Deepak Jeevankumar

Investor in Cequence, Cartesia, Descope, Distyl, Endor, Entro Security, Halcyon, LayerX, Minio, OpenObserve, Skan, Sycamore Labs, Tetrate, Twine, Yugabyte. Previously investor in BastionZero, Humio, RedLock, RiskRecon.

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Founding Investor
Nov 2024
Twine builds AI Digital Employees who execute tasks from A to Z to help cyber teams close the talent gap. Our first digital employee, Alex, learns, understands and takes away the burden of #Identity and Access Management (#IAM) tasks - proactively completing your organization’s cyber objectives.
Founding Investor
Apr 2023
Distyl AI is on a mission to create the most customer-centric AI company that revolutionizes how enterprises thrive in the AI-assisted economy. We collaborate with leading institutions worldwide to enhance their AI readiness and build dependable, seamlessly integrated AI-driven solutions tailored to their distinct data, workflows, and employee requirements. Using our proprietary platform of in-house tools and alliances such as the one with OpenAI, our team diligently develops and deploys generative AI products that adhere to the highest standards of integrity and reliability, empowering the institutions that require them the most.
Investor
Jan 2022
Lightspin (acquired by Cisco) is an agentless and easy to deploy Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that efficiently prioritizes and remediates cloud security risks in minutes using the industrys only Attack Path Engine built on the graph. Supporting Amazon Web Services, Google Public Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, Lightspin simplifies cloud security and compliance via its self-serve offering and graph-based algorithms. Leading companies such as ZoomInfo, ITV, Riskified, and Next Insurance trust Lightspin to protect their data and workloads in the cloud.
Founding Investor
Apr 2015
ContainerX is a silicon valley startup with a seasoned team of entrepreneurs and PhDs from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix. We offer an all-inclusive ready-to-go container platform designed for enterprise IT, including orchestration, compute, network and storage, with developer self-service based on the popular Docker command line. Based on a patent-pending approach called Elastic Container Clusters™, the platform enables enterprises to build an extremely resilient and highly elastic container infrastructure with great levels of resource isolation between multiple Container Pools™. ContainerX ensures comprehensive platform coverage by enabling IT admins to run containers anywhere, whether it is Linux or Windows, bare metal or virtual machines, private or public cloud. Learn more - http://www.containerx.io Twitter @ContainerXinc
Founding Investor (Seed, Series A)
Dec 2014
MinIO is the only pure-play exascale object store for AI data. MinIO is used by more than half of the Fortune 500 to achieve performance at scale at a fraction of the cost compared to the public cloud providers. MinIO AIStor caters to enterprise on-premises environments, delivering unmatched performance, scale, and economics for data-intensive workloads such as analytics, data lakehouses, and AI, empowering organizations to fully capitalize on existing AI investments and address emerging infrastructure challenges while delivering continuous business value. Founded in November 2014 by industry visionaries AB Periasamy and Garima Kapoor, MinIO is the worlds fastest-growing exascale object store for AI data.
Board Observer
Nov 2014
Anomali delivers the leading AI-Powered Security and IT Operations Platform. Only Anomali integrates ETL, SIEM, Next-Gen SIEM, XDR, UEBA, SOAR, and TIP into one powerful platform. At the center is the Anomali Copilot that navigates a proprietary cloud-native security and IT data lake to drive first-in-market speed, scale, and performance at a fraction of the cost. Modernize security and IT operations to protect and accelerate your organization with better analytics, visibility, productivity, and talent retention. Be Different. Be the Anomali. Learn more at www.anomali.com.
Board Observer
May 2014
Browsers are the application enterprises can’t live without, how we work with SaaS and private web applications. But browsers are a security blind spot. They operate without the necessary protection and security controls, exposing enterprises to attack. Browsers are the entry point for internet borne attacks, the exit point for data leakage. Menlo Security secures enterprise browsers. Menlo Browser Security manages browsers, protects your users, and secures application access and enterprise data, providing a complete enterprise browser solution from any browser. Menlo Security secures browsers while preserving user choice and providing a familiar, easy-to-use experience. You can deploy browser security policies in a single click, secure SaaS and private application access, and protect enterprise data down to the last mile. Secure your digital transformation with trusted and proven cyber defenses, on any browser. Work without worry and move business forward with Menlo Security.
Founding Investor and Board Observer
Mar 2013
In September 2016, SAP acquired Altiscale technology assets and offers them as part of the SAP Big Data portfolio. For news and information about SAP Big Data, please visit the SAP Technology page at https://www.linkedin.com/company/sap-technology Please note the SAP privacy statement for followers: https://www.sap.com/sps --- Altiscale provides the first purpose-built, fully managed Big Data cloud based on Apache Hadoop and Spark. Altiscale’s Big Data-as-a service platform offers instant access to production-ready Big Data analytics, operated by Altiscale, delivering faster time to value and higher reliability than alternative approaches. Altiscale’s founding team has been at the forefront of Big Data, from incubating Hadoop at Yahoo! to operating clusters spanning more than 40,000 nodes. Founded in 2012, Altiscale is backed by leading venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst Partners, and Northgate.
Founding Investor and Board Observer
Apr 2012
DataGravity, now part of HyTrust, provides data-aware solutions that deliver data classification, analytics, actionable insights and security for workload data. IT professionals can quickly and easily visualize the who, what, when and where regarding their data and reduce risks, increase productivity and drive organizational success. www.datagravity.com www.hytrust.com
Experience · 13 entries
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Investments (10)
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Board (4)
2024
Founding Investor
Nov 2024
Twine builds AI Digital Employees who execute tasks from A to Z to help cyber teams close the talent gap. Our first digital employee, Alex, learns, understands and takes away the burden of #Identity and Access Management (#IAM) tasks - proactively completing your organization’s cyber objectives.
2023
Founding Investor
Apr 2023
Distyl AI is on a mission to create the most customer-centric AI company that revolutionizes how enterprises thrive in the AI-assisted economy. We collaborate with leading institutions worldwide to enhance their AI readiness and build dependable, seamlessly integrated AI-driven solutions tailored to their distinct data, workflows, and employee requirements. Using our proprietary platform of in-house tools and alliances such as the one with OpenAI, our team diligently develops and deploys generative AI products that adhere to the highest standards of integrity and reliability, empowering the institutions that require them the most.
2022
Investor
Jan 2022
Lightspin (acquired by Cisco) is an agentless and easy to deploy Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that efficiently prioritizes and remediates cloud security risks in minutes using the industrys only Attack Path Engine built on the graph. Supporting Amazon Web Services, Google Public Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, Lightspin simplifies cloud security and compliance via its self-serve offering and graph-based algorithms. Leading companies such as ZoomInfo, ITV, Riskified, and Next Insurance trust Lightspin to protect their data and workloads in the cloud.
2017
Managing Director
Jan 2017
DTC invests in determined early-stage founders who push the envelope on technology innovation for the enterprise, connecting them to the capital, expertise, and customers they need to take a company from start to scale. Since its inception in 2012, DTC has backed more than 150 startups, a list that notably includes Arista Networks, Cylance, DocuSign, Exotec, JFrog, MongoDB, Nasuni, Netskope, Nutanix, Nuvia, Redis, Xometry, and Zscaler. DTC has offices in Palo Alto (HQ), Boston, and Tel Aviv.
2015
Board of Directors (Series A) / Founding Investor / Co-Founder
Sep 2015
RiskRecon, a Mastercard Company, enables you to easily achieve better risk outcomes for your enterprise and your supply chain. RiskRecon’s cybersecurity ratings and assessments make it easy for you to understand and act on your risks, delivering accurate, risk prioritized action plans custom tuned to match your risk priorities. As a leading provider of cybersecurity ratings, RiskRecon continuously monitors the cybersecurity risk of over 15 million companies across even the most highly regulated industries from finance and insurance to aerospace and healthcare. RiskRecon provides deep, risk-contextualized, data-driven insights into the security risk performance across a customer’s entire ecosystem and helps pinpoint specific gaps in any organization’s security programs and performance. With a 99.1% accuracy rating of its data, as certified by a third-party, customers can confidently rely on RiskRecon’s data-driven insights. Customers that leverage RiskRecon’s platform can transform traditional, manual methods of managing cyber risk into automated and streamlined processes – enabling them to build a highly efficient, scalable third-party risk management program. According to findings of the 2021 Total Economic Impact study conducted by Forrester Research, organizations using RiskRecon realize an average ROI of 147% over a three-year period.
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