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

The Leadership Team

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

Matthiew Morin

Senior Director of Product Management

Jason Pitzen

Head of Customer Success

Robbie Robbins

VP of Business Development and Partners

Gary Schwartz

VP of Marketing

Brandon Somers

VP of Finance and Operations

Board Members & Strategic Advisors

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
Former VP, Endpoint Engineering at Crowdstrike

J.J. Guy

Advisor
Co-Founder & CEO, 
Sevco Security

John Stewart

Advisor
President, Talons Ventures, Former SVP/CSTO at Cisco
Our Vision

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.

Our Vision

The Investors

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Industry Groups

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NetRise is an automated, cloud-based platform that provides comprehensive insight into the
many risks present in firmware and software components.