This month, we celebrated our alliance with Banco Santander, added three more innovators to the Forgepoint Family — AppMap, Cinchy, and KSOC — and cheered on so many company achievements at TechCrunch Disrupt, Money 20/20, Kubecon and beyond while preparing for our Advisory Council Meeting later in November. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter for updates!

We're thrilled to announce our €300M alliance with Banco Santander to establish Forgepoint International and drive cyber investment and innovation across Europe, Latin America and Israel. Read the release or Alberto's blog. 

Financings and M&A.

AppMap, creators of powerful, visual, and dynamic runtime code analysis and monitoring tools for developers, welcomed Forgepoint as an investor and earned a Top 5 Finalist spot (out of several thousands) in this year's TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield. Read coverage in TechCrunch. 

Cinchy, pioneers in dataware and data management, completed their $14.5M Series B financing led by Forgepoint with participation from IVP, SUP, Techstars, and Mars. Leo Casusol will join the Board of Directors and Rey Kirton will serve as Board Observer. View the release, Rey Kirton's blog, coverage in TechCrunch and Forbes, and hear what Logan Roy thought of it all. 

KSOC, inventors of the Kubernetes Security Operations Center which helps organizations automatically protect Kubernetes environments from misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, welcomed Forgepoint as an investor. Ernie Bio will serve as Board Observer. Learn more about the team.

Team News.

Please join us in welcoming our newest Forgepoint team members. Their expertise is invaluable as we continue our growth and the ways we support our companies.

Jessie Huang

Controller

Alyssa Iyer

Entrepreneur in

Residence

Tom Kelly

Venture Consultant

Sanjay Uppal

Venture Consultant

Advisory Council.

Congratulations Diego Souza, Global CISO of Cummins, on receiving the Cyber Defense Magazine 2022 Top Global CISO Award. A seasoned security executive, Diego's prior roles include Managing Director & Global Cybersecurity Leader at United Airlines and Sr. Director & Global Cybersecurity Leader at GE among others. 

Latest Headlines.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022  - Out of thousands of applicants, AppMap and RapidFort made to the Startup Battlefield 200, with AppMap landing in the Top 5. Meanwhile Rafay CEO Haseeb Budhani gave a talk on how to recession-proof your startup and Forgepoint Vice President Connie Qian shared insight on how to Raise Your Series A. 

SANS Institute 2022 Difference Makers Awards

This annual awards program honors members in the cyber community who have made a significant difference in security. Congratulations to all nominees, especially

• John Hammond, Security Researcher at Huntress Labs for Influencer of the Year
• Sounil Yu, CISO & Head of Research at JupiterOne - for the Lifetime Achievement Award,  and
• Will Lin, Forgepoint Capital for Mentor of the Year!

Vote today: polls close Thursday 11/10 at 5 pm ET.  

Alberto Yépez gave guidance on What VC Investment is Like for Cybersecurity Startups and Entrepreneurs Heading into 2023 for Enterprise Security Tech. Read More >

Alberto Yépez, Kyle Hanslovan of Huntress and Scott McCrady of SolCyber were quoted Cybersecurity for Small Businesses is Booming, But Data Are Scant in Forbes. Read More >

Alberto Yépez shared insight on What's the Most Critical Mistake Founders Make When Pitching in a Downturn? for Protocol. Read More >

Alberto Yépez provided comments in Avoiding the Top Mistakes Made by Tech Startups for InformationWeek. Read More >

Portfolio Company Updates.

Andrew Dagostino, CEO & Founder of Converge, Andrew McClure, Pascal Millaire, CEO & Founder of CyberCube, and Billy Gouveia, CEO & Founder of Surefire Cyber reunited in for the NetDiligence Cyber Risk Summit in LA. 

DeepSee was inducted into the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Hall of Innovation for 2022. Previous winners from the Forgepoint Family include ReversingLabs and Secure Code Warrior. Woohoo it's a three-peat! Celebrate here >

BNY Mellon Launched New Payment Platform Vaia for Payee-Choice Disbursements. Through a single integration, institutions can now provide payees a range of payment options, including real-time payments, same-day ACH, tokenized payments with Zelle® and debit cards - all powered by Verituity. Learn More >

1Kosmos Mentioned in 2022 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Digital Identity...and in Five Separate Hype Cycle Reports. Read More >

1Kosmos Named Overall Leader by KuppingerCole in Leadership Compass Report for Verified Identity. Read More >

Anitian Named a Sample Vendor in Three Gartner Hype Cycle Reports. Read More >

Converge CEO Anthony Dagostino was quoted in Services You Should Expect from Your Cyber Insurance Provider by InformationWeek. Read More >

Constella Intelligence Co-founder & CTO Julio Casal joined Alberto Yépez and TalentoSolutions CEO Natalia Potes Morante at 16ENISE to discuss the successful internationalization of Spanish cyber companies. Learn More >

Cyberhaven CEO & Founder Howard Ting shared perspective in Hijacked New York Post Site Highlights the 'Insider Threat' — Again for Bloomberg. Read More >

LoginRadius was ranked as one of the "Top IGA Solution Providers 2022" by GRC Outlook Magazine. Read More >

LoginRadius CEO Rakesh Soni's op-ed How Can Next-Gen Leaders Overcome Uncertainty was featured by Forbes. Read More >

Remediant CEO Raj Dodhiawala provided insight in Educational Institutions Must Reverse their Backward Approach to Cyber Defense for Help Net Security. Read More >

ReversingLabs Named Finalist in Black Unicorn Awards for 2022. Read More >  

ReversingLabs provided insight as White House memo calls for software supply chain security, takes a step closer to mandating SBOMs. Read More >  

SolCyber CEO Scott McCrady and Right-hand security CEO & Co-founder Theo Nasser held a Q&A on Educating Employees to be Cyber Aware. Watch Now >

SolCyber Launches First Integrated managed Security Service and Cyber Insurance Program for Partners. Learn More >

SPHERE Named One of the Best Tech Workplaces for Diversity! Read More >

SPHERE CEO Rita Gurevich Shared Insight on Why Organizations are Failing at IAM and How True Identity Hygiene Can Help for Channel Futures. Read More >

Surefire Cyber Expanded Its Board of Directors with the Appointment of Industry Leader Cyndi Gula. Read More >

Surefire Cyber CEO Billy Gouveia Talks with SolCyber CEO Scott McCrady about IR and Prevention. Watch Now >

Symmetry Systems and Trace3 Partner to Secure Data and Reduce Risk in Hybrid Cloud Environments. Learn More >

Uptycs CEO & Founder Ganesh Pai composed an insightful op-ed It's Time to Talk About Securing Your Innovation Supply Chain. Read Now >

11/8 Remediant Webinar: More than the minimum: How PAM+ helps maximize your cyber insurance coverage. Tune In >

11/8-9 ReversingLabs Presents Going Beyond Basic SBOMS at the Forrrester Security & Risk Forum 2022. Tune In >

11/16 KSOC Customer Spotlight: Invoca. Join KSOC Co-founder and CTO, Jimmy Mesta, and Invoca's security engineers Matt Sobol and Esty Scheiner for a conversation on the current Kubernetes security landscape and how Invoca is using KSOC. Tune In >

11/17 1Kosmos Webinar: Combatting Synthetic Identity Fraud and Account Takeover With Digital Identity Verification featuring 1Kosmos CSO Mike Engle and Oliver Wyman Partner Peter Carroll. Tune In >

On Demand get guidance from Surefire Cyber CEO & Founder Billy Gouveia and other experts in this on-demand NetDiligence Ransomware Advisory Group Update. Tune In >

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