# Lytical Ventures

> Lytical Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Cyber Security and Software. See 39 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 39
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Fund size: $35M
- Last fund: Apr 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lyticalventures/
- Website: http://www.lyticalventures.com/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$10M |
| Series A | $7M–$16M |
| Series B | $17M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyber Security | 14 | 36% |
| Software | 12 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 28% |
| SaaS | 10 | 26% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 26% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 38% |
| Series A | 11 | 28% |
| Series B | 6 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 62% |
| Singapore | 2 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lucas Nelson | Partner, Founder | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-nelson |
| Steve Berg | Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-berg |
| Craig Lifschutz | Partner and Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-lifschutz |
| Graham Carroll | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graham-carroll |
| Jeffrey Keswin | Founder, Chairman, and Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-keswin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RiskFront | RegTech | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| MontyCloud | MontyCloud helps customers manage and monitor their cloud services, automate maintenance tasks, and manage governance, compliance, and provisioning. | $11.5M | Series B | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| Truffle Security | Truffle Security is a cybersecurity company that offers software solutions for managing private keys and credentials. Their software scans the system environment to identify private keys and credentials and tracks and manages code data that helps prevent potential security breaches before they occur. | $25M | Series B | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| Rad Security | 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 |  |
| Senteon | Cybersecurity SaaS assisting Companies with OS hardening | $2.1M | Seed | Dec 10, 2024 |  |
| VISO TRUST | VISO Trust is a SaaS third-party cyber risk management for the modern enterprise. VISO Trust puts reliable, comprehensive, actionable vendor security information directly in the hands of decision-makers who need to make informed risk assessments. | $7M |  | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| RiskProfiler | RiskProfiler IntroductionRiskProfiler is an AI-powered external threat exposure management platform designed to help organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate cyber risks that exist outside their traditional security perimeter. Powered by its proprietary KnyX AI, the platform unifies external intelligence, dark web monitoring, breachintelligence, brand protection, and third-party risk insights into a single, actionable view. Unlike siloed tools, RiskProfiler correlates threat signals across multiple domains to provide context-driven, prioritized intelligence, enabling security teams to focus on risks that truly impact the business.External Intelligence & Attack Surface Visibility RiskProfiler continuously maps and monitors an organization’s external attack surface—including internet-facing assets, cloud environments, third-party integrations, and digital footprints. - Discovers unknown and shadow IT assets - Maps attack paths from an adversary’s perspective - Correlates exposures across domains, vendors, and identities - Prioritizes risks based on exploitability and business impact By combining external attack surface management (EASM) with AI-driven analytics, RiskProfiler transforms fragmented signals into actionable external intelligence.Dark Web Monitoring & Threat Intelligence RiskProfiler provides continuous deep and dark web monitoring to uncover threats before they are weaponized. - Monitors TOR, underground forums, encrypted channels, and marketplaces - Detects stolen credentials, malware activity, and leaked data - Identifies early signs of targeted attacks and threat actor activity - Correlates dark web data with internal assets and identities The platform leverages agentic AI to filter noise, enrich data, and assign severity, ensuring teams can respond quickly to high-risk exposures.Breach Intelligence & Exposure Detection RiskProfiler delivers real-time breach intelligence, identifying compromised data across external sources. - Detects credentials from stealer logs, combolists, and breach dumps - Maps exposed data to affected systems, users, and vendors - Provides context such as breach origin, severity, and attack pathways - Enables rapid validation and incident response By linking breach data to business context, RiskProfiler helps organizations contain threats early and prevent account takeovers or lateral movement.Brand Protection & Digital Risk Protection RiskProfiler’s Brand Risk Protection capabilities safeguard organizations from digital impersonation and fraud. - Detects phishing domains, fake apps, and impersonation attempts - Monitors social media, marketplaces, and underground forums - Tracks identity misuse, fake accounts, and scams - Automates takedown workflows with evidence and confidence scoring Its AI-driven brand intelligence enables organizations to protect customers, executives, and digital identity at scale.Vendor Risk Intelligence & Supply Chain Security Modern enterprises rely heavily on third parties, increasing exposure across the supply chain. RiskProfiler provides vendor risk intelligence to manage these dependencies. - Monitors vendor breaches and external exposures - Maps third-party risk to internal assets and business impact - Identifies cascading risks across the supply chain - Prioritizes remediation based on exploitability By correlating vendor signals with attack surface and threat intelligence, RiskProfiler enables proactive third-party risk management.AI Exposure Management As organizations adopt AI technologies, new risks emerge. RiskProfiler helps manage AI-related external exposures by identifying vulnerabilities introduced through AI systems and integrations. - Detects exposed AI services, APIs, and data pipelines - Identifies misconfigurations and unauthorized access points - Monitors external AI-driven attack vectors - Prioritizes risks using AI-driven attack path analysis Through continuous monitoring and correlation, RiskProfiler ensures that AI adoption does not expand the organization’s attack surface unchecked.Unified, AI-Driven Risk Prioritization At its core, RiskProfiler’s KnyX AI correlates signals across all modules—external assets, dark web intelligence, vendor risk, and brand exposure—to deliver: - Context-rich risk scoring - Attack path visualization - Automated prioritization - Clear remediation guidance This reduces alert fatigue and enables security teams to focus on high-impact threats with confidence. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| LimaCharlie | 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 | 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 |  |
| Start Left® Security | 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 |  |

10 of 39 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Lytical Ventures invest in?

Lytical Ventures invests primarily in Cyber Security, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 39 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 Lytical Ventures's check size?

Lytical Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$10M at Seed, $7M–$16M at Series A and $17M–$30M 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 Lytical Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Lytical Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Lytical Ventures?

The team at Lytical Ventures includes Lucas Nelson (Partner, Founder), Steve Berg (Partner) and Craig Lifschutz (Partner and Managing Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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