Neal Swaelens

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.

TL;DR ====== - Typically, coming in at series Seed or Series A - Prefer to lead or co-lead, but we play nice with others :) - First checks between 1-5 million USD - Primarily, focused on US and Europe, but will invest globally - Broad vertical focus, but key principles are: -- Product-led companies, not “just” core-technology or IP -- Clear end-user flows that we as users could test, even in B2B -- Preference for technology differentiated Partners focus: Alex: enterprise software, verticalized SaaS, PaaS, Blockchain Nuno: consumer software, consumer hardware, horizontal SaaS, consumerized enterprise/bottom-up SaaS

Venture fund for supply chain resilience. Our mission is to solve some of the planets hardest and most overlooked challenges. To transform old industries, and invest in the critical supply chain technologies needed to ensure long-term economic resilience.

Agentless and deployed in minutes, Manifold reveals and protects what agents do, not what they say. Total runtime visibility, across every endpoint and first party application.

Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the worlds greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

Empowering productivity, seamless integration, and discovery of Large Language Models with our platform, fortified with native security controls, observability, and compliance.

TL;DR ====== - Typically, coming in at series Seed or Series A - Prefer to lead or co-lead, but we play nice with others :) - First checks between 1-5 million USD - Primarily, focused on US and Europe, but will invest globally - Broad vertical focus, but key principles are: -- Product-led companies, not “just” core-technology or IP -- Clear end-user flows that we as users could test, even in B2B -- Preference for technology differentiated Partners focus: Alex: enterprise software, verticalized SaaS, PaaS, Blockchain Nuno: consumer software, consumer hardware, horizontal SaaS, consumerized enterprise/bottom-up SaaS