Karthik Subramanian
Partner @ Evolution Equity Partners
San Francisco, United States
Karthik Subramanian is a seed investor at Evolution Equity Partners in San Francisco focused on Cyber Security and Software. Karthik Subramanian is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the partner of Evolution Equity Partners. Karthik previously worked at Barclays as a vice president of investment banking. Karthik Subramanian attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
Last updated:
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Industries Karthik Subramanian invests in
Stages Karthik Subramanian invests in
Countries Karthik Subramanian invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 9 (64%)
- Software 6 (43%)
- Network Security 6 (43%)
- Information Technology 6 (43%)
- SaaS 3 (21%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (29%)
- Series A 4 (29%)
- Series B 4 (29%)
- Series C 2 (14%)
Country
- United States 8 (57%)
- Israel 2 (14%)
- India 1 (7%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Investments
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Ox Security is the end-to-end software supply chain security platform for DevSecOps. | $60M / Series B / May 07, 2025 | |
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Anvilogic powers the modern Security Operations Center across Data Management, Detection Engineering & Maintenance, and Investigations & Response. By decoupling complex security workflows from data storage, breaking away from the traditional SIEM model, it solves: 1) Security Risks in reducing MTTD/MTTR, detection gaps, alert overload,data quality, detection maintenance & lack of data visibility 2) Accelerates the ability to complete tasks to the equivalent of having 9.5 additional analysts 3) Saves significant storage costs on data storage flexibility (while reducing vendor lock-in) 4) Automate & Orchestrate the most complex security organizational specific workflows. | $45M / Series C / Apr 17, 2024 | |
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Observe is an observability platform built on a streaming data lake for faster search and correlation at a lower cost. The company uses an O11y Knowledge Graph to structure logs, metrics, and traces as entities with semantic relationships. It also uses O11y AI to help resolve incidents faster and reduce costs. | $145M / Series B / Mar 27, 2024 | |
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Trugard Labs provides digital asset defense with cybersecurity and threat intelligence based compliance and risk automation. | Seed / Aug 01, 2023 | |
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Ox Security is the end-to-end software supply chain security platform for DevSecOps. | $34M / Seed / Sep 29, 2022 | |
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CybSafe is cyber security software that educates, nudges, and provides real-time, tailored cyber assistance to users via a mobile and web app. The platform for behavioral security and data analytics assists people in making better security decisions and improving their security behavior.It also provides metrics for security behavior, culture, andrisk reporting, allowing organizations to anticipate security issues. CybSafe is built on a data-driven model of human behavior and makes use of SebDB, the world's most comprehensive security behavior database. | $28M / Series B / Jun 06, 2022 | |
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AI-powered Dynamic Application Security Testing platform, fully and seamlessly integrates AppSec Testing automation into the SDLC, empowering developers to detect, prioritize and remediate security issues EARLY, without slowing down DevOps. Scan any target, whether WebApps or APIs, enhancing DevSecOps with real-time, actionable reports, with NOfalse positives.The company was founded in 2018 and based in San Rafael, California, USA. | $20M / Series A / Mar 01, 2022 | |
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Satori Cyber’s Secure Data Access Cloud helps organizations maximize their data-driven competitive advantage by removing barriers to broad data access and usage while ensuring security, privacy, and compliance.The Satori Cyber Secure Data Access Cloud provides: - Continuous visibility and mapping for data flows and data stores - Activity-baseddiscovery and classification of data in real-time - Data security through granular, field-level data access controls and anomaly detection - Compliance through continuous monitoring and enforcement of data privacy policies - Seamless integration into any cloud or hybrid environment without impacting existing user and application access | $20M / Series A / Sep 14, 2021 | |
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TrueFort powers zero trust application environments with Fortress, the only real-time, behavior based, cloud-to-ground security platform. Fortress leverages advanced behavioral analysis, machine intelligence and automation to reduce excessive trust and related risks, addressing multiple security challenges in a single unified platform with agentsyou have already deployed. | $30M / Series B / Sep 08, 2021 | |
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Locale is a Control Tower for Ops Observability & Actionability which empowers operations and business teams to leverage their data and set up a simple monitoring and alerting system of record. With Locale you can:- Proactively alert your team members about issues that are likely to happen through alerts, so they can avoid them and increasetheir efficiency.- Identify the root cause with a standard procedure, so you can mitigate risk and improve problem-solving across your organisation.- Build a system of accountability by tracking and resolving issues | $1.3M / Seed / Aug 12, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Evolution Equity Partners
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
Evolution Equity Partners Contacts
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Aron Khurana
Associate & Head of Investor Relations
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Bernhard Vogeli
Partner, Chief Operating Officer & Head of Operations
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J.R. Smith
Partner
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Karthik Subramanian
Partner
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Richard Seewald
Founder and Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Karthik Subramanian invest in?
Karthik Subramanian invests primarily in Cyber Security, Software and Network Security startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Karthik Subramanian last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Karthik Subramanian closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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