Security Growth Partners

Security Growth Partners, abbreviated SGP, puts capital and experience into emerging cyber-security companies. The firm argues that constant innovation is the only workable answer to the growing number of attackers, from nation states to organised crime.

What Security Growth Partners offers

• Company building — it works with portfolio companies to sharpen their products and take them to market.
• Investment in cyber-security start-ups — it seeks out pioneering security technology at an early stage.
• Growth support — its expertise and relationships are used to help firms become profitable.
• Government advice — it advises public bodies on security innovation and business risk.

Who it works with

The firm focuses on emerging cyber-security businesses. It says it has helped create security companies including NetWitness, ThreatGrid and Riptech. It holds that owners of systems and data are the ones who must decide how to defend them, and that meeting regulations is not the same as being secure.

Key facts

• Focus: cyber-security
• Track record: helped create NetWitness, ThreatGrid and Riptech