Bogomil Balkansky

Partner at Sequoia Capital

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jan 2026
Scanner is the worlds fastest security data lake. All of your data, instantly at your fingertips. Problem: SIEMs are too expensive to ingest everything, so teams route the bulk of their logs to object storage, like Amazon S3. The problem is that data lakes on S3 are too slow and too clunky to use for detection and response. Scanner solves this: we index logs directly in S3, making petabytes searchable in seconds. No pipelines, no re-ingestion, no schema work. Scanner is the data layer for the era of agents. Today, agents are the most prolific users of Scanner, hunting threats and investigating alerts 24/7 at lightning speed.
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Mar 2024
Traversal is building an AI site reliability engineer that troubleshoots, remediates, and even prevents production issues in complex software systems – always on call, so engineers don’t have to be. Already deployed in some of the world’s largest enterprises, Traversal improves the resilience of mission-critical systems — reducing MTTD and MTTR by up to 90% and supporting services that reach millions globally. We’re a team of top-tier AI researchers and engineers. To learn more about Traversal or apply for open roles, visit: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/traversal
Investor
Jul 2023
Zafran is an AI-native exposure management platform that eliminates the manual toil of vulnerability management by cutting through noise, revealing what is truly exploitable, and automating mitigation and remediation using the security controls teams already have. We are a team of practitioners and builders shaped by high-stakes security moments, where clarity and speed mattered, and manual processes came at a real cost. We’re on a mission to proactively stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere.
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Jul 2023
Oasis is the market leading platform for non-human identity management. Our mission is to fortify cybersecurity defenses by enabling enterprises to efficiently secure non-human identities throughout their lifecycle. The shift to hybrid multi-cloud, microservices, agile development and AI-driven business process automation has led to the exponential growth of non-human identities, completely changing the identity fabric of enterprise environments. We created the first enterprise platform purpose-built to address the security and operational challenges of Non-human Identities. Our platform empowers security, engineering and developers teams to improve security posture, implement stronger governance and simplify compliance by taking control of the non-human identity lifecycle without risking system resilience and without operational complexity.
Board Member
Nov 2022
From the team behind Pydantic, Logfire is a new type of observability platform built on the same belief as our open source library — that the most powerful tools can be easy to use.
Board Member
Mar 2022
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. For more information, visit: https://www.chainguard.dev/
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Feb 2022
Cyera is the industry-leading AI Security Platform. As AI transforms how data is created, accessed, and used, Cyeras mission is to enable global enterprises to adopt AI at scale by securing the data that fuels it. The platform provides organizations with precise visibility, and intelligent controls to secure data everywhere - at rest, in motion, and in use, whether used by humans or agents. Valued at $9 billion and backed by more than $1.7 billion in funding from top-tier investors including Accel, Blackstone, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Lightspeed, and Sequoia, Cyera is trusted by a growing number of Fortune 1000 companies adopting AI across their enterprise at scale.
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Apr 2021
Today companies spend over $1T to bring customers to the door, but $19 of every $20 they spend does not convert to revenue. Companies have no choice other than to dedicate large engineering and data science teams to manually build more relevant, higher converting experiences for different customer segments. Mutiny is a no-code AI platform that helps marketers convert their top of funnel demand into revenue, without engineers. Mutiny gives marketers everything they need to drive revenue and prove it — from data and analytics to AI-powered recommendations and content writing. We are backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, YCombinator and CMOs from some of today's fastest-growing tech companies including AngelList, Carta, Gong, Hopin, Salesforce and Snowflake.
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Mar 2021
Bigeye is the data observability platform for large enterprises. Only Bigeye brings together data observability, end-to-end lineage, and scalability and security to give enterprise data teams unmatched insight into the reliability of data powering their business—no matter if its on-prem, in the cloud, or a hybrid architecture. Leading data driven enterprises such as USAA, Zoom, Hertz, Cisco and Freedom Mortgage use Bigeye to find and fix data issues, improve data trust and ensure the data powering their business stays reliable by default.
Board Member
May 2020
Temporal develops and distributes the worlds leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industrys most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
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Apr 2020
Environments as a service Release makes it easy and cost effective to create cloud native full-stack environments with data, on-demand. These environments are being used for previewing and QA’ing features in the dev workflow, demoing software with sales demo environments, running production applications and delivering SaaS products into their customer’s VPC. Release enables engineering organizations deploy more code, faster without worrying about infrastructure.
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Mar 2020
Cortex is an internal developer portal built to accelerate the path to engineering excellence. Companies like Docker, TripAdvisor, and Confluent use Cortex to automatically catalog, continuously assess, and confidently deploy high quality software.
Investor
Jan 2020
Organizations of all sizes and industries use Wiz to rapidly identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud and Kubernetes so they can build faster and more securely.
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Mar 2018
Predictive and Generative AI for Customer Support Protect your brand experience. Predict and prevent customer escalations. Observe and act on the voice of the customer in real time.
Board Member
Oct 2017
For app-first companies, Leanplum is the only solution that helps personalize and optimize all customer touchpoints, both inside and outside the app. Founded in San Francisco, Leanplum has offices across North America, Europe, and Asia, and has received more than $125 Million in funding from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Leanplum has also been recognized as one of Fortunes Best Companies to Work For and Entrepreneurs Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America. Learn more at www.leanplum.com.
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2026
Board Member
Jan 2026
Scanner is the worlds fastest security data lake. All of your data, instantly at your fingertips. Problem: SIEMs are too expensive to ingest everything, so teams route the bulk of their logs to object storage, like Amazon S3. The problem is that data lakes on S3 are too slow and too clunky to use for detection and response. Scanner solves this: we index logs directly in S3, making petabytes searchable in seconds. No pipelines, no re-ingestion, no schema work. Scanner is the data layer for the era of agents. Today, agents are the most prolific users of Scanner, hunting threats and investigating alerts 24/7 at lightning speed.
2024
Board Member
Mar 2024
Traversal is building an AI site reliability engineer that troubleshoots, remediates, and even prevents production issues in complex software systems – always on call, so engineers don’t have to be. Already deployed in some of the world’s largest enterprises, Traversal improves the resilience of mission-critical systems — reducing MTTD and MTTR by up to 90% and supporting services that reach millions globally. We’re a team of top-tier AI researchers and engineers. To learn more about Traversal or apply for open roles, visit: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/traversal
2023
Investor
Jul 2023
Zafran is an AI-native exposure management platform that eliminates the manual toil of vulnerability management by cutting through noise, revealing what is truly exploitable, and automating mitigation and remediation using the security controls teams already have. We are a team of practitioners and builders shaped by high-stakes security moments, where clarity and speed mattered, and manual processes came at a real cost. We’re on a mission to proactively stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere.
Board Member
Jul 2023
Oasis is the market leading platform for non-human identity management. Our mission is to fortify cybersecurity defenses by enabling enterprises to efficiently secure non-human identities throughout their lifecycle. The shift to hybrid multi-cloud, microservices, agile development and AI-driven business process automation has led to the exponential growth of non-human identities, completely changing the identity fabric of enterprise environments. We created the first enterprise platform purpose-built to address the security and operational challenges of Non-human Identities. Our platform empowers security, engineering and developers teams to improve security posture, implement stronger governance and simplify compliance by taking control of the non-human identity lifecycle without risking system resilience and without operational complexity.
2022
Board Member
Nov 2022
From the team behind Pydantic, Logfire is a new type of observability platform built on the same belief as our open source library — that the most powerful tools can be easy to use.
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