“The CMF team helped us land a large enterprise deal, introduced us to one of our key board of advisors, and also introduced us to our VP of product. When it came time to raise a series A… [they] introduced us to our leading investors. We almost had a daily cadence during closing of the deal.”
Mission & Values
Remaining humble, disciplined, and true to the entrepreneurial spirit, we see success as a team sport. We work hard together, fighting shoulder to shoulder, with everyone in our community. We understand the journey is part of the reward and expect the same disciplined drive from our portfolio companies to our Limited Partners and beyond. CMF leverages a focused community-centered approach and works with the most impactful leaders and VCs in cybersecurity, building a unique coalition around each portfolio company that drives the most direct line to growth.
Created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, CMF backs the most robust and innovative security solutions aimed to make enterprises and governments more secure online. When our companies win, everyone wins.
What We Do
CMF IS THE LEADING CYBERSECURITY MENTORSHIP FUND
A Mentorship Fund functions as a community-centered program that surrounds early-stage companies with hands-on mentoring. By providing the entrepreneurs and their startup with a coalition of active entrepreneurs and operational luminaries, Mentorship Funds are better positioned to bring differentiated mentorship tailored to each company’s individual needs. Successful Mentorship Funds work together with entrepreneurs to properly scale their businesses and provide access to the industry knowledge they need to flourish.
To succeed as a Mentorship Fund, CMF dedicates money, aggressive effort, and our community of visionaries to mentor the next-generation of cybersecurity leaders.
MENTOR
CMF works fast to help our portfolio grow. We mentor before and after funding, mapping entrepreneurs to methods, processes, and industry experts that will provide the biggest impact from day one.
CONNECT
CMF knows the synergy of community yields the largest impact. We leverage our global network of 50+ advisors, limited partners, friendly early adopting practitioners, and industry luminaries to support, educate, and promote the portfolio.
DISRUPT
CMF invests to fill the gaps within cybersecurity by betting on entrepreneurs who have a drive towards disruption and operate as continuous learners. By supporting these special entrepreneurs and their emerging novel technologies, we are pushing the limits of cybersecurity solutions.
Hear first hand from who we’ve helped
“Proofpoint was my acquirer, but that would have never happened if twelve months before the acquisition, Tim hadn’t made a personal introduction.”
“Tim has given me some great advice, some great coaching and mentorship, and that’s not only benefited me, but it has had a huge impact across the company as well.”
“Tim and I have met every Sunday for many years, talking about the ins and outs of the problems and the issues being faced in a small but growing company, and that’s been completely invaluable to me.”
“From our first meeting, we could tell that they were different. They knew who we were, they understood what we were building, who it was for, why they would love it. As soon as they saw our vision and our hustle, they dived in to help with everything else.”
“[CMF] understands the space very well and can guide us both from the product side and the messaging side…as a first time CEO, it’s great to have CMF at your side for the vast operational experience to help you, and to mentor you as you grow the company.”
“[CMF was] incredibly helpful with our Series A. They helped connect us with a number of potential investors. They helped us through the process and eventually, our round was oversubscribed.”
“CMF provided us with decisive mentoring when we needed it most… Tim and Joe got us through a tough time leading to a successful financing… They frequently engaged with the board, were first to commit to participate in the funding, and even helped us with key contracts.”
“CMF provided excellent access to security thought leaders in the space and made introductions to 10 pilot customers who are giving us the feedback needed to bring an impactful solution to the market.”
“Having Tim on our board provided valuable insights, mentorship, and advice. The strategic advice Cyber Mentor Fund gave us provided us alternative growth solutions, allowing us to grow faster.”
CMF Catapult Program
Our Catapult Program uniquely offers hands-on mentorship, strategic partnerships, and disciplined expertise, helping startups accelerate through the early-stage minefield of going to market. With the support of our network of industry luminaries and early adopting practitioners, the program is designed to catapult startups to the next stage of business development with a three phase approach: Ready, Aim, Launch.
Cyber Mentor Fund takes pride in the entrepreneurial experience because that is who we are. As Fellow Founders, we have gained industry knowledge through high-level experiences. Through founding cybersecurity companies and mentoring other startups, we have experienced and identified the inefficiency of bringing cybersecurity startups to market and built a unique growth roadmap to overcome those inefficiencies. This all leads to a disciplined, insightful, and hardcore investment and mentorship model.
Our Companies
CMF is proud to invest in game changing companies that are solving real and urgent problems that haven’t been addressed, leading to a critical impact on the security integrity of enterprises and governments.
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allows organizations to create their own private networks, connecting all users, devices, and services with the industry’s first Secure Global-LAN.
Website: ananda.net
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transforms existing compliance-focused risk assessment into an effective, enterprise-wide security evaluation.
Website: blue-lava.ne
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is an artificial intelligence powered zero day brand protection that puts an end to counterfeit websites targeting your brand.
Website: bolster.ai
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solves complex AI risks for national security and highly-regulated industries.
Website: calypsoai.com
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accelerates the global trust economy and simplifying the hiring process with a human risk intelligence solution.
Website: certn.co
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protects trade secrets, intellectual property, and client data against negligent users and malicious insiders.
Website: cyberhaven.io
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offers autonomous attack surface testing to find blind spots and mitigate exposed attack vectors.
Website: cycognito.com
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manages social media risk for regulated industries.
Website: deepview.com
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passively identifies assets and communications, detects industrial cyber security threats through behavioral analytics, and provides security teams with guided investigation and response.
Website: dragos.com
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closes the last gap in data security by protecting Data in Use.
Website: enveil.com
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understands cyber adversary infrastructure and communication to that infrastructure.
Website: hyas.com
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investigates, automates and scales threat hunting and investigation, eliminating investigative backlogs and prioritization bias to dramatically reduce dwell time and risk.
Website: kognos.io
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harnesses artificial intelligence to stop social engineering and human identity attacks.
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ensures the appropriate data access controls are in place to meet the evolving data privacy landscape of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
Website: okera.com
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combines robust cyber security tools with broad insurance coverage to secure the SMB.
Website: meetpaladin.com
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enables insurance providers to scale their cyber line of business using curated security data for accuracy, AI for advanced risk assessment, and workflow automation for efficiency.
Website: resilienceinsurance.com
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identifies and visualizes the human risk within an organization, and recommends tailored security awareness programs for employees to reduces the number of security incidents.
Website: securityadvisor.io
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a no-code, risk-defense layer to unify people, data, and technology in the fight against cybercrime.
Website: spec-trust.com
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the data backbone for third party and merchant risk assessments
Website: templarbit.com
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CMF invests in some kick-ass companies, a few of which are remaining in stealth mode.
Community
The synergy between CMF’s strong community of disciplined innovators and our deep industry expertise allows us to provide the largest impact to our portfolio and disrupt the future of cybersecurity.
Bi-annual visits to AWS, Azure, VMWare and others, helps form a close relationship with leading infrastructure and cloud providers. CMF founders gain an inside understanding and supportive role within the ecosystem.
Infrastructure & Platform Days
Bi-annual visits to AWS, Azure, VMWare and others, helps form a close relationship with leading infrastructure and cloud providers. CMF founders gain an inside understanding and supportive role within the ecosystem.
CMF hosts industry executives, early adopters, and thought leaders alongside our portfolio for exclusive, high-end networking dinners. These intimate events provide an opportunity for our founders to grow as entrepreneurs, learn market needs, and showcase their domain expertise.
Global Executive Dinners
CMF hosts industry executives, early adopters, and thought leaders alongside our portfolio for exclusive, high-end networking dinners. These intimate events provide an opportunity for our founders to grow as entrepreneurs, learn market needs, and showcase their domain expertise.
CMF puts on high-profile events surrounding most cybersecurity conferences and conventions. We bring together industry visionaries, executives, and trusted customers to join in on panel conversations and networking lunches. In conjunction with a high-profile panel, the CMF portfolio is showcased through elevator pitches and product demos.
Cybersecurity Conventions & Showcase Opportunities
CMF puts on high-profile events surrounding most cybersecurity conferences and conventions. We bring together industry visionaries, executives, and trusted customers to join in on panel conversations and networking lunches. In conjunction with a high-profile panel, the CMF portfolio is showcased through elevator pitches and product demos.
We bring together the CMF community for high-value happy hours, fire-side chats, and other internal growth focused events. By creating an intimate setting, our founders can promote innovation as a company and get unique mentorship to the needs of the market and insights to their target buyers and users.
Founder + Market Leader Events
We bring together the CMF community for high-value happy hours, fire-side chats, and other internal growth focused events. By creating an intimate setting, our founders can promote innovation as a company and get unique mentorship to the needs of the market and insights to their target buyers and users.
By hosting misfit webinars and podcasts, we offer an opportunity to promote portfolio domain expertise towards extended marketplaces, both nationally and internationally. Our uniquely structured public facing misfit events build industry trust and thought leadership in our community, our founders, and their products.
Misfit Events
By hosting misfit webinars and podcasts, we offer an opportunity to promote portfolio domain expertise towards extended marketplaces, both nationally and internationally. Our uniquely structured public facing misfit events build industry trust and thought leadership in our community, our founders, and their products.
12.03.20
Navigating Cybersecurity Start-Up Sales in the age of a Distributed Workforce
| As per the misfit way, we’ll cut to the chase and highlight how security startups can best attack the changed budgets. Our panel of misfit leaders will tell you exactly what works: how to sell, who to sell to, and what corporate cyber leaders need right now. |
01.21.21
People, Processes, and Product: A Misfit Look at the Cybersecurity Trends of 2021
| The panel of misfit thinkers will look into the mistakes of histories past and present, and will be brutally honest how to stay ahead of the curve and prepare for the people, process, and product trends that are expected to shape 2021. |
09.24.20
Cybersecurity Budgets in the Age of the Distributed Workforce
This panel of misfit thinkers and budget handlers will look at what in security spending and budget allocation has been broken, where organizations are still engaging with innovative technology, and how budget handlers get shit done, fast.
download resource02.25.20
CMF Presents: Early Adopter Meet Early Thinkers
A networking breakfast with a panel of high-powered security executives discussing the impact of early stage technology adoption. Offering insights to start-ups and security entrepreneurs looking to get involved with their first customers and executive offices and enterprises exploring early technology.
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Misfits + The State of Cybersecurity
| Our panel of misfit CISOs and industry thought leaders will offer insights into their top of mind security concerns, why and where they will continue to adopt innovative, early technology, their pivoted priorities due to COVID impact, and will give advice to security entrepreneurs looking to get break into the market in this new environment. |
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Our team is attending #BlackHat21 this week & looking forward to connecting with you in person. If you’re at the live event & want to meet, let us know here https://t.co/oh2NDvoYRI. For those who are attending remotely, we’ll see you in our virtual booth.
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Attending the Black Hat CISO Summit? Don't miss Dragos's own @hacks4pancakes discuss what you can reasonably expect of your #cybersecurity incident response provider and how to identify good quality response versus poor service. Agenda here: https://t.co/XGX9ZcvMa2 #blackhat2021
ICYMI: Stream "Business Insurance's Specialty Insurance Webinar: Cyber Security," featuring Michael Phillips of Resilience, Scott Godes of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, and Thomas Reagan of Marsh.
Watch here: https://t.co/L6yiaTOEcY #ransomware #cyber #cyberinsurance
When properly armed and educated, humans become the strongest asset in effectively securing networks and keeping cybercriminals on the outside. Learn how nudge theory is an effective tool in combating sophisticated #phishing techniques on the blog.
Combat Risky Behaviors with The Nudge Theory
Today, cyber and ransomware attacks have reached a level of national crisis, garnering attention from global leaders who are now strategizing on how t...
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Join Dragos Principal Industrial Hunter @serino_gus on tomorrow's @ISA_Interchange panel discussion on #ICS #OT #Cybersecurity in the Power and Water sectors. Register now https://t.co/q2LMyjzMNB.
Our customers understand the need to discover and protect their entire attack surface. Learn how we’re helping them eliminate cybersecurity risks before attackers can exploit them: https://t.co/vAHZaibgfn
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