Firas Sozan

Recruiting & Funding Start Ups in Silicon Valley | CEO, Harrison Clarke | Investor, HC Ventures | Host, Inside the Silicon Mind

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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Jan 2024
Observe – the AI-powered observability company – is reinventing how businesses detect anomalies, troubleshoot applications, and resolve incidents to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only Observe eliminates silos of logs, metrics, and traces by storing all data in a single, cost-efficient data lake, analyzing all telemetry data using a single language, and providing access through a single, consistent, user interface. Observe’s AI-Powered Observability enables companies to resolve software incidents three times faster at one-third the cost. Customers such as Capital One, Dialpad AI, Top Golf and more trust Observe to turn their data into actionable insights. Investors include Capital One Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and Sutter Hill Ventures.
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Mar 2023
Aembit is the leading provider of workload identity and access management solutions, designed to secure non-human identities like AI agents, applications, and service accounts across on-premises, SaaS, cloud, and partner environments. Aembit’s no-code platform enables organizations to enforce access policies in real time, ensuring the security and integrity of critical infrastructure. To learn more or schedule a demo, visit https://aembit.io
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Feb 2023
Oligo Security is a runtime security platform that protects cloud applications from real-world attacks. Using deep application inspection, real-time monitoring, and context-aware analysis, Oligo helps teams discover vulnerabilities in production, prioritize what matters, and stop application-based exploits at runtime. Download the new CADR for Dummies guide: https://www.oligo.security/cadr-for-dummies
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Dec 2022
Veza is the leader in identity security, helping organizations secure access across the enterprise. Veza’s Access Platform goes beyond identity governance and administration (IGA) tools to visualize, monitor, and control entitlements so that organizations can stay compliant and achieve least privilege. Global enterprises like Wynn Resorts, Expedia, and Blackstone trust Veza to manage identity security use cases, including privileged access monitoring, non-human identity (NHI) security, access entitlement management, data system access, SaaS access security, IAM hygiene, identity security posture management (ISPM), and next-generation IGA. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures (GV), NEA, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures.
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Jan 2022
Built to remove barriers in data insights that keep teams siloed — Bicycle is a Real-Time Insights & Operations platform that sits at the intersection of your Event Streaming Platform and Data Warehouse, to enable real-time insights, alerts, and automation. Imagine payment issues impacting only specific app users, login issues only impacting certain geographies, or a fast-growing customer loyalty segment that can be better revenue optimized. As real-time data stream in, Bicycle can slice data by business dimension (e.g., loyalty segment) and by software dimension (e.g., app version) to quicky find specific opportunities to impact your bottom line. Bicycle automatically identifies and correlates anomalies using a rich set of tools and models. From the user-friendly interface, you can build a live software business graph, drill down into DevOps, set alerts, and drive automated responses to resolve issues quickly. Whether you’re a data scientist or a product owner with limited technology training, all of these insights can be self-served. Join Priceline, ACERTUS, UrbanPiper, bigbasket, and other customers who rely on Bicycle’s real-time insights, anomaly detection, alerting and drill down capabilities. Book a demo with us today at bicycle.io
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Nov 2021
Lacework is the data-driven security platform for the cloud. The Lacework Polygraph® Data Platform automates cloud security at scale so our customers can innovate with speed and safety. Only Lacework can collect, analyze, and accurately correlate data across an organization’s AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments, and narrow it down to the handful of security events that matter. Customers all over the globe depend on Lacework to drive revenue, bring products to market faster and safer and consolidate point security solutions into a single platform.
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2026
Founder & CEO
Jun 2026
Arke is a project-led workforce partner for organizations running mission-critical initiatives. We assemble specialized teams - engineered around your scope, timeline, and outcomes - so the work that matters most gets done by the people best equipped to deliver it. From technical builds to complex transformations, we go beyond traditional staffing: aligning talent, accountability, and delivery under one model built for projects that cant afford to fail. Part of the Harrison Clarke Group.
2024
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Jan 2024
Observe – the AI-powered observability company – is reinventing how businesses detect anomalies, troubleshoot applications, and resolve incidents to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only Observe eliminates silos of logs, metrics, and traces by storing all data in a single, cost-efficient data lake, analyzing all telemetry data using a single language, and providing access through a single, consistent, user interface. Observe’s AI-Powered Observability enables companies to resolve software incidents three times faster at one-third the cost. Customers such as Capital One, Dialpad AI, Top Golf and more trust Observe to turn their data into actionable insights. Investors include Capital One Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and Sutter Hill Ventures.
2023
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Mar 2023
Aembit is the leading provider of workload identity and access management solutions, designed to secure non-human identities like AI agents, applications, and service accounts across on-premises, SaaS, cloud, and partner environments. Aembit’s no-code platform enables organizations to enforce access policies in real time, ensuring the security and integrity of critical infrastructure. To learn more or schedule a demo, visit https://aembit.io
Investor
Feb 2023
Oligo Security is a runtime security platform that protects cloud applications from real-world attacks. Using deep application inspection, real-time monitoring, and context-aware analysis, Oligo helps teams discover vulnerabilities in production, prioritize what matters, and stop application-based exploits at runtime. Download the new CADR for Dummies guide: https://www.oligo.security/cadr-for-dummies
2022
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Dec 2022
Veza is the leader in identity security, helping organizations secure access across the enterprise. Veza’s Access Platform goes beyond identity governance and administration (IGA) tools to visualize, monitor, and control entitlements so that organizations can stay compliant and achieve least privilege. Global enterprises like Wynn Resorts, Expedia, and Blackstone trust Veza to manage identity security use cases, including privileged access monitoring, non-human identity (NHI) security, access entitlement management, data system access, SaaS access security, IAM hygiene, identity security posture management (ISPM), and next-generation IGA. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures (GV), NEA, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures.
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