Cris Neckar

VC Partner @ Two Bear Capital | Ex-Google Chrome Security | Great tech loses to great marketing - Let’s change that together

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026
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Investor, Board Observer
Aug 2025
Revenium gives Engineering, FinOps, DevOps, and Product teams full visibility into AI spend and performance, tracing every call, token, and agent action to help you optimize usage, enforce budgets, and prove ROI for agentic workflows. We track your AI usage and costs across OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI providers, so you can build without wondering if you’re blowing the budget. Simple setup, real insights, and peace of mind.
Investor, Board Observer
Oct 2024
For years, security leaders have been told that preparing for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) would take years, cost millions and require deep in-house expertise. QuSecure Inc., the market leader in quantum-safe security, is proving otherwise with its new QuProtect R3, the industry’s first and only fully integrated, production-ready PQC platform designed to make encryption modernization simple for everyone. With the platform’s Reconnaissance innovation, a complimentary module for qualified companies, QuProtect R3 delivers instant visibility into vulnerable encryption across modern, legacy and cloud systems — a capability competitors cannot match. Security teams that once spent months and millions compiling a cryptographic bill of materials (CBOM) can now discover their encryption landscape in days, prioritize the highest-risk systems and act without disrupting operations. Visit us: https://qusecure.com
Investor, Board Observer
Feb 2024
Binarly is a U.S.-based firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021. The flagship Binarly Transparency Platform helps device manufacturers, OEMs and enterprise product security teams to detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, and malicious code in devices and software supply chains. Leveraging decades of research and program analysis expertise, we secure businesses, critical infrastructure, and consumers, while also assisting organizations in transitioning to a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) environment.
Investor, Board Observer
Aug 2023
Dymium makes sensitive data safe to use with AI. Our Ghost Layer governs access in real time so apps, models, and employees only see what they’re permitted to. For organizations building AI-driven products, it ensures sensitive data is controlled and compliant. For employees, it provides a safe way to use AI tools without risking leakage or blind spots. What We Solve: GenAI & Intelligent Apps → Helping product and engineering teams build and scale AI features with sensitive data while maintaining compliance and trust. Employee AI Usage (Shadow AI) → Helping CISOs and IT leaders enable AI adoption without losing control of sensitive data. With Dymium, organizations can move fast with AI without losing control of their most sensitive data.
Investor, Board Observer
Apr 2023
PulseData uses patented ML/AI to better diagnose, risk stratify and predict adverse events for patients with chronic diseases. We are redefining how healthcare understands and manages risk. Our AI-driven platform is purpose-built for health plans and risk-bearing organizations to serve as the single source of truth—identifying, prioritizing, and monitoring member populations with precision and transparency. PulseData empowers care teams to act early—reaching rising- and high-risk individuals before critical health events occur. From chronic conditions like CKD to complex comorbidities, we enable proactive, personalized interventions that lead to better outcomes and lower costs. We are the new standard in healthcare intelligence: A fusion of machine learning, clinical research, and population health science—with trust, privacy, and security at the foundation.
Investor, Board Observer
Jan 2023
Elisity is a leap forward in network segmentation architecture and is leading the enterprise effort to achieve Zero Trust maturity, proactively prevent security risks, and reduce network complexity. Designed to be implemented in days, without downtime, upon implementation the platform rapidly discovers every device on an enterprise network and correlates comprehensive device insights into the Elisity IdentityGraph™. This empowers teams with the context needed to automate classification and apply dynamic security policies to any device wherever and whenever it appears on the network. These granular, identity-based microsegmentation security policies are managed in the cloud and enforced using your existing network switching infrastructure in real-time, even on ephemeral IT/IoT/OT devices. Founded in 2019, Elisity has a global employee footprint and a growing number of customers in the Fortune 500.
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2026
Investor, Board Observer
May 2026
Conceal delivers the world’s first Browser-Native SSE, redefining how organizations secure access to the web, SaaS, and internal applications. Built for the way work happens now, our solution embeds zero trust principles directly into the browser, protecting users in real time without disrupting workflows. By eliminating the need for legacy SSE stacks, VPNs, or VDIs, Conceal empowers businesses to simplify security while enhancing user experience and productivity.
2025
Investor, Board Observer
Aug 2025
Revenium gives Engineering, FinOps, DevOps, and Product teams full visibility into AI spend and performance, tracing every call, token, and agent action to help you optimize usage, enforce budgets, and prove ROI for agentic workflows. We track your AI usage and costs across OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI providers, so you can build without wondering if you’re blowing the budget. Simple setup, real insights, and peace of mind.
2024
Investor, Board Observer
Oct 2024
For years, security leaders have been told that preparing for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) would take years, cost millions and require deep in-house expertise. QuSecure Inc., the market leader in quantum-safe security, is proving otherwise with its new QuProtect R3, the industry’s first and only fully integrated, production-ready PQC platform designed to make encryption modernization simple for everyone. With the platform’s Reconnaissance innovation, a complimentary module for qualified companies, QuProtect R3 delivers instant visibility into vulnerable encryption across modern, legacy and cloud systems — a capability competitors cannot match. Security teams that once spent months and millions compiling a cryptographic bill of materials (CBOM) can now discover their encryption landscape in days, prioritize the highest-risk systems and act without disrupting operations. Visit us: https://qusecure.com
Investor, Board Observer
Feb 2024
Binarly is a U.S.-based firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021. The flagship Binarly Transparency Platform helps device manufacturers, OEMs and enterprise product security teams to detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, and malicious code in devices and software supply chains. Leveraging decades of research and program analysis expertise, we secure businesses, critical infrastructure, and consumers, while also assisting organizations in transitioning to a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) environment.
2023
Investor, Board Observer
Aug 2023
Dymium makes sensitive data safe to use with AI. Our Ghost Layer governs access in real time so apps, models, and employees only see what they’re permitted to. For organizations building AI-driven products, it ensures sensitive data is controlled and compliant. For employees, it provides a safe way to use AI tools without risking leakage or blind spots. What We Solve: GenAI & Intelligent Apps → Helping product and engineering teams build and scale AI features with sensitive data while maintaining compliance and trust. Employee AI Usage (Shadow AI) → Helping CISOs and IT leaders enable AI adoption without losing control of sensitive data. With Dymium, organizations can move fast with AI without losing control of their most sensitive data.
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