Forgepoint Capital
VC Fund
San Mateo, United States
Forgepoint Capital is a VC fund in San Mateo focused on Cyber Security and Software. Forgepoint is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with transformative cybersecurity and infrastructure software companies. With the largest sector-focused investment team, over $1 billion in AUM, and an active portfolio of nearly 40 companies, the firm brings over 100 years of collective company-building expertise and an AdvisoryCouncil of nearly 100 industry leaders to support exceptional entrepreneurs. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Forgepoint is proud to cultivate a diverse, global community dedicated to backing builders of the digital future. Learn more at https://www.forgepointcap.com and https://www.linkedin.com/company/forgepoint-capital/.
- Total investments:
- 90
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
- Fund size:
- $450M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Forgepoint Capital invests in
Stages Forgepoint Capital invests in
Countries Forgepoint Capital invests in
Contacts
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Damien Henault
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Andrew McClure
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Ernie Bio
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 34 (38%)
- Software 29 (32%)
- Information Technology 20 (22%)
- Network Security 16 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 14 (16%)
Stage
- Series A 31 (34%)
- Series B 30 (33%)
- Series C 6 (7%)
- Seed 4 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (3%)
Country
- United States 50 (56%)
- Spain 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- France 1 (1%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Damien Henault
Managing Director, Forgepoint Capital International
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Managing Director, Forgepoint Capital International | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Alberto Yepez
Co-founder and Managing Director
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Co-founder and Managing Director | Total investments: 30 | Find email | |
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Andrew McClure
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Donald Dixon
Co-founder and Managing Director
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Co-founder and Managing Director | Total investments: 36 | Find email | |
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Ernie Bio
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
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Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Discern Security
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Discern Security develops artificial intelligence software that helps organizations assess, prioritize, and remediate cybersecurity risks across enterprise environments. The company's platform integrates with security tools to consolidate posture, configuration, asset, identity, vulnerability, and compliance data into a unified operationalview for security teams. Its technology provides AI-powered analysis, risk prioritization, automated security controls assessment, remediation workflows, policy management, and security dashboards that support continuous monitoring and operational decision-making.Discern Security also offers autonomous AI agents that assist with posture evaluation, remediation planning, workflow orchestration, reporting, and cross-platform security management while maintaining governance and auditability. The company's platform is designed to help security teams improve visibility, automate routine security operations, optimize existing security controls, and manage cyber risk across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and software-as-a-service environments. | $13M / Series A / Jul 30, 2026 | |
DataBahn
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DataBahn provides an AI-powered platform designed for smarter data pipeline management, enabling the collection, integration, routing, and optimization of telemetry data with high precision and minimal friction. The platform assists organizations in securely collecting, enriching, orchestrating, and optimizing their enterprise data, focusing onenhancing information security and operational efficacy. By eliminating fragmented toolchains and reducing operational overhead, DataBahn delivers real-time insights, intelligent automation and immediate ROI—without added complexity. | $40M / Series B / Jul 30, 2026 | |
Sherpa.ai
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Sherpa.ai, based in Bilbao and Silicon Valley, is a leader in Artificial Intelligence services. Among its AI services are the white-label conversational Digital Assistant, predictive technologies, and the most advanced AI framework applied to data privacy in the world. Plus, Sherpa.ai has been named one of the top 10 leading Artificial Intelligencecompanies in the world, alongside Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM. In 2019, Tom Gruber, founder and ex-CTO of Siri, joined the team; and in 2020, marketing executive Joanna Hoffman, the former Marketing Director at Apple, became part of the team, along with Celestino García, the ex-Corporate Vice President of Samsung and current Vice President of Business Development at Sherpa.ai. Sherpa.ai’s Artificial Intelligence platform is designed to improve companies' results. Sherpa.ai has agreements with companies like Porsche, Volkswagen, Prisa, and Samsung, among others. To learn more about Sherpa.ai: http://www.sherpa.ai/ Sherpa Keynote 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPPvTCxg92o Sherpa.ai’s Response to COVID-19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E65xMrrqwFM | $18M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 06, 2026 | |
Qevlar AI
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Qevlar focuses on increasing the productivity of Security Operations Centers (SOC) through the use of AI technology. Qevlar's intelligent, zero-programming approach streamlines threat detection, reveals hidden automations, and accelerates response times. | $30M / Series A / Mar 10, 2026 | |
RAPIDFORT
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RapidFort provides software supply chain security solutions focused on identifying, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities in containerized applications without requiring code changes. The company’s platform combines curated near-zero CVE container images, automated scanning, profiling, and runtime protection tools to manage software attacksurfaces and support compliance workflows. RapidFort’s technology generates software bills of materials and runtime insights to help teams reduce exposure to vulnerabilities across the development lifecycle and integrate security into existing CI/CD processes. The platform is designed to assist engineering and security teams in streamlining vulnerability management and optimizing container security at scale. | $42M / Series A / Feb 03, 2026 | |
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RAPIDFORT
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RapidFort provides software supply chain security solutions focused on identifying, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities in containerized applications without requiring code changes. The company’s platform combines curated near-zero CVE container images, automated scanning, profiling, and runtime protection tools to manage software attacksurfaces and support compliance workflows. RapidFort’s technology generates software bills of materials and runtime insights to help teams reduce exposure to vulnerabilities across the development lifecycle and integrate security into existing CI/CD processes. The platform is designed to assist engineering and security teams in streamlining vulnerability management and optimizing container security at scale. | $42M / Series A / Feb 03, 2026 | |
Adaptive6
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Adaptive6 is a Cloud Cost Governance platform that addresses both cloud and code, providing a comprehensive approach to managing costs effectively. The platform empowers engineers to take immediate action on cloud costs and prevents waste at the code level, enhancing efficiency in cloud management. | $28M / Series A / Jan 28, 2026 | |
WitnessAI
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WitnessAI is building the guardrails that make AI safe, productive, and usable. It allows enterprises to innovate and enjoy the power of generative AI, without losing control, privacy, or security. | $58M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 13, 2026 | |
Nudge Security
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Nudge Security is a cybersecurity startup securing modern organizations through the power of the modern workforce. It offers a cybersecurity platform focused on managing risk across SaaS and generative AI tools at what it terms the “Workforce Edge.” It provides automated discovery of shadow IT, uncovering every cloud and SaaS asset in anorganization without needing intrusive agents or network changes. The platform then delivers real-time “nudges”—contextual, behavioral prompts—to employees when potentially risky behavior is detected, such as unsafe account configurations, weak passwords, or unmanaged app usage. Nudge also provides identity governance workflows, helping IT teams automate lifecycle management for user access, offboarding, and OAuth permissions. To support security teams in making informed decisions, it generates continuous insights on third-party risk, supply chain exposure, and app misconfigurations. The company emphasizes secure design: its systems encrypt data in transit and at rest, enforce least-privilege access, and hold SOC 2 Type II certification. | $22.5M / Series A / Nov 18, 2025 | |
1Kosmos
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BlockID is the pre-eminent global identity platform providing individuals with secure digital identity controls & service providers with powerful solutions to fight identity fraud while simplifying the user experience. Powered by advanced biometrics and blockchain technology delivered as a cloud service makes BlockID platform extremelypowerful, scalable and effective. The platform addresses a 60 year old Identity & Credentials issue in less than 60 minutes. | $47M / Series B / Aug 12, 2025 | |
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FAQ
What does Forgepoint Capital invest in?
Forgepoint Capital invests primarily in Cyber Security, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 90 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Forgepoint Capital includes Damien Henault (Managing Director, Forgepoint Capital International), Alberto Yepez (Co-founder and Managing Director) and Andrew McClure (Managing Director), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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