Chip Virnig

Partner at Thoma Bravo

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2025
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Jul 2018
Exabeam is a leader in intelligence and automation that powers security operations for the world’s smartest companies. As a global cybersecurity innovator, Exabeam provides industry-proven, security-focused, and flexible solutions for faster, more accurate threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR). Cutting-edge technology enhances security operations center performance, optimizing workflows and accelerating time to resolution. With consistent leadership in AI innovation and a proven track record in security information and event management (SIEM) and user behavior analytics, Exabeam empowers global security teams to combat cyberthreats, mitigate risk, and streamline operations. Learn more at www.exabeam.com.
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Jan 2018
Barracuda is a leading global cybersecurity company providing complete protection against complex threats for all size business. Our AI-powered BarracudaONE platform secures email, data, applications and networks with innovative solutions, managed XDR and a centralized dashboard to maximize protection and strengthen cyber resilience. Trusted by hundreds of thousands of IT professionals and managed service providers worldwide, Barracuda delivers powerful defenses that are easy to buy, deploy and use.
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Sep 2016
Imprivata is the digital identity company for life- and mission-critical industries, redefining how organizations solve complex workflow, security, and compliance challenges with solutions that protect critical data and applications without workflow disruption. Its platform of interoperable identity, authentication, and access management solutions enables organizations in over 45 countries to fully manage and secure all enterprise and third-party digital identities by establishing trust between people, technology, and information.
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Jul 2015
Hyland uniquely empowers your organization with unified access to AI-enabled enterprise content and unstructured data across repositories, unlocking profound insights that fuel innovations – fundamentally redefining how you operate and engage with those you serve.
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Dec 2014
Dynatrace keeps today’s AI-driven world working by advancing observability for today’s digital business. The world relies on software, but what isn’t seen is just how much complexity goes on behind the scenes to make sure everything stays up and running. Most businesses today have huge digital ecosystems made up of software, data flows, applications, and hybrid-cloud environments. As these ecosystems grow in complexity, so do the points of failure. Outages and glitches resulting in grounded flights or failed financial transactions prove how critical it is that software works as expected, making AI-powered observability an essential capability to ensure digital businesses run smoothly and recover quickly — keeping the world working. Dynatrace provides businesses with a holistic view of their entire digital ecosystem, removing the burden of operational monitoring and alert management. By automating these tasks, teams are empowered to transform complexity into their greatest asset and to drive their business forward by focusing on high-impact initiatives, driving topline acceleration, fueling innovation, and delivering experiences customers love.
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Sep 2014
SailPoint equips the modern enterprise to seamlessly manage and secure access to applications and data through the lens of identity – at speed and scale. As a category leader, we continuously reinvent identity security as the foundation of the secure enterprise. SailPoint delivers a unified, intelligent, extensible platform built to defend against today’s dynamic, identity-centric cyber threats while enhancing productivity and efficiency. SailPoint helps many of the world’s most complex, sophisticated enterprises create a secure technology ecosystem that fuels business transformation.
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2025
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Nov 2025
Verint helps you deliver AI outcomes now to solve your most pressing CX automation challenges in the contact center and beyond. With data and AI at the core, you can go well beyond incremental benefits to dramatically lower costs and elevate CX. See outcomes in weeks, not months or years. To learn more, visit: www.verint.com
2022
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Oct 2022
At Ping, we make it possible to trust every digital moment: moments with customers, employees, partners, and non-human identities. Whether youre securing millions of users, fighting sophisticated fraud, simplifying third-party access, or embracing passwordless experiences and verifiable credentials, establishing trust shouldn’t slow you down. Our enterprise-grade identity platform is built for scale, speed, and flexibility—and works seamlessly with your existing tech stack across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem. We help innovators like you accelerate growth and confidently leverage AI, making life easier for your developers, users, IT teams, and partners. With Ping, all your digital experiences start with trust. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Ping Identity also has offices across the world including Austin, Bangalore, Edinburgh, Grenoble, Israel, London, San Francisco, Singapore, and Vancouver. *On August 23, 2023, Ping Identity and ForgeRock joined together to deliver more choice, deeper expertise, and a more complete identity solution for customers and partners.
2020
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Dec 2020
Venafi, a CyberArk company, offers the most comprehensive solutions to address critical challenges in PKI, certificate management and workload identity management. Through centralized visibility and automation, we help customers monitor and secure any machine identity, anywhere, across extended enterprise networks. As an innovative leader, we solve today’s greatest machine identity challenges while anticipating those of tomorrow. By combining Venafi’s best-in-class machine identity management with CyberArk’s leading identity security capabilities, these two category creators together establish the world’s first platform for end-to-end machine identity security at enterprise scale. For more information about Venafi, visit https://www.venafi.com. To learn more about CyberArk, visit https://www.cyberark.com.
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Mar 2020
Sophos is a worldwide leader and innovator of advanced cybersecurity solutions, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies that help organizations defeat cyberattacks. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 500,000 organizations and more than 100 million users globally from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through its cloud-based Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully-managed, turnkey security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com
2019
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Jan 2019
On Dec. 4, 2023, Thales Group completed the acquisition of Imperva. Thales is a global leader in cybersecurity, helping the most trusted organizations protect critical applications, data, identities, and software anywhere, at scale. Through Thales’ integrated platforms, customers achieve better visibility of risks, defend against cyber threats, close compliance gaps, and deliver trusted digital experiences for billions of consumers every day.
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