Christopher Key

Investor and Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2026
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Jun 2026
Enhanced security in minutes and get immediately unparalleled protection. Our AI platform detects AI-driven and complex attacks missed by traditional tools, offering superior protection without complicated setup.
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Apr 2026
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May 2022
HiddenLayer, a Gartner-recognized Cool Vendor for AI Security, is the leading provider of Security for AI. Its AISec Platform unifies supply chain security, runtime defense, posture management, and automated red teaming to protect agentic, generative and predictive AI applications. The platform enables organizations across the private and public sectors to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and adopt AI with confidence. Founded by a team of cybersecurity and machine learning veterans, HiddenLayer combines patented technology with industry-leading research to defend against prompt injection, adversarial manipulation, model theft, and supply chain compromise. The company is backed by strategic investors including M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Moore Strategic Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Capital One Ventures.
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Apr 2021
Britive is the first dynamic cloud privileged access management (CPAM) solution uniquely designed to meet the needs of security, cloud operations, and development teams in cloud-forward organizations. Our platform centralizes, standardizes, and simplifies access management across your existing ecosystem of services and tools. Britive’s API-first design plays well with solutions you already have in place. Seamless integration and implementation enable the agility and flexibility demanded of cloud environments. Our patented dynamic, ephemeral access allows for fine-grained controls to establish security guardrails without slowing teams down.
Investor and Advisor
Jul 2020
Query is a federated search platform delivering a single search bar to access all your security-relevant data, wherever it is stored. The Query Federated Search Platform unlocks access to and value from cybersecurity data wherever it is stored (in the cloud, third-party SaaS, or on-prem), regardless of vendor or technology, and without requiring centralization. This leads to massive cost savings, more efficient security operations across real-time and historical data sources, and reduced security analyst ramp-up time.
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2026
Investor and Advisor
Jun 2026
Enhanced security in minutes and get immediately unparalleled protection. Our AI platform detects AI-driven and complex attacks missed by traditional tools, offering superior protection without complicated setup.
Investor and Advisor
Apr 2026
2022
Investor and Advisor
May 2022
HiddenLayer, a Gartner-recognized Cool Vendor for AI Security, is the leading provider of Security for AI. Its AISec Platform unifies supply chain security, runtime defense, posture management, and automated red teaming to protect agentic, generative and predictive AI applications. The platform enables organizations across the private and public sectors to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and adopt AI with confidence. Founded by a team of cybersecurity and machine learning veterans, HiddenLayer combines patented technology with industry-leading research to defend against prompt injection, adversarial manipulation, model theft, and supply chain compromise. The company is backed by strategic investors including M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Moore Strategic Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Capital One Ventures.
2021
Tech Partner
May 2021
SYN Ventures is a venture capital firm primarily pursuing early-stage security sector opportunities run by security operators with decades of experience.
Investor and Advisor
Apr 2021
Britive is the first dynamic cloud privileged access management (CPAM) solution uniquely designed to meet the needs of security, cloud operations, and development teams in cloud-forward organizations. Our platform centralizes, standardizes, and simplifies access management across your existing ecosystem of services and tools. Britive’s API-first design plays well with solutions you already have in place. Seamless integration and implementation enable the agility and flexibility demanded of cloud environments. Our patented dynamic, ephemeral access allows for fine-grained controls to establish security guardrails without slowing teams down.
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