Dave Bernhardt

Executive, Board Member, Advisor and Investor. 2 IPO’s. Former Public Company CFO @ SentinelOne (NYSE: S)

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2026
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Apr 2026
JetStream Security is an enterprise AI governance and AI security platform built to control, secure, and scale agentic AI in production. JetStream provides continuous AI visibility across models, agents, copilots, tools, and workflows, enables teams to design and approve AI behavior, and binds every action to an accountable identity including human, agentic identity, and Non‑Human Identities (NHI). Through runtime AI governance, JetStream enforces policy guardrails, detects AI drift, manages AI risk, and delivers audit‑ready compliance and AI cost accountability. JetStream turns enterprise AI into a governed, observable, and trusted system.
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Oct 2025
Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives®. With over $307 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2025, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, Real Assets and GP Strategic Capital. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, we provide businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companies differentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation. Together with approximately 1,365 experienced professionals globally, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit www.blueowl.com. Social Media Disclaimers https://www.blueowl.com/social-media-disclaimers
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Aug 2025
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
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Aug 2025
We aspire to be the world’s most exceptional financial institution, united by our shared values of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence. Operating at the center of capital markets, we act as one firm, mobilizing our people, capital, and ideas to deliver superior results across our clients’ most complex challenges. For 157 years, Goldman Sachs has delivered world-class execution on a global scale across our leading Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses. Apprenticeship is central to our culture, with hands-on coaching and access to leaders who bring decades of experience and expertise. With office locations around the world, we offer a broad range of career opportunities to those who insist on excellence and thrive on performance. Find our Social Media Disclosures here: gs.com/social-media-disclosures
Board Member, Big Data Program
Oct 2018
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, stands among America’s highest-ranked, most diverse public research universities. The oldest, largest, and top-ranked public university in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, you’ll find us at our main locations in three New Jersey cities, and our footprint can be seen around the region. We’re an academic, health, and research powerhouse and a university of opportunity.
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2026
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Jul 2026
Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies. With more than 155 IPOs and 450-plus portfolio companies across industries, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from seed through every stage of growth. Bessemer has backed industry defining companies including Anthropic, Abridge, Canva, LinkedIn, Perplexity, Pinterest, RocketLab, Shopify, ServiceTitan, Toast, and Twilio, and has $20 billion of assets under management. Bessemer invests globally, with investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv.
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Apr 2026
JetStream Security is an enterprise AI governance and AI security platform built to control, secure, and scale agentic AI in production. JetStream provides continuous AI visibility across models, agents, copilots, tools, and workflows, enables teams to design and approve AI behavior, and binds every action to an accountable identity including human, agentic identity, and Non‑Human Identities (NHI). Through runtime AI governance, JetStream enforces policy guardrails, detects AI drift, manages AI risk, and delivers audit‑ready compliance and AI cost accountability. JetStream turns enterprise AI into a governed, observable, and trusted system.
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Mar 2026
Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage, venture capital firm managing over $40B in assets. Since its founding in 2000, Lightspeed has been the first investor and an early backer of some of the most innovative companies in the world including Abridge, Anthropic, Castelion, Glean, Mistral, Navan, Netskope, Rubrik, Snap, Wiz, and more. Learn more at lsvp.com. The content herein does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or investment advisory services. Certain information contained herein is based on information from various sources prepared by third parties. While such sources are believed by Lightspeed to be reliable, neither Lightspeed nor its affiliates assume any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such information, and such information has not been independently verified by Lightspeed. Unless otherwise indicated, the inclusion of any third-party firm and/or company names, brands and/or logos are for representational purposes and does not imply any affiliation with these firms or companies and also does not imply their endorsement to the views expressed by the authors. For additional disclosures, please see https://lsvp.com/legal/
Board Member
Mar 2026
Palmetto is a leading clean tech company on a mission to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. With the belief that consumers can have it all, we are an uncompromising energy company that makes going green a no-brainer. Our award-winning platform empowers homeowners, businesses, and entrepreneurs to adopt renewable energy through simple, scalable, and innovative solutions. We operate at the intersection of B2B and D2C, offering software, financial tools, and services that drive real environmental impact—without compromising value. Our Clean Energy Platform makes solar and home electrification easy to access, easy to afford, and easy to manage. The Palmetto journey: • Download our app • Switch to clean energy products including solar, HVAC, and energy storage • Finance with flexible options • See your savings in real time with energy insights We deliver flexible energy plans, real-time insights, and seamless customer experiences through offerings like our Consumer App and Marketplace, LightReach™ Solar and HVAC Subscriptions, and Asset Management tools—with more innovations on the way. How We Think We’ve always been told a cleaner future means sacrifice. Turn it down, pay more, wait forever. We don’t buy that. At Palmetto, we believe the future is abundant. We help homeowners have it all: lower energy bills, smarter homes, and a healthier planet. Who We Serve We work with homeowners, clean energy brands, and local installation partners to help them grow their impact, revenue, and customer reach. Our Community Impact • 1+ terawatt-hour of clean solar energy generated • 740,000+ tons of carbon emissions avoided • 90,000+ homes powered for a year Careers at Palmetto We’re a primarily remote company with team members across the U.S. and offices in Charlotte, NC and Charleston, SC. As a triple bottom line business, we’re building a better energy future—for people and the planet.
2025
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Oct 2025
Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives®. With over $307 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2025, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, Real Assets and GP Strategic Capital. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, we provide businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companies differentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation. Together with approximately 1,365 experienced professionals globally, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit www.blueowl.com. Social Media Disclaimers https://www.blueowl.com/social-media-disclaimers
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