Enrique Salem

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2023
VC🌍 United States
15
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2
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13y
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Board Member
Oct 2023
Prophet Security delivers the industry’s most comprehensive Agentic AI SOC Platform, purpose‑built to transform how security operations work. Our platform autonomously triages, investigates, and responds to alerts, eliminating repetitive manual work and enabling teams to focus on what matters most: defending against real threats. By automating the time‑intensive investigative tasks that bog down analysts, Prophet AI dramatically improves SOC efficiency, accelerates response times, and strengthens an organization’s overall security posture. The results speak for themselves: reducing investigation times from 30–40 minutes to just 3, eliminating 99% of false positives, and giving security teams back hundreds of hours each month. With backing from Accel Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and leading security practitioners, we are on a mission to redefine what’s possible for modern SOCs — making them faster, smarter, and more resilient.
Board Member
Mar 2022
At Docker, we simplify the lives of developers who are making world-changing apps. Docker helps developers bring their ideas to reality by conquering the complexity of app development. We simplify and accelerate workflows with an integrated development pipeline and application components. Actively used by millions of developers around the world, Docker Desktop and Docker Hub provide unmatched simplicity, agility and choice.
Board Member
Apr 2021
At HYCU, we believe that every business should be safe. Our mission is to build a safer world. With our data protection as a service platform, we make it easy for you to move your data freely, easily, and safely without the burden of managing and scaling backup infrastructure. HYCU is: Built for your tech stack, today and tomorrow​ Engineered to ​ be shockingly ​simple Designed for the ​people behind the​ data​ As an award-winning and recognized visionary in the industry, HYCU solutions eliminate complexity, risk, and the high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity to make the world safer. With an industry-leading NPS score of 91, customers experience frictionless, cost-effective data protection, anywhere, everywhere. Interested in learning more? Check us out at www.hycu.com and follow us on Twitter @HYCUinc Looking to make a difference with #TeamPurple? Check our openings: https://www.hycu.com/about/careers
Board Member
Mar 2021
StarTree is a cloud-based software company that enables business customers to derive advanced insights from real-time and historical data. StarTree was founded by the core software engineering team and inventors of Apache Pinot, which currently powers hundreds of user-facing applications at companies across industries, including LinkedIn, Uber, Target, 7Eleven, Etsy, Walmart, WePay, Factual, Weibo, and more. StarTree Cloud has enabled even more companies to deploy and operate real-time analytics at scale, including Stripe, Sovrn, Roadie, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Dialpad, Blinkit, and more.
Board Member
Jul 2020
Secure your attack surface by aggregating and operationalizing your asset data. You’ve got assets? The rapid increase in digital transformation has created an overwhelming rise in cyber assets. JupiterOne connects the dots across your technology stack. We ingest asset data across your infrastructure, devices, users, IAM, cloud, policies, and more to create a single place for enterprise security teams to find information they need to triage risks and stay secure. We’ve got answers. JupiterOne helps you understand how your assets are connected, and gives you the information you need to make confident, data-driven decisions about risk and security. Armed with contextual knowledge about their cyber assets, CISOs from leading companies like Okta, Databricks, Hashicorp, and Robinhood all use JupiterOne to secure their attack surface.
Board Member
Jun 2019
Nightfall AI is the leader in cloud data loss prevention (DLP) for generative AI (GenAI) tools, SaaS apps, and custom apps. Download our Chrome browser plugin or integrate via APIs to protect PII, PHI, PCI, secrets, and keys across apps like ChatGPT, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, Google Drive, and more. After just a few minutes of installation, you’ll be equipped to stay secure and compliant wherever you are in the cloud—all while streamlining your security workload through real-time alerts, automated remediation actions, and pre-built detection templates. Join hundreds of leading companies such as Oscar Health, Splunk, Exabeam, and more that trust Nightfall to protect their most sensitive data.
Board Member
Sep 2017
Moveworks unifies every business system with natural language, giving employees one place to go to find information, automate tasks, and be more productive, increasing employee efficiency and satisfaction by streamlining everyday work. Powered by a pioneering agentic AI infrastructure that leverages the world’s most advanced LLMs and our proprietary technology, Moveworks understands employee requests, devises intelligent plans to achieve them, and executes actions to get things done across application boundaries in over 100 languages. More than 350 leading brands like Toyota, GitHub, Marriott, Snowflake, Unity, Databricks, Broadcom, Hearst, and Palo Alto Networks trust Moveworks to drive meaningful and lasting AI transformation. Learn more at moveworks.com.
Board Member
Oct 2016
Arista NDR, (formerly Awake Security) is the only advanced network detection and response company that delivers answers, not alerts. By combining artificial intelligence with human expertise, Arista NDR hunts for both insider and external attacker behaviors, while providing autonomous triage and response with full forensics across traditional, IoT, and cloud networks. Arista NDR platform delivers continuous diagnostics for the entire enterprise threat landscape, processes countless points of data, senses abnormalities or threats, and reacts if necessary—all in a matter of seconds. The Arista solution stands out from traditional security because it is designed to mimic the human brain. It recognizes malicious intent and learns over time, giving defenders greater visibility and insight into what threats exist and how to respond to them.
Board Member
Jun 2016
What we do LeapYear solves a hard problem that impacts every data-driven industry – enabling privacy-preserving aggregates, analytics and machine learning on sensitive data. Our long-term mission is to enable access to any data with the highest standards of privacy and security. Our team has built the first enterprise platform for differentially private machine learning, drawing from the latest research in cryptography, machine learning, and information theory. How we work We are parents, pet-lovers, physicists, cyclists, teachers, Haskellers, and musicians that get together five days a week to solve complex problems. We are building LeapYear for the long-term, and we understand that this requires a great working environment, diverse perspectives, and a culture built on shared values.
Board Member
Apr 2015
SentinelOne, an autonomous cybersecurity platform company, has completed the acquisition of Attivo Networks. Attivo Networks was a leading identity security and lateral movement protection company. With this acquisition, SentinelOne extends Singularity XDR capabilities to identity-based threats across endpoint, cloud workloads, IoT devices, mobile, and data wherever it resides, setting the standard for XDR and accelerating enterprise zero trust adoption. Together, SentinelOne and Attivo Networks deliver comprehensive identity security as part of Singularity XDR for autonomous protection.
Board Member
Nov 2014
TidalScale is the leading provider of Software-Defined Servers that bring flexibility to modern data centers by right-sizing servers on the fly to fit any data set or workload. TidalScale solutions deliver in-memory performance at any scale, are self-optimizing, use standard hardware and are compatible with all applications and operating systems – and they achieve all this with no changes to applications or operating systems. TidalScale transforms the economics of the data center and the traditional time and devops constraints of working with big data. Learn more at tidalscale.com.
Board Member
Jun 2014
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE is the industry’s most complete single-vendor SASE solution, helping organizations automate costly and complex IT operations with AI-powered Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM); connect and secure branch offices and the hybrid workforce with SD-WAN, ZTNA 2.0, and Cloud SWG; and unlock better ROI through consolidation of point solutions into a single cloud-delivered service.
Member of the Board
Feb 2014
Together, Clari and Salesloft create a category-transforming AI company for revenue, building the foundation for a Predictive Revenue System — a system that guides revenue teams to accelerate growth. The company combines the broadest dataset, capturing both structured and unstructured signals. End-to-end revenue orchestration capabilities unlock new levels of AI-driven productivity and predictability. Thousands of the world’s most successful companies — including Adobe, IBM, 3M, and Zoom — trust Clari and Salesloft to drive predictable revenue growth. Welcome to the future of revenue.
Board Member
Oct 2013
For more than 25 years, Fortune 100 organizations, government agencies, and large enterprises have trusted Forescout as their foundation to manage cyber risk, ensure compliance, and mitigate threats. The Forescout 4D Platform™ delivers comprehensive asset intelligence, continuous assessment, and ongoing control over all managed and unmanaged, agented and un-agentable assets across IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments. Forescout’s open platform makes every cybersecurity investment more effective with seamless data integrations and automated workflow orchestration across more than 100 security and IT products.
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2023
Board Member
Oct 2023
Prophet Security delivers the industry’s most comprehensive Agentic AI SOC Platform, purpose‑built to transform how security operations work. Our platform autonomously triages, investigates, and responds to alerts, eliminating repetitive manual work and enabling teams to focus on what matters most: defending against real threats. By automating the time‑intensive investigative tasks that bog down analysts, Prophet AI dramatically improves SOC efficiency, accelerates response times, and strengthens an organization’s overall security posture. The results speak for themselves: reducing investigation times from 30–40 minutes to just 3, eliminating 99% of false positives, and giving security teams back hundreds of hours each month. With backing from Accel Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and leading security practitioners, we are on a mission to redefine what’s possible for modern SOCs — making them faster, smarter, and more resilient.
2022
Board Member
Mar 2022
At Docker, we simplify the lives of developers who are making world-changing apps. Docker helps developers bring their ideas to reality by conquering the complexity of app development. We simplify and accelerate workflows with an integrated development pipeline and application components. Actively used by millions of developers around the world, Docker Desktop and Docker Hub provide unmatched simplicity, agility and choice.
2021
Board Member
Apr 2021
At HYCU, we believe that every business should be safe. Our mission is to build a safer world. With our data protection as a service platform, we make it easy for you to move your data freely, easily, and safely without the burden of managing and scaling backup infrastructure. HYCU is: Built for your tech stack, today and tomorrow​ Engineered to ​ be shockingly ​simple Designed for the ​people behind the​ data​ As an award-winning and recognized visionary in the industry, HYCU solutions eliminate complexity, risk, and the high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity to make the world safer. With an industry-leading NPS score of 91, customers experience frictionless, cost-effective data protection, anywhere, everywhere. Interested in learning more? Check us out at www.hycu.com and follow us on Twitter @HYCUinc Looking to make a difference with #TeamPurple? Check our openings: https://www.hycu.com/about/careers
Board Member
Mar 2021
StarTree is a cloud-based software company that enables business customers to derive advanced insights from real-time and historical data. StarTree was founded by the core software engineering team and inventors of Apache Pinot, which currently powers hundreds of user-facing applications at companies across industries, including LinkedIn, Uber, Target, 7Eleven, Etsy, Walmart, WePay, Factual, Weibo, and more. StarTree Cloud has enabled even more companies to deploy and operate real-time analytics at scale, including Stripe, Sovrn, Roadie, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Dialpad, Blinkit, and more.
2020
Board Member
Jul 2020
Secure your attack surface by aggregating and operationalizing your asset data. You’ve got assets? The rapid increase in digital transformation has created an overwhelming rise in cyber assets. JupiterOne connects the dots across your technology stack. We ingest asset data across your infrastructure, devices, users, IAM, cloud, policies, and more to create a single place for enterprise security teams to find information they need to triage risks and stay secure. We’ve got answers. JupiterOne helps you understand how your assets are connected, and gives you the information you need to make confident, data-driven decisions about risk and security. Armed with contextual knowledge about their cyber assets, CISOs from leading companies like Okta, Databricks, Hashicorp, and Robinhood all use JupiterOne to secure their attack surface.
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