The security awareness group’s CVC unit will focus on the human layer of cybersecurity.

KnowBe4, the US-based cybersecurity awareness and simulated phishing platform operator, has formed a corporate venturing arm called KnowBe4 Ventures.

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Cybersecurity-focused venture capital firms Elephant and Ten Eleven Ventures have teamed up with KnowBe4 to manage the unit, which will help reinforce human cyber protection initiatives. 

KnowBe4 Ventures, which will invest off the parent company’s balance sheets, will target seed to series B-stage companies whose technologies have a…