Tim Mather

Digital defense expert, speaker, and author. Significant experience working with cybersecurity start-ups, including use of AI/ML and GenAI.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023
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Advisor & Investor
Dec 2023
Bonfy.AI takes content security to a whole new level with Bonfy Adaptive Content Security™ (Bonfy ACS™), the adaptive solution designed specifically to protect your most critical content. Whether it’s AI-generated or human-created, Bonfy ACS proactively identifies and mitigates all potential risks, including cybersecurity threats, privacy violations, regulatory compliance issues, IP leaks, and reputational damage. Unlike outdated DLP tools, Bonfy ACS delivers precision risk detection by leveraging your unique business context and logic without relying on error-prone pattern matching or generic classifiers. This eliminates false positives/negatives, reduces investigation times, and ensures quick time to value. Bonfy ACS is purpose-built to address modern challenges posed by generative AI, such as information silos, customer data leaks, and compliance violations. With its scalable, AI-driven capabilities, the platform empowers organizations to adopt GenAI confidently while safeguarding content integrity and fostering trust. Trusted by regulated enterprises, Bonfy enables you to protect sensitive data, automate compliance reporting, and lower the total cost of ownership while strengthening enterprise-wide compliance. It’s time to move beyond traditional tools and fully unlock the benefits of secure, trustworthy AI adoption.
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2023
Advisor & Investor
Dec 2023
Bonfy.AI takes content security to a whole new level with Bonfy Adaptive Content Security™ (Bonfy ACS™), the adaptive solution designed specifically to protect your most critical content. Whether it’s AI-generated or human-created, Bonfy ACS proactively identifies and mitigates all potential risks, including cybersecurity threats, privacy violations, regulatory compliance issues, IP leaks, and reputational damage. Unlike outdated DLP tools, Bonfy ACS delivers precision risk detection by leveraging your unique business context and logic without relying on error-prone pattern matching or generic classifiers. This eliminates false positives/negatives, reduces investigation times, and ensures quick time to value. Bonfy ACS is purpose-built to address modern challenges posed by generative AI, such as information silos, customer data leaks, and compliance violations. With its scalable, AI-driven capabilities, the platform empowers organizations to adopt GenAI confidently while safeguarding content integrity and fostering trust. Trusted by regulated enterprises, Bonfy enables you to protect sensitive data, automate compliance reporting, and lower the total cost of ownership while strengthening enterprise-wide compliance. It’s time to move beyond traditional tools and fully unlock the benefits of secure, trustworthy AI adoption.
2016
Partner & vCISO
Sep 2016
Fortium Partners is the largest team of operating technology executives in the world serving public, private, and private-equity owned organizations across all industries. We engage world-class operational leaders in technology leadership roles (CIO, CTO, and CISO) via innovative and compelling arrangements such as Interim, Fractional/Part-Time, and Situational Leadership initiatives. Fortium’s operating executives have 25 or more years of technology experience, most recently in a senior operating leadership role. We call that Technology Leadership-as-a-Service - Fortiums on-demand technology leadership offering. Technology Leadership. Reinvented. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, FORTIUM PARTNERS operates across the United States through regional hubs the East, Midwest, South Central, and West. We respond to global technology leadership opportunities as the Fortium brand is increasingly associated with the future of technology leadership.
2015
Venture Advisor
Apr 2015
YL Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to cybersecurity. For nearly two decades, the firm has partnered with top Israeli founders from inception, helping build category-leading companies that define the market. With offices in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv and $800M under management, YL Ventures provides access to an unrivaled network of CISOs and industry leaders, shaping the next generation of Israeli cybersecurity innovation. Repeatedly recognized by PitchBook and TIME magazine for both performance and influence, YL Ventures stands at the forefront of cybersecurity venture capital. Our portfolio includes: - Opti Security - Hush Security - MIND - Miggo Security - Minimus - MCPTotal - Valence Security - Grip Security - Cycode - Orca Security - Hunters - Ride Vision - Aim Security - Acquired by Cato Networks - Satori - Acquired by Commvault - Opus Security - Acquired by Orca Security - Vulcan Cyber - Acquired by Tenable - Eureka Security - Acquired by Tenable - Spera Security - Acquired by Okta - Enso Security - Acquired by Snyk - Medigate - Acquired by Claroty - Build Security - Acquired by Elastic - Axonius - Exited to late-stage investors - Twistlock - Acquired by Palo Alto Networks - Hexadite - Acquired by Microsoft - Upstream Commerce - Acquired by Walmart - FireLayers - Acquired by Proofpoint - BlazeMeter - Acquired by CA - Seculert - Acquired by Radware - Acceloweb - Acquired by Limelight Networks - ClickTale - Exited to Amadeus Capital