cybersecurity

HPA Portfolio Company Ocient Raises $100M Series C to Advance Trusted AI for Petabyte-Scale Data

HPA is excited to share that Ocient, an HPA portfolio company, has closed a $100M Series C co-led by BOKA Capital and OCA Ventures. Returning investors Greycroft, In-Q-Tel, Blue Bear Capital, Buoyant Ventures, PSP Growth, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and Eron Wolf also took part, and Dallas Venture Capital joins as a new investor. The […]

Empirical Security Raises $25M Series A for Next Generation Vulnerability Management

HPA is excited to announce its follow-on investment in Empirical Security‘s $25 million Series led by Brightmind Partners with participation from previous investors HPA, Costanoa Ventures and others. The round brings Empirical’s total funding to $37 million. HPA first backed Empirical in its $12 million Seed round in July 2025, and we’re proud to continue […]

HPA Backs AI-Native DFIR Platform Revolutionizing Catastrophic Breach Recovery

HPA is pleased to announce its participation in the $3 million seed funding round for Cydelphi, the pioneering AI-native Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) platform company. The round was led by Glasswing Ventures, with additional participation from Blu Ventures and Merlin Ventures. Cydelphi is addressing a critical and rapidly expanding pain point in enterprise […]

HPA Invests in Empirical Security’s $12M Seed Round to Stop Attacks with Custom Cybersecurity AI Models

HPA is excited to announce its investment in Empirical Security’s $12 million Seed Round alongside Costanoa. The round also saw participation from DNX Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, and strategic investors Jonathan Cran, founder of Intrigue (acquired by Google/Mandiant), Wade Baker, creator of the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report and founder of The Cyentia Institute, and […]

Michigan

Why Michigan Could Become a Startup Powerhouse

The unicorns in Michigan demonstrate a fertile startup ecosystem with unlimited opportunities. A couple weeks ago, StockX became the state’s newest in a quickly-growing cohort of unicorns, which includes two other startups that also earned the elite status this year. In February, OneStream Software announced that it had not only become a unicorn but that it is profitable as well, an achievement […]