Strategy

Community-centered Cyber Intelligence

CyberRisk Alliance is a powerful market-leading business intelligence company serving the high growth, rapidly evolving cybersecurity industry with a diversified portfolio of services that inform, educate, build community and inspire an efficient marketplace.

Our unique content, data, research, and ability to convene and foster collaboration is a powerful antidote to the industry’s fragmentation that impedes the ability to defend against sophisticated enemies. We are dedicated to lifting the success of all industry professionals and offering technology and service providers a marketing platform delivering better value and effectiveness.

CRA’s portfolio was formed through a combination of organic product development and a series of highly targeted platform acquisitions. The company brings together leading brands – best of breed companies – in each platform category and is led by a collaborative and accomplished team of entrepreneurs, operators and investors.

Core values

  • Mission-driven
  • Integrity
  • Excellence
  • Innovation
  • Accountability
  • Collaboration

Investment Strategy

CyberRisk Alliance invests in businesses serving the cybersecurity and information risk management marketplace with the following characteristics:

  • Leading brands providing high-quality services, respected by their customers and rewarded with high renewal
    rates
  • Experienced innovative leadership with a strong understanding and passion for the cyber risk industry
  • Ownership seeking an operating or investment partner to enable a transitional or staged exit strategy
  • Businesses with a differentiated product or service, including those that require operating investment to unlock high-growth potential

We are flexible about transaction and partnership structures to create mutually fulfilling relationships.

CyberRisk Alliance is highly experienced in business transactions and partnerships. Leadership is fair-minded and operates confidentially and decisively.

Investment Partners

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CyberRisk Alliance, LLC was formed in November 2018 through a partnership between Doug Manoni, its Founder and CEO, and Growth Catalyst Partners, a lower-middle market buyout firm focused on information, marketing services and tech-enabled services.

Growth Catalyst Partners (GCP) provides equity capital in full support of CyberRisk Alliance’s strategy, while also leveraging its deep industry network and M&A expertise.

With combined experience of more than 60 years investing in and managing over 235 mergers and acquisitions in its target sectors, GCP’s founders offer unique strategic expertise to help their portfolio companies and limited partners create extraordinary value. By partnering with existing management teams, GCP primarily targets investments in companies and sectors with strong growth potential through both organic initiatives as well strategic acquisitions.

Growth Catalyst Partners has offices in Chicago, IL and Rowayton, CT.