Investment Strategy
Our Focus
CUPP invests at the earliest stages of cybersecurity company-building.
Stage: Pre-seed and seed, with selective follow-on
Ticket size: Up to USD 50k per investment
Sector: Cybersecurity and adjacent infrastructure only
We gravitate toward technical founding teams with a sharp view of the threat landscape and a clear sense of the customer.
Thematic Areas
We are thesis-driven but not rigid. Current focus areas include:
Cloud & application security
Identity, access & human risk
Data, privacy & compliance
OT / IoT / critical infrastructure
Security operations, detection & automation
Security for AI-native products
How We Work With Founders
After investing, we can help with:
Customer discovery and early design partners
Product and roadmap prioritization
Positioning, pricing, and packaging
Hiring key early technical and GTM leaders
Planning and raising follow-on capital
We keep a concentrated portfolio so we can stay close to each team.