CIT Cybersecurity

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CIT invests capital, time, and resources to developing the Cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth with a special interest in the Women in Cyber community. 

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​MACH37 | is an American seed accelerator and began as a division of the Virginia-based Center for Innovative Technology. MACH37 focuses primarily on providing emerging companies in the cyber security industry with access to investment capital and an immediate customer base. Currently, MACH37™ is majority-owned and operated by VentureScope™ maintained through a partnership with CIT.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_37

MACH37 refers to “escape velocity,” the minimum velocity needed to escape earth’s gravitational field.  We felt that this was an apt name for our accelerator, because newly launched technology companies must push past forces that inherently prevent their growth. MACH37™ is designed to facilitate the creation of the next generation of cyber product companies.

Our unique 90-day program design places heavy emphasis on the validation of product ideas and the development of relationships that produce an initial customer base and investment capital - accelerating a founder’s path to a sustainable business model. Since 2013, MACH37™ has launched 57 cyber companies. 73% of our graduates are still in business and 60% have raised follow-on investment.

MACH37™ is majority-owned and operated by VentureScope™ through a partnership with the Center for Innovative Technology. The MACH37 Website is located here.

An impromptu interview with Tom Weithman, CIT GAP Funds Managing Director & Vice President.

At RSA ITProTV runs into Tom Weithman, President of MACH37. They are the nations first accelerator focused purely on cybersecurity startups. They talk about funding startups, mentorship, and what makes a company attractive to MACH37.

Securiosity Podcast | Jennifer O'Daniel | Investment Director | CIT GAP Funds 

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​Scoop News Group launched Securiosity, a podcast about cybersecurity, featuring Co-Hosts Greg Otto, Editor-in-Chief of CyberScoop, and Jennifer O'Daniel, Investment Director of CIT GAP Funds and MACH37. The series explores the latest security and privacy news and features interviews with leaders from the private and public sectors on how they view the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape.​

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"Securiosity enables us to share insights from the vast network that CIT GAP Funds and MACH37 have created with over 140 CEOs and CTOs of cybersecurity portfolio companies, as well as MACH37's 200+ mentor network of CISOs and cybersecurity experts dedicated to forwarding the success of entrepreneurs," said Jennifer O'Daniel. 

"I'm thrilled to co-host this podcast with Greg from CyberScoop, the source where I get my daily security news."

Securiosity's mission is to make news and innovations in security more accessible to the public and increase people's understanding and interest in the field by providing easily digestible news breakdowns and interviews that shed light on why cybersecurity matters. In the first episode, published today, listeners will hear from Joe Saunders, CEO of RunSafe Security, about automotive and critical infrastructure security.

Curiosity often starts with a question. Cybersecurity is filled with them. 

What’s that? Will that work? How much will that cost? 

These questions aren’t easily answered, yet they are still worth asking.

You have questions. So do we.

Securiosity was a weekly cybersecurity podcast from Scoop News Group. Greg Otto and Jen O’Daniel will spend each week answering the overarching questions from the latest in security and privacy news. They also talked to leaders in both the public and private sector on how they view the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. Policy, research, venture capital…they examined it all.

Securiosity is found on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and SoundCloud.

​You can also follow on Twitter and Instagram.