About Us

NetRise protects organizations from cybersecurity risk with a revolutionary approach to software supply chain security. By analyzing compiled code rather than source code, its category-redefining platform creates a software asset inventory that identifies risk within the software actually installed on the systems critical to enterprise infrastructure.

Our History

NetRise was founded to address the shortcomings of the device security market by focusing on firmware and software components.

2020
- Founded December
2021
- $6M Seed Round
- 12 employees
2022
- First customer January
- NetRise Platform launched at Black Hat
- 17 employees
2023
- $8M Funding Round
- 3X revenue increase
- NetRise Trace product launch
- Added to the US Department of Homeland Security Approved Products list.
- 24 employees
2024
- 6X revenue increase
- Awarded grant by AFWERX, the innovation arm of the US Air Force
- Patent for Machine Learning-Based Universal Software Component Identification
- 29 employees
2025
- $10M Series A Funding Round
- NetRise ZeroLens launched at RSAC
- 40 employees

Thomas Pace
Co-Founder & CEO
Michael Scott
Co-Founder, CTO & Chief Scientist
Rick Beattie
CRO
Lessie Skiba
Chief of Staff
Anthony Federsen
VP of Engineering
Craig Heffner
Senior Staff Engineer
Derek McCarthy
VP of Field Engineering
Jason Pitzen
Head of Customer Success
Robbie Robbins
VP of Business Development and Partners
Gary Schwartz
SVP of Marketing
Brandon Somers
VP of Finance and Operations

Thomas Pace
Board Member
CEO at NetRise, former Exec at Cylance
Stuart McClure
Board Member
CEO at Qwiet AI, Former Founder & CEO at Cylance
Guy Filippelli
Board Member
Former CEO at RedOwl Analytics & Berico Technologies
Alex Ionescu
Advisor
Chief Technology Innovation Officer at CrowdStrike
John Stewart
Advisor
President, Talons Ventures, Former SVP/CSTO at Cisco
Allan Friedman, Ph.D.
Advisor
Former Senior Advisor & Strategist at CISA; Former Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at NTIA

OUR VISION

NetRise was founded to empower software producers and device manufacturers alike to build a more accurate view of the software composition of their products. Likewise, cybersecurity professionals within the enterprise and federal government can quickly identify vulnerabilities and other software supply chain risks in the assets that run their organization. NetRise puts the Verify into a Trust but Verify framework, allowing both groups to build a comprehensive and accurate software asset inventory, so they can rapidly identify, prioritize, mitigate, reducing material risk to the business.