Mike Privette

Cybersecurity Economist and Recovering CISO

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Jan 2026
The answer to Assume Breach. Most breaches aren’t detected for months. Tracebit detects them in seconds. Deploy canaries across your environment that trigger high-fidelity alerts when attackers move laterally, escalate privileges or access credentials.
Member / Investor
Jul 2024
A community comprised of cybersecurity leaders and experts, with exposure to early-stage (Seed/ Series A) start-ups and innovation, access to private investment opportunities, leveraging domain expertise and connections to assess and contribute to the success of early stage cybersecurity ventures.
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Dec 2023
Nullify augments your AppSec team with AI agents capable of carrying out multiple levels of product security work autonomously.
Investor & Advisor
Feb 2023
Bearer helps modern teams ship trustworthy products with the help of our code security solution built for security, privacy and engineering teams. We combine sensitive data context with static code analysis to make security and privacy engineering simpler and smarter to maximize the ROI for your DevSecOps and central security team driven programs. For enterprises, we offer Bearer Cloud to manage product and application security at scale with deep sensitive data context. This is powered by Bearer CLI, an open-source static code analysis product with sensitive data context that currently supports Java, Ruby, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Follow along or try us out here - https://github.com/Bearer/bearer
Investor & Advisor
Jun 2021
Subsalt makes it safe and easy for organizations to share sensitive data. Subsalts analytical data store makes provably-private data available to internal teams, partners, and machine learning vendors, ensuring compliance without cumbersome legal process or destructive data masking techniques.
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2026
Venture Partner
May 2026
Former Sonae IM, Bright Pixel Capital is a venture capital company with a global aim, financially driven and oriented to make businesses prosper. We have the power of transformational change across our DNA sectors: Cybersecurity, Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies. Envisioned as the tech investment arm of Sonae Group, a Portuguese multinational with a diversified portfolio of innovative brands, Bright Pixel Capital has invested over 250M€ in the first 5 years in more than 50 direct investments, and will continue this path using our expertise to spot unique opportunities with the potential to change an industry. Working with Bright Pixel Capital means accessing a group of dedicated and experienced professionals, with incomparable knowledge of each investment vertical.
Investor
Jan 2026
The answer to Assume Breach. Most breaches aren’t detected for months. Tracebit detects them in seconds. Deploy canaries across your environment that trigger high-fidelity alerts when attackers move laterally, escalate privileges or access credentials.
2024
Member / Investor
Jul 2024
A community comprised of cybersecurity leaders and experts, with exposure to early-stage (Seed/ Series A) start-ups and innovation, access to private investment opportunities, leveraging domain expertise and connections to assess and contribute to the success of early stage cybersecurity ventures.
2023
Investor & Advisor
Dec 2023
Nullify augments your AppSec team with AI agents capable of carrying out multiple levels of product security work autonomously.
Investor & Advisor
Feb 2023
Bearer helps modern teams ship trustworthy products with the help of our code security solution built for security, privacy and engineering teams. We combine sensitive data context with static code analysis to make security and privacy engineering simpler and smarter to maximize the ROI for your DevSecOps and central security team driven programs. For enterprises, we offer Bearer Cloud to manage product and application security at scale with deep sensitive data context. This is powered by Bearer CLI, an open-source static code analysis product with sensitive data context that currently supports Java, Ruby, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Follow along or try us out here - https://github.com/Bearer/bearer
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