Michael Jennings

Investor, Board Member and Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2024
VC🌍 United States
9
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Board Member
Nov 2024
Blackwell is a driving force in healthcare cybersecurity, transforming how security operations are conducted within this critical sector. Our mission? To bring unmatched clarity and openness to cyber protections, breaking away from the outdated "Black Box" model. At Blackwell, we believe in empowerment through transparency, making health systems and HIPAA-compliant organizations active, informed participants in their cybersecurity journey. With our foundation rooted in building a relationship of trust and openness, Blackwell departs from the shadowy norms to champion a partnership thats as transparent as it is collaborative. Our commitment to this vision shines through our 24x7 Cyber Fusion Center, a beacon of vigilance that offers round-the-clock surveillance and rapid response, keeping threats at bay. No more "rip and replace". Optimize your existing tools and minimize disruption with Blackwells unique manage-in-place model that maximizes your existing investments. Our Pulse platform and Managed Healthcare Extended Detection and Response (MHXDR) are elevated by a dynamic fusion of state-of-the-art tools and technologies, broadening our integration library to ensure nothing less than exhaustive monitoring. These integrations arent just for show—theyre for making meaningful connections across data points, powered by advanced automation and AI. This forward-thinking approach enables Blackwell to not just react to threats, but to anticipate and neutralize them, ushering in a new era of proactive defense in healthcare cybersecurity. Join us on this transformative journey as we redefine the landscape of cybersecurity in healthcare, moving together towards a future where security is not just a response, but a proactive stance. Welcome to Blackwell—Cybersecurity made for Healthcare.
Investor, Board Observer
Oct 2024
Put your team’s focus back on catching attackers and let Abstract handle the heavy lifting of security data management. Our real-time streaming approach gives teams the breathing room to prioritize their security effectiveness instead. Abstract Security collects and routes data from cloud sources (such as AWS CloudTrail, Azure Activity Logs and GCP Audit Logs), removes unwanted noise, performs optimization, threat enrichment and normalizes data to OCSF schema in real-time before routing it to any SIEM or data lake of your choice. Get flexibility without the complexity!
Board Member
Sep 2024
Zivian Health helps healthcare providers and organizations simplify compliance, elevate clinical quality, and streamline administrative work and the management of clinical teams. Zivians software solutions and personalized services include: Compliance Automation and Reporting, Healthcare Collaborations, Licensing and Credentialing, APP Workforce Scaling, Continuing Education and Upskill Training, PC Ownership, and Medical Directorship. Its our mission to improve access to high-quality care by meeting the needs of a challenged healthcare workforce. We help providers stay focused on what matters most — taking care of patients. Visit zivianhealth.com and connect with our team today.
Board Member
Sep 2022
We are a crowdsourced security company that safeguards organizations assets from sophisticated threat actors before they can strike—by uniting our customers with trusted hackers via our AI-powered platform to take back control and stay ahead of attackers. Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Triangle Peak Partners.
Board Member
Sep 2022
Ostra is Your Trusted Cybersecurity Team. With a mission to simplify cybersecurity for small to mid-sized businesses, Ostra Cybersecurity provides its partners and their clients with its multi-layered, comprehensive, & fully-managed service. With the proprietary Ostra solution, you get Fortune 100-caliber tools, tech, and talent to ensure threats are not only detected and hunted, but also fully remediated. Stop putting the burden of cybersecurity and threat remediation on overworked and understaffed IT teams. Get back to what you do best and leave cybersecurity to Ostra—Your Trusted Cybersecurity Team. To learn more, visit ostra.net.
Board Member
Dec 2021
Gappify, founded in 2016, is a cloud-based software provider of accrual automation solutions for mid-market and enterprise accounting teams. The company is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Berkeley, California, Washington DC, and Manila, Philippines. Our team consists of accountants and CPA’s from Big Four public accounting firms, software innovators, and strategic advisors from some of the largest and most recognized technology companies in the world.
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Board Member
Apr 2021
Global marketplaces and merchants use Spec to proactively detect and mitigate fraud and abuse targeting their websites and APIs so they can deliver trusted customer experiences fearlessly.
Board Observer, Advisor, Investor
Apr 2018
Founded in 2022 by a coalition of respected industry experts and practitioners, the Blue Lava Community is built with, by and for cybersecurity leaders providing members a trusted, sales agnostic environment to gather, share, support, and mentor on their own time. The Blue Lava Community was acquired by Zyston LLC in October 2023 with a commitment to continuing to advance the unique community mission and value for the cybersecurity industry. Join today: community.bluelava.io
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2024
Board Member
Nov 2024
Blackwell is a driving force in healthcare cybersecurity, transforming how security operations are conducted within this critical sector. Our mission? To bring unmatched clarity and openness to cyber protections, breaking away from the outdated "Black Box" model. At Blackwell, we believe in empowerment through transparency, making health systems and HIPAA-compliant organizations active, informed participants in their cybersecurity journey. With our foundation rooted in building a relationship of trust and openness, Blackwell departs from the shadowy norms to champion a partnership thats as transparent as it is collaborative. Our commitment to this vision shines through our 24x7 Cyber Fusion Center, a beacon of vigilance that offers round-the-clock surveillance and rapid response, keeping threats at bay. No more "rip and replace". Optimize your existing tools and minimize disruption with Blackwells unique manage-in-place model that maximizes your existing investments. Our Pulse platform and Managed Healthcare Extended Detection and Response (MHXDR) are elevated by a dynamic fusion of state-of-the-art tools and technologies, broadening our integration library to ensure nothing less than exhaustive monitoring. These integrations arent just for show—theyre for making meaningful connections across data points, powered by advanced automation and AI. This forward-thinking approach enables Blackwell to not just react to threats, but to anticipate and neutralize them, ushering in a new era of proactive defense in healthcare cybersecurity. Join us on this transformative journey as we redefine the landscape of cybersecurity in healthcare, moving together towards a future where security is not just a response, but a proactive stance. Welcome to Blackwell—Cybersecurity made for Healthcare.
Investor, Board Observer
Oct 2024
Put your team’s focus back on catching attackers and let Abstract handle the heavy lifting of security data management. Our real-time streaming approach gives teams the breathing room to prioritize their security effectiveness instead. Abstract Security collects and routes data from cloud sources (such as AWS CloudTrail, Azure Activity Logs and GCP Audit Logs), removes unwanted noise, performs optimization, threat enrichment and normalizes data to OCSF schema in real-time before routing it to any SIEM or data lake of your choice. Get flexibility without the complexity!
Board Member
Sep 2024
Zivian Health helps healthcare providers and organizations simplify compliance, elevate clinical quality, and streamline administrative work and the management of clinical teams. Zivians software solutions and personalized services include: Compliance Automation and Reporting, Healthcare Collaborations, Licensing and Credentialing, APP Workforce Scaling, Continuing Education and Upskill Training, PC Ownership, and Medical Directorship. Its our mission to improve access to high-quality care by meeting the needs of a challenged healthcare workforce. We help providers stay focused on what matters most — taking care of patients. Visit zivianhealth.com and connect with our team today.
2022
Board Member
Sep 2022
We are a crowdsourced security company that safeguards organizations assets from sophisticated threat actors before they can strike—by uniting our customers with trusted hackers via our AI-powered platform to take back control and stay ahead of attackers. Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Triangle Peak Partners.
Board Member
Sep 2022
Ostra is Your Trusted Cybersecurity Team. With a mission to simplify cybersecurity for small to mid-sized businesses, Ostra Cybersecurity provides its partners and their clients with its multi-layered, comprehensive, & fully-managed service. With the proprietary Ostra solution, you get Fortune 100-caliber tools, tech, and talent to ensure threats are not only detected and hunted, but also fully remediated. Stop putting the burden of cybersecurity and threat remediation on overworked and understaffed IT teams. Get back to what you do best and leave cybersecurity to Ostra—Your Trusted Cybersecurity Team. To learn more, visit ostra.net.
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