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Cybersecurity, Privacy, Trust & Identity

9 categories for founders and investors.

Security, fraud prevention, privacy, identity, trust infrastructure, risk, resilience, and digital safety.

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Each category is a doorway, not a limit. Founders can bring ideas that cross multiple groups, or ask us to create a new category if the market is still forming.

Existing Category

Cyber-Tech

Cyber Security and Risk Management

The Cyber-Tech sector focuses on technological solutions and innovations in cybersecurity and risk management. It includes threat intelligence, network security, and data protection technologies.

  • Enhancing cybersecurity measures and technologies to protect against cyber threats, data breaches, and unauthorized access.
  • Developing advanced encryption and authentication methods to safeguard digital assets, sensitive information, and privacy.
  • Implementing security solutions for network infrastructure, cloud environments, and IoT devices to mitigate vulnerabilities.

Example leaders: Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Fortinet

Existing Category

Security-Tech

Security and Protective Services

The Security-Tech sector focuses on technological solutions and innovations in security and protective services. It includes cybersecurity platforms, physical security systems, and surveillance technologies.

  • Developing cutting-edge security technologies and protective services to safeguard digital assets and physical infrastructure.
  • Advancing cybersecurity solutions to protect against data breaches, malware, and other cyber threats.
  • Implementing surveillance systems, access control solutions, and biometric authentication for enhanced physical security.

Example leaders: Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Symantec

New Category

Identity-Tech

Identity Verification, Fraud Prevention, and Digital IDs

The Identity-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on identity verification, fraud prevention, and digital ids. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in identity verification, fraud prevention, and digital ids with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the cybersecurity, privacy, trust & identity sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Privacy-Tech

Privacy Tools, Consent, Data Minimization, and Compliance

The Privacy-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on privacy tools, consent, data minimization, and compliance. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in privacy tools, consent, data minimization, and compliance with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the cybersecurity, privacy, trust & identity sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Trust-Tech

Reputation, Verification, Safety, Authenticity, and Anti-Fraud

The Trust-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on reputation, verification, safety, authenticity, and anti-fraud. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in reputation, verification, safety, authenticity, and anti-fraud with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the cybersecurity, privacy, trust & identity sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Fraud-Tech

Fraud Detection, Scam Prevention, and Transaction Monitoring

The Fraud-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on fraud detection, scam prevention, and transaction monitoring. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in fraud detection, scam prevention, and transaction monitoring with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the cybersecurity, privacy, trust & identity sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Safety-Tech

Workplace Safety, Public Safety, and Personal Safety Tools

The Safety-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on workplace safety, public safety, and personal safety tools. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in workplace safety, public safety, and personal safety tools with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the cybersecurity, privacy, trust & identity sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Resilience-Tech

Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Operational Resilience

The Resilience-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the cybersecurity, privacy, trust & identity sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Community-Safety-Tech

Moderation, Online Safety, and Harassment Prevention

The Community-Safety-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on moderation, online safety, and harassment prevention. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in moderation, online safety, and harassment prevention with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the cybersecurity, privacy, trust & identity sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

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