Meet our new Cyrise Accelerator cohort
Five Australian cyber security startups get better, faster
SYDNEY, 23 February 2023, CyRise , the cyber security accelerator, announced today five Australian cyber security startups have commenced its Accelerator program.
CyRise Accelerator is backed by 澳大利亚迪肯大学 , Investment NSW and others. It takes place over three months hybrid in-person at Tech Central Sydney and remotely. In addition to learning sessions with industry experts, CyRise Accelerator facilitates introductions to venture capitalists, potential customers and startup coaches.
“Deakin’s partnership with CyRise enables Deakin to apply its commitment to cyber security research excellence and generate real economic growth,” says Virginie Hoareau , Executive Director at Deakin Research and CyRise Board Member.
“Cyber security threats are growing in prevalence and complexity. It’s more important than ever to ensure that cyber security innovators and professionals get the support they need to create solutions to defend against attackers. That’s why we have programs for both startup founders and in-house cyber security professionals to get better, faster,” says Scott Handsaker , CEO, CyRise.
The selected cyber security technology companies address: governance, risk and compliance; DevSecOps; software supply chain security and more. Founders range from experienced operators to first-time entrepreneurs. Over half of the startups have already attracted additional seed investment or funding from VCs and angels.
“I congratulate CyRise for successfully launching the NSW Cyber Accelerator in Residence Program and am delighted that four of the five companies selected to participate in the inaugural cohort are from NSW,” says Minister for Enterprise, Investment and Trade, Alister Henskens SC MP .
Ensignia makes it easy for companies to adopt Software Supply Chain Security end-to-end through code-to-production provenance, helping prevent supply chain attacks. Co-founder Sam “Frenchie” Stewart explains that the startup is new. “Our goal for the CyRise Accelerator is to get to initial revenue and ideally product-market fit. Having the mentor network is great for that.”
Team: CEO Sam "Frenchie" Stewart , COO Lainie Vinikoor and CPTO Ivan Vanderbyl
Founder Fiona Long describes InfoSecAssure as accessible security for all businesses. “I want them to put on their cybersecurity seatbelt,” she says. InfoSecAssure helps turn non-experts into cyber security experts and assists businesses to demonstrate their security controls to win more customers. During the assessment, users can collate evidence, add notes, and access education about each control.
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Nullify empowers engineering teams to quickly and easily use a suite of security testing tools on their codebase, allowing security responsibility to be shared across security and engineering teams. “With one click, Nullify allows you to go from zero to 100 with application security,” explains CEO Shan Kulkarni.
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Team: COO Tony Mao , CEO Shan Kulkarni and CTO Tim Thacker
Onqlave is a privacy by design suite of services available as an API. It takes an engineering approach to solving for the needs of sensitive data, to reduce the time and cost spent improving data protection. CEO Simon O’Keefe explains: “Onqlave simplifies the protection of sensitive data for organisations large and small.”
Team: CEO Simon O'Keefe and CTO Matt M.
6pillars delivers continuous compliance and fully automated security remediation in AWS environments by leveraging AWS-Native security tools, combined with patent-pending technology and a control playbook library. “The vast majority of security issues in the cloud are a result of misconfiguration. 6pillars can easily and safely fix misconfiguration automatically and maintain continuous compliance with best practice,” explains co-founder Lorenzo Modesto.
Team: CEO Lorenzo Modesto and COO Doug Kelly
CyRise Accelerator
CyRise Accelerator has been running for six years, and has supported startups from Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore and the USA. CyRise Accelerator has made 39 investments in cyber security startups across seven cohorts.
Startups who have participated in previous CyRise Accelerator programs have:
55% of startups that participate in CyRise Accelerator raise additional capital.
CyRise
CyRise helps cyber security startups and in-house cyber security professionals get better, faster through its CyRise Bootcamp, Accelerator and Scaleup programs for founders and CyRise Elevate for in-house professionals.
CyRise Accelerator founders are available for interview. Contact: Lou Pardi , Head of Marketing and Communications, CyRise. [email protected]?
All images: Maggie Langtry
Cloud Security @ AWS
2 年Great to see some familiar faces :)
I’m a people person
2 年It takes us three months, and a lot of conversations to select the final cohort. And wow, these founders are ready to embrace everything we throw at them!