Cyber Defense Investors
CapLink currently tracks 18 verified investors focused on Cyber Defense — a small but growing slice of the global funding landscape.
The mix is led by VC, PE/Buy-Out and Business Angel. Deal coverage spans Seed through PE/Buy-out, with the largest concentration at Series B.
Investor headquarters cluster in United States, Canada, Mexico, France and Israel, with activity across 68 countries in total. Ticket sizes range from roughly $50K to $200M, covering early angel cheques through to growth-stage rounds.
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Cyber Defense investor database
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cyber•Fund is a holding company that invests in, analyzes and develops innovative blockchain projects with the aim of creating economies of robots and self-expressive individuals. |
Founded in 2016, Cyber Capital is a fundamentals-driven cryptocurrency investment manager based in Europe, focusing on high-conviction digital assets with tangible utility and institutional-grade governance. |
![]() We invest in companies with technologies applicable to national security (deep tech, aerospace / defense, healthcare, cybersecurity, AI, etc) |
We invest in cybersecurity. |
Wind Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed to series B, seed and early-stage investments. The firm typically invests in the AI, space, and defense, internet, technology, luxury goods, service, new mobility, renewable energy, sustainable building, security, sustainable agriculture, clean air initiatives, climate, deep tech, Exit, fintech, industry 4.0, lifestyle and SaaS sectors. Under new mobility it prefers to invest in urban transport infrastructure, alternative fuels, green logistics. Under renewable energy it prefers to invest in alternative power sources, green batteries & storage, affordable heating. Under sustainable building it prefers to invest in new materials & equipment, energy-efficient construction, autonomous buildings. Under security it prefers to invest in industry security, disaster resilience, consumer guidance, robotics, cyber security. Under sustainable agriculture it prefers to invest in food security, precision farming, agbots, water preservation. Under clean air initiatives it prefers to invest in air pollution reduction, carbon capture, renewables, Green IT, and waste management. It also provides advisory services at a later stage of development, it helps start-ups and SME to define their consolidation or exit strategy, by connecting buy-side and sell-side partners through their network of VCs and industrials based in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The firm primarily invests in French and European companies. The firm prefers to invest between €0.10 million ($0.11 million) and €5 million ($5.86 million). Wind Capital is based in Paris, France, with additional offices in Paris,France, San Francisco, California. |
9Yards is a $1B+ venture and growth fund focused on foundational industries, including diversified software, cyber/defense, fintech/insurtech, and supply chain tech. |
![]() Fortify Ventures LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in startup/seed, emerging growth, growth capital and early-stage investments. It invests early in people building innovative and disruptive technologies for human health, the future-of-work and the infrastructure that powers them both. Within infrastructure, it invests in energy, cyber, defense, manufacturing and industrial. It also invests in deep or defensible technology sectors. The firm only invests in businesses based in the USA, Europe, and Israel, formed as Delaware C-Corps. The firm typically invests between $0.1 million and $2 million as first checks into pre-Series-A rounds. The firm targets 7% ownership with the first check. The firm does not specifically looks for a controlling stake. It either leads rounds or participates in them. Fortify Ventures LLC was founded in June 2011 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia with additional offices in New York City, New York; Ashburn, Virginia and Los Angeles, California. |
![]() Stonewall Capital specializes in making direct investments. It makes private equity / buyouts and venture capital investments in early venture and middle market companies and is involved in growth capital and buyout transactions. The firm invests in oil and gas field services, aerospace research and development, printing services, environmental and facilities services, internet and direct marketing retail, online services, services outsourcing, security software, and network security. It seeks to invest in Midatlantic and Southeast. It invests in small and middle sized companies. The firm invests in sectors such as technology, business, business services, manufacturing, and energy. Within technology it invests in defense and aerospace engineering research and development, cyber security, software, internet, and mobility. Within business services the firm invests in IT outsourcing, IT security, professional services staffing, and software as a service (SaaS). Within manufacturing sector it invests in aerospace and 3D printing and within energy sector it invests in oil and gas services, environmental, Acquisition, and E&P. Stonewall Capital is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. |
Lioncrest Ventures is a principal investment firm specializing in growth capital and emerging growth investments. It provides both equity and debt to companies. It typically invests in the AI driven B2B technology/software companies including FinTech, cyber security, digital health, supply chain/logistics, defense/GovTech and LegalTech sectors. It seeks to invest in the US and in Israeli founders building and expanding in the US. It seeks to invest in companies with an ARR between $1.5 million and $6 million. Lioncrest Ventures is based in the United States. |
LLR Partners, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in expansion and growth capital, emerging growth, late stage growth, buy and build, acquisitions, corporate divestitures, generational transitions, add-on acquisitions, recapitalizations, buyouts, PIPEs, shareholder liquidity, lower middle market and working capital financing in middle market companies. It does not invest in biotechnology and real estate sectors. The firm seeks to invest in technology and service-based businesses with a focus on business services, fintech, industrial, healthcare services, financial services, consumer and education services, software and information technology services, and security, defense, and government sectors. Within business services, it focuses on business process outsourcing, document and information management, marketing services, customer care, fixed asset management, human capital management, human resources outsourcing, staffing and search, information services and business intelligence, professional and consulting services, transportation and logistics, 3PL, warehouse and inventory management, supply chain management, and reverse logistics. Within the education sector, the firm focuses on early education, K-12, post-secondary, education technology, continuing education and training, specialty services. Within the consumer sector, it focuses on health and wellness, restaurants, specialty retail, and Internet retail. For investments in B2B Payments it seeks to invest in Accounts payable automation, Accounts receivable automation, Closed loop networks, Cross-border payments, Business expense management, Virtual card gateway, Enterprise and recurring billing, Accounting software. For investments in marketing services, the firm invests in direct marketing, marketing technology, and data analytics and management. Within the healthcare sector, it focuses on outsourced services, post-acute care, pharmaceutical services, distribution, diagnostics and monitoring, ACO services, payment integrity, alternative site, managed care, payor services, pharmacy benefit management, disease and benefits management, healthcare software and information services, healthcare information technology, revenue cycle management, practice management software, consulting services, and data analytics and informatics. Within the software and information technology sector, the firm focuses on technology enabled business services, information technology services, solutions, data/ information services, enterprise software, data management, business intelligence, infrastructure and systems software, vertically-focused Software, on-premise software and SaaS deployment, and application software. For security investments, the firm invests in physical/electronic security, security monitoring, video surveillance and analytics, cyber security, access control, biometrics and identity management, building automation and controls, critical infrastructure protection, information and network security, security information and event management (physical and IT), and risk management. Its defense investments focus on command & control (C2), communications and networking, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), unmanned systems, embedded processing and high performance computing, electronic warfare (EW), advanced research and technology development, training and simulation, signal processing, enterprise-level systems engineering, data analytics, and intelligence analytics. Within government services, it invests in health information technology, big data, cloud computing, enterprise it management, border / perimeter security, public safety and emergency communications, mobile device management, SETA and program delivery support, and analytics (FWA). Within the financial services sector, it focuses on marketing service, ecommerce services, and targeting and scoring, specialty finance, commercial finance, mortgage banking, collections, insurance service providers, insurance technology solutions, insurance distributors, investment managers, broker-dealers, data and analytics, trading platforms, eBrokerage, capital markets technology, transaction and payment processing, prepaid cards, alternative payments, banking solutions, outsourced services, fraud and compliance management, financial technology and services providers. It prefers to invest across United States with focus on Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Richmond, Washington D.C, the Mid Atlantic, Denver, Colorado, and Eastern United States regions. The firm typically invests between $25 million and $200 million in transactions ranging from $20 million to $250 million in value. It primarily invests in companies having revenues between $10 million and $250 million and customer base with an addressable market of at least $500 million. The firm seeks to invest in businesses with annual revenue and earnings growth in excess of 10% and gross margins of over 40%. Its capital structure includes a mix of preferred and common equity and senior debt and it tends to significantly under leverage its investments. The firm seeks to exit its investments between three and seven years through strategic sale, initial public offering, or recapitalization. It makes both minority and majority investments and takes a board seat in its portfolio companies. It can either act as a lead investor or can co-invest in transactions. LLR Partners, Inc. was founded in October 1999 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with additional office in Arlington, Virginia. |
![]() Joule Ventures LLC. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in pre-seed, seed/startups, and early-stage companies. It focuses on companies which are at a mid to late phase of R&D. The firm seeks to invest in the emerging technology market which includes B2B solutions in the areas of cyber and information security, software, telecommunications, defense, business and internet of things, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise technology. It seeks to invest in companies based in Israel and also focus on United States. It prefers to invest in companies with a short time to market and acquisition potential within a three-to-five-year period. The firm also provides advisory services to its portfolio companies. It also provides follow-on investments. Joule Ventures LLC., was founded on 2010 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia and New York, New York. |
FedCap Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in providing growth capital and advice to small and middle-market companies. The firm does not invest in 8(a) certified companies. It considers minority and majority investments in federal services and technology companies with a focus on cyber security; homeland security; defense including C4ISR, transformation, systems, support; intelligence agencies; healthcare; energy and environment; and other mission critical areas. The firm partners with owners that desire an active investor and are interested in a liquidity event in two to six years. It makes investments in the range of $1 million and $5 million into companies with revenues of $60 million or less. The firm prefers debt investments between $3 million and $5 million. FedCap Partners, LLC is based in Reston, Virginia. |
![]() Quadrillion Partners is a private equity firm specializing in corporate carve-outs, owner-operator transitions, take-privates, middle market, recapitalizations, industry consolidations, buyouts, distressed debt, distressed/vulture investments, restructurings, turnarounds, transformations, foreclosures, and bankruptcies. It primarily invests in later stage companies. The firm seeks to invest in industrial, security and defense, and technology sectors. Within industrial, it prefers to invest in manufacturing, industrial services, distribution services, logistics, construction equipment, water infrastructure, transportation, freight, electrical equipment, and agricultural equipment. Within security and defense, it prefers to invest in aerospace and defense, cyber security, video surveillance, network analytics, background /identity solutions, systems integration, security monitoring, armored transport services, location-based services, homeland security, sensors, and physical guard. Within technology and services, it prefers to invest in storage and networking, electronic data discovery, enterprise software, data center and cloud infrastructure, financial and healthcare technology, IT services, data and analytics, SaaS, semiconductors and components, computing and internet, and telecommunications. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in the United States and Canada. The firm prefers to invest in companies with equity investments between $25 million and $50 million having revenues between $30 million and $300 million. It targets companies with enterprise values between $20 million and $300 million. It seeks to invest in preferred or common equity structure. It participates in capital structure or management rollover equity. The firm also provides advisory services. Quadrillion Partners is based in Irving, Texas with an additional office in Southlake, Texas. |
![]() WHAT IS A SOC? Lets create one big SOC.It is already more than clear that a company cannot do without digital security planning, something that involves people, processes and technologies. However, it is not always. Feasible to set up an internal digital security team, dedicated to monitoring the structure,Both for budgetary reasons and demand priorities. A viable solution in this case is to. Seek a partnership with a SOC, which stands for Security Operations Center. SOC is a team – which may or may not be outsourced – wholly dedicated to analyzing. Traffic flow and monitoring threats and attacks. Thus, it is responsible for monitoring the company's security posture and any. Cybersecurity threats. The SOC helps protect all areas of an organization's IT. Infrastructure, including networks, software, and stored data. For that, it works non-stop, 24x7, to track events registered in the company's system and. Decide how such occurrences will be treated. They are usually supported by a team of. Security analysts, engineers and managers who work to respond immediately to security. Threats. The security operations center is also continually looking for ways to improve the. Organization's defense posture as well as prevent future cyber attacks.Millions of malicious Hackers, every day do pentest, when they are not. Awake, use they use artificial intelligence to track and monitor. Hackers invade systems, penetrate security cameras watching the daily. Steps of public and private officials. The networks where the cameras are connected do not have specific cyber security, most of the time the. Cameras are connected to a wifi network, login systems, passwords, emails, documents. Is an error the configurations of network of cameras. In union with the network of systems, logins, users, wifi, and others. Various hackers websites sell database with video of department of governments in various countries. Security camera systems have to be on a separate network, and via satellite. We at ShivaTec always use Starlink, the safest network in the world. Thus, the security camera systems are assured, a single direct connection only with the cameras, and a 100% secure network.SOC | BENEFITS.Safeguards national defense by. Sending digital threat reports, auditories, database to armed forces, schools, hospitals, governments. Deparment, companies of finances, groups, associations, ong's, and banks. In +16 countries.01.Eradicate the data leakage in 16.Countries (names, phones, emails,Documents, links, passwords and.Logins).02.Increase cyber strength in +16.Countries.03.Counter-hacker capacitation for law.Enforcement, teachers, health workers,Politicians teams, technology. Departments, finances departments, groups of investments, advocates, organizations public or private, associations of technology, constructories and imobiliaries, engineers companies, startups, universities, armed forces.PROFILE FOUNDER | Michel Silva.Specialist in DLP intranet, and SOC extranet.Specialist in scanners hacker for servers, logs, web, persons, emails, contacts.Specialist in implementations of softwares hackers for companies or partners.Specialist in trainning hackers using OSINT for teams or unity.Specialist in Web-intelligence, Unity-intelligence, Politics-intelligence, Threat-intelligence.Specialist in criteria and maturity per unit of employees (SALES/HR/ADMIN) relatory in levels: green, red, yellow.Specialist in risks and prevention using SAP.Specialist in simulations with sales/marketing/customer/teams/departments.Pioneering creator of the Cyberjuridic method and Google 0.Dr Michel Silva.Linkedin: https: //www. linkedin. com/in/michel-silva-52356953Instagram: @michel.bsbWhatsapp business: +5561999726043Email: michel1728@live.com |
![]() The White Oak Group, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in management-led buyouts, recapitalizations, growth capital, add-on acquisitions, and private companies. The firm does not invest in life sciences like drug therapy, biotech, and devices; except selected devices that generate proprietary ‘data exhaust’. It seeks to invest in lower middle-market IP-rich businesses and mature companies. The firm focuses investments around core competencies in government contracting, services and technology companies. It primarily invest in the following industry sectors: aerospace and defense technology and services with focus on sensors and analytics, command and control, cyber security, communication networks and services, and avionics and instrumentation; power technology services with a focus on planning and prevention, response, remediation, and monitoring; environmental technology and services with a focus on generation, storage, and management and optimization; and healthcare technologies and services with a focus on provider and payer solutions, high intensity data (sensors, monitoring, data transmission, and related information management), ‘data exhaust’ from proprietary sensors or devices, and solutions that automate complex processes or reduce administrative costs. The firm seeks to make investments in Southeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It seeks to make controlled equity and debt investments in companies with revenue between $5 million to $100 million and a minimum EBITDA of $1 million. The firm prefers to retain equity positions in its portfolio companies. The White Oak Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional offices in Washington, United States. |
![]() CCP Capital Strategies, LLC is the private equity arm of The Chart Group L.P. specializing in management buyouts, leverage buyouts, early venture, growth capital, recapitalizations, carve-outs, acquisitions of corporate divisions, and growth capital investments in smaller and lower middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in government services, intelligence, specialized communications, national security, information technology, critical infrastructure, cyber security & IA, aerospace & defense technology. The firm typically invests in companies headquartered in North America. It invests between $10 million and $50 million in companies with total enterprise value less than $250 million. It also arranges other forms of long- and short-term financing. The firm makes majority and minority investments in its portfolio companies. CCP Capital Strategies, LLC was founded in 2000 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut. |
![]() Moelis Capital Partners LLC is a private equity investment arm of Moelis & Company Holdings LP specializing in leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, growth equity, acquisition capital, structured equity, and recapitalization investments. It prefers to invest in control buyouts of middle market growth companies. It prefers to invest in partial recapitalizations which allow existing shareholders, founders or family members to maintain their desired level of ownership. It primarily invests in consumer, healthcare services, industrial services, and financial services. Within consumers, it seeks to invest in Food and Beverage: beer, wine, spirits, branded alcoholic, branded non-alcoholic, functional and premium, natural and organic,; Personal Care and Household Products: branded oral care, branded skincare, branded cleaners/housewares; pet: foods and treats, accessories, services; and Wellness and Consumer Services: differentiated fitness concepts, wellness oriented services, other consumer service. Within healthcare services, it seeks to invest in outsourced services which includes Hospital Outsourcing: anesthesia, pharmacy and pharmacy services, consumerism, care cost containment, HCIT, quality improvement; Population Management: ACO services, autism, chronic illnesses, dual eligibles; Outsourced Administrative Functions: services to ACOs, payors and providers; Specialty Diagnostics: personalized medicine, specialty diagnostic services, specialty lab testing; and Consumer Directed Services: alternative medicine, nutraceuticals, and weight loss. Within industrial and business services, the firm invests in aerospace, defense, and government services: C4ISR, cyber security and cloud computing/ Intel analytics, FBOs, MROs; Specialty Chemicals: automotive refinish products, building coatings, industrial coatings; Other Asset Light Services: oil and gas, information, marketing and loyalty services, environmental services; and Software and software-Enabled Services; health and lifestyle services. The firm also invests in education services, which include continuing professional education and certification, employment ecosystem, corporate management/compliance/security, consumerism, unmanned assets, electronics and components, aftermarket services. The firm typically invests in North America and Europe, however it can also invest globally. The firm primarily invests between $20 million and $60 million in companies with enterprise values between $50 million and $500 million and EBITDA between $5 million and $30 million. The firm seeks to act as the lead or the co-lead investor and provides active board oversight. It seeks to invest in companies which have a potential for build-up opportunities in fragmented industries. Moelis Capital Partners LLC was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Los Angeles, California. |
New State Capital Partners LLC is a private equity firm specializing in mezzanine investments in lower middle market companies, later stage, mature, buyout and turnaround investments. The firm seeks to invest in add-on acquisitions, Add-on investment opportunities, control buyouts, growth capital, industry consolidation, recapitalization, acquisition capital, corporate carve-outs, restructurings, shared governance, bespoke solutions, long-dated family office-type investments and preferred equity, junior and senior debt. The firm seeks to invest in manufacturing and consumer across the following end markets, special strategies, commercial, facility services, education & training, infrastructure services, IT services, professional services, tech-enabled services, aviation, business process outsourcing, consumer services, cyber security, financial technology, packaging, payments, specialty manufacturing, staffing services, utility services, waste management, environmental services, aerospace & defense, alternative energy, building products, business services, chemicals, consumer brands, contract manufacturing, financial services, food & beverage, healthcare (non-reimbursement), industrials, infrastructure, logistics, technology, telecommunications and transportation (including automotive). Within business services sector, the firm prefers to invest in professional, staffing, information supply chain, logistics and mobile services, collections, environmental, government services, and human resources. Within healthcare services sector, the firm prefers to invest in staffing, outsourcing, practice management, revenue cycle management, data and analytics, behavioral health, outpatient services, distribution and specialty providers. Within industrials sector, the firm targets industrial services, manufacturing, (including aerospace and automotive), chemicals, and materials. The firm invests in North America out of the locations including, Larchmont, New York; Newport Beach, California; Miami, Florida; Seattle, Washington and Boston, Massachusetts. The firm prefers to invest in fixed income with EBITDA of $3 million to $15 million with the maturities up to seven years. The firm seeks to invest between $10 million to $100 million of equity per transaction in companies with enterprise values between $25 million and $250 million. The firm seeks to invest in companies with EBITDA between $8 million to $40 million. The firm’s typical transaction value is between $25 million to $250 million. The firm also invests larger in certain cases. The firm leads equity investments and can also partner with independent sponsors. The firm seeks to make majority and minority equity investments in its investee companies. New State Capital Partners LLC was founded in 2013 and is based in Larchmont, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles, California; Newport Beach, California; Seattle, Washington; Miami, Florida and Boston, Massachusetts. |
Understanding Cyber Defense investors
What are Cyber Defense investors, and what do they look for?
Cyber defence sits closer to government procurement than to enterprise sales, and investors assess companies here against that reality rather than against commercial security benchmarks. The customers are defence ministries, intelligence services, national cyber agencies and the contractors serving them, and reaching them requires clearances, national presence and frequently a domestic ownership structure. A company without a route into those institutions has a technology rather than a business. Capability classification is the second question. Work in this area can involve export-controlled technology, dual-use restrictions and national security review of foreign investment. Investors want to know which controls apply, because they determine who can invest, who can acquire, and which markets are reachable. Third, they look at whether the capability is sustainable rather than momentary. Defensive tooling built around a specific adversary technique has a shelf life. Capability grounded in durable advantages, such as sustained research capacity, access to unusual data, or integration into national systems, holds value across changes in the threat picture, and investors distinguish sharply between them.
Why Cyber Defense is attracting investor interest
State-linked intrusion moved from intelligence briefings into public incident reports, and European governments responded with budgets. Attacks attributed to state actors against European government systems, energy operators and defence suppliers have been documented sufficiently that cyber capability is now treated as a component of national defence spending rather than a technology procurement question. Coordinated European investment followed. Defence funding instruments, national cyber commands and collaborative programmes have directed public money towards sovereign capability, with an explicit preference for suppliers under European ownership and control. The talent constraint shapes the market. Skilled offensive and defensive researchers are scarce and heavily recruited, and governments frequently cannot match private compensation, which pushes them towards procuring capability from specialist companies instead of building it internally. Investors are aware that this sector trades commercial flexibility for procurement access. Government contracts are long, substantial and slow, revenue is lumpy and tied to budget cycles, and the ownership restrictions that make you eligible also narrow the set of investors and acquirers who can participate.
Which funding stages Cyber Defense investors are active at
Funding here is shaped by clearance requirements and procurement timelines rather than by product cycles. Seed rounds back teams from national agencies, defence contractors or specialist research backgrounds. Credibility and existing relationships matter more than product maturity, because the customers do not buy from strangers. Series A generally requires an initial government contract or a framework position, which is a slow and documentation-heavy achievement. Investors understand that revenue lags well behind capability here, and rounds should be sized for procurement cycles measured in years rather than quarters. Series B and beyond funds expansion across national customers, which is harder than it appears because each country prefers domestic suppliers and may restrict foreign capability in sensitive areas. Companies frequently establish national subsidiaries with local ownership to address this. Investor composition is constrained throughout. Foreign investment screening across European states can block or condition non-European participation, and capital from certain jurisdictions may render a company ineligible for the contracts it was built to win. Founders should map this before accepting money rather than afterwards.
Types of investors active in Cyber Defense
Investors structured for the sector, holding the clearances and government relationships that determine access. They understand procurement timelines and budget cycles, and they will confirm early whether your ownership structure permits the contracts you are pursuing.
Public funding vehicles created to build European defence and cyber capability. Patient, substantial, and explicitly conditioned on ownership, location and technology control, which is the point rather than an inconvenience.
Investment arms of established defence contractors who hold the framework positions and customer relationships that young companies cannot obtain. They offer a route to procurement and a likely acquisition, at the cost of channel dependence.
Technical investors able to assess offensive and defensive research on its merits, and structured so their participation does not disqualify a company from sensitive work. A smaller group than general deeptech, and worth identifying specifically.
Domestic funds, sometimes state-backed, supporting companies in nationally sensitive sectors. Their involvement can be a prerequisite for eligibility in their home market and shapes where the company must be headquartered and staffed.
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