Evolution Equity Partners

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Billie Jean King once said, “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” That’s the Penterian spirit. Ownership, persistence, and teamwork—these are the traits that define us and drive our success. And indeed it’s been an extraordinary year for Pentera. We reached a milestone – 1,000 customers strong! This achievement is a testament to the trust and collaboration of our global community. Our team at Pentera Labs™ made headlines with the discovery of new attack vectors and zero-day vulnerabilities reinforcing our commitment to staying ahead of evolving threats. This year saw the launch of Pentera Cloud™ that extends security validation across hybrid environments. We expanded the scope of our RansomwareReady™ module that enables organizations to validate their defenses against the latest ransomware strains. Our growth has been recognized – Pentera was named to Deloitte's Fast 500 and the Inc. 5000, a reflection of the hard work of every Penterian and the trust placed in us by our partners. To our customers, partners, and team – thank you for making 2024 a year to remember. Here's to pushing the boundaries of cybersecurity even further in 2025! #AutomatedSecurityValidation #Pentera #CybersecurityLeadership #buisnessgrowth

O2 has unveiled the newest member of its fraud prevention team, ‘Daisy’. As ‘Head of Scammer Relations’, this AI Granny’s mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of their time as possible with human-like rambling chat to keep them away from real people, while highlighting the need for consumers to stay vigilant as the UK faces a fraud epidemic. What if fraudsters will start using AI to talk with Daisy? More fun is ahead. https://lnkd.in/et36stkD #AI #innovation #cynersecurity

Congratulations to the teams at Protect AI, Sweet Security, Halcyon, Phosphorus Cybersecurity Inc. and Torq for making Kyle Alspach’s 2024 CRN top 10 list for cloud and AI startups, his CRN top 10 cybersecurity stellar startups list and Arctic Wolf for CRN Product of the Year. Tremendous 2024 and look forward to an exciting 2025. #evolutionportfolio, #defendandprotect, #cybersecurity https://lnkd.in/esJ3b6rE https://lnkd.in/ewKV7HRy

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Partnering with Evolution at the intersection of AI & Cybersecurity Evolution Equity Partners has been at the forefront of investing at the intersection of AI & Cybersecurity since its early investment in Cognitive Security in 2012 (acquired by Cisco). Since then the firm has led investments in AI, Automation category leaders including Quantexa, Defined.ai, Augment Code, Snyk, Pentera, Arctic Wolf, SecurityScorecard and others . More recently our investment in Halcyon was profiled together with Protect AI and Torq - with several stealth investments at the forefront of AI & Cybersecurity - and more to come soon: Crunchbase: "Another big round came just last month, when anti-ransomware firm Halcyon announced a $100 million Series C that values the company at $1 billion. Austin, Texas-based Halcyon has developed a platform that uses AI and machine learning trained on ransomware to reverse the effects of a ransomware attack — making sure businesses’ operations are never actually impacted by an attack. Its Series C was led by Evolution Equity Partners, a busy investor in the AI cyber space that also led big rounds for Torq and Protect AI.” #defendandprotect #EvolutionPortfolio #Cybersecurity #AI https://lnkd.in/eu_h-MNa

New #DrivingAlpha podcast out today! 📢 Richard Seewald from Evolution Equity Partners joins to discuss: What’s next for #cybersecurity & #AI? 💡 How AI-driven automation is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape. 💡 The rise of Israel as a global hub for cybersecurity innovation. 💡 30+ years of investing in disruptive tech. Don’t miss this insightful conversation on the future of tech and #VentureCapital! 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gyG5hqXD A special thanks to our sponsor, Affinity.co!

Thank you to Evolution Equity Partners for hosting Josh Morris, Torq's CRO, at their Evolution Equity Partners Annual Investor Meeting 2024 to showcase how Torq is revolutionizing security teams by helping them achieve a fully autonomous SOC 🚀 🔊 VOLUME UP: Richard Seewald, Founder and Managing Partner of Evolution Equity Partners, shares the key reasons why his team doubled down on their investment in Torq

Evolution Equity Partners is pleased to have held its 2024 Annual Investor Day in New York City. Thank you to our investors, portfolio companies, partners and team for a tremendous day embarking on a journey into the future of investing in cybersecurity and technology safeguarding our digital world. A special thanks to our presenting portfolio companies including Protect AI | Ian Swanson, Torq | Josh Morris, Halcyon | Jon Miller and Phosphorus Cybersecurity Inc., | Chris Rouland, Thank you to Marco Poletti, of Goldman Sachs for his insights and views on capital markets in 2025, Thank you to Walter Isaacson author of biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna and Elon Musk who delivered a talk on timeless leadership, Thank you to Jen Easterly, Director of CISA Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who with our Founder and Managing Partner Richard Seewald delivered an awesome wide ranging fireside chat. Founder and Managing Partner, Dennis Smith for the wisdom and inspirational talk. John Katko and the Hill East Group, LLC for the strong support and the entire Evolution team for the hard work and skill delivering yet another successful year. #EvolutionPortfolio, #DefendandProtect, #Cybersecurity