Hemen Vimadalal

Founder / CEO / Investor / Board Member / Entrepreneur

📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
10
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17y
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Founder / Investor
Dec 2022
AI agents are transforming the workforce, but they also bring massive risks like exposing your most sensitive data. In just 5 minutes, Aiceberg becomes the guardian agent that oversees all Ai traffic, enforces policies, and prevents harm to your enterprise.
Investor
Nov 2022
AuthMind empowers organizations to secure agentic AI, non-human (NHI) and human identities by continuously observing every access and understanding every activity across every environment. Unlike traditional identity tools, AuthMind’s patented observability provides real-time visibility into identity behavior, eliminating blind spots and shadow IT while transforming identity security from static policy based to dynamic AI based.
Investor
Sep 2022
Forgepoint Capital is a leading venture capital firm that invests in transformative cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and infrastructure software companies protecting the digital future. With $1B+ AUM, the largest sector-focused investment team, and portfolio of more than 40 companies, the firm brings over 100 years of proven company-building experience and its Global Advisory Council of more than 100 leaders to support entrepreneurs advancing innovation globally. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and London, Forgepoint is proud to help category-defining companies reach their market potential and to cultivate a diverse community dedicated to backing builders of the digital future. For more information about Forgepoint and our family of companies, visit forgepointcap.com. For all other inquiries, including investment, career, and partnership opportunities, please contact info@forgepointcap.com. Generic and automated emails will not be viewed favorably.
Investor
Jun 2021
1414 Ventures is focused solely on the digital identity space which supports functions such as payments, cybersecurity, and data privacy & trust. We make pre-seed/seed stage investments to capture the most upside in this next wave of innovation and use our extensive relationships, deep technical & domain expertise, and go-to-market know-how to quickly help founders grow these companies.
Investor & Advisor
Mar 2019
1Kosmos automates identity verification by detecting stolen and synthetic identities before new account origination. Our non-phishable, passwordless MFA solutions make logins fun and secure, protecting workers from password-based attacks and eliminating account takeover and financial fraud targeting customers.
Investor
Apr 2018
Founded in 2022 by a coalition of respected industry experts and practitioners, the Blue Lava Community is built with, by and for cybersecurity leaders providing members a trusted, sales agnostic environment to gather, share, support, and mentor on their own time. The Blue Lava Community was acquired by Zyston LLC in October 2023 with a commitment to continuing to advance the unique community mission and value for the cybersecurity industry. Join today: community.bluelava.io
Investor
Mar 2018
Iron Pillar is a venture growth investor, focused on enterprise and consumer technology businesses that are building from India for the world. Since 2016, we have been working closely with our extraordinary Founders to help them scale profitably from ~$10 million to $100 million+ in revenues. We have consistently executed this strategy across our marquee list of portfolio companies, including BlueStone, CureFoods, FreshToHome, Servify and Uniphore. Beyond capital, we work alongside our Founders to accelerate their business growth across three key areas: (1) expanding business development to global markets; (2) providing guidance on go-to-market strategies, including access to C-level talent; and (3) facilitating strategic capital introductions. We are dedicated to partnering with our Founders on their journey to build transformational, resilient and valuable companies. We have offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, Dubai and Palo Alto.
Investor & Advisor
Aug 2017
Our AI-powered identity platform manages and governs human and non-human access to all of an organizations applications, data, and business processes. Customers trust us to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, we help organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI today. We are recognized as a leader in identity security, with solutions that protect and empower the world’s leading brands, Fortune 500 companies, and government institutions.
Investor
May 2016
• SEBI registered Category I Investment Bank • SEBI registered Portfolio Manager • Offices in Mumbai, Bangalore and Singapore • Offers Corporate Finance (M&A Advisory & Capital Raise), and Asset Management (Public Markets, Early stage investment) Services • 171 transactions with USD $7 Billion deal value in 14 years
Investor
Sep 2009
Brinqa is the only company that orchestrates the entire cyber risk lifecycle — understanding the attack surface, prioritizing vulnerabilities, automating remediation, and continuously monitoring cyber hygiene — across all security tools and programs. The Brinqa Attack Surface Intelligence Platform enables your organization to automate the cyber risk lifecycle across infrastructure, application and cloud security.
Experience · 15 entries
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Investments (9)
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2025
General Partner / Venture Capital
Jan 2025
Sprout & Oak (S&O) is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurs from inception to impact.
2022
Founder / Investor
Dec 2022
AI agents are transforming the workforce, but they also bring massive risks like exposing your most sensitive data. In just 5 minutes, Aiceberg becomes the guardian agent that oversees all Ai traffic, enforces policies, and prevents harm to your enterprise.
Investor
Nov 2022
AuthMind empowers organizations to secure agentic AI, non-human (NHI) and human identities by continuously observing every access and understanding every activity across every environment. Unlike traditional identity tools, AuthMind’s patented observability provides real-time visibility into identity behavior, eliminating blind spots and shadow IT while transforming identity security from static policy based to dynamic AI based.
Investor
Sep 2022
Forgepoint Capital is a leading venture capital firm that invests in transformative cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and infrastructure software companies protecting the digital future. With $1B+ AUM, the largest sector-focused investment team, and portfolio of more than 40 companies, the firm brings over 100 years of proven company-building experience and its Global Advisory Council of more than 100 leaders to support entrepreneurs advancing innovation globally. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and London, Forgepoint is proud to help category-defining companies reach their market potential and to cultivate a diverse community dedicated to backing builders of the digital future. For more information about Forgepoint and our family of companies, visit forgepointcap.com. For all other inquiries, including investment, career, and partnership opportunities, please contact info@forgepointcap.com. Generic and automated emails will not be viewed favorably.
2021
Investor
Jun 2021
1414 Ventures is focused solely on the digital identity space which supports functions such as payments, cybersecurity, and data privacy & trust. We make pre-seed/seed stage investments to capture the most upside in this next wave of innovation and use our extensive relationships, deep technical & domain expertise, and go-to-market know-how to quickly help founders grow these companies.
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