David B. Cross

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), cloud security executive and cyber security startup advisor.

๐Ÿ“ United States๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 5 investments๐Ÿ“… 15 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Dec 2021
VC๐ŸŒ United States
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Angel Investor
Dec 2021
StepSecurity secures CI/CD at scale by enforcing runner-level network egress controls, providing secure, drop-in replacements for third-party actions, and ensuring only policy-compliant workflows run. Over 11,000 open-source projects, including those from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Google, Microsoft, Datadog, Kubernetes, NodeJS, and Ruby, use StepSecurity to harden their CI/CD pipelines. Our enterprise tier is currently deployed at customers in the crypto, healthcare, and cybersecurity industries. The StepSecurity platform secures more than 18,000,000 CI/CD job runs every week.
Angel Investor
Oct 2020
Video platform built for networking, that aims to facilitate the most human, enjoyable, and productive virtual interactions. Host spontaneous or recurring meetings, social events, and virtual collaboration sessions. Distributed work made easy with group mode to facilitate collaboration. Host interactive meetings with presenter mode and screen-sharing.
Investor
Nov 2015
POSaBIT is a FinTech, working exclusively within the cannabis industry. We provide a best-in-class Point-of-Sale solution and are the leading cashless payment provider for cannabis retailers. We work tirelessly to build better financial services and transaction methods for merchants. We strive to bring cutting-edge software and technology to the cannabis industry, so that all merchants can have a safe and compliant set of services to solve the problems of a cash-only industry.
Investor
Aug 2011
PlaceFulls powerful online booking and eMarketing platform keeps your business running online, all the time.
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2021
Angel Investor
Dec 2021
StepSecurity secures CI/CD at scale by enforcing runner-level network egress controls, providing secure, drop-in replacements for third-party actions, and ensuring only policy-compliant workflows run. Over 11,000 open-source projects, including those from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Google, Microsoft, Datadog, Kubernetes, NodeJS, and Ruby, use StepSecurity to harden their CI/CD pipelines. Our enterprise tier is currently deployed at customers in the crypto, healthcare, and cybersecurity industries. The StepSecurity platform secures more than 18,000,000 CI/CD job runs every week.
2020
Angel Investor
Oct 2020
Video platform built for networking, that aims to facilitate the most human, enjoyable, and productive virtual interactions. Host spontaneous or recurring meetings, social events, and virtual collaboration sessions. Distributed work made easy with group mode to facilitate collaboration. Host interactive meetings with presenter mode and screen-sharing.
2019
Venture Partner
Jan 2019
A women-founded, seed-stage venture fund focused on Cybersecurity and Enterprise Software investments.
2015
Investor
Nov 2015
POSaBIT is a FinTech, working exclusively within the cannabis industry. We provide a best-in-class Point-of-Sale solution and are the leading cashless payment provider for cannabis retailers. We work tirelessly to build better financial services and transaction methods for merchants. We strive to bring cutting-edge software and technology to the cannabis industry, so that all merchants can have a safe and compliant set of services to solve the problems of a cash-only industry.
Twistlock
Seed Investor
Apr 2015
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