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Acante

Acante

Acante is an enterprise IT and cloud infrastructure software company. Acante can be broadly described as a “Dynamic Data Operations” company. The team has developed a novel approach to “dynamic data access control” (DDAC) for the data used in run-time applications. DDAC is a new term we have coined to describe an industry sector that does not yet exist. A major security vulnerability exists today because there is no way to understand the relationship between end users who access applications, then the sensitive data assets that are accessed by the applications on the user’s behalf. Acante strives to be the first company to monitor, then enforce policies, on the dynamic data access all the way back to the end users.

  • Founded: 2021
  • Round Partnered: Seed
  • Year Partnered: 2021
  • Fund: Clear Ventures II
  • Clear Partner(s): Chris Rust
  • Status: Active

TEAM

  • Nigel Duffy

    Founder

  • Simon Wilkinson

    Head of Engineering

  • Ryan McMahon

    Chief of Staff

Results Matter, Success Counts

Four of the companies our team co-founded produced over $1.7 billion of market cap from 2 IPOs and 2 acquisitions.

The Clear investment team has funded over 70 companies, 90% as the first investors, and has had 54 exits valued at a $85 billion market cap.

Before we became VCs, we had already founded 5 successful companies.

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