Investors / United States / Lockstep
Lockstep
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Lockstep is a venture firm founded by cybersecurity executives that invests in early-stage security technologies. It supports founders with hands-on guidance and access to its network of security practitioners through an invite-only community called the Lockstep Foundry.
Invests inCybersecurityAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordscybersecurityenterprise securityearly-stagefounder supportsecurity practitioners
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Or find every investor that fitsLockstep lists 17 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Cybersecurity (56%), AI & Machine Learning (20%) and Enterprise Software (8%). 67% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Bain Capital Ventures, Greylock and New Era Capital Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Lockstep, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Lockstep's whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 17. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 44th | 17 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 66th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 87th | 56% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Cybersecurity | 56% | 4% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 20% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 4% | 15% |
| Fintech | 4% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1694%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company16%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Bain Capital Ventures | 2 |
| Greylock | 2 |
| New Era Capital Partners | 2 |
| PearX | 2 |
| Argonautic Ventures | 1 |
| Artisanal Ventures | 1 |
| Better Capital | 1 |
| Boldstart Ventures | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Bain Capital Ventures
Compare Lockstep head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Lockstep| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 15 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 4 Sept 2025 | Series A | |
| 14 Jul 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Lockstep
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Lockstep's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
17 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artemis provides private or public LTE/5G network solutions | Healthcare & BiotechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Artemis Security provides a platform for AI-native security operations that detects, investigates, and stops attacks from a living model of a customer's environment. | Cybersecurity | Apr 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Atorian works with auditors across the entire audit lifecycle, from planning and fieldwork to findings and the report. | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Cenna builds, deploys, and governs agentic apps for the enterprise | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Cogent discovers, validates, and remediates vulnerabilities across an enterprise using AI agents. | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Cogent Security discovers, validates, and remediates vulnerabilities across an enterprise using AI agents. | Cybersecurity | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Coverbase develops and provides software for managing third-party risk and security | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| FAZE Security provides a platform for offensive security orchestration that finds, chains, prioritizes, fixes, and continuously validates vulnerabilities across various assets and environments. | Cybersecurity | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Glow develops and provides endpoint security solutions using artificial intelligence | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Horai provides an AI-powered event and invitation platform for managing wholesale appointments and fashion events | Space & DefenseReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| IceGuard provides a modern Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system for AI scale and speed | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Incalmo builds infrastructure for training cyber capabilities | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Joon provides an AI-managed cybersecurity solution | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Matters.AI builds an AI security engineer for data that autonomously sees, understands, and resolves data misuse before a ticket is opened. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Petra Security provides IT incident response and security solutions | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an enterprise security brain that gives teams a living understanding of their entire environment, backed by evidence. | Cybersecurity | Sept 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| VanishID provides external identity security solutions to protect individuals and organizations from identity-based attacks | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- lockstep.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 17
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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