Matt Devost
Managing Partner @ DEV Capital
Matt Devost is a seed investor at DEV Capital focused on Cyber Security and Software. Matt Devost is based out of Washington DC Metro Area, United States and is the Founder of OODA Ventures. Matt previously worked at CrossCountry Consulting as a Advisory Board. Matt Devost attended the University of Vermont.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Matt Devost invests in
Stages Matt Devost invests in
Countries Matt Devost invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 9 (45%)
- Software 6 (30%)
- Information Technology 6 (30%)
- SaaS 4 (20%)
- Network Security 3 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (55%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (15%)
- Series A 1 (5%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 13 (65%)
- United Kingdom 1 (5%)
Investments
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| Kovr.ai serves as a compliance copilot, allowing firms in highly regulated industries to rapidly adapt to changing regulatory frameworks and attain Authorization to Operate (ATO) readiness in minutes. | $3.6M / Seed / May 14, 2025 | ||
| Snowflake is decentralized and is deployed as a pluggable transport for Tor. | $3M / Seed / Jul 19, 2023 | ||
| Blackwire Labs is committed to combating the erosion of trust in AI-language models (LLMs) while addressing the pervasive shortage of cybersecurity expertise. Blackwire utilizes comprehensive multi-modal approach to address the trust issues associated with AI in cybersecurity, enabling defensible and immediately actionable solutions. | Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2023 | ||
| SaaS | $28.5M / Seed / May 30, 2023 | ||
| Start-up Studio: We build companies based on new ideas and engage in rapid technology prototyping to enable disruptive solutions for a variety of complex problems and opportunities.Growth Labs & Co-working: Established companies or new ideas looking for that extra boost can participate in our growth labs for meaninful mentoring, growth andstrategy advisory, and networking support. We provide capital, office space, and access to experts depending on your specific needs. Just want a cool place to work with great amenities and gigabit internet for your start-up, development work, or daytrading? We will offer a limited number of co-working offices and open desks.Brainstorming Community: Like Andy Warhol's famous Factory, we bring together the hackers, thinkers, strategists, disruptors, leaders, technologists, and creators for unique events on a variety of issues. | Seed / Jun 01, 2022 | ||
| Iconoclasm Inc. is the producer of Ramagine, a collaborative malware analysis platform Ramagine aims to change the cybersecurity and threat intelligence space by equipping tier three operators, analysts, and researchers with tools to collaborate and to protect us from the threats of the world with increased efficiency and ease of use. By offeringa SAAS product that combines a high tech disassembler, packet capture analysis engine, and collaborative intelligence report generation functionality we aim to make cyberspace a safer place for all of us. Our customers are in cyber security intelligence, malware incident response, academia, threat research, and vulnerability research & development. Gone are the days of spending hours setting up environments, screenshots, mass reply email lists and zipping virtual machine instances. There’s so much more that can be accomplished together than alone. We do all this while keeping real-time collaboration in mind. Users simply log in to Ramagine and they’re immediately locked and loaded; ready to take on any threats the bad guys throw at them, together with up to hundreds of other researchers. With us, they never have to go it alone.Ramagine provides an online platform to meet the needs of the good guys as the capabilities of attackers grow daily | Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2022 | ||
| Vollebak sells clothing products. That products include shirts, hoodies, jackets, shorts, accessories, and vests. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Their products serve consumers. | $10M / Series A / Nov 24, 2021 | ||
| The BreachRx incident management platform enables customers to leverage our expert library of regulatory best practices, actionable, automatically tailored incident response plans, and streamlined incident and breach response processes that reinforce legal privilege. Organizations can then get proactive with privacy and cybersecurity to prepare,respond and recover faster—saving millions of dollars in costs, time, and reputational damage. | Pre-Seed / Apr 30, 2021 | ||
| Hubble is a sector-defining SaaS platform that enables digital transformation and operational rigor. Through helping their customers become more secure, robust, and compliant, we can permanently solve the problem of technology asset visibility, laying the foundation for their digital transformation. | Seed / Aug 01, 2020 | ||
| Fuzzbuzz is a security platform that protects various software from digital hacks or attacks. It integrates fuzzing into DevOps workflow by automating away complex infrastructure management and setup and connecting with tools. The platform gives alerts when bugs are found, deduplicates, and categorizes them to cut out the noise and false positives,and allows them to easily analyze them via the web UI.Fuzzbuzz was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. | $2.7M / Seed / Apr 18, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About DEV Capital
We look to understand the exponential technological, scientific, and geopolitical factors that will impact the future as well as the phenomena on the edge that could present unexpected challenges or opportunities. Operators of the Hack Factory start-up studio in the Washington DC area.
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What does Matt Devost invest in?
Matt Devost invests primarily in Cyber Security, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 20 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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