CyRise
VC Fund
Melbourne, Australia
CyRise is a VC fund in Melbourne focused on Cyber Security and Information Technology. We offer a 3-month venture-backed accelerator program for cyber security startup founders from the Asia-Pacific region to join us in Melbourne. We give you $AUD 50,000 as part of a capped SAFE note, then do everything we possibly can to make you successful.
- Total investments:
- 34
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
Last updated:
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Industries CyRise invests in
Stages CyRise invests in
Countries CyRise invests in
Contacts
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Edwin Tay
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Kirstin McIntosh
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Scott Handsaker
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 19 (56%)
- Information Technology 17 (50%)
- Software 16 (47%)
- Security 12 (35%)
- SaaS 11 (32%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 26 (76%)
- Seed 8 (24%)
Country
- Australia 25 (74%)
- United States 4 (12%)
- India 1 (3%)
- Singapore 1 (3%)
- New Zealand 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Edwin Tay
Head of Program
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Head of Program | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Kirstin McIntosh
Head of Partnerships
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Head of Partnerships | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Scott Handsaker
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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6pillars.ai
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Australia's 1st fully automated cybersecurity and continuous compliance platform and service. 6pillars' AUTOMATE+ platform delivers continuous compliance and fully automated security remediation of misconfigurations from your pipeline to your AWS environments by leveraging controls across pipeline scanning, AWS-native security tools and6pillars’ patent pending technology and comprehensive control runbook library.Automated cybersecurity delivers faster compliance, increased security posture and *continuous* compliance with leading international standards like PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 and SOC 2, continuous protection detection and recovery from ransomware attacks and lower insurance premiums. | $34K / Pre-Seed / Feb 23, 2023 | |
Onqlave
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Onqlave provides a suite of services that address problems in storing and processing confidential data. | $34K / Pre-Seed / Feb 23, 2023 | |
Nullify
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Using open-source tools, vulnerability databases and large language models, Nullify gives developers actionable findings and fixes for security issues it finds in their workflows. | $765.9K / Pre-Seed / Feb 23, 2023 | |
Ensignia
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Ensignia is a company that creates cyber security tools with the intention of securing the entire software supply chain. The platform offered by the business promises to secure the supply chain by offering an automated checklist for each stage of the procedure, allowing businesses to fend off supply chain attacks. | $34K / Pre-Seed / Feb 23, 2023 | |
InfoSecAssure
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InfoSecAssure assists organizations in ensuring that they have the appropriate security controls in place in their business and across their supply chain to protect themselves from cyber security threats. Their cross-industry capabilities of they are delivered in an all-in-one secure platform. | $34K / Pre-Seed / Feb 23, 2023 | |
Darwinium
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Darwinium develops a decision technology platform to match security, fraud, and customer experience. It utilizes integrated machine learning, orchestration, and analytics to safeguard mobile apps, websites, and APIs against advanced automated attacks by protecting customer privacy and minimizing risk exposure with anonymization, masking, and securecomputing techniques. | $10M / Seed / Nov 03, 2022 | |
Seconize
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Cyber Risk, Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Compliance Management Seconize DeRisk Center is a cyber risk and compliance management SaaS product. We help customers to assess, monitor and manage their cyber risk on a continuous basis leading to 80% reduced breaches, optimize their security spend and ensuring compliance. It enables,executives to know their organizational risk profile, CISO to have a real time visibility across the infrastructure, and the IT teams to know the root cause and its remediation. Seconize offers Intelligence (AI/ML) driven automated, continuous risk assessments, and management that are unified across all IT assets and driven by impact. | $36K / Pre-Seed / Mar 15, 2022 | |
StackQL Studios
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StackQL is a simple, SQL based solution to deploy, configure, manage, and query cloud and SaaS resources - reducing deployment complexity, simplifying cloud security posture management and reducing cloud asset sprawl for customers. StackQL is extensible to all API enabled cloud and SaaS providers through its unique, “no code” to “low code”provider plugin architecture, making it a valuable and intuitive multicloud management solution. | $36K / Pre-Seed / Mar 15, 2022 | |
cysense
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Cysense creates and automates a security program. They offer cybersecurity objectives, from corporate collaborations to sales negotiations. It serves customers of the company to build cybersecurity programs without prior security experience or completely devoted teams. | $36.3K / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2022 | |
Apolyta
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Apolyta is driving the future of security engineering in order to significantly improve defense. Apolyta enables security engineering and seconds teams to measure and improve the effectiveness of defenses. Rather than repeating predefined playbooks, as traditional simulations do, Apolyta plays adaptively, changing the rules of the cyber wargame.Eligma, an Apolyta product, generates Adaptive Attacks™ that automatically evolve in response to security controls' responses. | $150K / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does CyRise invest in?
CyRise invests primarily in Cyber Security, Information Technology and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at CyRise includes Edwin Tay (Head of Program), Kirstin McIntosh (Head of Partnerships) and Scott Handsaker (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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