SineWave Ventures

Investment decisions are led by Founder Yanev Suissa and Partners Mary Reding and Donna Dodson. Suissa was an early-stage investor at New Enterprise Associates after building the Federal Loan Program. Reding is a former Senior Executive Service acquisition expert; Dodson led NIST's cybersecurity program. The firm does not publicly disclose a detailed investment committee process.

SineWave does not operate under an official government mandate, but its investment thesis explicitly targets commercial technology with applications for enterprises and the public sector. The partnership's dense network of former senior federal officials — from NIST, GSA, NSA, and the Defense Department — creates a structural tilt toward companies that can win and execute federal contracts.

SineWave invests at the earliest stages — seed, start-up, and expansion. The firm's website lists 'Enterprise Technologies' as its overarching category. Portfolio companies span a range of development, from platforms with active federal deployments to very early-stage developer tools for AI and machine learning.

The firm organizes its thesis around four technology stacks: Data and Analytics, Networking, Cybersecurity, and Computing. Within those, the portfolio concentrates on enterprise infrastructure — confidential computing, AI observability, metadata platforms, endpoint security, and cloud-native tooling — rather than consumer-facing applications.

The partnership's public-sector lineage acts as its primary sourcing moat. The team includes the former GM of Databricks Federal, the former NIST cybersecurity chief, and a career SES acquisition officer. Their networks inside the agencies that regulate and purchase enterprise software generate proprietary insight into which commercial tools are about to scale within the federal ecosystem.