Mention ‘multimodal transformer’ to any 6-year-old and you might just trigger impassioned comments about devious Decepticons. But there is another kind of multimodal transformer. And this kind of transformer is of keen interest to SineWave because it creates AI functions that are changing the way we process and add value to information – whether in...
Today, remarkable progress in AI and machine learning (ML) has become commonplace. Every week brings headlines in areas ranging from natural language processing to music synthesis. Between the occasionally breathless declarations of breakthroughs, however, it is still worth pausing – just occasionally – to ask how the field of AI can move so quickly. There...
To continue the theme of putting yourself in the customer’s shoes when pursuing enterprise sales, it is useful to consider some (perhaps unexpressed) expectations typical of enterprise buyers that may not be typical of entrepreneurial design practices. To effectively sell a platform as “enterprise ready” startups must understand and address these expectations. Attempts to address...
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Early AI systems tended to be really good at only one thing. They might, for example, be terrific at classification problems, such as distinguishing a cat from a dog or a West Highland Terrier from a Great Dane. Or they might be outstandingly good at translating English to Hindi. Those were the days of long...
Many startups struggle to establish a viable enterprise sales motion. They have built a brilliant technical platform or tool set and they are eager to sell the brilliance of their solution to enterprise customers. They design excellent pitches describing their technology and why it is special. They speak of its capabilities, all the things it...
The largest enterprise customer in the world – Washington, DC – continues to evade the Valley, and it’s the Valley’s fault! The public sector is perhaps the most significant buyer of new commercial technology out there, with purchasing power unrivaled by any private entity. Landing the government as a customer provides a significant competitive advantage...
In the world of technology, AI continues to emerge as a promising but buzzy reality. While the technology holds transformative potential across sectors, stakeholders and customers alike often react with skepticism at the mention of AI. The core of this skepticism is simple: is AI a practical solution for specific business problems, or just a...
Even within the context of the breathless pace of innovation in AI, Meta’s and Microsoft’s July 18 joint announcementof the release of Meta’s Llama 2 foundational model – the second variant of its large language model Meta AI (Llama) model – was attention-worthy. Why so, one might ask? The answer lies in a possible future...
On Friday, the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets policy for the United States Department of Defense (DOD) for the upcoming year. At SineWave, we are paying close attention to this legislation because the NDAA traditionally includes provisions intended to advance the Pentagon’s adoption of advanced tech. This often opens doors...
SineWave was featured in Washington Business Journal: “Local VC firm SineWave raises $160M for oversubscribed third fund” by Ana Lucía Murillo The venture capital firm SineWave Ventures, which has dual headquarters in Silicon Valley and the D.C. region, has raised $160.3 million for its oversubscribed third fund — its largest to date — to continue...
SineWave was featured in Wall Street Journal Pro: “Venture Firm Emphasizes Value of Government Contracts” by Yuliya Chernova SineWave Ventures has raised a $160.3 million fund from investors including Morgan Stanley and the endowment of Boston University to pursue a strategy that has served it well so far—investing at a steady pace at reasonable valuations...
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — SineWave Ventures, a Silicon Valley and Washington DC-based venture capital firm, announced the close of a $160.3 million Fund III raise. The SineWave fund is oversubscribed by 30 percent, countering national narratives of a challenging venture capital climate. In its announcement in Washington, SineWave noted that it has already returned its limited partners a remarkable seven...
SineWave was featured in FINSMES: “SineWave Ventures Raises More Than $160M For Fund III” SineWave Ventures, a Washington DC-based venture capital firm, closed Fund III, at a $160.3m. SineWave’s concentrated portfolio focuses on enterprise technologies that advance both commercial and public sector customer requirements, enhance data analytics and cybersecurity, encourage collaborative data science, and enable...
We are thrilled by Digital Ocean’s acquisition of SineWave Ventures portfolio company, Paperspace. In many ways, this deal is a match made in heaven. We chose to invest in Paperspace because of their commitment to building a software MLOps platform to abstract away the complexities of the cloud GPU hardware platform and make it easily...
SineWave was featured in Venture Capital Journal: “‘Refocus on the outcomes we’re looking to drive from diversity,’ urges SineWave’s Yanev Suissa” by David Bogoslaw The growing focus in the alternative investments industry on diversity, equity and inclusion has slowly begun to give women, minorities and other underrepresented groups more access to capital and opportunities to...
The US and India Make AI Promises That Could Benefit Startups Last week’s joint statement between the United States and India marking the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the White House was packed with global security messaging. While joint commitments ranged from the strategic—such as a pledge to a ‘free, open,...
SineWave GP Pat Muoio was featured in Cybernews: “The AI bubble is bound to burst, and bigly: VC founder” by Gintaras Radauskas TikTok, DJI drones, Huawei, export controls – the US-China tech war is definitely real. Experts say concerns are based on solid evidence of danger. However, it’s also a rather blatant attempt to slow...
In this virtual roundtable discussion hosted by Venture Capital Journal’s David Bogoslaw, our very own partner Patricia Muoio sat down with Vesna Prchkovska, co-founder and CEO of QMENTA, and Dipanwita Das, co-founder and CEO of Sorcero, to discuss navigating the venture capital space as women, and what we can do going forward to foster more...
MWC’23 – A Return to (Troubled) Normality In Dickensian fashion, the cellular communications industry – which lies at the heart of this week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC’23) trade show in Barcelona – is experiencing both the best and the worst of times. The GSM Association (GSMA), which operates the show, claimed almost 90,000 attendees during...
In this episode, Patricia Muoio, Ph.D., Partner at SineWave Ventures and Former Chief of Trusted Systems Research Group, National Security Agency, sheds light on the cybersecurity technology landscape and emphasizes the need to develop technologies that are attack agnostic. Some of the questions driving the discussion include: a) what progress has been made in the...
Pat Muoio joined Cybersecurity Unplugged to discuss: SineWave’s thesis on cybersecurity; Why companies should think about cyber resilience, not just cybersecurity; Software vulnerabilities and our future outlook – are we doomed? Ransomware and its surrounding drama; The evolution of the CISO; The connection between venture capital, cybersecurity and the government. Click Here to Listen: Are...
Yanev Suissa joined the Finding PROOF podcast to discuss how SineWave connects enterprise tech entrepreneurs to the public sector. SineWave invests in enterprise tech companies that have gained commercial traction and serves as a strategic partner to help unlock the valuable public sector vertical. He stressed that commercial and public sector sales can complement one...
Why We Invested in Shabodi 5G is being deployed, relentlessly, on a global basis. According to GSMA, at the end of 2021 more than 20% of the global population was already within coverage of a 5G mobile network. Ericsson goes further. As reported in the November 2022 Ericsson Mobility Report, by 2028 the total number...
SineWave GP Pat Muoio writes as a WSJ Expert: “Why Companies Need to Think About Cyber Resilience, Not Just Cybersecurity” It goes without saying that organizations want to keep their networks and computers up and running safely. But too often, the goal is to stop all attacks—what is often referred to as cybersecurity. Instead, a...
There is lots of buzz recently about the soul of AI machines. Yet while this discussion elucidates the cleverness of AI applications, it ignores one key aspect of thought: intentionality. The soulful person’s thought is intentional. There is some driving impetus behind it, a problem to be solved, an observation that worth exploring, an emotion...
Shabodi is pleased to be included in the IDC’s latest manufacturing insights report on “5G Trends and Applications in Asia/Pacific Manufacturing” as an Innovator and emerging vendor in the private 5G deployment area for industry 4.0 along with other vendors such as such as Ericsson, ZTE corporation, Nokia and Celona. This IDC report presents 5G technology trends,...
SineWave GP Pat Muoio writes as a WSJ Expert: “It’s Time to Change the Cybersecurity Metaphors We Use” There’s a lot to be learned from the words we use to describe things. Cybersecurity is a case in point. The prevailing metaphor people use when they talk about cybersecurity is that of attack— of cyberwar and...
SineWave’s Founder & Managing Partner Yanev Suissa featured in PYMNTS: “As Markets Gyrate, Startup Investors Search for Success Where ‘VC Meets D.C.'” Get ready for a seismic shift in the venture capital (VC) industry. Amid the downturn in the public markets, the swoons in the Nasdaq (down more than 20% YTD), the PYMNTS FinTech IPO...
Multi-cloud is a buzzword in the networking space today because we now understand that public, private and hybrid clouds must coexist to meet the needs of the modern enterprise. However, multi-cloud infrastructures and managed services have given rise to operational blind spots and resulting outages – disruptions that result in broken workflows as network engineers...
SineWave Founder & Managing Partner Yanev Suissa writes in CrunchBase News: “VCs, Don’t Ignore The Public Sector. It’s The Key To Supercharging Growth” We’ve reached a point when venture capitalists and their limited partners must capitalize on the rise of the public sector as a key revenue driver of commercial startups. If you look at...
The distant ancestors of the complex and high performance 4G and 5G broadband wireless systems we know today were the very first generation of cellular systems. These 1G networks were characterized not only by impenetrable system designations – such as AMPS in the Americas, TACS in the UK, and NMT in the Nordic countries –...
SineWave was featured in Forbes: “Get Bigger, Go Faster: How VCs Won By Tossing Out Their Rulebooks In 2021” by Rebecca Szkutak and Kenrick Cai Mark Goldberg knows how much the venture capital market has changed in recent years. A partner at Index Ventures, Goldberg remembers the days when investors would meet up on Monday...
SineWave GP Pat Muoio’s article was featured in Security Magazine: The curse of software vulnerabilities: Are we doomed? In the early days of computer security, researchers set out in search of the holy grail of perfect code. They sought formal methods to analyze code and assure that software was doing all and only what it...
SineWave is thrilled to participate in Clarifai’s $60 million Series C funding round. This funding round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, LDV Capital, Corazon Capital, NYU Innovation Venture Fund, and new investors CPP Investments, NextEquity Partners, SineWave Ventures, and Trousdale Capital....
SineWave Ventures’ portfolio company, AON3D, recently closed its Series A and is shooting for the stars with a new partnership with Astrobotic. Read more this exciting collaboration here.
Much of the ransomware rhetoric these days comes from the action movie school of cyber security thinking. Let’s fight back against attackers, let’s trace them through cyberspace and steal back the ransom, let’s (gasp) levee political sanctions. While these responses make good stories, they don’t do much to stop any ransomware attack or even to...
SineWave was featured in Data Center Knowledge: “Why CISA’s China Cyberattack Playbook Is Worthy of Your Attention” by Maria Korolov At first glance, last week’s advisory on state-sponsored China cyberattacks by the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is nothing new. It outlines the tactics, techniques, and procedures they use. Plus, not every...
SineWave Ventures portfolio company, ShardSecure, the world’s most innovative data security company, disrupting the data privacy and security market with Microshard™ technology has closed an oversubscribed, pre-Series A funding round of $2.5 M led by EPIC Ventures. Learn more via the press release here.
Our partners Yanev Suissa, Patricia Muoio, Vivek Ladsariya, and Christopher Gaughan sat down with Alex Konrad from Forbes to talk about what makes our firm unique. Click the link to read the full article, “Early Returns Soar By Bridging Startups To The Public Sector.”
By Patricia Muoio The recent Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO) offers the promise of delivering on two important ideas: the substantial buying-power of the federal government is strong enough to influence the products in the marketplace; and we can and should improve the quality of our software. By using its place in...
While the corona virus has caused hardship and sorrow across the country and has presented financial challenges for many companies, it has also given rise to conditions which present a unique opportunity for early stage venture investments. Revenue numbers that are lower than expected and an increased cautiousness on the part of investors has led...
Today’s startups have serious problems dealing with their real-world impacts. This is how to stay focused on them. By Yanev Suissa founder and general partner, SineWave Ventures @yanevsuissa You might be tempted to roll your eyes when you hear the words “Silicon Valley” these days. Lots of people are increasingly disillusioned with what was once characterized as the most...
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Claire provides administrative support for the firm and General Partners at SineWave. Prior to joining the team at SineWave, Claire spent 11 years as band director for middle and high school in Texas. The band programs she was a part of were recognized at the state and national level for both their musical achievement and for the infrastructure that kept the programs running. Her experiences as a band director have maximized her strengths in communication, systems management, and balancing multiple project timelines. Claire holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Texas Christian University.
Mary Reding is a Partner with over 20 years of experience in government acquisitions, venture capital, and corporate law. She previously served as a Career Senior Executive Service (SES) member and an acquisition expert at the General Services Administration (GSA), Social Security Administration (SSA), and the Department of Transportation (DOT), where she led efforts to modernize federal procurement, financial management, and drive innovation through strategic technology investments.
Mary played a key role in advancing the President’s Management Agenda, overseeing Cross-Agency Executive Councils for CIOs, CISOs, CFOs, CAOs, CHCOs, and Data Executives under the Obama and Trump Administrations to enhance government efficiency and performance. A licensed California corporate attorney, she specializes in SBIR/STTR programs, Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements, and Small Business sole source/direct awards, helping emerging companies secure non-dilutive funding and scale within federal markets. She earned a BS from Santa Clara University and a JD from the University of San Diego.
Donna F Dodson is a Partner at SineWave Ventures. She has an extensive background in cybersecurity, privacy, standards, risk management and applied cryptography. Donna led the cybersecurity program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and focused the program on the development of standards, best practices and tools to protect and enhance the resiliency of systems and networks. As the Department of Commerce’s cybersecurity advisor, she counseled the Secretary and represented the department at strategic decision-making forums. After retiring from the government, Donna has worked in the private sector collaborating on advanced technologies and driving new innovations in security.
As an independent director and board member, government and commercial technical powerhouse leader, Dawn brings more than 40 years’ experience pioneering new products and services and leading transformation for iconic brands around the world, including CIA, AOL, and DoD. She is a recognized expert in delivering entrepreneurial technical capabilities and processes to international markets, leveraging unparalleled stakeholder acumen into strategy, development, integration, and operations.
Nikesh Kalra is a 25-year operator, strategy advisor, and investor in Silicon Valley. He works closely with management teams and investors at all stages to accelerate growth, navigate change, and create value. His current portfolio includes a dozen investments in AI, security, and infrastructure. He previously served in senior operating roles at Equinix (EQIX) and Palo Alto Networks (PANW). Nikesh is a grass-roots philanthropist, athlete, and parent. He earned an executive management certificate (MIT), M.B.A (Oxford), and B.S. (USC).
Howard Levenson has over 30 years of experience solving challenging information technology problems for the intelligence community and other federal customers. He started the Databricks Federal business when the company was doing $1M in revenue and ultimately led the business as the General Manager and Regional Vice President of Databricks Federal, LLC. He helped establish Databricks Federal into one of the leading providers of big data and machine learning analytical solutions with over 50 Federal agencies leveraging the platform to find insights in their data. Howard has spent his career solving challenging, big data, and high-performance computing problems for the Federal Government. He’s performed in leadership roles for companies including IBM and Silicon Graphics/Cray, and has extensive experience leveraging open source technology, cloud, and big data to solve the world’s most challenging problems. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University.
Dave has joined SineWave Ventures after completing a 32-year career at the National Security Agency (NSA). He began his work at NSA as a Cryptologic Mathematician, and was a trailblazer in applying data mining and machine learning techniques to speech and language processing. In 2004, he reached the Senior Executive Service level, as a Defense Intelligence Senior Leader, and from there, he oversaw various projects and organizations within the Research, Capabilities, Operations, and Workforce Support Directorates. Notably, he served as the first Director of the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences, where he led a collaborative effort involving government, academic, and industry partners to develop and implement technology and methods to meet intelligence analysis needs. His distinguished career at NSA earned him numerous awards and commendations, with a notable highlight being the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award. This prestigious award recognized his sustained professional, technical, and scientific accomplishments on behalf of the U.S. Government. Dave recently served as Senior Advisor to the Director of the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE) at Johns Hopkins University.
Charlie is a Principal at SineWave Ventures. Previously, Charlie was an analyst at Syno Capital, supporting investment research, deal execution, and fund operations across early-stage healthcare and life sciences. He began his career at KPMG in their Economic and Valuation Services group conducting valuation analyses for venture-backed companies and investment funds.
Charlie received his B.S. in Finance and Economics from Boston College, with a minor in environmental studies.
Fostering digital transformation and enabling enterprises to harness the power of their data through machine learning, artificial intelligence, stream processing and other advanced analytics.
We believe data is the driving force of business, and the ability to harness one’s data and to use it in effective decision-making will become the make-or-break success criteria for companies. This means that it must be easy for non-specialists to consume heterogeneous data and to use it in complex decision processes, both human and automatic.
At SineWave, we look for data ingest technologies, developer tooling for AI and ML, understandable AI systems, analytic workflow tools, analytics to control automated processes, and decision analytics. We also believe that data need be useful in a variety of environments in a way that addresses a wide range of latency concerns. We seek technologies that adapt analytic workflows to accommodate processing constraints, and that support the development of just-in-time, just good enough analytic strategies
Improving network adaptivity and assurance and addressing new paradigms like edge computing and 5G.
We believe that a data-driven world requires dynamic network. Data sources and data points of use are proliferating. Operations are becoming distributed, and the network should be able to accommodate changing distribution schemes.
At SineWave, we look for technologies that heighten network adaptivity and that enable the distribution of computation across the network. This includes software-defined networking, edge networks, and 5G technologies. We also believe that adaptive networks need secure network controls, and so we look for technologies that support policy-driven networking and secure network configuration.
Protecting data and systems and enabling new types of secure transactions through improved software, zero-trust solutions, and data-centric technology.
We believe the language used in the cybersecurity conversation has hindered the development of systemic, threat-agnostic solutions. It is easy to be distracted with looking for tools to combat specific system intruders through deployment of multiple point solutions or after-the-fact orchestration efforts. As a result, the market holds a multitude of point solutions and after-the-fact efforts to orchestrate them. At SineWave, we believe cybersecurity is just one dimension of smart system management. We seek solutions that enable you to know and understand your assets (human or machine, endpoint or network) and their behavior, to recognize deviations from the norm regardless of the cause of the anomaly, to provide fine-grained controls that permit only legitimate behaviors, and to assure the correct behavior of software and systems. This includes endpoint security systems, zero-trust systems, novel access control and isolation mechanisms, application security, code analysis, and software-defined perimeters. We also believe that data protection deserves special attention to address both security and privacy concerns, so we look for novel ways to protect data in motion and at rest.
Democratizing big compute and easing access to heterogenous compute platforms.
We believe in the democratization of big compute. Computers are no longer just for data centers and high performance workflows are no longer just for scientists. Data computation has become the engine that drives business, so powerful and accessible computing needs to be available where and when it is needed.
At SineWave, we look for technologies that enable high performance computing from commodity resources, that enable distributed and edge computing, that support stream processing, and that enable the use of specialized processors. We also believe that compute requirements ebb and flow, and so look for technologies that enable the rapid provisioning and configuration of compute resources.
Maggie is the Chief Operating Officer at SineWave Ventures, Over more than ten years with the firm, she has gained extensive experience in venture operations. Before SineWave, Maggie served as the Chair of the Religion Department at Elizabeth Seton High School, an all-girls school in Bladensburg, Maryland, where she also taught Ethics and coached lacrosse. As a former high school teacher, Maggie’s roles have always demanded attention to detail and the ability to solve problems in complex situations. Maggie holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Fordham University and a Master’s Degree from Yale University. She’s currently pursuing her MBA.
Oliver B. Libby is Managing Director and Co-founder of Hatzimemos / Libby, an impact-focused strategy and venture based in New York City. H/L is dedicated to enhancing and accelerating companies in key growth industries that add value to society. Oliver is also Chair & Co-Founder of The Resolution Project, Inc., a non-profit that helps hundreds of undergraduate students launch new social ventures that help millions of people in nearly 70 countries and across America. Oliver serves as a member of the Advisory Council of the Clinton Global Initiative, a Trustee of the Harvard Club of New York City Foundation, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, a Milken Young Leader, a Concordia Summit Advisor, a GLG Social Impact Fellow, and a NationSwell Councilmember. Mr. Libby graduated from Harvard College.
Brian currently serves as the director of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Remote Sensing Center NCR. He previously served as Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Special Capabilities in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). There he managed over $2 Billion in resources and also served as the first Director of the OSD – Special Capabilities Office. Brian has also served as the Chief Scientist and Chief Systems Engineer of Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) at the Intelligence Communities National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He also served over 23 years as an active duty and reserve officer in the U.S. Air Force, and has been awarded the Air Force Invention Award, an NRO Silver Medal, and a US Patent.
United States Air Force Academy, B.S. in Physics with Honors (1991) and Air Force Institute of Technology, M.S. in Physics Engineering (1992).
Yanev is the Founder of SineWave Ventures. Prior to SineWave, Yanev was an investor at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where he sourced, managed, and helped advise dozens of early stage investments. Yanev was also a Senior Investment Officer under the Bush and Obama Administrations, and was the first person hired to build the Federal Loan Program, which grew to a ~$150 billion investment vehicle.
Yanev holds degrees from Yale University (B.A., Magna Cum Laude), Harvard Law School (J.D.), Oxford Said School of Business (M.B.A., Christ Church), and Sydney Law School (Masters, Distinction).
