May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Synqly is the industry- first cybersecurity integration platform that removes the barriers to security product integrations, and unlocks the potential of the ecosystem.

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked with founders Ram Shanmugam (CEO) and Raj Rao (COO) to support their journey, which turned into an interesting situation.

Dec 2022 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Acquired by Airtable, Gradient is a developer focussed platform to customize AI apps in the cloud using open source large language models (LLMs). Coinvestors include Wing VC, Mango Capital and others.

Jun 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

• RegScale is leader in the shift-left movement for compliance. Led bY SYN ventures, RegScale has launched product & "scaling" fast.

Jun 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Acquired by Proofpoint -- Normalyze has built a data security platform to discover, classify and govern your most important data assets. Ravi Ithal, who has helped build two security behemoths -Palo Alto Networks and Netskope started the company. Its Series A round was led Battery Ventures and seed round by Lightspeed.

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Hidden Layer is the pioneer in securing ML models from data poisoning, evasion and other attacks. It has created a new category in cyber security - Machine Learning Detection and Response (MLDR).

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Dell Ventures, OpenObserve provides the easiest way to get started with log capture, search and analysis. It has simple APIs to interact and integrates with all leading log forwarders allowing at-scale search in minutes. All at very low cost.

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Reveald is a leader in offensive security.

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Orkes is a cloud hosted, fully managed version of Netflix Conductor. Backed by Battery Ventures and Vertex Ventures, and founded by a rockstar team coming from Google, Uber, Robinhood and Netflix...

Jan 2022 – Oct 2022 · 9 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Seed to Exit in 10 months - Acquired by 1Password, Passage is developer focussed identity company, enabling easy integration of authentication into various applications. Passage makes it easy to use the biometrics already built into our devices (e.g. Touch ID, Windows Hello, etc). When biometrics aren't available, Passage falls back to magic links to keep friction low and conversion rates high. No apps or extensions required.

Nov 2021 – Nov 2025 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Backed by leading investors such as Mayfield, Alter, Redpoint, Singtel, John Chambers (former CEO of Cisco) Balbix is fast emerging as the category leader in automation of enterprise cybersecurity posture. Using AI, Balbix offers real time breach risk analytics to leading customers worldwide.

Nov 2021 – Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Acquired by Vectra AI, Netography is a Network Security company led by some of the giants of the industry with deep chops in security, DDOS protection and open source systems. Backed by leading investors such as a16z, Bessemer, Wing, SYN ventures.

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Backed by a16z, Lightup is a data quality management platform. If data is the new oil, driving decisions, ML, analytics and insights - data outages cause havoc. Lightup manages your Data availability, conformity, and validity.

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Co-funded by a16z & Venrock, Border0 brings frictionless secure access to infrastructure so that devs can build, code, deploy, and manage without security risk and compliance worries. Access your SSH, Database, and Web servers using just Single-Sign-on credentials with Border0.

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

• SOC Prime has built the world's first community driven threat detection marketplace. The company has attracted over 10000+ users from 5000+ companies from 156+ countries.

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Riscosity is started by 3X founder, Anirban who sold his two previous companies to Cloudflare and Thycotic. Riscosity is building a Next Generation Platform to secure the 3rd Party Software Supply Chain.

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

• Kibsi is launched by the former CTO of Rackspace, to build a cloud native, low-code platform to democratize computer vision.

May 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Austin, Texas, United States

• Sevco offers a cloud-native platform delivering continuous visibility of all assets across siloed systems. The company aims to fix a fundamental problem - attackers know their target networks better than the security teams who own them.

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• AI Platform for Knowledge Process Automation, led by a proven CEO on his third company.

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Cyberseed, a virtual forum for founders & CEOs of cybersecurity startups brings content, context and community to help build the next generation of security startups. We meet each month and over 300 early-stage and aspiring founders have participated to share the highs and lows of building security startups. We bring our community together via monthly virtual events and also manage an active Slack group. Sid Trivedi of Foundation Capital is the Chief Catalyst of CyberSeed and Chenxi Wang of Rain Capital brings her unique perspectives to build this community.

Dec 2020 – Aug 2021 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Acquired by FireEye.

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Sep 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

Jun 2020 – Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Arcion was acquired by Databricks in Oct 2023. Led by Rajkumar Sen, one of the finest minds in DB universe, and backed by Bessemer, Arcion pioneered the next-gen enterprise data mobilization platform.

Feb 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Seed to Exit in 2.5 years - Acquired by Tenable.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led investments in leading infrastructure and cybersecurity companies like Portworx (Container Storage with Sapphire, Mayfield) Platform9 (Managed K8 with Redpoint, Canvas, HP) Balbix (AI driven Cybersecurity with Mayfield, Singtel) Fortem (Drone Security with Data Collective, Boeing).

Aug 2018 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• CloudKnox was acquired by Microsoft.

Feb 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos

May 2017 – May 2022 · 5 yrs

• Attivo Networks was acquired by SentinelOne for $617 million....

Dec 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

Jun 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Singtel Innov8 is $250m Corporate Venture Fund, backed by Singapore Telecom. Worked with investment team to source and close investments in leading cybersecurity companies such as Attivo Networks and Balbix. Supported Trustwave MSSP (US, Singtel HQ (Singapore), Optus (Sydney) to share innovative market trends and partnership opportunities.

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Investor in leading AI, Infra and Cyber startups such as Hidden Layer (1011 VC, Microsoft M12, IBM), Orkes.io (Battery, Vertex), RegScale (SYN, Microsoft), Lightup.ai (a16z), OpenObserve.ai (Dell, Nexus) Balbix (Mayfield), Border0 (Venrock, a16z)....and many more...

Mar 2010 – Oct 2014 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Detroit

• Lead all investment activities in 30+ early stage companies including sourcing, diligence, structuring and value add.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr

• 1) In conjunction with MVCA leadership, ensured smooth passage of Fund-of-Funds legislation in Michigan
• 2) Acted as primary link between venture capital industry and state government to develop policy and programs

Sep 1999 – Sep 2006 · 7 yrs

• Led the growth of VC in Michigan by helping design two Fund-of-fund programs that deployed $200 million. Managed four LP investments and helped develop several angel networks.