apply to open positions which are automatically added from each company. Have a look: we're now at 550+ roles and counting!

Team News.

Meet Connie, a life long learner whose background in equity research and strategic finance at Goldman, Baird, and Block (fka Square) informs her approach to investing at the frontiers of cybersecurity and embedded security. Read More >

Advisory Council Updates.

We're pleased to welcome these esteemed industry leaders to our now 70+ member Advisory Council, which fosters innovation, collaboration and portfolio growth as we solve some of the most challenging problems facing businesses and governments. 

J. Bruce Buggs, Jr.

Chairman, Texas Department of Transportation; CEO, Southwest Bancshares Inc.

Ron Gula

President & Co-founder of Gula Tech Ventures; former co-founder & CEO of Tenable

Enrique Oti

CTO, Second Front Systems; co-founder of DIUx and USAF Kessel Run Program

Recent Publications.

Stott and May released their Cybersecurity in Focus 2022 Report. Produced in partnership with Forgepoint, the report shared insights from security leaders on the skills gap, barriers to execution, and whether investment is keeping pace with the needs of digital business, along with thoughts from our own Managing Director Will Lin on the emergence of the engineering-centric CISO. Learn More >

Portfolio Company Updates.

Anitian shares 2022 FedRamp timeline milestones and the critical deadlines growing companies must know. Read More >

Area 1 Security's growth rate more than doubled in 2021 and its partner base grew by 150%. Read More >

Attivo Networks® Innovations in Identity Security snap up 6 golds at the 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. Read More >

Bishop Fox triples annual recurring revenue and reports record customer growth. Read More >

Concourse Labs releases State of Cloud Configuration Security Practices Report on how organizations are securing the public cloud. Read More >

Customer Success Highlight

Fermat Capital Management, one of the world's largest Insurance-linked Securities (ILS) investment managers, chooses CyberCube’s Portfolio Manager. Read More >

Cysiv named fastest growing tech company in North Texas by Tech Titans. Read More >

Ermetic appoints Eduard Meelhuysen as VP of Sales for EMEA to grow its European team and operations. Read More >

Huntress's upcoming Process Insights Service put to the test during VMWare Horizon Incident. Read More >

NowSecure announces record year in 2021, even outpacing mobile economy. Read More >

Rafay Systems achieves Soc 2 Type II Compliance. Read More >

Remediant President Raj Dodhiawala offers insights about the White House's Zero Trust strategy in SecurityWeek. Read More >

ReversingLabs explains recent NIST guidance on monitoring software supply chains. Read More >

SolCyber discusses what's broken 20 years on since the first MSSP appeared in the market. Read More >

SPHERE announces the start of a new era and welcomes SPHEREboard 6.0 to solve privileged access challenges. Read More >

Strata Identity helps SiteMinder's customers migrate apps and identities before its end of service (EOS). Read More >

Wirewheel held a webinar on Practical Tips for Building Privacy Operations. View Now > 

2/22 Anitian joins Carahsoft, AWS, and First Information Technology Services for a webinar on How to Accelerate Your 2022 FedRAMP Journey Today. Tune In >

3/1 Remediant will be featured at a Next-in-Cyber event showcasing global developments and game-changing technologies hosted by Secrutiny in London. Register Now >

3/2 Bishop Fox will lead a live webinar on The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: How Innocuous Exposures Become Infamous. Tune In >