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Jake Seid

Co-Founder and General Partner @ Ballistic Ventures | Investor in Cybersecurity and Cyber-Related Companies

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026
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Series A Lead Investor
Mar 2026
tl;dr: Above turns scattered telemetry into defensible stories of intent, not just isolated events. Instead of flooding teams with alerts or relying on blunt blocking, Above detects risky human behavior in real time to prevent it from becoming an incident. Above is an insider risk management platform built around narrative intelligence: it continuously observes how employees interact with data, apps, identities, and AI tools. Those signals get stitched into clear, human-readable timelines that explain what happened, why it happened, and how risk evolved over time. Humans are at the center of everything we do. With in-the-moment coaching, and automatically produced investigation-ready narratives that security, legal, and HR can actually use.
Board Member - Series A Lead Investor
Nov 2025
Native is the Cloud Security Control Plane for the enterprise. We translate security outcomes directly into the built-in controls for each cloud, simulate the impact before deployment, and continuously keep those controls aligned as environments evolve. The result is security that is enforced at the architectural level. Security that is native to the environment, operational, and continuously adapting.
Board Member - Seed Round Lead Investor
Sep 2025
Armadin is an AI-native cybersecurity company focused on building the ultimate attacker. With AI-powered hyperattacks looming on the horizon, Armadin’s customers leverage our platform to proactively find and eliminate exploitable risk. Armadin’s swarm of AI agents operate relentlessly across the entire attack surface, uncovering real kill chains that require immediate action. Armadin is led by CEO Kevin Mandia and founders Travis Lanham, Evan Peña, and David Slater. Together, they lead an elite collective of red team specialists and AI systems engineers dedicated to protecting democracy by winning the cybersecurity arms race.
Board Member - Series A Lead Investor
Sep 2024
Noma Security is the agentic AI security platform giving enterprise organizations the confidence to rapidly build AI applications and adopt AI agents at scale. Noma Security uniquely provides cybersecurity teams with control of AI risk through continuous AI discovery and inventory, AI supply chain security, AI red teaming, and AI runtime protection to ensure compliance and risk mitigation. Backed by Ballistic Ventures, Glilot Capital, Cyber Club London, Databricks Ventures and SVCI, Noma Security is widely adopted by Fortune 500 customers and has been recognized by Gartner as a leading AI TRiSM solution.
Board Member - Series A Lead Investor
Apr 2024
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
Board Member - Pre-Seed Lead Investor
May 2023
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.
Board Member - Pre-Seed Lead Investor
Dec 2021
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
May 2021
In aerospace, nothing launches without verification. Drata applies that same mission-grade discipline to business trust—so it’s always ready before the moment of launch.
Investor
Feb 2021
Moderne is a developer collaboration platform for automated code refactoring and analysis that migrates, maintains, and secures source code with speed and accuracy at mass scale. Code remediations, updates, and migrations that can take many months of manual work can be done in minutes. Our unique IP enables you to accurately transform multiple repos at once and safely leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to improve your code.
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Jan 2021
Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine platform technology with research-driven data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes. Snorkel led the development of Senior SWE-Bench and launched Open Benchmarks Grants with a $3 million commitment to support open-source datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation research. Supported projects include Agents’ Last Exam, OSWorld 2.0, Terminal-Bench, Continual Learning Bench, and SlopCode Bench. Learn more at snorkel.ai or follow @SnorkelAI.
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2021
Talon transforms the browser into a secure workspace with the market’s most leading Enterprise Browsing Platform, which includes the Talon Enterprise Browser, Talon Extension, and Talon Mobile. With Talon, IT and security teams benefit from deep visibility and tight control over all SaaS and web applications, enabling them to secure any user, in any location, on any device. Talon was named the Most Innovative Startup of 2022 at the prestigious RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest.
Investor
Jan 2020
Abnormal AI is the leading AI-native human behavior security platform, leveraging machine learning to stop sophisticated inbound attacks and detect compromised accounts across email and connected applications.
Investor
2020
Cresta combines the best of human and AI intelligence, transforming conversations and workflows at every level of the contact center. We help companies like Carmax, Hilton, and Cox Communications save time and money, differentiate the customer experience, and accelerate revenue growth.
Investor
2020
You.com is the AI Search Infrastructure company for enterprises. We build the intellectual backbone that enables organizations to reason like experts, decide with confidence, and act at scale through intelligent agents and workflows. We deliver real-time, accurate, and citation-backed answers—enabled by our proprietary vertical-specific web indices, which integrate public and domain-specific data for the deepest, most relevant search experience available.
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2020
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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2026
Series A Lead Investor
Mar 2026
tl;dr: Above turns scattered telemetry into defensible stories of intent, not just isolated events. Instead of flooding teams with alerts or relying on blunt blocking, Above detects risky human behavior in real time to prevent it from becoming an incident. Above is an insider risk management platform built around narrative intelligence: it continuously observes how employees interact with data, apps, identities, and AI tools. Those signals get stitched into clear, human-readable timelines that explain what happened, why it happened, and how risk evolved over time. Humans are at the center of everything we do. With in-the-moment coaching, and automatically produced investigation-ready narratives that security, legal, and HR can actually use.
2025
Board Member - Series A Lead Investor
Nov 2025
Native is the Cloud Security Control Plane for the enterprise. We translate security outcomes directly into the built-in controls for each cloud, simulate the impact before deployment, and continuously keep those controls aligned as environments evolve. The result is security that is enforced at the architectural level. Security that is native to the environment, operational, and continuously adapting.
Board Member - Seed Round Lead Investor
Sep 2025
Armadin is an AI-native cybersecurity company focused on building the ultimate attacker. With AI-powered hyperattacks looming on the horizon, Armadin’s customers leverage our platform to proactively find and eliminate exploitable risk. Armadin’s swarm of AI agents operate relentlessly across the entire attack surface, uncovering real kill chains that require immediate action. Armadin is led by CEO Kevin Mandia and founders Travis Lanham, Evan Peña, and David Slater. Together, they lead an elite collective of red team specialists and AI systems engineers dedicated to protecting democracy by winning the cybersecurity arms race.
2024
Board Member - Series A Lead Investor
Sep 2024
Noma Security is the agentic AI security platform giving enterprise organizations the confidence to rapidly build AI applications and adopt AI agents at scale. Noma Security uniquely provides cybersecurity teams with control of AI risk through continuous AI discovery and inventory, AI supply chain security, AI red teaming, and AI runtime protection to ensure compliance and risk mitigation. Backed by Ballistic Ventures, Glilot Capital, Cyber Club London, Databricks Ventures and SVCI, Noma Security is widely adopted by Fortune 500 customers and has been recognized by Gartner as a leading AI TRiSM solution.
Board Member - Series A Lead Investor
Apr 2024
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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