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PORTFOLIO SUCCESS: SORA ID

Solving Identity Verification for Financial Services

Angelstrike Capital was an early backer of Sora ID, a pioneering identity verification platform that streamlined customer onboarding for financial institutions.

Led by founders Aidan McCarty and Laura Spiekerman, Sora ID developed innovative technology that reduced verification time from days to minutes while maintaining rigorous compliance standards. Their solution addressed critical pain points in the fintech ecosystem, enabling companies to onboard customers faster without sacrificing security.

With strong growth and product-market fit, Sora ID caught the attention of CLEAR, the identity platform known for its airport security solutions. In October 2023, CLEAR acquired Sora ID to expand into financial services, marking a successful exit for the team and its investors.

Our partnership with Sora ID exemplifies Angelstrike's investment approach: identifying exceptional founding teams with deep domain expertise solving critical B2B challenges in regulated industries.

In an era of increasingly sophisticated email threats, Armorblox stood out by bringing the power of AI to cybersecurity. When we first met the founding team, we were impressed by their vision: using natural language understanding to detect threats that traditional tools missed.

What made Armorblox special wasn't just their technology, but their obsessive focus on solving real customer pain points. Their platform could identify the subtle signals in language patterns that revealed phishing attempts and business email compromise attacks, protecting organizations from costly breaches.

This innovative approach didn't go unnoticed in the industry. In May 2023, tech giant Cisco acquired Armorblox to integrate their AI capabilities into their broader security ecosystem - representing a successful outcome for the founders and investors who believed in their mission.

The Armorblox journey reflects what we look for in every investment: technical brilliance paired with a deep understanding of market needs, and the execution skills to deliver measurable customer value.

ARMORBLOX: SECURITY INNOVATION THAT CAUGHT CISCO'S EYE

FROM STARTUP TO SALESFORCE: THE TENYX JOURNEY

When we first invested in Tenyx, we saw a team with extraordinary technical talent tackling one of AI's most challenging frontiers: truly natural voice conversations.

The San Francisco-based startup was developing AI voice agents that could understand context, navigate complex conversations, and deliver experiences that felt genuinely human. In a crowded market of AI assistants, Tenyx's technology stood apart through its ability to handle the nuances and unpredictability of real-world conversations.

This technical excellence caught the attention of enterprise giant Salesforce, who acquired Tenyx in September 2024. The acquisition represented a strategic move for Salesforce to enhance their conversational AI capabilities and brought the Tenyx team's innovations to a global enterprise platform.

What made this exit particularly meaningful wasn't just the transaction itself, but the validation it provided: when one of the world's largest enterprise software companies chooses your portfolio company's technology to power their AI future, it affirms our investment thesis of backing exceptional teams working on breakthrough technology in conversational AI.

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