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Don Dixon

Co-Founder and Managing Director

📍 San Mateo, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
15
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5
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Board Observer
Dec 2021
Security-as-Code: Prevent Cloud Data Breach Without Slowing Innovation
Board Member
Feb 2021
Verituity delivers verified digital B2B & B2C payouts for enterprises, banks and the public sector. As payment speeds accelerate and attack surfaces expand, errors, fraud, and misdirected payments can occur at any point in the disbursement lifecycle. One time checks and static, fragmented controls are no longer enough. Verituity was built to address this reality with continuous, multi layered and interlinking verification that operates across legacy systems, modern payment rails, and every payment type. Reducing improper payments and delivering payout precision Our fully automated platform continuously verifies payment files, payee eligibility, identities, relationships, payment accounts, and payment instructions—before and as funds move. Rather than asking whether a payee or account exists, Verituity helps organizations determine whether a payment should be made, to this payee, to this account, for this amount, at this moment—every time. Designed for complex, high volume environments, Verituity is legacy compatible by design and calibrated to each organization’s policies, compliance requirements, and risk tolerance. We serve enterprises, banks and government agencies where payout precision is mission critical and public trust, regulatory compliance, and financial stewardship matter. Continuous verification isn’t a feature. It’s a fiduciary obligation. Verituity sets the minimum acceptable standard for modern disbursements: paying the right amount, to the right payee and the right payment account - on time, every time. 🌐 verituity.com
Board Member
Aug 2020
SolCyber, a Forgepoint company, is the first modern MSSP to deliver a curated stack of enterprise strength security tools and services that are streamlined, accessible and affordable for any organization. SolCyber is disrupting the status quo, by providing a new standard of managed security services that work to reduce cyber risk, wastage and complexity. We believe in a secure environment for all. For more information about SolCyber, visit www.solcyber.com or follow us at @SolCyberMss or here on LinkedIn.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Founded in 2016 by a team of privacy and technology experts, WireWheel is a leader in the privacy and data protection space. Leveraging the team’s deep privacy expertise, WireWheel has developed an easy-to-use software-as-a-service platform that enterprises, including large financial institutions, telecoms, and consumer-facing brands use to manage their privacy programs. Backed by some of the top investors in the country, including PSP Growth, New Enterprise Associates, and the Rise of the Rest Fund, WireWheel has built cutting-edge products in a collaborative environment, and with an expert team.
Board Member
Aug 2019
Entrust fights fraud and cyber threats with identity-centric security that protects people, devices, and data. Our comprehensive solutions help organizations secure every step of the identity lifecycle, from verifying identity at onboarding to securing connections and fighting fraud in everyday transactions. Ongoing monitoring supports compliance and safeguards keys, secrets, and certificates. With a foundation of identity-centric security, our customers can transact and grow with confidence. Entrust has a global partner network and supports customers in over 150 countries. Learn more at entrust.com
Board Member
Jul 2018
LoginRadius is an API-driven identity platform designed to simplify the implementation of enterprise-grade features like Authentication, Authorization, Identity Verification, and User Management. Our products like Single Sign-On (SSO), Adaptive MFA, Passkeys, Fine-Grained Security Controls, Private Cloud, and Regulatory Compliances can be deployed in minutes (not months). Developers can integrate LoginRadius into their web and mobile apps with open-source SDKs, customizable login interfaces, and low-code Identity Orchestration capabilities, all designed for zero to minimal coding, along with real-time event-driven integrations via webhooks.
Board Member
Apr 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.
Board Member
May 2015
Founded in 2014, IronNet Cybersecurity is a global cybersecurity leader that is revolutionizing how enterprises, industries, and governments secure their networks. IronNet takes the skills of its top-notch cybersecurity operators with their real-world, public and private sector, offensive and defensive cyber experience, and integrates their deep tradecraft knowledge into its industry-leading products to solve the most challenging cyber problems facing industry today. IronNet’s solutions leverage behavioral analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques to help public and private enterprises across critical infrastructure detect unknown threats. Our ability to share the derived raw intelligence with peer enterprises in real-time and at machine speed, uniquely enables industries and governments to collectively defend against well-funded nation state and cyber criminal threats.
Board Member
2008
Who We Are: Cashplus is a leading UK challenger bank for small businesses. We offer faster, smarter, simpler current accounts for the entrepreneurs, independent businesses and consumers that power the UK economy, yet are too often overlooked by high street banks. Since 2005, we’ve created easier ways for more than 1.6m customers to pay, bank and borrow through our user-friendly digital platform. We understand what our customers need – time and money to run their businesses and live their lives – and our secure, innovative products are designed to help, where others can’t or won’t. We offer a range of corporate solutions for established businesses, including expense management products and a bulk payments service for companies processing high volumes of payroll, supplier and other payments and we also partner with accountants, payment processors and formations companies who benefit from our slick, instant access account opening capabilities. A true fintech pioneer, we are a fast-growing and credible UK challenger bank. Working here: Whilst we are all working from home at present, we expect to move towards a hybrid working model from July. This means our colleagues continue to get the work life balance benefits from home working, complimented by some office time for collaboration and maintaining strong face to face relationships. If you enjoy being collaborative, hands-on and have entrepreneurial flair you’ll love it here. You’ll get the excitement, scope and stimulation of an innovative fintech with the security of joining an established, stable and profitable business. We’re growing fast, meaning there are always new and exciting opportunities to join our team, check out our latest vacancies.
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2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
Anitian makes your cloud applications secure and compliant so you can enter new markets and unlock revenue in weeks, not months or year.
2021
Board Observer
Dec 2021
Security-as-Code: Prevent Cloud Data Breach Without Slowing Innovation
Board Member
Feb 2021
Verituity delivers verified digital B2B & B2C payouts for enterprises, banks and the public sector. As payment speeds accelerate and attack surfaces expand, errors, fraud, and misdirected payments can occur at any point in the disbursement lifecycle. One time checks and static, fragmented controls are no longer enough. Verituity was built to address this reality with continuous, multi layered and interlinking verification that operates across legacy systems, modern payment rails, and every payment type. Reducing improper payments and delivering payout precision Our fully automated platform continuously verifies payment files, payee eligibility, identities, relationships, payment accounts, and payment instructions—before and as funds move. Rather than asking whether a payee or account exists, Verituity helps organizations determine whether a payment should be made, to this payee, to this account, for this amount, at this moment—every time. Designed for complex, high volume environments, Verituity is legacy compatible by design and calibrated to each organization’s policies, compliance requirements, and risk tolerance. We serve enterprises, banks and government agencies where payout precision is mission critical and public trust, regulatory compliance, and financial stewardship matter. Continuous verification isn’t a feature. It’s a fiduciary obligation. Verituity sets the minimum acceptable standard for modern disbursements: paying the right amount, to the right payee and the right payment account - on time, every time. 🌐 verituity.com
2020
Board Member
Aug 2020
SolCyber, a Forgepoint company, is the first modern MSSP to deliver a curated stack of enterprise strength security tools and services that are streamlined, accessible and affordable for any organization. SolCyber is disrupting the status quo, by providing a new standard of managed security services that work to reduce cyber risk, wastage and complexity. We believe in a secure environment for all. For more information about SolCyber, visit www.solcyber.com or follow us at @SolCyberMss or here on LinkedIn.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Founded in 2016 by a team of privacy and technology experts, WireWheel is a leader in the privacy and data protection space. Leveraging the team’s deep privacy expertise, WireWheel has developed an easy-to-use software-as-a-service platform that enterprises, including large financial institutions, telecoms, and consumer-facing brands use to manage their privacy programs. Backed by some of the top investors in the country, including PSP Growth, New Enterprise Associates, and the Rise of the Rest Fund, WireWheel has built cutting-edge products in a collaborative environment, and with an expert team.
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