Jed Leidheiser

Partner at March Capital

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
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Board / Investor
2021
Security that makes sense and can be, dare we say, delightful. Were a secops provider that offers managed detection and response (MDR), remediation, phishing, and threat hunting. Our platform and people work together to make sense of your security signal—with your business in mind—to detect, understand, and fix issues fast. And be sure to subscribe to our blog for takes on the latest infosec trends, tech, attack vectors, along with tales from our SOC and so much more.
Board / Investor
2021
Immuta is The Data Provisioning Company, helping organizations safely and intelligently deliver governed data access to every consumer, human or AI. Since 2015, we’ve helped Fortune 500 companies and government agencies automate data provisioning at enterprise scale. As data demand surges and AI adoption accelerates, manual ticketing systems can’t keep up. Immuta removes these bottlenecks by automating the entire access lifecycle, from policy enforcement to request handling, delivery, audit, and recertification. What Immuta Does - Automates data provisioning by policy (birthright) and by request (governed self-service). - Writes policies once, enforces everywhere with native integrations across warehouses, storage, BI, and catalogs. - Delivers secure access in minutes, not months while maintaining continuous compliance. - Supports humans and AI agents that need governed data at machine speed. How We Help - Faster time-to-data: Reduce access delays from weeks to minutes with automated approvals and birthright access. - Less manual governance: Eliminate repetitive policy work and ticket triage for IT, stewards, and data owners. - Continuous compliance: Unified audit + automated recertification keep access accurate over time. - AI-ready provisioning: Governed access for LLMs, agents, and machine-driven workflows. Core Provisioning Workflows - Policy Authoring: Write once, enforce everywhere. Go from weeks of engineering to minutes. - Data Identification & Classification: Auto-detect and tag sensitive data to drive decisions. - Access Request Management: Governed self-service with automated approvals. - Behavior Monitoring: Detect unusual or risky access patterns in real time. - Unified Audit: See who accessed what, when, and why, in minutes, not days. The Outcome Organizations unlock data faster, reduce risk, and scale AI safely, with governed access delivered at the speed of need.
Board / Investor
2021
Tessian was acquired by Proofpoint. View the press release: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/newsroom/press-releases/proofpoint-closes-acquisition-tessian. To see what’s new, visit https://www.linkedin.com/company/proofpoint/. Tessian is a leading cloud email security platform that intelligently protects organizations against advanced threats and data loss on email, while coaching people about security threats in-the-moment. Using machine learning and behavioral data science, Tessian automatically stops threats that evade legacy Secure Email Gateways, including advanced phishing attacks, business email compromise, accidental data loss and insider threats. Tessian’s intelligent approach not only strengthens email security but also builds smarter security cultures in the modern enterprise. Founded in 2013, Tessian is backed by legendary investors such as March Capital, Sequoia, Accel and Balderton, and has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022. Request a demo here: https://www.tessian.com/book-demo/
Board / Investor
2017
SpyCloud transforms recaptured darknet data to disrupt cybercrime. Its automated identity threat protection solutions leverage advanced analytics to proactively prevent ransomware and account takeover, safeguard employee and consumer accounts, and accelerate cybercrime investigations. SpyClouds data from breaches, malware-infected devices, and successful phishes also powers many popular dark web monitoring and identity theft protection offerings. Customers include more than half of the Fortune 10, along with hundreds of global enterprises, mid-sized companies, and government agencies worldwide. Headquartered in Austin, TX, SpyCloud is home to more than 200 cybersecurity experts whose mission is to protect businesses and consumers from the stolen identity data criminals are using to target them now. To learn more and see insights on your company’s exposed data, visit spycloud.com.
Technology Investor
2014
Work-Bench is an enterprise venture capital firm based in New York City. We lead Seed rounds in enterprise software startups throughout the country. We are laser-focused on supporting early-stage startups on all things go-to-market and have built a dynamic enterprise tech community in New York City and beyond.
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Investments (6)
2021
Board / Investor
2021
Security that makes sense and can be, dare we say, delightful. Were a secops provider that offers managed detection and response (MDR), remediation, phishing, and threat hunting. Our platform and people work together to make sense of your security signal—with your business in mind—to detect, understand, and fix issues fast. And be sure to subscribe to our blog for takes on the latest infosec trends, tech, attack vectors, along with tales from our SOC and so much more.
Board / Investor
2021
Immuta is The Data Provisioning Company, helping organizations safely and intelligently deliver governed data access to every consumer, human or AI. Since 2015, we’ve helped Fortune 500 companies and government agencies automate data provisioning at enterprise scale. As data demand surges and AI adoption accelerates, manual ticketing systems can’t keep up. Immuta removes these bottlenecks by automating the entire access lifecycle, from policy enforcement to request handling, delivery, audit, and recertification. What Immuta Does - Automates data provisioning by policy (birthright) and by request (governed self-service). - Writes policies once, enforces everywhere with native integrations across warehouses, storage, BI, and catalogs. - Delivers secure access in minutes, not months while maintaining continuous compliance. - Supports humans and AI agents that need governed data at machine speed. How We Help - Faster time-to-data: Reduce access delays from weeks to minutes with automated approvals and birthright access. - Less manual governance: Eliminate repetitive policy work and ticket triage for IT, stewards, and data owners. - Continuous compliance: Unified audit + automated recertification keep access accurate over time. - AI-ready provisioning: Governed access for LLMs, agents, and machine-driven workflows. Core Provisioning Workflows - Policy Authoring: Write once, enforce everywhere. Go from weeks of engineering to minutes. - Data Identification & Classification: Auto-detect and tag sensitive data to drive decisions. - Access Request Management: Governed self-service with automated approvals. - Behavior Monitoring: Detect unusual or risky access patterns in real time. - Unified Audit: See who accessed what, when, and why, in minutes, not days. The Outcome Organizations unlock data faster, reduce risk, and scale AI safely, with governed access delivered at the speed of need.
Board / Investor
2021
Tessian was acquired by Proofpoint. View the press release: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/newsroom/press-releases/proofpoint-closes-acquisition-tessian. To see what’s new, visit https://www.linkedin.com/company/proofpoint/. Tessian is a leading cloud email security platform that intelligently protects organizations against advanced threats and data loss on email, while coaching people about security threats in-the-moment. Using machine learning and behavioral data science, Tessian automatically stops threats that evade legacy Secure Email Gateways, including advanced phishing attacks, business email compromise, accidental data loss and insider threats. Tessian’s intelligent approach not only strengthens email security but also builds smarter security cultures in the modern enterprise. Founded in 2013, Tessian is backed by legendary investors such as March Capital, Sequoia, Accel and Balderton, and has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022. Request a demo here: https://www.tessian.com/book-demo/
2017
Board / Investor
2017
SpyCloud transforms recaptured darknet data to disrupt cybercrime. Its automated identity threat protection solutions leverage advanced analytics to proactively prevent ransomware and account takeover, safeguard employee and consumer accounts, and accelerate cybercrime investigations. SpyClouds data from breaches, malware-infected devices, and successful phishes also powers many popular dark web monitoring and identity theft protection offerings. Customers include more than half of the Fortune 10, along with hundreds of global enterprises, mid-sized companies, and government agencies worldwide. Headquartered in Austin, TX, SpyCloud is home to more than 200 cybersecurity experts whose mission is to protect businesses and consumers from the stolen identity data criminals are using to target them now. To learn more and see insights on your company’s exposed data, visit spycloud.com.
2016
Partner
2016
March Capital is a top-tier venture growth firm headquartered in Santa Monica, California and has been investing globally since 2014. March is committed to partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs to build great technology companies and to scale them globally. With $1.6B+ in capital over 4 funds and across 25+ market-leading technology companies, the firm invests in enterprise applications, cloud & data infrastructure, vertical software, and scientific discovery. Our vision is to create a best-in-class technology investment platform by combining intense sector focus, patience, access to a global leadership network (including founding The Montgomery Summit), and high-impact portfolio engagement to inspire and to accelerate extraordinary AI-native companies like CrowdStrike, Forter, Generate:Biomedicines, Nile, ThoughtSpot, Together AI, and Uniphore. For more information, please visit www.marchcp.com.
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