Mark Blake

Partner at Ubon Partners

๐Ÿ“ United Kingdom๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 1 investments๐Ÿ“… 8 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Feb 2018
VC๐ŸŒ United Kingdom
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Feb 2018
Next DLP ("Next") is a leading provider of insider risk and data protection solutions. The Reveal Platform by Next uncovers risk, stops data loss, educates employees, and fulfills security, compliance, and regulatory needs. The companys leadership brings decades of cyber and technology experience from Fortra (f.k.a. HelpSystems), DigitalGuardian, Crowdstrike, Forcepoint, Mimecast, IBM, Cisco, and Veracode. Next is trusted by organizations big and small, from the Fortune 100 to fast-growing healthcare and technology companies. With a user-centric, flexible, cloud-native, ML-powered solution, the Reveal platform by Next is built for todays threat landscape. Unlike traditional DLP approaches, which require lengthy data discovery and classification efforts, Reveal customers gain value on day one through complete visibility and out-of-the-box policies. Reveal helps security teams understand human and device behavioral patterns in real time, strengthen defenses against insider risks, make static IT policy come alive, close compliance gaps, and protect against data exfiltration. Next is rapidly accelerating innovation and company growth, announcing significant enhancements to the Reveal platform over the past few months, including Scoped Investigations to protect employee privacy, ChatGPT visibility and adaptive controls, and integration with Splunk.
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2021
Partner
Jun 2021
Ubon Partners is a private investment company focused on technology and growth companies. Our market and investment approach is global. We have offices in Oslo, London, Cyprus, and Madrid. We support entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Our partners take active roles in the companies in which we invest, being closely involved in their development. We believe this makes a difference. We also believe that value is created through focus rather than diversification.
2018
Investor
Feb 2018
Next DLP ("Next") is a leading provider of insider risk and data protection solutions. The Reveal Platform by Next uncovers risk, stops data loss, educates employees, and fulfills security, compliance, and regulatory needs. The companys leadership brings decades of cyber and technology experience from Fortra (f.k.a. HelpSystems), DigitalGuardian, Crowdstrike, Forcepoint, Mimecast, IBM, Cisco, and Veracode. Next is trusted by organizations big and small, from the Fortune 100 to fast-growing healthcare and technology companies. With a user-centric, flexible, cloud-native, ML-powered solution, the Reveal platform by Next is built for todays threat landscape. Unlike traditional DLP approaches, which require lengthy data discovery and classification efforts, Reveal customers gain value on day one through complete visibility and out-of-the-box policies. Reveal helps security teams understand human and device behavioral patterns in real time, strengthen defenses against insider risks, make static IT policy come alive, close compliance gaps, and protect against data exfiltration. Next is rapidly accelerating innovation and company growth, announcing significant enhancements to the Reveal platform over the past few months, including Scoped Investigations to protect employee privacy, ChatGPT visibility and adaptive controls, and integration with Splunk.
2011
Founder, CTO
Oct 2011
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2002
Codian
Founder, Software Engineer
Jan 2002