Evolution Equity Partners
VC Fund
New York, United States
Evolution Equity Partners is an international venture capital investor leveraging deep sector expertise to help exceptional entrepreneurs develop market-leading companies. The firm has a focus on cyber-security, enterprise software and consumer related opportunities and brings significant resources to portfolio companies seeking to expand ininternational markets. Evolution Equity Partners has invested in well-known companies including AVG Technologies, OpenDNS, Carbon Black, Onapsis, Security Scorecard, Cognitive Security, DF Labs, 60K Group and others. The firm purchases both primary and secondary shares investing in high growth businesses across multiple stages, primarily in North America, Europe and Israel. Visit us at www.evolutionequity.com or follow us on Twitter at @EvolutionEquity
- Total investments:
- 158
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 49%
- Fund size:
- $1.1B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Evolution Equity Partners invests in
Stages Evolution Equity Partners invests in
Countries Evolution Equity Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 11 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$17M
- Series A
- $5.5M–$50M
- Series B
- $12M–$75M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 39 (25%)
- Software 27 (17%)
- Security 21 (13%)
- Network Security 19 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 19 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 23 (15%)
- Seed 18 (11%)
- Series B 18 (11%)
- Series C 12 (8%)
- Series D 8 (5%)
Country
- United States 36 (23%)
- Israel 11 (7%)
- United Kingdom 9 (6%)
- Czech Republic 2 (1%)
- Italy 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aron Khurana
Associate & Head of Investor Relations
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Associate & Head of Investor Relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bernhard Vogeli
Partner, Chief Operating Officer & Head of Operations
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Partner, Chief Operating Officer & Head of Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
J.R. Smith
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
Karthik Subramanian
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
Richard Seewald
Founder and Managing Partner
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Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 52 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| The System of Action for Compliance, Risk & Fraud | Private Equity / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| Island is a cyber startup that provides a web browser for the enterprise to allow work to flow freely while remaining secure. It gives organizations complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile helping the enterprise with improved performance and helping businesses to minimize their cyber footprint and create a safe space forwork to flow, boosting both security and productivity. | $400M / Series F / Sep 24, 2026 | ||
| Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $400M / Series G / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Outerlimit provides AI security and governance for agentic AI systems, with controls for identity, access, risk assessment, and activity. | $16.1M / Pre-Seed / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Clay provides a platform for go-to-market teams to use unique data and AI. The platform offers access to over 100 data providers for contact information, firmographics, and other data points. It also includes an AI research agent to automate manual research and create flexible workflows. | $115M / Series D / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| QIZ Managing the new obstacles in cryptography and getting ready to switch to post-quantum cryptography | $17M / Seed / Jul 09, 2026 | ||
| NewCore is a security-first identity platform that governs every human and AI agent identity for the enterprise stack. The company discovers, maps, and governs all identities from a single scalable platform to enable the future of work and the agentic workforce | $50M / Series A / Jun 15, 2026 | ||
| Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $600M / Series G / Jun 02, 2026 | ||
| Elliptic provides blockchain analytics and crypto compliance tools that help organizations detect, assess, and manage financial crime risk in digital assets. It offers solutions for transaction monitoring, wallet and entity screening, cross-chain investigations, and real-time risk scoring. Its analytics platform allows users to visualize exposuretrends, investigate suspicious flows, and perform due diligence on tokens and counterparties. The company also delivers APIs and integration frameworks that embed blockchain intelligence into existing compliance workflows. Furthermore, Elliptic supports continuous monitoring of crypto activity and offers training and insight to teams managing digital asset risk. Their team pushes the limits, digging beneath the surface and peeling back the layers to expose the truth. They aim to prevent illicit cryptocurrency activity from casting a shadow on the technology and the future it represents for all of them. | $120M / Series D / May 12, 2026 | ||
| Legora develops an artificial intelligence software platform designed to support legal professionals in tasks such as document review, drafting, and legal research. The platform analyzes large volumes of legal documents, identifies relevant clauses or issues, and suggests edits or language based on prior legal materials and user inputs. Itintegrates with commonly used legal and document management tools, allowing lawyers to work within applications such as word processing systems and internal knowledge repositories. Legora also enables users to search legal databases and internal firm documents from a unified workspace, helping legal teams access information and precedents within a single interface. The system supports collaboration by allowing multiple users to review materials, generate summaries, and organize findings during legal workflows. Its software is used by law firms and in-house legal teams to manage research, document preparation, and information analysis associated with legal matters. | $550M / Series D / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| See all 158 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Evolution Equity Partners invest in?
Evolution Equity Partners invests primarily in Cyber Security, Software and Security startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 158 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Evolution Equity Partners's check size?
Evolution Equity Partners typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$17M at Seed, $5.5M–$50M at Series A and $12M–$75M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Evolution Equity Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Evolution Equity Partners?
The team at Evolution Equity Partners includes Aron Khurana (Associate & Head of Investor Relations), Bernhard Vogeli (Partner, Chief Operating Officer & Head of Operations) and J.R. Smith (Partner), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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