Darren Shou

Executive | Advisor | Investor, product strategy, AI & platform security leader

📍 Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2020
Angel investor🌍 United States
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Board Observer
Dec 2019
Valimail is a pioneering, identity-based, anti-phishing company that has been ensuring the global trustworthiness of digital communications since 2015. Valimail delivers the only complete, cloud-native platform for validating and authenticating sender identity to stop phishing, protect and amplify brands, and ensure compliance. Valimail has won more than a dozen prestigious cybersecurity technology awards and authenticates billions of messages a month for some of the world's biggest companies and organizations, including Uber, Fannie Mae, WeWork, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Board Observer
Nov 2019
Circle envisions a world where families can set healthy limits, find balance, and build lifelong habits to get the best out of their digital experiences, rather than being consumed by them. Today, Circle is a category leader in online screen time management and digital parental controls. Our flagship product, Circle Home Plus, is the most comprehensive solution to manage content and time online for Wi-Fi devices at-home and mobile devices across all networks. Circle software is also available through subscription on NETGEAR™ routers. Circle was acquired in December, 2021 by Aura, a leading provider of proactive, all-in-one digital security for consumers, allowing the two companies to join forces to keep families safe online. Aura is a mission-driven technology company dedicated to creating a safer internet for everyone.
Board Observer
Mar 2018
CyberCube is delivering the world’s leading cyber risk modeling and analytics. With best-in-class data access and advanced multi-disciplinary analytics, the company’s cloud-based platform helps insurance organizations quantify cyber risk to facilitate placing insurance, underwriting cyber risk and managing cyber risk aggregation. CyberCube’s enterprise intelligence layer provides insights on millions of companies globally and includes modeling on thousands of points of technology failure. The CyberCube platform was established in 2015 within Symantec and now operates as a standalone company exclusively focused on the insurance industry, with access to an unparalleled ecosystem of data partners. It is backed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value, Forgepoint Capital, HSCM Bermuda, MTech Capital, individuals from Stone Point Capital and Scott G. Stephenson. For more information, please visit www.cybcube.com or email info@cybcube.com.
Experience · 5 entries
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Investments (5)
Board (5)
2020
NortonLifeLock Ireland Limited
Board Member
Jul 2020
2019
Board Observer
Dec 2019
Valimail is a pioneering, identity-based, anti-phishing company that has been ensuring the global trustworthiness of digital communications since 2015. Valimail delivers the only complete, cloud-native platform for validating and authenticating sender identity to stop phishing, protect and amplify brands, and ensure compliance. Valimail has won more than a dozen prestigious cybersecurity technology awards and authenticates billions of messages a month for some of the world's biggest companies and organizations, including Uber, Fannie Mae, WeWork, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Board Observer
Nov 2019
Circle envisions a world where families can set healthy limits, find balance, and build lifelong habits to get the best out of their digital experiences, rather than being consumed by them. Today, Circle is a category leader in online screen time management and digital parental controls. Our flagship product, Circle Home Plus, is the most comprehensive solution to manage content and time online for Wi-Fi devices at-home and mobile devices across all networks. Circle software is also available through subscription on NETGEAR™ routers. Circle was acquired in December, 2021 by Aura, a leading provider of proactive, all-in-one digital security for consumers, allowing the two companies to join forces to keep families safe online. Aura is a mission-driven technology company dedicated to creating a safer internet for everyone.
Symantec Technology (Ireland) Limited
Board Member
Jun 2019
2018
Board Observer
Mar 2018
CyberCube is delivering the world’s leading cyber risk modeling and analytics. With best-in-class data access and advanced multi-disciplinary analytics, the company’s cloud-based platform helps insurance organizations quantify cyber risk to facilitate placing insurance, underwriting cyber risk and managing cyber risk aggregation. CyberCube’s enterprise intelligence layer provides insights on millions of companies globally and includes modeling on thousands of points of technology failure. The CyberCube platform was established in 2015 within Symantec and now operates as a standalone company exclusively focused on the insurance industry, with access to an unparalleled ecosystem of data partners. It is backed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value, Forgepoint Capital, HSCM Bermuda, MTech Capital, individuals from Stone Point Capital and Scott G. Stephenson. For more information, please visit www.cybcube.com or email info@cybcube.com.
Investment activity
2018–2020 · 5 investments
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