Option3
Cybersecurity Private Equity specialist combining national security heritage, investment expertise, and C-suite operating experience Focus on mid-market buyout & control investments.
Company Size
11 - 50 employees
Year Founded
2014
About Option3
Option3 combines a cyber heritage from the classified world of national security with investment and M&A expertise from Wall Street to family offices, and operational experience spanning the C-suite. With a portfolio that includes earlier stage, growth, and buyout (pending) deals, we primarily seek control investments in mid-market companies, particularly in areas that are national priorities as we build or assemble leaders of tomorrow.
We primarily seek control investments in the growing cybersecurity mid-market, seeking to build champions with the scale to bring cutting-edge products to market efficiently, thereby ensuring the security and resiliency of the country.
We founded Option3 in 2015 as a specialist cybersecurity investment firm with the mission to make high-risk-adjusted returns by investing in those companies and capabilities that America most needed in the coming five years. In that time, we have invested in 9 companies, with three successful exits and a further four pending.
Option3’s success lies in combining a deep heritage in the national security community with decades of experience in the investment industry. But our focus has evolved.
We started off making largely minority investments in earlier-stage companies but gradually moved to control or joint control investments, and now focus primarily on mid-market buyouts.
This shift reflects changing opportunities as the cybersecurity sector itself grew and matured, and also the investment experience of our management team which ranges from seed to IPO, and a demonstrated preference for active management and board control.
