Lucas Nelson
Partner, Founder @ Lytical Ventures
New York, United States
Lucas Nelson is a seed investor at Lytical Ventures in New York focused on Cyber Security and Cloud Security. Lucas Nelson is based out of New York, New York and is the partner and founder of Lytical Ventures. Lucas previously worked at Evolution Equity Partners as a principal. Lucas Nelson attended The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 46%
Last updated:
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Industries Lucas Nelson invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 7 (54%)
- Cloud Security 5 (38%)
- Security 4 (31%)
- Software 4 (31%)
- Information Technology 4 (31%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (54%)
- Series A 5 (38%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 10 (77%)
- Singapore 2 (15%)
Investments
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| RAD Security offers a complete AI-driven platform that empowers organizations to secure their AI workloads and cloud infrastructure with real-time, behavior-driven defense. Building on its battle-tested Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) platform, RAD enhances its capabilities to help enterprises safeguard their AI systems as they grow and adapt.With a focus on proactive security and continuous adaptation, RAD Security enables businesses to confidently navigate the complexities of AI security while maintaining seamless, scalable protection. | $14M / Series A / Feb 24, 2025 | ||
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Cybersecurity SaaS assisting Companies with OS hardening | $2.1M / Seed / Dec 10, 2024 | |
| Security Infrastructure as a Service (SIaaS).LimaCharlie abstracts away the hard parts of information security and delivers them on-demand (or à la carte) at scale in a manner similar to any major cloud provider drastically reducing costs and effort. We supply all the tools to run an MSSP or SOC as well as providing API’s that allow users tobuild and monetize their own products. | $10.2M / Series A / Feb 08, 2024 | ||
| Arcanna.ai develops an AI-powered cybersecurity platform with the goal of increasing security operations efficiency by augmenting and scaling SOC analyst capacity. Arcanna.ai enables experts to train context-aware AI models that incorporate their cybersecurity and organizational distinctiveness knowledge and experience. For addressing today'sand tomorrow's attack volumes, Arcanna.ai employs an innovative and proprietary method for expert knowledge integration into a neural net that combines a continuous human feedback-loop, natural language processing, and deep learning. | $3.5M / Seed / Dec 19, 2023 | ||
| Security Management is a data problem. Tauruseer is the ONLY analytics-driven Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform with patented security analytics and threat detection capabilities. Give your Security, Engineering & DevOps teams back valuable time and help reduce the cognitive load from all the tool data with actionableinsight. | $3M / Seed / Nov 01, 2022 | ||
| Netmaker is an open-source platform with a modern virtual networking solution on wireguards. | $2.3M / Seed / Oct 20, 2022 | ||
| HackNotice provides a company-wide threat intelligence service that alerts and informs employees of their risks and has them practice good security practices to protect themselves and the company. We help protect your business by making sure you know when hackers steal your data, identities, or threaten your partners and suppliers. With the largestcollection of data breaches and leaks on the market, HackNotice alerts you to your business risks, preventing breaches and providing peace of mind. | $7M / Series A / Jun 06, 2022 | ||
| KeyCaliber enables cyber resilience and resource optimization for organizations by automatically identifying their "Minimum Viable Company" - the core essential cyber assets (servers, workstations, etc.) and applications that are needed for the organization to function in the face of a cyber attack or IT outage. | $2.6M / Seed / Nov 18, 2021 | ||
| Borneo is a modular platform that prevents data breaches and manages privacy compliance for hyper-growth companies. The platform enables discovery, classification, and create an inventory of info type mappings to various compliance requirements at scale. Borneo was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore. | $15.5M / Series A / Sep 06, 2021 | ||
| Borneo is a real-time data security and privacy observability platform that prevents data breaches and manages privacy compliance for hyper-growth companies. The platform provides continuous sensitive data discovery, classification, monitoring, and protection of your cloud data footprint. Borneo was founded in 2019 and is headquartered inSingapore. | $18M / Series A / Sep 06, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Lytical Ventures
Lytical Ventures is an NYC based venture fund which focuses on corporate intelligence including Cyber Security, Data and Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. We are a robust team comprised of professionals with decades of combined experience in direct investing and extensive knowledge of our focus areas.
Lytical Ventures Contacts
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Lucas Nelson
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Steve Berg
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Craig Lifschutz
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Graham Carroll
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Jeffrey Keswin
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What does Lucas Nelson invest in?
Lucas Nelson invests primarily in Cyber Security, Cloud Security and Security startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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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