Mandy Andress

CISO | Investor | Board Member | Advancing the Future of Innovation in Cybersecurity

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2023
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Investor / Advisor
Sep 2023
The Platform for AI Security Prompt Security enables enterprises to benefit from the adoption of Generative AI while protecting from the full range of risks to their applications, employees and customers. At every touchpoint of Generative AI in an organization — from AI tools used by employees to GenAI integrations in customer-facing products — Prompt inspects each prompt and model response to prevent the exposure of sensitive data, block harmful content, and secure against GenAI-specific attacks. The solution also provides leadership of enterprises with complete visibility and governance over the AI tools used within their organization. Prompt empowers organizations to fully embrace Generative AI with confidence.
Investor
Nov 2021
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.
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2025
Venture - CISO
Sep 2025
A multi-stage venture fund partnering with founders building Cyber x AI companies at the AI paradigm shift Our 360° approach combines a uniquely diverse team, with proprietary platforms and programs, to support founders across every moment of their journey, from ideation to enterprise scale.
Social Capital Collective Member
Aug 2025
Backing next-gen founders transforming enterprise software.
2024
Alliance Partner
Jun 2024
CyberFuture, founded by Elron Ventures as a micro fund, is a CISO-led investment alliance that brings together cybersecurity leaders from some of the world’s leading organizations across diverse industries. Together, we collaborate with visionary entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of cybersecurity. We invest in promising startups and empower them with insights drawn from decades of collective experience — guiding them from early-stage innovation to market success.
2023
Merlin Advisory Council
Dec 2023
We not only take disruption to market – we make it mainstream. Emerging cybersecurity companies have options for where they take funding from. But Merlin Ventures brings much more than funding and is unlike any other strategic investment firm. We provide infrastructure for market readiness, cybersecurity engineering expertise, and go-to-market muscle for all of our partners. At Merlin Ventures, we have our finger on the pulse of what’s next in cybersecurity. We scour the globe for the world’s most innovative emerging cybersecurity technologies. We then invest and rapidly scale them – dramatically increasing their valuation while equipping enterprises with unique ways to solve critical cybersecurity challenges.
Investor / Advisor
Sep 2023
The Platform for AI Security Prompt Security enables enterprises to benefit from the adoption of Generative AI while protecting from the full range of risks to their applications, employees and customers. At every touchpoint of Generative AI in an organization — from AI tools used by employees to GenAI integrations in customer-facing products — Prompt inspects each prompt and model response to prevent the exposure of sensitive data, block harmful content, and secure against GenAI-specific attacks. The solution also provides leadership of enterprises with complete visibility and governance over the AI tools used within their organization. Prompt empowers organizations to fully embrace Generative AI with confidence.
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