Justin Berman

VP Engineering & CISO | Building & Scaling Security and Engineering with People and AI | Investor | Advisor

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
9
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6
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Portfolio

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Investor
Jun 2025
echo delivers secure cloud-native infrastructure through enterprise-grade clean container base images that integrate seamlessly into existing workflows.
Investor
Jan 2025
Knostic is the world’s first provider of need-to-know based access controls for LLMs. With knowledge-centric capabilities, Knostic enables organizations to accelerate the adoption of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation without compromising value, security, or safety. RSA Launch Pad finalist and Black Hat Startup Spotlight winner, 2024.
Investor
Aug 2024
Securing your cloud environment starts with protecting the identities – human, and non-human – that access your machines. Discover how our machine-first approach solves this for you.
Angel Investor
Jun 2024
BrightBee is an educational technology startup that is changing how K-12 schools engage with paraprofessionals and classified staff. We believe in the potential of every member of the school team no matter what their background is and we are building a future where schools are able to maintain thriving teams and workers have the supports they need to prosper and grow.
early stageEducation
Angel Investor
Jun 2024
Various board memberships
Investor
Sep 2023
Gem delivers a centralized approach to tackle cloud native threats, from incident readiness, through real-time threat detection, investigation and response at the speed of cloud.
Investor
Sep 2023
Silicon Valley CISO Investments (“SVCI”) is a group of Chief Information Security Officers (“CISO”) that operate as an angel investor syndicate. Founded in 2019, SVCI is already successfully pursuing its mission of fuelling the next generation of cybersecurity innovation. The group identifies promising startups, invests in them and leverages its members’ unmatched industry expertise to help the companies thrive.
Board Member
Oct 2018
Bay Area CSO/CISO Council
Angel Investor
Sep 2018
Tall Poppy builds tools and services to help companies protect their employees from online harassment and abuse.
Experience · 12 entries
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Investments (9)
Board (1)
2025
Investor
Jun 2025
echo delivers secure cloud-native infrastructure through enterprise-grade clean container base images that integrate seamlessly into existing workflows.
Investor
Jan 2025
Knostic is the world’s first provider of need-to-know based access controls for LLMs. With knowledge-centric capabilities, Knostic enables organizations to accelerate the adoption of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation without compromising value, security, or safety. RSA Launch Pad finalist and Black Hat Startup Spotlight winner, 2024.
2024
Investor
Aug 2024
Securing your cloud environment starts with protecting the identities – human, and non-human – that access your machines. Discover how our machine-first approach solves this for you.
Angel Investor
Jun 2024
BrightBee is an educational technology startup that is changing how K-12 schools engage with paraprofessionals and classified staff. We believe in the potential of every member of the school team no matter what their background is and we are building a future where schools are able to maintain thriving teams and workers have the supports they need to prosper and grow.
early stageEducation
Angel Investor
Jun 2024
Various board memberships
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