What could your company do with $2 million?

The DataTribe Challenge is a unique annual competition that 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 Challenge concludes in an invite-only pitch event where three finalists present to and network with cyber industry luminaries in-person. DataTribe will announce the winner at the end of this event.

Submissions Due: September 23rd, 2022

Finalists Announced: October 12th, 2022

In-Person Pitch Event: November 3rd, 2022, 2:30-6pm

How To Get Involved

Companies that are interested must submit a proposal that includes a deck and relevant information. DataTribe will review submissions for technical merit, market potential, and readiness of the team.

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 an enterprise, big data or cybersecurity product, beta, MVP or concept to present. Please refer to the below attachments for more information.

Terms and conditions

Requirements

We will host the 2022 DataTribe Challenge event in our offices in Fulton, Maryland on November 3, 2022 from 2:30-6pm. The in-person event will allow for networking with industry luminaries.

The window for submissions will close on September 23rd, and finalists will be announced October 12th. For more competition details, check out the links to the FAQ and Press Release at the bottom of the page

Why We Do the DataTribe Challenge

DT wants to continue to build world-class companies. DataTribe has built a unique reputation as a partner with elite teams at the cutting edge of innovation, typically leveraging experience gained at national security agencies or government R&D labs. DataTribe’s mission is to advance the state-of-the-art in cybersecurity and data science.

Last Year's Winners

Shannon HyndsCo-Founder & CEO

Stan GolubchikFounder & CEO

Bob Ackerman

Founder, AllegisCyber;
Co-Founder, DataTribe

Diana Kelley

CSO & Co-founder, Cybrize;
Former Cybersecurity Field CTO, Microsoft

Gabe Green

CISO Koch Industries

Pat Moynahan

Director, Information Security Airbnb;
Former Head of Info Sec, Risk & Compliance, Facebook

Roland Cloutier

Global CSO, Tik Tok; SVP CSO, ADP

The DataTribe Experience:
Founders’ Perspectives

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Finalists split $20,000

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Judges to pitch your ideas to

100+

Investors and industry leaders watching your pitch

"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."

“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."

"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."

“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."

What could your company do with $2 million?

How To Get Involved

Why We Do the DataTribe Challenge

Last Year's Winners