Meet the DataTribe 2021
Challenge Winners

ContraForce has developed a single platform to address the skill gap shortage and expensive consulting fees by providing a DevOps fabric that overlays your current security tools. Their platform provides an abstraction layer to easily integrate any security data source and create playbook response workflows. Once your data sources are connected, ContraForce orchestrates detection across many signals and automatically visualizes the attack with guided threat hunting.

 

 

QuickCode creates targeted text datasets for data labeling and annotation, focusing labelers on the most relevant and hard-to-label cases. The QuickCode tool learns from user feedback, retraining its underlying machine learning algorithms, delivering higher quality data that is more representative and relevant than randomly selected datasets. QuickCode is an ideal solution for clients looking to leverage their in-house experts, maximize their time labeling the right data, and maintain security as they harness the power of data analytics.

About the Challenge

How it works

The DataTribe Challenge is a unique annual competition where startups have a chance at receiving up to $2 million in seed capital. The Challenge brings together the best entrepreneurs in the world looking to disrupt cybersecurity and data science. DataTribe selects three finalists that split $20,000 in prize money and one winner that could receive up to $2 million in seed capital.

The 2021 DataTribe Challenge allowed us to reconvene in person. Finalists were announced October 26th and the final competition took place at our headquarters in Fulton, Maryland, on November 3rd, 2021.

How To Get Involved

Companies that are interested in participating for 2022 must submit a proposal that includes a pitch deck and relevant  information. DataTribe will review submissions for technical merit, market potential, and readiness of the team. The window for submissions will be announced on this site, but please feel free to reach out to us by email or LinkedIn before then.

Companies that are interested in competing must also be pre-Series A with maximum funding to date not exceeding more than $1.2M. You must have a data science or cybersecurity product, as beta, MVP, or concept, targeting enterprises to present.

Please visit terms and conditions for more information. 

Get to Know This Year's Finalists

Meet ContraForce, one of the 2021 DataTribe Challenge winners.

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Meet QuickCode.ai, one of the 2021 DataTribe Challenge winners.

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Meet Grey Market Labs, one of this year’s DataTribe Challenge finalists.

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Finalists split $20,000

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Judges to pitch your ideas to

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Judges for the 2021 Challenge:

Bob Ackerman

Founder, AllegisCyber;
Co-Founder, DataTribe

Ron Gula

President & Co-Founder,
Gula Tech Adventures;
Co-Founder, Tenable

Navin Maharaj

Director, Koch Disruptive Technologies

Arno Van Der Walt

CISO, Marriott International

Shamla Naidoo

Head of Cloud Security, Netskope

Previous Winners

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"Four-year-old Code Dx has already garnered a customer base of about 20 agencies tied to the Department of Defense, which accounts for about 65% of sales, D'Amico said, as well as 25 commercial companies. It is projecting to end the year with about $2.2 million in total sales. D'Amico said she hopes to achieve $4 million in sales in 2020, and the new funding from DataTribe will help her company get there."
Code Dx, 2019 Challenge Winner
Code Dx, 2019 Challenge WinnerFeatured in Baltimore Business Journal
“I’m excited about adding AllegisCyber, a globally recognized cybersecurity investor, as a new investor and appreciate the continued support of seed investor, DataTribe. With this additional capital, and the changes in our executive ranks, we are uniquely positioned to deliver tailored intelligence that empowers risk-based decisions. Organizations with contagious ecosystems can now limit their exposure and avoid infection preemptively by using our intelligence platform."
Prevailion, 2018 Challenge Winner
Prevailion, 2018 Challenge WinnerKarim Hijazi, on Prevailion's Series A Fundraise
"We launched DataTribe to tap into the deepest reservoir of cyber engineering research in the world, which is in Maryland, and to leverage that to build next generation, cutting edge cyber security companies. We saw that as an opportunity, but we also felt that it was absolutely essential to building the next generation of successful cyber companies."
Bob Ackerman
Bob AckermanCo-Founder, DataTribe; Founder, AllegisCyber
“This is the first time in modern venture capital that two companies from the same startup foundry have been selected as World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers. Dragos and Enveil are prime examples of our thesis that the best cybersecurity and data science technologies are coming out of the U.S. Intelligence and R&D community. It is an amazing honor for these two companies to be selected by the World Economic Forum and true validation for the growing innovation coming out of DataTribe and the MD/DC/VA area."
Mike Janke, Co-Founder DataTribe
Mike Janke, Co-Founder DataTribeDragos and Enveil Named 2020 WEF Technology Pioneers
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