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Mar 2026
Cyera is the industry-leading AI Security Platform. As AI transforms how data is created, accessed, and used, Cyeras mission is to enable global enterprises to adopt AI at scale by securing the data that fuels it. The platform provides organizations with precise visibility, and intelligent controls to secure data everywhere - at rest, in motion, and in use, whether used by humans or agents.
Valued at $9 billion and backed by more than $1.7 billion in funding from top-tier investors including Accel, Blackstone, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Lightspeed, and Sequoia, Cyera is trusted by a growing number of Fortune 1000 companies adopting AI across their enterprise at scale.
Investor
Mar 2026
Temporal develops and distributes the worlds leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple.
Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair.
More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industrys most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
Board Member
Aug 2025
Rain is a global card issuance and payments infrastructure platform built for the future of tokenized money.
We help enterprises, fintechs, and platforms launch compliant card and payment programs, without relying on legacy systems or unnecessary intermediaries.
A note on recruiting fraud: Our current recruiters are Julie Nguyen, Alexa Lardas, and Shakiba Sedighi. If youre unsure whether an outreach is legitimate, please message one of these individuals directly or email recruiting@rain.xyz.
Board Member
Dec 2024
Ask Sage is a Secure & Extensible Multi-modal Generative AI platform that specializes in enabling secure access to Generative AI models for both government and commercial teams. With a wide range of use cases, from coding to cybersecurity, compliance, contracting, acquisition, data analysis and more.
Ask Sage is built on cutting-edge Generative AI technologies such as Azure OpenAI (Gov) GPT 3.5 and 4, Mistral, LLMA3, Claude 3, Cohere, Google Gemini, and several open-source LLMs.
Ask Sage also supports OpenAI Whisper, hosted on Azure Gov, enabling Speech to Text capabilities on videos and audio files and DALL-E v3 enabling image generation. This addition makes Ask Sage a complete multi modal platform and allows for the transcription and analysis of spoken language content in almost any language.
The platforms data ingest and training are model-agnostic, ensuring secure training of proprietary data without ingesting it into the models. This approach allows Ask Sage to implement data-centric security and label data on a per-user basis, sharing labels with team members as needed and preventing data spillage while enabling zero-trust security.
Ask Sage can ingest custom data, connect to APIs, and access data lakes for real-time insights, delivering human-like responses to assist teams with labor-intensive tasks and enabling them to focus on strategic initiatives. The platform offers a multi-tenant option starting at $30/mo/user and can also be deployed on dedicated or air-gapped enclaves with open-source LLMs.
For enterprises, Ask Sage can be leveraged for $90/mo for 2M Ask Sage tokens and be spread among users with a minimum of 500K tokens per user.
Ask Sage was founded by Nic Chaillan, founder of 13 companies, and former Chief Software Officer for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force.
Over 13,000 government teams and 2,500 companies have benefited from
Board Member
Dec 2024
A modern platform for the AI era
Our mission at Cohesity is simple: to protect, secure, and provide insights into the world’s data. The largest organizations around the globe rely on us to strengthen their business resilience.
With the Cohesity Data Cloud, we are able to deliver on that mission. Our customers can recover from cyber events faster, manage and secure their data at enterprise scale, and gain valuable insights with our industry-leading AI capabilities.
Investor
Sep 2024
Work AI for all.
The Work AI platform connected to all your data. Find, create, and automate anything.
Board Member
Mar 2024
Defense Unicorns specializes in platform technologies that enable rapid and reliable delivery of capabilities across a wide range of mission and technology areas. We support open architecture platforms for secure mission systems that provide optionality for the end user, promote scalability, and allow for continuous identification and integration of new products and services while avoiding vendor lock. Our open approach creates partnership opportunities across the software ecosystem.
Our people are innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across DoD and the broader federal market.
Lets drive change together. Get in touch at hello@defenseunicorns.com
Investor
May 2023
Protect Your Endpoints, Identities, Logs, and Employees.
The fully managed security platform that combines endpoint detection and response, Microsoft 365 identity protection, a predictably affordable SIEM and science-based security awareness training. Powered by custom-built enterprise technology for mid-market enterprises, small businesses, and the MSPs that support them and delivered by unrivaled industry analysts in our 24/7 Security Operations Center.
By delivering a suite of purpose-built solutions that meet budget, security, and peace-of-mind requirements, Huntress is how the globe’s most underresourced businesses defend against today’s cyberthreats.
As long as hackers keep hacking, we keep hunting.
Board Member
Apr 2023
Simpplr is the modern intranet that transforms the work experience for all employees – wherever and however they work.
Simpplr is the only platform that unifies employee engagement, enablement, and services, leveraging state-of-the-art AI models to deliver a seamless, cohesive, and personalized employee experience.
Trusted by 700+ global brands, including Moderna, Snowflake, Splunk, Penske, Eurostar, and AAA, Simpplr customers achieve significant improvement in their employees’ productivity, retention, and overall satisfaction.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA, Simpplr is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Tola Capital, and Still Venture Capital. Learn more at simpplr.com.
Board Member
Nov 2021
Zesty helps organizations achieve cloud operational excellence. Our platform provides actionable insights & automation to optimize resource allocation and reduce cloud spend. With AI-driven offerings for compute, database, and storage, Zesty automatically scales resources to meet application demands in real-time. This helps cloud engineering teams to slash cloud costs, maintain perfect app performance, and minimize the hassle of managing cloud infrastructure, accelerating innovation and growth.
Board Member
Oct 2021
Yugabyte is the company behind open source YugabyteDB, the AI-ready, high-performance, PostgreSQL-compatible, distributed database for mission-critical cloud native applications.
Built using a unique combination of high-performance document store, auto sharding, per-shard distributed consensus replication and multi-shard ACID transactions (inspired by Google Spanner), YugabyteDB serves both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures and global data distribution. As a cloud native database, it can be deployed across public and private clouds as well as in Kubernetes environments with ease.
We are backed by top-tier investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Alkeon Capital, Meritech Capital, 8VC, Wipro Ventures, and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital.
We are hiring across the board in Engineering, Sales and Marketing. Apply on our Careers page: https://www.yugabyte.com/about/careers/
GitHub (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db
Docs: https://docs.yugabyte.com
To discover more, join the Yugabyte Community via our Slack channel and connect with database experts from across the world:
https://inviter.co/yugabytedb
Board Member
Sep 2021
Blockdaemon powers the blockchain economy with its suite of industry-leading infrastructure solutions. Blockdaemon was founded in 2017 and has become a globally established, single integration partner for accessing premier blockchain networks. We provide integrated business solutions to exchanges, custodians, crypto platforms, financial institutions, and developers using our end-to-end suite of blockchain tools, including dedicated nodes, APIs, staking, liquid staking, MPC tech, and more. Blockdaemon provides its customers with the confidence to quickly and easily scale without compromising security or compliance.
Board Member
Aug 2021
Yellow.ai powers the future of service with Agentic AI.
We help enterprises move beyond traditional chatbots to deploy autonomous AI agents that understand, decide, and act...across voice, chat, and multimodal channels.
Trained on 16B+ conversations annually and built on a multi-LLM architecture, our platform enables real-time orchestration of workflows, decisions, and enterprise actions. The result? Faster resolutions, scalable efficiency, and radically improved customer and employee experiences.
1300+ global brands across 85+ countries trust Yellow.ai to transform service at scale. Key logos include Sony, Hyundai, Dominos, ITC Ltd, Ferrellgas, Waste Connections, Lulu Group, and Randstad,
Headquartered in San Mateo with offices across 6 countries, Yellow.ai is backed by $102M+ in funding from leading investors.
Investor
Aug 2021
FalconX is a leading digital asset prime brokerage for the world’s top institutions. We provide 24/7 access to global digital asset liquidity and capital solutions, built on proprietary technology spanning the full trade lifecycle.
Board Member
Jun 2021
Tesseract Investment is a regulated institutional digital asset lending company based in Finland, providing yield-generating solutions to institutional clients, such as cryptocurrency trading platforms and custodians across Europe and other emerging markets. Our white-label product, Earn API by Tesseract, enables partners to offer their customers different financial products tailored to specific risk strategies.
Since founding in 2017, we have a track record of rigorous risk management, innovation, and profitable growth. In June 2021, we raised a 25 MUSD Series A to supplement our growth. We are recruiting.
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Board Member
Mar 2026
Cyera is the industry-leading AI Security Platform. As AI transforms how data is created, accessed, and used, Cyeras mission is to enable global enterprises to adopt AI at scale by securing the data that fuels it. The platform provides organizations with precise visibility, and intelligent controls to secure data everywhere - at rest, in motion, and in use, whether used by humans or agents.
Valued at $9 billion and backed by more than $1.7 billion in funding from top-tier investors including Accel, Blackstone, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Lightspeed, and Sequoia, Cyera is trusted by a growing number of Fortune 1000 companies adopting AI across their enterprise at scale.
Investor
Mar 2026
Temporal develops and distributes the worlds leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple.
Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair.
More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industrys most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
2025
Board Member
Aug 2025
Rain is a global card issuance and payments infrastructure platform built for the future of tokenized money.
We help enterprises, fintechs, and platforms launch compliant card and payment programs, without relying on legacy systems or unnecessary intermediaries.
A note on recruiting fraud: Our current recruiters are Julie Nguyen, Alexa Lardas, and Shakiba Sedighi. If youre unsure whether an outreach is legitimate, please message one of these individuals directly or email recruiting@rain.xyz.
2024
Board Member
Dec 2024
Ask Sage is a Secure & Extensible Multi-modal Generative AI platform that specializes in enabling secure access to Generative AI models for both government and commercial teams. With a wide range of use cases, from coding to cybersecurity, compliance, contracting, acquisition, data analysis and more.
Ask Sage is built on cutting-edge Generative AI technologies such as Azure OpenAI (Gov) GPT 3.5 and 4, Mistral, LLMA3, Claude 3, Cohere, Google Gemini, and several open-source LLMs.
Ask Sage also supports OpenAI Whisper, hosted on Azure Gov, enabling Speech to Text capabilities on videos and audio files and DALL-E v3 enabling image generation. This addition makes Ask Sage a complete multi modal platform and allows for the transcription and analysis of spoken language content in almost any language.
The platforms data ingest and training are model-agnostic, ensuring secure training of proprietary data without ingesting it into the models. This approach allows Ask Sage to implement data-centric security and label data on a per-user basis, sharing labels with team members as needed and preventing data spillage while enabling zero-trust security.
Ask Sage can ingest custom data, connect to APIs, and access data lakes for real-time insights, delivering human-like responses to assist teams with labor-intensive tasks and enabling them to focus on strategic initiatives. The platform offers a multi-tenant option starting at $30/mo/user and can also be deployed on dedicated or air-gapped enclaves with open-source LLMs.
For enterprises, Ask Sage can be leveraged for $90/mo for 2M Ask Sage tokens and be spread among users with a minimum of 500K tokens per user.
Ask Sage was founded by Nic Chaillan, founder of 13 companies, and former Chief Software Officer for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force.
Over 13,000 government teams and 2,500 companies have benefited from
Board Member
Dec 2024
A modern platform for the AI era
Our mission at Cohesity is simple: to protect, secure, and provide insights into the world’s data. The largest organizations around the globe rely on us to strengthen their business resilience.
With the Cohesity Data Cloud, we are able to deliver on that mission. Our customers can recover from cyber events faster, manage and secure their data at enterprise scale, and gain valuable insights with our industry-leading AI capabilities.
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