Richard Seewald
Founder and Managing Partner @ Evolution Equity Partners
New York, United States
Richard Seewald is a Series B investor at Evolution Equity Partners in New York focused on Cyber Security and Security. Richard Seewald is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Evolution Equity Partners. Richard previously worked at Benson Oak as a partner. Richard Seewald attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 52
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
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Industries Richard Seewald invests in
Stages Richard Seewald invests in
Countries Richard Seewald invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 19 (37%)
- Security 12 (23%)
- Software 10 (19%)
- Network Security 8 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (15%)
Stage
- Series B 10 (19%)
- Series A 9 (17%)
- Series C 9 (17%)
- Seed 6 (12%)
- Series D 6 (12%)
Country
- United States 14 (27%)
- United Kingdom 6 (12%)
- Israel 4 (8%)
- Italy 1 (2%)
- Spain 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Island is a cyber startup that provides a web browser for the enterprise to allow work to flow freely while remaining secure. It gives organizations complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile helping the enterprise with improved performance and helping businesses to minimize their cyber footprint and create a safe space forwork to flow, boosting both security and productivity. | $400M / Series F / Sep 24, 2026 | ||
| Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $400M / Series G / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $600M / Series G / Jun 02, 2026 | ||
| Elliptic provides blockchain analytics and crypto compliance tools that help organizations detect, assess, and manage financial crime risk in digital assets. It offers solutions for transaction monitoring, wallet and entity screening, cross-chain investigations, and real-time risk scoring. Its analytics platform allows users to visualize exposuretrends, investigate suspicious flows, and perform due diligence on tokens and counterparties. The company also delivers APIs and integration frameworks that embed blockchain intelligence into existing compliance workflows. Furthermore, Elliptic supports continuous monitoring of crypto activity and offers training and insight to teams managing digital asset risk. Their team pushes the limits, digging beneath the surface and peeling back the layers to expose the truth. They aim to prevent illicit cryptocurrency activity from casting a shadow on the technology and the future it represents for all of them. | $120M / Series D / May 12, 2026 | ||
| Legora develops an artificial intelligence software platform designed to support legal professionals in tasks such as document review, drafting, and legal research. The platform analyzes large volumes of legal documents, identifies relevant clauses or issues, and suggests edits or language based on prior legal materials and user inputs. Itintegrates with commonly used legal and document management tools, allowing lawyers to work within applications such as word processing systems and internal knowledge repositories. Legora also enables users to search legal databases and internal firm documents from a unified workspace, helping legal teams access information and precedents within a single interface. The system supports collaboration by allowing multiple users to review materials, generate summaries, and organize findings during legal workflows. Its software is used by law firms and in-house legal teams to manage research, document preparation, and information analysis associated with legal matters. | $550M / Series D / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| Kai is an agentic AI platform designed to execute cybersecurity tasks autonomously, integrating multiple security processes into a single workflow. It manages enterprise vulnerabilities, application security (SCA and SAST), identity security, log optimization, and threat detection with automated reasoning at machine speed. The platform performsthreat modeling, controls mapping, cyber asset enrichment, shadow IT discovery, regulatory compliance automation, and SBOM-based exposure profiling. Kai reduces manual workload by triaging vulnerabilities, distilling threat intelligence, and generating precise remediation guidance, enabling security teams to address actionable risks efficiently. It operates continuously, connecting insights across tools and silos, and provides a structured approach to assess, prioritize, and mitigate security threats while maintaining oversight and context across complex environments. | $125M / Series A / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| Torq is a no-code automation platform for security and operations teams. With Torq, frontline security professionals can easily create automated flows that help them respond to threats faster, remediate risks automatically, and deliver better security to their teams. Torq liberates security teams from the manual burden of managing threat detectionand remediation on a large scale. It ensures seamless communication and collaboration among all systems, enabling them to work together harmoniously. | $140M / Series D / Jan 11, 2026 | ||
| Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $400M / Series F / Dec 16, 2025 | ||
| Sweet’s Cloud Runtime Security Suite delivers first-to-market capabilities for defending cloud workloads, shifting cloud security right. Founded by retired, elite IDF commanders with prodigious expertise in offensive and defensive cloud security, Sweet’s approach elevates the ability of security teams to shut down cloud attacks when they occur,where they occur, with maximum precision and minimal business disruption. | $75M / Series B / Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| Armis provides an agentless cybersecurity platform that identifies, monitors, and protects managed, unmanaged, and IoT devices across enterprise environments. The platform continuously discovers assets connected to a network, assesses their risk, and detects threats in real time. It integrates with existing security tools to provide visibility andcontrol over devices without disrupting business operations. Armis uses behavioral analysis and contextual intelligence to detect anomalies and potential security incidents across IT, operational technology, and medical environments. Its platform is designed to support organizations in sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, and retail by enabling automated responses to potential threats. Armis also helps enterprises maintain compliance with industry standards and reduce risks associated with shadow IT and unauthorized device access. | $435M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 05, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
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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J.R. Smith
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Karthik Subramanian
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Richard Seewald
Founder and Managing Partner
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What does Richard Seewald invest in?
Richard Seewald invests primarily in Cyber Security, Security and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 52 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 most recent investment recorded for Richard Seewald closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 52 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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