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CyberStart Ventures

VC
New York, NYWebsite
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Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$100K – $500K

AUM

$1.4B

Portfolio

4+ companies

Team

8 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused exclusively on early-stage companies building solutions for cybersecurity infrastructure, compliance monitoring, and secure systems.

Meet the Team

LS

Lior Simon

General Partner

Cybersecurity investing
Seed & early-stage companies
Portfolio support / Board roles
LS

Laura Stevens

Managing Partner

Cybersecurity
RegTech
Compliance Tech
GR

Gili Raanan

General Partner

Cybersecurity
Early-stage venture investing
Mentorship
Board governance
HZ

Hila Zigman

General Partner

API/security products
Founder/operator backgrounds
Scaling product & engineering
Growth to exit
EH

Emily Heath

General Partner

Early & late stage cyber ventures
Enterprise security operations
CISO-level insights
DK

Dor Knafo

General Partner

Technical founders
Real-world cybersecurity architecture
Early-stage seed investing
AA

Adam Aarons

Partner

Go-to-market strategy
Scaling sales & revenue
Enterprise software GTM execution
PC

Pete Chronis

Partner

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Security

Does Not Invest In

Consumer

Portfolio Companies (4)

Other

LO

LogSecure

Compliance Tech
AU

AuditChain

RegTech
CY

CyberStart

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

The innovative gamified cybersecurity learning platform

HE

Helical Levity

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

First version of CyberStart built under this company name.

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