At Threat.Technology we track over 100,000 infosec, cyber security, military and cyber startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California, United States based Partner operating in the Cyber Security space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Yash Patel
General Partner of Telstra Ventures
Yash Patel is a General Partner at Telstra Ventures. He joined the organization in 2014 and leads TV’s consumer investing efforts, with an emphasis on esports/gaming, social media, commerce, AR and SaaS apps. Yash has sourced and led TV’s investments in BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), Snapchat (NYSE: SNAP), Skillz (NYSE: SKLZ), Mobile Premier League, Snapcommerce, Omaze, Sleeper, Team SoloMid (tsm.gg), FitOn, Swish Analytics, OpenGov, Singular, and Near. He is particularly interested in products that can reach massive scale and exhibit network effects. Previously, he was a Director of Corporate Development and Strategy at Adknowledge, an online advertising technology platform whose investors include TCV, JMI, TPG, and Nokia. While at Adknowledge, Yash sourced and executed acquisitions and lead strategic planning for the business. Prior to Adknowledge, Yash was an investment banker at Jefferies LLC where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and strategic advisory in the technology sector. Yash holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Biology from University College London. Yash is a native of the Bay Area, enjoys tropical travel, his golden retriever, and is a hardcore Golden State Warriors fan.
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About Telstra Ventures: Telstra Ventures invests in technology companies and offers synergy revenues to its portfolio companies.
Matt Ocko
Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder of DCVC
Matt has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive and venture capitalist, with over 20 patents granted or pending in areas as diverse as hardware systems and social games. He still reads C++ code but admits to occasional struggles with Erlang. Matt is a cofounder of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. During his venture capital tenure, he has invested in and/or helped grow a variety of companies including XenSource (CTRX), Zynga (ZNGA), Impermium, Verisign (VRSN), Facebook (FB), Virtuata (CSCO), Akimbi Systems (VMW), Cotendo (AKAM), Tango.me, MetaWeb (GOOG), FlashSoft (SNDK), DataMirror (IBM), UltraDNS (NSR), Kenshoo, Metamarkets, Fortinet (FTNT), SupportSoft (SPRT), Alantro (TXN), CouchBase, Spool (FB), BranchOut, On-Ramp Wireless, and many others.
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James Hardiman
Partner of DCVC
James has more than five years of experience advising both Fortune 50 and pre-revenue healthcare and biotech companies on their sales and marketing strategy. Previously, he was a consultant at ZS Associates where he advised management teams using insights gained from the analysis of large amounts of healthcare data. Most recently, while at Booth, James worked with technology executives during a stint in The Blackstone Group’s M&A Advisory Practice. James holds a BS in Engineering Physics from the University Of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School Of Business.
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About DCVC: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
John Hamer
Managing Partner of DCVC
John is a Managing Partner at DCVC Bio. Prior to DCVC Bio, John was an Investment Director for Monsanto Growth Ventures. Monsanto is a leading global, agricultural company providing products to growers worldwide. Monsanto Growth Ventures, through investment and partnership encourages entrepreneurs, and innovative start-up companies, to take on the challenge of a more sustainable future for world food production. John Hamer’s career spans more than three decades of research, senior management and investment experience in the life sciences. Prior to joining Monsanto, he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence and later Managing Director and General Partner at Burrill & Company, a San Francisco-based life sciences merchant bank with activities in venture capital, merchant banking and media. John Hamer led investments in numerous of Ag-related start-ups in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Prior to joining Burrill, John Hamer was the CSO and later CEO of Paradigm Genetics/ICORIA, a leading genomics and ag-biotechnology company that completed its IPO on NASDAQ in 2000 and was later acquired by Monsanto. John Hamer received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of California at Davis and was a Visiting Scientist in Dupont’s Central Research & Development Group. He later joined Purdue University and rose to the rank of full Professor and was the recipient of several national awards including the David Lucille Packard Award, and The National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellowship. At Purdue, John Hamer’s research focused on crop diseases, where he pioneered molecular approaches to disease management and control and worked with numerous international agencies in China, the Philippines and South America. John Hamer lectures widely on innovation, agriculture and venture capital and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and serves on the Board of Directors for Golden Pine Ventures, a microVC fund in RTP, North Carolina. He is a passionate believer in new growth opportunities that are emerging in the agricultural value chain in food, health, energy, materials and chemicals.
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About DCVC: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Alan Cohen
Partner of DCVC
Alan Cohen Is The Partner at DCVC.
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Bruno Bowden
Equity Partner of DCVC
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Michael Driscoll
Founding Partner of DCVC
Mike Driscoll founded Metamarkets in 2010 after spending more than a decade developing data analytics solutions for online retail, life sciences, digital media, insurance, and banking. Prior to Metamarkets, Mike successfully founded and sold two companies: Dataspora, a life science analytics company, and CustomInk, an early pioneer in customized apparel. He began his career as a software engineer for the Human Genome Project. Mike holds an A.B. in Government from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Boston University.
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Armen A. Vidian
Partner of DCVC
For the entire length of his career, Armen has worked at the intersection of data and decision-making, primarily in Product Marketing roles. He has a long track record of successfully launching first-in-class products globally and accessing new markets. Armen has an M.S. in Management Science from Stanford University, and an S.B. in Applied Mechanical Engineering with a Minor in French Language and Literature from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also advises numerous technology startups in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About DCVC: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Kiersten Stead
Managing Partner – DCVC Bio of DCVC
Kiersten is a Managing Partner at DCVC Bio. Prior to DCVC Bio, Kiersten was an Investment Director at Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the Venture Capital arm of Monsanto, which was one of the most active investors globally in agriculture. Kiersten has over 15 years of experience in Biotechnology. Prior to joining MGV, Kiersten worked at Burrill & Company, which invested broadly in Life Sciences and Industrial Biotechnology. Kiersten is a co-founder and Director of Pairwise, is on the Board of Atomwise, Farmlead, Plant Response Biotech, VitalFields (acquired), Understory Weather and Blue River Technology (acquired). She is also a member of the Investment Committee of Genome Canada GAAP, The Keystone Symposia Scientific Advisory Board, and the EULC, a sport-not-for-profit.
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About DCVC: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Zachary Bogue
Co-Managing Partner and Co-Founder of DCVC
Zack has over a decade of experience in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, lawyer, angel investor and advisor for big data startups. Zack is a cofounder of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. Zack also is a cofounder and managing partner of Founders Den, a shared workspace for experienced technology entrepreneurs. He was previously an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a law partner at Virtual Law Partners, where he worked with numerous start-ups and their founders, and developed expertise in technology law and Silicon Valley business practices.
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Chris Boshuizen
Operating Partner of DCVC
Dr. Chris Boshuizen is an Operating Partner at DCVC.
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Gloria Lau
Equity Partner of DCVC
Gloria Lau joined Alpha Medical as Cofounder/CEO in 2017.Gloria Lau is the cofounder of Unity Medical, which brings AI to healthcare for improved clinical workflow. Previously, she headed up data products at Linkedin, and was VP of Data at Timeful which was acquired by Google. She is also a consulting faculty at Stanford.
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About Alpha Medical, AV8 Ventures, DCVC: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Ali Tamaseb
Partner of DCVC
Ali Tamaseb is a partner at Data Collective (DCVC), a highly reputable early-stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley with about $2 billion under management. He holds several leadership and board positions at companies across the U.S. and globally. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Ali was a successful entrepreneur. He holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London and studied General Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Ali was an honoree of the British Alumni Award of 2018 by the British Council, and Imperial College President’s Medal for Outstanding Achievement. Ali and his work has been featured in BBC, Guardian, Forbes, The Telegraph, among others, and he has given talks and appeared on panels at major events and conferences, including two TEDx talks. He lives in San Francisco Bay Area.
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About DCVC: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Kelly Chen
Partner of DCVC
Kelly’s interest has always been how to use data and optimization to push boundaries, faster. From her career running a fixed income trading desk to building out a new quant product line for a global investment bank, she has focused closely on building the best models, structuring, and sales teams to optimize outcomes. At DCVC, she enjoys working on problems arising from fundamental population and labor driven shifts. She spends the majority of her time in hardware, where she believes we will see a massive transformation in the next 5-10 years. She is especially excited about teams building revolutionary tech in AI, robotics, manufacturing, and future of work. Kelly received a joint BS/MS in Financial Engineering and Operations Research with honors from Columbia University and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from Wharton, where she served as President of the Entrepreneurship Club.
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Todd Papaioannou
Equity Partner of DCVC
Todd Papaioannou is one of the co-founders of portfolio company Continuuity, a result of his tenure as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Battery, where he worked alongside the Enterprise IT investment team to evaluate investments in Big Data, Analytics, and Cloud Computing infrastructure. Todd has more than 15 years of Internet and Enterprise software experience covering a variety of senior leadership roles in R&D, product and corporate strategy, marketing and professional services. Prior to joining Battery, Todd was most recently VP, Distinguished Fellow and Chief Cloud Architect for Yahoo!. There, he was responsible for driving the technical and strategic direction of the Yahoo! Cloud and Hadoop teams, and was identified as one of the Top 10 Cloud Computing Leaders of 2011 by TechTarget. Additionally, Todd was responsible for leading and defining the overall Yahoo! corporate technology strategy. Prior to Yahoo!, Todd held a series of increasingly senior leadership roles at Teradata including CTO, Client Software and VP, Architecture and Emerging Technologies. Over the course of five years he was responsible for transforming the Teradata client software portfolio, conceiving and launching the overall Teradata Enterprise Analytics Cloud computing program, and played an instrumental role in evolving Teradata’s corporate product and M&A strategy. Earlier in his career, Todd was an early employee at Greenplum Inc. (formerly Metapa Inc.) serving as Chief Architect and Director of Engineering, where he initially built and led the early Engineering team before running the Field Services group. Before that, Todd was Co-Founder and CEO of DALi, Inc, an early stage distributed social gaming company. Todd holds a PhD in artificial intelligence and distributed systems.
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About DCVC: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Spencer Punter
Partner, COO and CFO of DCVC
Spencer has over two decades of experience in Silicon Valley, starting as an investment banker and then becoming a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur, a manager of a venture capital fund of funds, and eventually a CFO/COO of venture-backed enterprise SaaS companies. He brings this diverse skill set to Data Collective where, as COO, he works on the internal operations of the firm and, as an operating partner, he assists the current portfolio with fund raising, FP&A, and M&A. Immediately prior to joining Data Collective, he was COO/CFO of Appcelerator, the maker of the leading cross-platform mobile application development suite, which was acquired by Axway. He has worked in various roles from Associate to General Partner at firms such as Morgan Stanley, Integral Capital Partners, Bowman Capital, Bay Partners, and Capital Dynamics.
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About DCVC: DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
Andrew Gershfeld
General Partner of Flint Capital
Andrew Gershfeld is the General Partner at Flint Capital.
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Dmitry Smirnov
General Partner of Flint Capital
General Partner at Flint Capital investment fund
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Wesley Chan
Managing Director, General Partner of Felicis Ventures
Wesley Chan is a Managing Director and General Partner at Felicis Ventures. He founded Google Analytics and Google Voice, built Google’s early advertising system, built Google Venture’s early investment team, and holds 17 US patents for his fundamental contributions in designing many of Google’s most widely-used services. Wesley is an investor and coach to some of the world’s most successful startups. He led investment rounds and holds board or observer seats in Canva, Guild Education, Turvo, CultureAmp, Okera, Hyperscience, Guideline, and Dialpad. He also led investments in Ring (exited for $1B+ to AMZN), Flexport, Carta, Checkr, Gusto, ZipLine, Orca Bio, Whole Biome, Skip the Dishes (exited to Just Eats/JE), and YES (exited to TWTR). Wesley was also one of the earliest General Partners at GV (Google Ventures), where he built the investment team, led many of GV’s investments and held board or observer seats in Angelist, Aptelligent (exited to VMWare), iPerian (exited to BMS), and Dialpad. Wesley was also one of the first checks into Plaid, RobinHood, Gusto, Optimizely, HelloSign (exited to DropBox), DataPad (exited to Cloudera), Freshplum (exited to TWTR), Namo Media (exited to TWTR), and Parse (exited to FB). He is a recipient of Google’s Founders Award–the company’s most prestigious recognition–for leading the development of Google’s early client efforts, which led to the creation of Google Chrome. Wesley worked at HP Labs as a senior software engineer and as a sponsored fellow at Microsoft Research. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT where he completed his graduate thesis at the Media Laboratory. Technology Review magazine featured Wesley as a “Top 35 Under 35” innovator. Wesley’s accomplishments have been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Fortune, and his story as a product founder is featured in Steven Levy’s best-selling Google book, “In The Plex.”
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Niki Pezeshki
General Partner of Felicis Ventures
Niki Pezeshki is a Partner on the investment team at Felicis Ventures. At Felicis, Niki has sourced and continues to work closely with the firm’s investments in Guild Education, Guideline, Trusted Health, Modus, Cleo, Octave, FarmWise, DoNotPay, and SentiLink. Prior to joining Felicis, he was on the investment team at Summit Partners, a tech-focused growth equity firm in Menlo Park. Before Summit, Niki lived in Austin, TX and was on the investment team at Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses. He also had a brief stint at the Climate Corporation (a former Felicis portfolio company), where he focused on sales strategy and operations. Niki received a BS in Business Administration with Honors from the University of Southern California. He continues to be actively involved with the USC Value Investing Group.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Sundeep Peechu
Managing Director, General Partner of Felicis Ventures
Sundeep Peechu is a Managing Director, General Partner at Felicis. He’s currently excited about re-invention of security and insurance and further developments in crypto and machine learning. Investor in ActiveHours (Earnin), Counsyl, BitPay, Gigster, Ginkgo Bioworks, HealthIQ, Matterport, Plaid, Pindrop, Recursion, Spoke, Troops, Top Hat, Wish and a few others. Prior to joining Felicis in 2010, he held various product roles at Intel within the software division. Sundeep joined Intel through the acquisition of Sarvega, where he was an early employee responsible for the design of the security infrastructure. He also had brief stints at NEA where he focused on mobile and emerging markets and at Simbol Mining where he developed key initiatives around the production of battery materials. Sundeep has a Bachelors in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an M.S in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Earnin, Felicis Ventures, Pindrop, Top Hat: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Aydin Senkut
Founder & Managing Partner of Felicis Ventures
Aydin Senkut is the Founder and Managing Partner of Felicis Ventures. An original super angel turned multi-stage investor, he has been named on the Forbes Midas List for the past seven years (2014-2020) as well as the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists list for the past four years (2016-2019). His recent focus areas include consumerization of enterprise, security, cloud optimization, and longevity. He is well-known as an early backer of a number of iconic companies including Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Rovio (HEL:ROVIO), Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), Pluralsight (NASDAQ:PS), Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Credit Karma (acquired by Intuit), SoundHound & Vicarious. Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific, including Japan. Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google’s first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products, and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for worldwide licensing deals. Before joining Google, Aydin was the Product Manager for Data Visualization and Data Mining software MineSet at SGI. He received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University. He also earned an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School and a master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an avid pilot, loves playing tennis, and speaks five languages: English, German, French, Portuguese, and Turkish.
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About Felicis Ventures, Guideline, Paravision: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Viviana Faga
General Partner of Felicis Ventures
Viviana Faga is the General Partner at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Dasha Maggio
Partner & Head of Founder Success of Felicis Ventures
Dasha Maggio is the Partner and Head of Founder Success at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Victoria Treyger
General Partner and Managing Director of Felicis Ventures
Victoria is passionate about building great brands and scaling revenue through innovative sales and marketing. She joined Kabbage because she loved the opportunity to leverage technology and data to transform how financial services are delivered to customers.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Katie Riester
Partner, Investor Relations of Felicis Ventures
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Alexis Abrams
Partner and General counsel of Felicis Ventures
Alexis Abrams is the Partner and General Counsel at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures, General Catalyst: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Umesh Padval
Venture Partner of Thomvest Ventures
Umesh Padval is a partner at Thomvest partner at Thomvest Ventures in San Francisco, California. He focusses on venture capital investments in cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure. He currently serves on the private company boards of Bolster, Shiftleft, Clari, Shield X, Avalanche Technology and Tactus and public company board of Impinj. He is also an investor in Baffle and Harness.He has extensive board experience serving on over 30 public and private company boards and several audit, compensation and nominating and governance committees. Prior to joining Thomvest, Umesh was a successful entrepreneur, investor and CEO of a public company. He most recently worked for over 8 years at Bessemer Venture Partners in their office in Menlo Park. Prior to Bessemer, he worked as an executive vice president at LSI after its acquisition of a public video infrastructure and distribution company, C-Cube Microsystems. At C-Cube, Umesh served as president and CEO and grew the company profitably to over $300m in revenue and 500 employees with a global presence. Previously he was a Board Member at Lastline(Private,Sold to VMware),Blue Willow Systems (Private, Sold to Philips), Avnera (Private, Sold to Skyworks), Skyhigh Networks (Private, Sold to McAfee), Mellanox (Public, Sold to Nvidia), IDT(Public, Sold to Renesas), C-Cube Microsystems (Public, Sold to LSI), Entropic Communications (Public, Sold to Maxlinear), Silicon Image (Public, Sold to Lattice), Elantec (Public, Sold to Intersil), Berkeley Design Automation (Private, Sold to Mentor Graphics), Monolithic Power Systems (Public), Tilera (Private, Sold to EZchip) and PA Semi (Private, Sold to Apple). He was also an investor in Thousand Eyes( Private, Sold to Cisco) and Cylance( Private, Sold to Blackberry). Umesh holds a Bachelor’s in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and a Master’s in Engineering from Stanford University. He has served on several advisory boards at Stanford University and currently serves on the board of Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Sutter Medical Group.
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About Thomvest Ventures: Thomvest Ventures provides companies with cross-stage venture capital fund.
Jonathan Barker
Venture Partner of Thomvest Ventures
Jonathan’s diverse background includes managing the China subsidiaries of two Fortune 500 companies: Commercial Metals Company and EchoStar Communications Corporation; co-founding a Silicon Valley-based video search technology company – MeeVee – as well as developing strategic marketing and distribution plans, structuring and negotiating financial and commercial transactions, and carrying out due diligence for more than two dozen multinational companies and investment banks. Jonathan sits on the board of Tactus Technology. He holds a Master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Andrew Pinkerton
Partner of Thomvest Ventures
Andrew Pinkerton is a Partner at Thomvest Ventures.
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Ashish Kakran
Venture Partner of Thomvest Ventures
Ashish has always been passionate about technology. Prior to joining Thomvest, where he’s a Principal – focusing on cybersecurity and infrastructure, Ashish supported founders in the cloud infrastructure space at Engineering Capital with product inputs, follow-on financing, and customer introductions through a CIO Forum he built from scratch. His journey in venture capital started with internships at BGV and Canaan Partners.
Ashish’s past experience includes spending over 3 years at AppNeta, a Bain Capital-backed startup where he managed TraceView, a distributed-transaction-tracing product that was acquired by SolarWinds in 2016. He also founded TwtPulse and was a founding engineer at eJonesPulse, which used prediction market mechanics for sentiment analysis for customers like the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Having been a part of startups, ones that were successful and ones that were not, he has developed an eye for finding the combinations of problems, teams, and cultures that help companies be successful.
Outside of work, he enjoys building and nurturing communities, and often bring people together with fun picnics and small lunches/dinners for thought-provoking conversations. At EVCA, a 500+ member community of pre-Partner VCs, he has led the Enterprise Infrastructure vertical while also serving as the President of the IIT Guwahati Bay Area Alumni group and member of the Executive Committee for PanIIT USA. Ashish has a BS in Computer Science from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Connect with Ashish at [email protected], follow him on LinkedIn, and see his latest research on Medium.
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About Thomvest Ventures: Thomvest Ventures provides companies with cross-stage venture capital fund.
Alex Salazar
Partner of Neotribe Ventures
Alex Salazar Before starting Stormpath, Alex was a senior sales executive at IBM where he managed $30M+ accounts at ESPN, Viacom, Bloomberg, NBC/Universal, and Government. Prior to IBM, Alex was an enterprise software developer. He has a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Stanford.
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Yves Sisteron
Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Upfront Ventures
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Kobie Fuller
General Partner of Upfront Ventures
Kobie is a General Partner at Upfront. He joined the firm in June 2016 after having previously worked at Silicon Valley based Accel, where he was involved in investments including Campaign Monitor, UserTesting, AdRoll, Emergent VR and Invoca (also an Upfront portfolio company). Prior to Accel, Kobie was the Chief Marketing Officer at REVOLVE, one of the largest global fashion ecommerce players based in Los Angeles. Kobie brings to Upfront expertise in SaaS businesses and marketing technologies and is an author of Growthverse, an interactive visualization of the marketing technology landscape. He has deep knowledge of emerging technologies including VR and AR and was also an early personal investor in Oculus, later sold to Facebook for $2B. Earlier in his career, Kobie helped found OpenView Venture Partners and was an investor at Insight Venture Partners where he sourced notable early investments in Exact Target (acquired by Salesforce for $2.5B) and Instructure (NYSE: INST). Kobie received a AB in Economics from Harvard University.
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Mark Suster
Managing Partner of Upfront Ventures
Mark Suster is General Partner at Upfront Ventures. He joined the firm in 2007 after having previously worked with Upfront Ventures for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Before joining Upfront Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com following its acquisition of Koral, where Mark was Founder and CEO. Prior to Koral, Mark was Founder and CEO of BuildOnline, a European SaaS company that was acquired by SWORD Group. Earlier in his career, Mark spent nearly ten years working for Accenture in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Mark looks to invest in passionate entrepreneurs in early-stage technology businesses. His interests include Digital Content and Distribution, AdTech, Consumer Internet, and SaaS businesses and he has deep operating experience having started and sold his last two companies. Mark received a BA in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Mark’s investments include: Bird, Density, Imbellus, Invoca, MakeSpace, mitu, Nanit, Osmo, and Tact.
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Aditi Maliwal
Partner of Upfront Ventures
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About Upfront Ventures: Upfront Ventures is the venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology companies.
Kara Nortman
Managing Partner of Upfront Ventures
Kara is a Partner at Upfront Ventures, the largest venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. Some of her notable investments include Endgame, Time by Ping, Writer, Open Raven, Parachute Home and Fleetsmith (acquired by Apple in 2020). Before Upfront, Kara co-founded the children’s e-commerce company Moonfrye and also spent seven years at IAC where she co-headed the M&A group and acted as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Urbanspoon and Citysearch. During her tenure at IAC she oversaw the initial investment in Tinder. Earlier in her career, she also spent time at Morgan Stanley, Microsoft, and Battery Ventures. She received her AB in Politics from Princeton University and her MBA from Stanford University. Kara is also a founding member of All Raise, a VC-led group dedicated to increased diversity in funders and founders and is a founder of Angel City Football Club. Kara resides in Los Angeles with her husband and three daughters.
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About All Raise, Moonfrye, Upfront Ventures: Upfront Ventures is the venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology companies.
Kevin Zhang
Partner of Upfront Ventures
Kevin joined Upfront Ventures in 2012 and has been a partner since 2016. Prior to Upfront, Kevin was at Boston Consulting Group, where he advised on strategy and operations for technology, healthcare, and industrial goods clients in the US and Asia and conducted due diligence for private equity investors. Previously, Kevin worked at Verisk Health, a healthcare IT startup in Boston, focusing on project management, product development, and consulting for strategic accounts. Kevin received a BA in Biology from Harvard College, with a minor in Psychology.
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About Upfront Ventures: Upfront Ventures is the venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology companies.
Greg Bettinelli
Partner of Upfront Ventures
Greg joined Upfront in 2013, with a focus on investment in businesses at the juncture of retail and technology. Greg was the Chief Marketing Officer for HauteLook, a leading online flash-sale retailer. Launched in December 2007, Los Angeles based HauteLook was acquired by Nordstrom, Inc., in March 2011 for $270mm. Prior to joining HauteLook, Greg was Executive Vice President of Business Development and Strategy at Live Nation, responsible for strategic direction and key business partnerships for Live Nation’s ticketing and digital businesses. Before Live Nation, Greg held a number of leadership positions at eBay, including Sr. Director of Business Development at StubHub, where he led business development, partnerships, sales and seller development, including spearheading StubHub’s landmark relationship with Major League Baseball. Prior to transitioning to StubHub from eBay, he led eBay.com’s Event Tickets and Media businesses (including half.com) and was the business leader who led eBay’s acquisition of StubHub in 2007. Greg received a BA in Political Science from the University of San Diego and an MBA from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management.
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About MuckerLab, Upfront Ventures: Upfront Ventures is the venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology companies.
Eric Benhamou
Founder & General Partner of Benhamou Global Ventures
Eric Benhamou is the CEO and founder of Benhamou Global Ventures, LLC. Benhamou Global Ventures, started in 2003, invests and plays an active role in innovative high tech firms throughout the world. He is an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD. He is also a visiting professor at IDC Herzliya’s Arison School of Business. He served as chairman of the board of directors of Palm, Inc. from 1999 until 2007 and as chief executive officer of Palm from 2001 until 2003. Benhamou served as chief executive officer of 3Com Corporation from 1990 until 2000 and as chairman of the board of directors until its sale to HP in April 2010. Previously, he held a variety of senior management positions at 3Com. In 1981, Mr. Benhamou co-founded Bridge Communications, an early networking pioneer, and was vice president of engineering until its merger with 3Com in 1987. In 2003, Eric Benhamou was appointed to the Joint High Level Advisory Panel of the U.S.- Israel Science and Technology Commission by U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans. He currently serves as chairman of the board of Cypress Semiconductor and as a member of the board of RealNetworks, Inc and of Silicon Valley Bancshares. He serves on the board of directors of several privately held companies. He is the chairman of the Israel Venture Network, a venture philanthropy organization for a stronger Israeli society. Eric Benhamou received a Masters degree from Stanford University’s School of Engineering. He also holds a Diplome d’Ingénieur and a doctorate from Arts et Metiers ParisTech.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures, IDC Herzliya: Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Yashwanth Hemaraj
Partner of Benhamou Global Ventures
Board Observer at Blendid.
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About Arka Venture Labs, Benhamou Global Ventures: Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Eric Buatois
General Partner of Benhamou Global Ventures
Eric joined Sofinnova Ventures as a General Partner in 2001 with more than 20 years of experience in the wireless industry. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, he held several senior management and operational roles at Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard and Ericsson, also having negotiated, created and managed a joint venture in Sweden between H-P and Ericsson. In his corporate roles, Eric pioneered and developed several very successful products such as Texas Instruments’ digital signal processors for the cellular market, Hewlett-Packard’s telecommunications products Opencall and Openview, and Ericsson’s operational support systems for telecom networks. Eric has also driven several acquisitions and major partnering activities. At Sofinnova Ventures, Eric specializes in investment in the wireless ecosystem. He is a lead investor who truly enjoys building global companies and has demonstrated experience in executing spin-outs from large companies. He actively serves on the boards of companies in the US and in Europe, including Cortina Systems, Crestatech, Crocus Technology, Hellosoft (acquired by Imagination Technologies, LSE: IMG), Laszlo Systems, Upek (Acquired by AuthenTec, Nasdaq: AUTH) and Volubill. Eric served as Chairman of the Board of Upek from inception until 2009, Chairman of Crocus Technology from inception until Janaury 2010, and is currently Chairman of Laszlo systems. Eric Buatois holds an M.S. in Computer Science and Communications Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in France.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures: Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Anik Bose
General Partner of Benhamou Global Ventures
Anik Bose is a General Partner at BGV. BGV is an early stage venture fund that assists entrepreneurs in building a new generation of high technology companies. Prior to joining BGV, he headed business development at 3Com – in this role he managed a $250MM corporate venture fund, spearheaded dozens of venture capital investments and executed numerous M&A transactions. Key venture investments include – Mesh Networks (acquired by Motorola), Parthus (IPO), Cicada Semiconductor (acquired by Vitesse), Microtune (IPO), ADMTek (acquired by Infineon), Atrica (acquired by Nokia/Siemens), Sheer Networks (acquired by Cisco), Air Prime (Acquired by Sierra Wireless), Healthetec (IPO) and Intransa. Most recently Mr. Bose architected the launch of H3C (3Com’s joint venture with Huawei), which achieved annual revenues of over $700 million and a market valuation of $1.8Bn within 36 months of launch. Prior to joining 3Com, Mr. Bose served as a Partner in the High Technology Practice of Deloitte Management Consulting in San Francisco. Mr. Bose holds a MBA from Boston College and BA in Economics from the University of Delhi, India.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures: Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf
Managing Partner of YL Ventures
Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf founded YL Ventures, which invests early in core-technology software companies in and around the Internet, and accelerates their evolution via value-added involvement and Silicon Valley-based business development. Yoav has been a successful entrepreneur, investor, and consultant in the technology and new media fields for the past two decades. He is the founder and managing partner of YL Ventures, a global venture capital firm that invests in high-technology start-up companies and, within a short time, brings them to market. In addition to 6Scan, Yoav serves on the board of directors of ClickTale (customer experience analytics), Upstream Commerce (automated competitive pricing analytics) and BlazeMeter (self-service load testing cloud) and is the lead investor of Seculert (security threat intelligence). Yoav served on the board of AcceloWeb (browser experience optimization) until it was acquired by Limelight Networks. Yoav was the CEO and cofounder of Movota (mobile gaming) acquired by Bertelsmann, the CTO and cofounder of ExchangePath (online payments) acquired by CMGI, and the CEO and cofounder of PcEnterntainer Magazine. Yoav was also an associate at DFJ Gotham Ventures, studied at IMD, and holds an MBA from Columbia University.
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About YL Ventures: YL Ventures funds and supports seed-stage entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity sector.
John Brennan
Partner of YL Ventures
John, Partner at YL Ventures, is focused on investment due diligence, portfolio company value-add, industry research, expanding the firm’s U.S. platform, and various aspects of fund management. John currently serves as a board observer of Vulcan Cyber (continuous vulnerability remediation), Axonius (unified visibility & control of endpoint devices), Karamba Security (embedded security for connect systems), Ride Vision (advanced driver assistance systems for two-wheeled vehicles) and Hunters.AI (autonomous threat hunting platform). Prior to YL Ventures, John was at Data Collective, where he evaluated early stage investment opportunities and worked in an operating role, incubating multiple machine learning-driven startups, including Merlon Intelligence, an anti-money laundering compliance risk management platform. Before that, he worked on the investment team at OCA Ventures in Chicago, where he focused on early stage deals across various sectors.
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About YL Ventures: YL Ventures funds and supports seed-stage entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity sector.
Scott Coleman
Partner of Ignition Partners
Scott joined Ignition as Business Development Partner to help our portfolio companies identify and win customers and partners on a global scale. Scott has spent 20 years working at the intersection of technology and finance and has worked with startups and large companies on partnerships, go-to-market, acquisitions, and investments. Scott’s prior roles have placed him at the forefront of how software-defined infrastructure, devops, advanced analytics, cyber, and digital transformation are changing our notion of the tech stack and how enterprises source and consumer solutions. Prior to joining Ignition, Scott led Microsoft Startup Growth Partners, was responsible for Microsoft’s global accelerator program and brought together colleagues across the company to drive engagement and partnership with the start-up and venture capital ecosystem. Before Microsoft, Scott led the Technology Innovation Portfolio team at Bank of America. The team’s mission was finding innovative solutions to emerging business and technology opportunities by partnering with the technology community, including venture capital firms, and their portfolio companies. Prior to Bank of America, Scott ran Technology Business Development at Morgan Stanley where his responsibilities included technology strategy and partnering with the banking and equities businesses to drive revenue for the Firm. In this role, Scott created a structured innovation practice that cultivated relationships with VCs, technology entrepreneurs, CEOs, CTOs and other leaders at both large and small technology companies. Prior to his role in Technology Business Development, Scott spent 10 years in equity research at Morgan Stanley, covering the networking and communications equipment sector, and before that Scott ran finance at Covista, a publicly-traded telecom company.
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About Ignition Partners: Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity.
Alex Doll
Founder and Managing General Partner of TenEleven Ventures
Alex Doll is the Co-Founder and Managing General Partner at Ten Eleven Ventures.
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About Cado Security Ltd, CyberGRX, Darktrace, Digital Shadows, Drizly, GoSecure, Immuta, Ionic Security, KnowBe4, Offensive Security, Optiv, Ordr, Revelock, TenEleven Ventures, Vulcan Cyber: TenEleven Ventures is a venture capital company that focuses on cybersecurity startups.
Pat Wilkison
Managing Partner of Integrity Partners
Partner for Building Amazing Companies with Amazing People. Providing Effort, Integrity, Commitment, Creativity.
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Jeff Margolies
SVP, Strategy & Strategic Partnership of FireEye
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Patrick Spaulding Ryan, PhD
General Partner and Investment Committee of Leawood Venture Capital
Dr. Patrick SpauldingRyan serves as General Partner & Member of the Investment Committee at Leawood Venture Capital and as an independent Angel Investor. He serves on the Board of Clupp and is Board Observer at Bttn.. Dr. Ryan wored 9 years as a Googler leading launch strategy for various regulated products, including aerospace, telecom, and developed the broker/dealer product for Google cloud.. Dr. Ryan previously served as the Faculty Director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Ryan regularly authors academic articles and lectures on technology policy internationally.His publications are available on SSRN, https://ssrn.com/author=355448.
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Jeff Kearl
General Partner of Pelion Venture Partners
Jeff Kearl is a Managing Director at Pelion Ventures. He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Stance. He previously Co-founded Precedent Investments in 2012. He previously served as a Venture Partner at Zetta Venture Partners.He previously served as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Arteis, Inc. He previously served as Director of Strategy and New Ventures for Hewlett Packard. Jeff previously worked as an Associate at vSpring Capital. Jeff founded Freeport.com, Inc. and served as its Vice President of Business Development & Product Marketing. He served as the Chairman of Skullcandy, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKUL) from 2005 to 2013. He is currently on the board of directors of Scopely, Just Water and Domo (NASDAQ: DOMO). Jeff Kearl holds a BA in Marketing from Brigham Young University.
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About Domo, Dynamic Signal, Pelion Venture Partners, Stance: Pelion Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs and invests in early-stage B2B software-based companies.
Matt Mosman
General Partner of Pelion Venture Partners
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Michael Tedesco
Founder & Managing Partner of Momentum Cyber
Michael Tedesco is one of the top technology dealmakers of his generation, with over 20 years experience advising CEOs and boards of companies both large and small at all stages of their lifecycle. He has advised on 100+ completed M&A transactions with aggregate value in excess of $125 billion. Before founding Wellspring, Michael was the Head of US M&A and Global Technology M&A at Jefferies. He held a similar role at Citi Global Markets until 2010 in addition to serving as co-head of Americas Technology Banking. Michael has experience particularly in special situations advisory assignments, with complex Founder / Board / Investor dynamics. Such advisory roles were recognized five times for the IDD Technology Deal of the Year. Through Wellspring Growth Partners, he is an active direct investor in and advisor to disruptive companies across the technology and consumer products spectrum. Investments include FIGS, Westward Leaning, WriteLab, EnerAllies, The Influential Network, Duckworth Wool Co, Peep, Geoscale and MoxTV. Before earning his MBA Michael was a Project Engineer at Conoco and played a major role inthe Polar Lights joint venture, the first oilfield development project in Russia involving an American firm. Harvard MBA with High Distinction (Baker Scholar and John Loeb Finance Fellow) and BSci Industrial Engineering Montana State University
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About Momentum Cyber, Wellspring Growth Partners: Momentum Cyber is a financial advisory firm that provides mergers and acquisitions and strategic advice to the cybersecurity industry.
Eric McAlpine
Founder & Managing Partner of Momentum Cyber
Eric McAlpine has spent over 20 years in the Technology industry as a strategic advisor to Boards, Founders & CEOs, a two-time founder, and award-winning engineer. He is a highly sought out speaker on the Cybersecurity market at major industry conferences, private events, and corporate gatherings sharing insights into M&A, capital markets, and industry trends. Eric is a Founder & Managing Partner at Momentum Cyber a firm he co-founded in 2018 along with Dave DeWalt and Michael Tedesco. Momentum Cyber is the premier trusted strategic advisor to the Cybersecurity industry providing bespoke high-impact advice combined with tailored senior-level access from incubation to exit. Eric is one of the top dealmakers in the Cybersecurity industry with a prolific M&A track record advising on and orchestrating deals with industry leaders such as ADT, Symantec, McAfee, Proofpoint, Mimecast, Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Amazon, CenturyLink, Google, Intel, and many more. Prior to co-founding Momentum Cyber, Eric was Founder & Managing Partner of Momentum Partners, the precursor to Momentum Cyber. Earlier in his career, Eric served as a Managing Director with Blackstone where co-founded Blackstone’s Silicon Valley office and led the firm’s Cybersecurity advisory practice. In 2010, Eric was recognized by Steve Schwarzman with the CEO Star Award and featured along with a profile on one of his transactions in Blackstone’s 25th anniversary Annual Report for extraordinary contributions to the firm. Eric began his Wall Street career at Salomon Smith Barney and Citi where he served as a senior member of the Enterprise Software Investment Banking team leading sector coverage in Security. Prior to a career on Wall Street, Eric served his country as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force where he was honored as the Military Engineer of the Year in 2000 for his engineering contributions to the Joint Strike Fighter Program, which included saving taxpayers $80 Million through an innovative stealth recoating design. Eric earned an MBA with Distinction from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management where he was a 2-year Wade Fetzer Scholar. He also earned a BS Civil Engineering from Purdue University on an Air Force ROTC Scholarship as well as his MS in Engineering Management from the University of Dayton where he was a Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute scholar – both full ride scholarships. Eric lives in Ross, California with his family and is an avid world traveler, die hard Cubs fan, collects vintage vinyl records, and loves art, music, wine and fine food.
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About Momentum Cyber: Momentum Cyber is a financial advisory firm that provides mergers and acquisitions and strategic advice to the cybersecurity industry.
Eric Manlunas
Managing Partner and Founder (US & SE Asia) of Wavemaker Partners
Eric is a co-Founder and Managing Partner with Wavemaker Partners, a cross border early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore. He is a two-time start-up entrepreneur turned venture capitalist with a strong passion for early-stage investing. Eric co-founded Wavemaker following its merger with Frontera Group, a prior early-stage boutique venture capital firm he founded in 2003. Eric has a proven track record as an early investor in over 230 early-stage ventures, of which half remain active and growing. Those companies have collectively received over $1B in growth capital. Eric also served in a concurrent capacity as a Partner of a Los Angeles-based value hedge fund from late-2002 until its sale to a San Francisco-based commercial bank in mid-2006. Prior to Frontera, Eric founded Sitestar in mid-1999. Sitestar is an Internet service provider in the rural markets of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Upon helping steer Sitestar in becoming one of the largest independent ISPs in the region, Eric successfully divested his remaining ownership stake in December 2002. Prior to that, Eric’s first startup was Interfoods, an online specialty foods venture he founded in early 1997. Within 3 years, Interfoods grew to become a mid-sized specialty foods provider in its market and was successfully acquired in late 1999. Eric began his career as a consulting associate with Arthur Andersen’s retail management consulting division from 1991-1995. He earned a B.S. in Communications from Florida International University and an M.B.A from Pepperdine University. Eric is currently a member of the board of a number of emerging companies. He is also a Trustee of the Philippine Development Foundation, an organization committed to social development initiatives in the Philippines, Eric’s country of origin.
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About Wavemaker 360, Wavemaker Partners: Wavemaker is a crossborder early-stage VC firm that focuses on early-stage tech startup opportunities.
Peter Fitzgerald
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Triventures
Peter Fitzgerald is the Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Technology and Director of the Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory (CCAL) at Stanford University Medical School. He is an Interventional Cardiologist and has a PhD in Engineering. He is Professor in both the Departments of Medicine and Engineering at Stanford. Presently, Peter Fitzgerald’s laboratory includes 17 postdoctoral fellows and graduate engineering students focusing on state-of-the-art technologies in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has led or participated in over 150 clinical trials, published over 450 manuscripts/chapters, and lectures worldwide. He has trained over 150 post-docs in Engineering and Medicine in the past decade. In addition, he heads the Stanford/Asia MedTech innovation program Peter has been principle/founder of eighteen medical device companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has transitioned twelve of these start-ups to large medical device companies.
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About Triventures: Triventures is a venture capital fund focused on investing in data driven healthcare solutions and disruptive medical devices
Barry Weinman
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of AllegisCyber
Barry Weinman has been making venture capital investments, principally in Silicon Valley, since 1980. He is Co-Founder and former Managing Director of Allegis Capital and AVI Capital. Barry and his partners in Allegis and prior funds have helped over 70 private companies go public. Barry has led and participated in investments resulting in over $25 billion in market value, including: Palm (NASDAQ), Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE), Caere (NASDAQ), Cadnetix (NASDAQ), Columbia/HCA (NYSE), Women.com (NASDAQ), Medscape (NASDAQ), Liveworld (NASDAQ), InfoGear (CSCO), Be Inc (NASDAQ), Quokka (NASDAQ), and XOMA (NASDAQ). Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Barry held management positions with AT&T, IBM, and Fairchild Semiconductor. He co-founded Interactive Applications Inc., the first on-line manufacturing software and services company, merged it with Boole & Babbage which went on to have an Initial Public Offering. In 2005 he became Chairman of DragonBridge Capital a Merchant Bank and Venture Fund in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Barry holds a B.S. from Clarkson College of Technology, and an M.A. from the London School of Economics / University of Southern California.
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About AllegisCyber, Secondaries Venture Fund, University of Hawaii Foundation: AllegisCyber invests in early stage companies developing technology and software to serve emerging markets.
John Stewart
Venture Partner of AllegisCyber
John Stewart formed and leads Cisco’s Security and Trust Organization, underscoring Cisco’s commitment to address two of the most critical issues that are top of mind for boardrooms and world leaders alike. Under Stewart’s leadership, the organization’s core missions include protecting Cisco’s public and private customers, enabling and ensuring Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle and Trustworthy Systems efforts across Cisco’s portfolio, and leadership in the areas of privacy, trust and assurance, and efforts with governments globally. Throughout his 25-year career, Stewart has led or participated in widely ranging security initiatives from IT design for elementary schools to national security programs. In addition to his role at Cisco, he sits on technical advisory boards for Area 1 Security, BlackStratus, Inc., and Threatstream. He is a Board member at Shape Security and RiskSense, Inc. and serves as a special advisor to RedSeal’s Board of Directors. Additionally, Stewart serves on the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Cyber Security Review panel and was formerly on the Cybersecurity Think Tank at University of Maryland University College. He served on the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th United States Presidency, was on the Board of Directors for Fixmo, Koolspan, the National Cyber-Forensics Training Alliance (NCFTA), and Shadow Networks, and was on advisory boards for many companies including Akonix, Cloudshield, Finjan, Ingrian Networks, Nok-Nok Labs, Riverhead, and TripWire. John is a highly sought public and closed-door speaker and his team was most recently recognized with the 2016 Global Excellence Award for Security Organization of the Year by Info Security Products Guide, and he was individually recognized with the RSA 2015 award for Excellence in Information Security. Other recent honors include the 2014 Global Golden Bridge Award for CISO of the Year, as well as the CSO 40 Silver Award for Chief Security Officer of the Year in 2014. Stewart has a Master of Science degree in computer and information science from Syracuse University.
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About AllegisCyber: AllegisCyber invests in early stage companies developing technology and software to serve emerging markets.
Nawaf Bitar
Venture Partner of AllegisCyber
Nawaf Bitar joined Juniper Networks, Inc. in April 2011 and today is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Security Business Unit. In this role he is responsible for Juniper’s security business including the overall strategy and execution. Prior to joining Juniper, Bitar served as Vice President of Engineering and Operations of Security Technology at Cisco Systems, Inc. He joined Cisco in 2007 when it acquired IronPort Systems, where he served as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Prior to joining IronPort, he served as Vice President of File Systems & Services at Network Appliance Inc. Previously his career included roles at Silicon Graphics and Apollo Computer. He has over twenty five years of engineering and engineering management experience. Bitar graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor of arts degree.
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About AllegisCyber: AllegisCyber invests in early stage companies developing technology and software to serve emerging markets.
Hossein Eslambolchi
Venture Partner of AllegisCyber
Dr. Eslambolchi is recognized worldwide as one of the foremost thought leaders and technological scientists. He joined AT&T Bell Labs and quickly become global Chief Technology Officer, global Chief Information Officer, President and CEO of AT&T Labs, President and CEO of AT&T Global Network Services, and Chief Transformation Officer at AT&T. For more information see Wikipedia bio.
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About AllegisCyber: AllegisCyber invests in early stage companies developing technology and software to serve emerging markets.
Kelly Perdew
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner of Moonshots Capital
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner at Moonshots Capital.
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About Moonshots Capital, TargetClose: Seed stage venture capital firm that invests in extraordinary leadership.
Skye Spear
VP, Global Partnerships of Signifyd
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About Signifyd: Signifyd is a provider of an enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores.
Vazgen Hakobjanyan
Partner of SmartGateVC
Vazgen Hakobjanyan is co-founder and partner at SmartGateVC. He is a co-founder and formerly VP of engineering at Teamable Software. He previously worked as a senior R&D engineer at Synopsys until 2013. He has a master’s degree in applied mathematics and CS at Yerevan State University.
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About SmartGateVC, Teamable: SmartGateVC is Tim Draper backed pre-seed VC investing in deep tech startups
Mitchell Weinstock
Partner of HP Tech Ventures
Mitchell is a Partner for HP Tech Ventures, where he identifies promising, leading-edge technology startups and pursues strategic investments and partnerships to help those companies bring products to market and scale as they grow. Externally liaising with the worldwide institutional Venture Capital and the Corporate Venture community, country trade missions, as well as HP Labs, HP business groups, their customers and their partners, Mitchell is defining new market segments, products and business models that will help shape HP’s future growth especially in Cybersecurity, Edge Computing, Active Sensors, Robotics, and computer core technology.
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About Berkeley Executive Education, HP Tech Ventures: HP Tech Ventures is helping to foster an ecosystem of innovation and reinvention.
Angelo Del Priore
Partner of HP Tech Ventures
Angelo is a Partner for HP Tech Ventures, where he leads investments and partnerships in artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality, Gaming/eSports, and AI/Data Science tools. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and an active adviser. Previously Angelo was with HP’s corporate strategy group where he focused on mergers & acquisitions, and market entry strategies across all of HP’s business lines. Before HP, Angelo was Vice President of Business Development and Strategy at Couchsurfing, where he helped raise $23M in venture capital funding (Benchmark, General Catalyst) and grew membership to over 5M users. He also ran a tech sector focused management consulting company for 8 years and worked for numerous startups and Fortune 500 companies, including Apple, Cisco, Dell, Groupon, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, and YouSendIt.
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About HP Tech Ventures, TVLP Institute Silicon Valley: HP Tech Ventures is helping to foster an ecosystem of innovation and reinvention.
Micah Siegel
General Partner of Vanedge Capital
Micah’s passion is helping missionary entrepreneurs, professors and students create the “Next Big Thing” in machine learning, enterprise software, scientific instruments and other technology businesses that generate complex intellectual property. Prior to joining Vanedge Capital, Micah was the Managing Director of C2C Ventures, a venture capital firm that he co-founded in Palo Alto, California in 1999. Previously, Micah was on the faculty of Stanford University for nine years, where he was a Consulting Associate Professor in the School of Engineering.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Vanedge Capital: Vanedge Capital focuses on gaming, digital media, and SaaS solutions for small and medium business, enterprise software, and cyber security.
Manjari Asawa
Director, IoT Partner Solutions of Wipro Digital
Manjari Asawa, Director of Partner Engineering at Wipro focuses on IoT for communication and smart energy. Prior to Wipro, she held engineering and product management positions at Verizon Wireless, Cisco, Qualcomm, HPE, and Nominum and received Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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About Wipro Digital: Wipro Digital, the digital business unit of Wipro
Madhusudan Pai
Director , IoT Partner Engineering of Wipro Digital
Madhu Pai is a Director, IoT Partner Engineering team at Wipro Digital. He has over 15 years’ experience in product strategy and engineering consulting. He currently leverages his vast physical domain expertise to guide end-to-end industrial IoT solutions across multiple industry verticals.
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About Wipro Digital: Wipro Digital, the digital business unit of Wipro
Seamus Meagher
Vice President of Strategic Sales & Founding Partner of SlashNext
Seamus Meagher is a technology sales veteran whose experience spans leadership roles at industry defining software and hardware companies such as Silicon Image, Transmeta, Red Hat, and VocalTec Communications. Prior to becoming VP of Worldwide Sales at SlashNext he was the VP of Worldwide Sales and an Executive Officer at Silicon Image (SIMG) where he drove over 20% year over year revenue growth in the APAC, EMEA, India, and Americas markets. Seamus was a key member of the executive team that led the sale of the company to Lattice Semiconductor in 2015. Prior to joining Silicon Image, Seamus was Director of North America Sales at Transmeta Corporation, a developer of innovative software based CPUs. Before joining Transmeta Seamus was one of first sales people at Red Hat where he held the position of Director of Sales and was personally responsible for selling the industry’s first Enterprise Linux support contracts. He also helped establish Red Hat’s subscription service product offering which then led to one of the biggest IPOs in history (RHAT). Seamus started his career in technology sales at VocalTec Communications, the company who invented and patented the first Voice over IP software.
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About SlashNext: SlashNext is a computer and network security company that specializes in cybersecurity, cyber-attack detection, and IT solutions.
Marsha Wilson
CEO, Managing Partner, and Co-Founder of ScaleSec
Wilson is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at ScaleSec, a security-first cloud consulting company that helps clients with compliance implementation and cloud security engineering. Her career has afforded her great opportunities to support clients in the Department of Defense, Energy Sector, Healthcare, and more recently in the DevOps and Automation space. Marsha holds a Bachelor’s in English and a Master’s in Business Administration. Her certifications include CISSP, PMP, CISA, and OSCP, but she is always on the hunt for more.
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About ScaleSec: ScaleSec helps your company create or enhance your cloud security capabilities by diving deep, offering hands-on services.
Will Pizzano
Partner of Sentant
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About Sentant: Sentant is a modern IT services provider specializing in security and compliance for fast growing companies.
Rich Link
VP, Sales and Partnerships of Vera
As VERA’s Vice President of Global Alliances, Rich brings more than 25 years of sales and alliances experience to VERA and is responsible for growing and managing VERA’s global ecosystem of GTM and Technology Partners. Over the course of his career he built and led numerous sales and business development teams at ForgeRock, Cisco, Vignette, and Remedy. Rich most recently, he served as SnapLogic’s Global Vice President of Strategic Alliance where he led the global partner organization. Rich holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Maryland and currently resides in Danville, CA. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, as well as running, biking, and occasionally fumbling around on the guitar.
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About Vera: Vera enables organizations to secure, track, and revoke access to confidential data, across any platform or device.
Jason Hengels
Partner of TrueBit Cyber Partners
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