Venn

Venn is a New York-based data protection vendor whose product, Blue Border, secures company data and applications on unmanaged BYOD Macs and PCs without requiring virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or full mobile device management enrollment. Installing Blue Border creates a company-controlled secure enclave directly on the employee’s or contractor’s own device: business apps, data, and networking run locally inside a visually marked boundary, isolated from anything else happening on that same computer.

The pitch is replacing VDI and traditional MDM for BYOD and contractor workforces — VDI is notoriously expensive, latency-prone, and operationally heavy to maintain, while full MDM enrollment on a personal device raises privacy and adoption friction. Blue Border instead enforces zero-trust access controls and DLP policies (blocking copy/paste, uploads, and data exfiltration) at the application and enclave level, and the company has more recently extended this to govern what corporate data can be shared into AI tools from within the enclave.

Founded in 2019 by David Matalon (previously co-founder of OS33, a secure workspace vendor for regulated financial firms) and Alex Osipov, Venn publicly revealed million in Series A funding led by NewSpring Capital in June 2023, alongside a patent covering its “MDM for laptops” approach. Note that a separate, unrelated company also named Venn (an Israel-based proptech rental-matching platform) exists and is sometimes conflated with this company in funding databases — the figures above are specific to the cybersecurity vendor at venn.com. Venn’s real differentiator is avoiding VDI’s infrastructure cost and latency entirely, though as a mid-sized company it competes against both larger zero-trust/BYOD vendors and traditional VDI incumbents (Citrix, VMware).