Dean Mai

founding partner at Myriad

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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Investor
Oct 2024
An internet for intelligent machines.
Board Member
Apr 2024
Secure Data Collaboration and Computation for the most innovative companies. Pyte (formerly known as CipherMode Labs) is a secure data collaboration solutions provider. The company’s cutting-edge technology allows marketers and data providers to collaborate, match and run computations on encrypted data without decryption at any point in the data lifecycle. Our technology enables enterprises to seamlessly leverage their data across cloud environments, partners, and jurisdictions while remaining privacy compliant and protecting against data breaches. Pyte’s proprietary secure multiparty computation (SMPC) cryptographic technology is based on a decade of academic research by Pyte’s co-founders Sadegh Riazi, CEO, and Ilya Razenshteyn, CTO. The company’s technology enables end-to-end encryption data collaboration software unlocking perfectly secure communication of data between two or more enterprises without ever having to move or share PII on consumers.
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Jan 2023
Sentra is the AI Data Readiness and Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform for the enterprise. Organizations are deploying AI agents, Copilots, and LLM pipelines faster than theyre governing the data underneath them. Sentra fixes that. We discover, classify, and secure the sensitive data across your entire data estate - cloud, SaaS, and on-premises - so AI systems only reach what theyre supposed to reach. What we do: - Continuous data discovery and classification across AWS, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, Databricks, Snowflake, and more - 98% classification accuracy, context-aware and without custom rules - AI data governance: know what your Copilot, agents, and RAG pipelines can access before go-live - Least privilege enforcement at the data layer to reduce breach blast radius - Agentless, in-environment scanning; no data ever leaves your environment - Compliance-ready posture for GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, PCI, EU AI Act, and more Who we work with: CISOs, security engineers, data privacy officers, and cloud architects at enterprises who cant afford to find out what their AI can see after the fact. Real findings in week one. No tuning. Petabyte scale. 🌐 sentra.io
Investor
Nov 2022
Glean.ai is Intelligent AP. We leverage untapped invoice data to surface relevant context, actionable insights, and savings recommendations that power great spend decisions.
Investor
Aug 2022
Vartana is a unified B2B enterprise sales closing and financing platform, helping companies close deals faster and improve cash flow. With Vartana sellers can extend payment terms, offer installment plans, and get signatures to eliminate the hassle of the sale closing process. Vartana was founded in 2020 by Kush Kella and Ahmed Sharif, and is based in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit https://www.vartana.com
Investor & Board Observer
Jul 2022
Anvilogic breaks the SIEM lock-in that drives detection gaps and high costs for enterprise SOCs. It enables detection engineers and threat hunters to keep using their existing SIEM while seamlessly adopting a scalable and cost-effective data lake for high-volume data sources and advanced analytics use cases. By eliminating the need for rip-and-replace, Anvilogic allows security leaders to confidently join the rest of the enterprise on the modern data stack without disrupting existing processes. Security operations teams at banks, airlines, and large tech companies use Anvilogic’s modular detection engine, thousands of curated threat scenarios, and AI security copilot to improve detection coverage and save millions of dollars. We are hiring: https://apply.workable.com/anvilogic-inc/
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May 2022
LimaCharlie gives security teams full control over how they manage their security infrastructure. Get full visibility into your coverage, build what you want, control your data, get the security capabilities you need, for however long you need them, and pay only for what you use.
Investor
May 2022
Quadric has built a unified hardware/software architecture optimized for on-device machine learning inference. Only the Quadric GPNPU (general purpose neural processing unit) delivers high ML inference performance while also running C++ code without forcing the developer to artificially partition application code between two or three different kinds of processors. Quadrics GPNPU is a licensable processor IP core that scales from 1 to 64 TOPs and seamlessly intermixes scalar, vector and matrix code.
Experience · 13 entries
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2025
2024
Investor
Oct 2024
An internet for intelligent machines.
Board Member
Apr 2024
Secure Data Collaboration and Computation for the most innovative companies. Pyte (formerly known as CipherMode Labs) is a secure data collaboration solutions provider. The company’s cutting-edge technology allows marketers and data providers to collaborate, match and run computations on encrypted data without decryption at any point in the data lifecycle. Our technology enables enterprises to seamlessly leverage their data across cloud environments, partners, and jurisdictions while remaining privacy compliant and protecting against data breaches. Pyte’s proprietary secure multiparty computation (SMPC) cryptographic technology is based on a decade of academic research by Pyte’s co-founders Sadegh Riazi, CEO, and Ilya Razenshteyn, CTO. The company’s technology enables end-to-end encryption data collaboration software unlocking perfectly secure communication of data between two or more enterprises without ever having to move or share PII on consumers.
2023
Founder & Partner
Jan 2023
A venture fund that invests in early-stage transformational founders and startups leveraging AI, enterprise & clean technologies.
Investor
Jan 2023
Sentra is the AI Data Readiness and Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform for the enterprise. Organizations are deploying AI agents, Copilots, and LLM pipelines faster than theyre governing the data underneath them. Sentra fixes that. We discover, classify, and secure the sensitive data across your entire data estate - cloud, SaaS, and on-premises - so AI systems only reach what theyre supposed to reach. What we do: - Continuous data discovery and classification across AWS, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, Databricks, Snowflake, and more - 98% classification accuracy, context-aware and without custom rules - AI data governance: know what your Copilot, agents, and RAG pipelines can access before go-live - Least privilege enforcement at the data layer to reduce breach blast radius - Agentless, in-environment scanning; no data ever leaves your environment - Compliance-ready posture for GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, PCI, EU AI Act, and more Who we work with: CISOs, security engineers, data privacy officers, and cloud architects at enterprises who cant afford to find out what their AI can see after the fact. Real findings in week one. No tuning. Petabyte scale. 🌐 sentra.io
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