Robert Kugler

VP of Security, IT & Compliance at Cresta | Angel Investor | Advisor

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 29 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026
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Series A Investor
May 2026
As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, the associated risks are growing rapidly - yet over 76% of AI projects remain unsecured. The real challenge is securing how the workforce uses AI, ensuring that sensitive data, access, and processes are protected. The only way to address these risks effectively is by dynamically connecting data, identity, AI systems, and business context into a unified risk monitoring solution. Cymphony empowers security teams to do just that, providing 360° workforce visibility to confidently embrace AI, prevent insider threats, and manage risks continuously and seamlessly. Backed by Sequoia Capital.
Series A Investor
Mar 2026
Astelia is an AI-native exposure management platform that enables organizations to focus exclusively on vulnerabilities that are truly reachable and exploitable in their environment. By mapping real network topology and applying agentic AI to analyze exploit requirements, Astelia replaces vulnerability guesswork with predictive analysis. It eliminates noise, surfaces the ~1% of vulnerabilities that actually represent real exposure, and delivers evidence-based remediation guidance beyond patching. The result is faster, more practical mitigation that aligns security and IT while saving time and resources.
Seed Investor
Nov 2025
AI has turned everyone into a builder. Enterprise development and creation are no longer centralized. Security now needs a way to keep up - with clarity, control, and confidence, without slowing innovation.
Seed Investor
Aug 2025
Novee is the AI penetration testing platform built to secure an environment that’s constantly changing against attackers operating at machine speed. It starts with true black-box testing, reasoning about your environment the way a real attacker would: uncovering novel vulnerabilities, business logic flaws, and chained attack paths continuously, not just at fixed points in time. Built by veteran offensive security operators, Novee’s AI models are purpose-trained on real attacker tradecraft and adapt as your environment evolves, getting smarter over time. And because finding risk isn’t enough, every issue is validated and paired with precise, personalized fixes tailored to your architecture, tech stack, and business logic- so teams can reduce real risk as fast as attackers create it.
Seed Investor
Jul 2025
Mate is the first continuous detection/continuous response solution. Mate enables a new security operations architecture where detection, investigation, response and threat hunting run as one, self improving cycle that outperforms AI-scale attacks. At its core is Mate’s home-grown security context graph: the institutional brain serving as a unified reasoning plane for AI agents. Fortune 500 organizations use Mate to investigate their entire alert queue, respond to threats before attackers can execute, keep detections up to date, eliminate SIEM lock-in and reduce costs. Mate’s is led by Wiz and Microsoft veterans and backed by Team8 and Insight Partners.
Seed Investor
Jun 2025
Fig leads Security Operations Resilience – keeping detection and response working through constant change. Fig finds and fixes broken security flows across your entire SecOps stack and lets you quickly simulate and deploy planned changes. With Fig, change powers the SOC instead of breaking it.
Seed Investor
Jun 2025
Managed security services, rebuilt for SecOps. Traditional MDR can’t keep up with modern threats. AI SOC tools help with investigations, but still require a SOC team. Daylight introduces Managed Agentic Security Services (MASS), a new model where AI agents and security experts run your security operations together.
Seed Investor
Jun 2025
Protect your customers and organization from scams and social engineering with AI that uncovers and disrupts deception and manipulation.
Seed Investor
Jan 2025
Huskeys is pioneering a new category: Edge Security Management (ESM). We’ve built an agentic AI layer across the entire edge security stack- unifying CDN-WAF-Infra-App, into a single, continuously adaptive system. For years, organizations have struggled with a painful reality: WAFs are powerful, but complex, noisy, and resource-intensive. Managing them is difficult, outcomes are inconsistent, and the operational burden is high. We gave up on trying to make it effective. Huskeys solves this. Our AI continuously assesses, adapts, and orchestrates rules, policies, and configurations - optimizing for both security and business outcomes. The result: your existing WAF becomes effective, transparent, and economically impactful. Less noise. Fewer false positives. Reduced manual overhead. And significant cost savings - often in the millions. Huskeys transforms edge security from a fragmented, reactive challenge into a unified, intelligent, and outcome-driven system. We are Huskeys and we clear the WAF way.
Investor
Sep 2024
Reclaim Security is revolutionizing cybersecurity with an AI-powered, business-aware approach to exposure remediation. Founded by industry veterans, Reclaim empowers security teams to outpace evolving threats without disrupting operations. Our mission? Transform security from a reactive burden into a proactive force. By integrating with your existing security stack, Reclaim delivers continuous, tailored, and adaptive solutions. Our proprietary PIPE™ (Productivity Impact Prediction Engine) ensures remediations align with business needs, minimizing disruption while maximizing ROI. With 90% reduction in manual effort, teams focus on strategic priorities. Reclaim Security turns your existing stack into an always-on remediation engine—automating fixes, validating impact, and eliminating risk without disrupting your business. Stop Managing Security Debt. Start Eliminating It.
Seed Investor
Sep 2024
Founded by leading cybersecurity and IT pioneers, Espresso Labs delivers a single, AI-powered platform designed to automate cybersecurity and IT and boost employee productivity — while minimizing the need for human intervention. Facing tool overload, scarce cybersecurity and IT staff, or mounting costs? We’ve got you covered!
Seed Investor
Sep 2024
Unlock AI’s full potential with AllTrue.ai, the leading Trust, Risk, and Security Management (TRiSM) platform. We help organizations navigate the complexities of AI risk, ensuring secure and compliant deployment. Gain a competitive edge by proactively managing cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and supply chain vulnerabilities, all within a framework aligned with MITRE ATLAS and NIST AI RMF. Our tailored solutions empower organizations to innovate confidently, knowing their AI initiatives are built on a foundation of trust and security.
Seed Investor
Jun 2024
The endpoint is the epicenter of work in the age of AI. Its where people think, create, and drive the business forward. And with that momentum, risk is inevitable. Yet its also where organizations have the least visibility and control. For years, security teams have tried to close that gap with more tools - but legacy solutions bury teams in alerts, demand endless tuning, and still miss real risks. Bold changes that. Our lightweight AI security agent runs directly on the endpoint - classifying data, understanding user behavior, and enforcing protection in real time. No cloud processing. No configuration. No privacy tradeoffs. Backed by $40M in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Red Dot Capital Partners.
Investor
May 2024
Bonfy.AI takes content security to a whole new level with Bonfy Adaptive Content Security™ (Bonfy ACS™), the adaptive solution designed specifically to protect your most critical content. Whether it’s AI-generated or human-created, Bonfy ACS proactively identifies and mitigates all potential risks, including cybersecurity threats, privacy violations, regulatory compliance issues, IP leaks, and reputational damage. Unlike outdated DLP tools, Bonfy ACS delivers precision risk detection by leveraging your unique business context and logic without relying on error-prone pattern matching or generic classifiers. This eliminates false positives/negatives, reduces investigation times, and ensures quick time to value. Bonfy ACS is purpose-built to address modern challenges posed by generative AI, such as information silos, customer data leaks, and compliance violations. With its scalable, AI-driven capabilities, the platform empowers organizations to adopt GenAI confidently while safeguarding content integrity and fostering trust. Trusted by regulated enterprises, Bonfy enables you to protect sensitive data, automate compliance reporting, and lower the total cost of ownership while strengthening enterprise-wide compliance. It’s time to move beyond traditional tools and fully unlock the benefits of secure, trustworthy AI adoption.
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Feb 2024
Clutch is addressing the increasingly critical challenge of non-human identity security within modern enterprises. As digital infrastructures expand and become more complex, the management and security of non-human identities—ranging from API keys and secrets to tokens and service accounts—have emerged as a pivotal yet often neglected aspect of cybersecurity. Recognizing this gap, Clutch is developing an enterprise platform dedicated to the comprehensive protection and management of these identities. Our solution is designed to fortify the digital backbone of enterprises, ensuring a secure, resilient, and trustworthy environment for their operations.
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2026
Series A Investor
May 2026
As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, the associated risks are growing rapidly - yet over 76% of AI projects remain unsecured. The real challenge is securing how the workforce uses AI, ensuring that sensitive data, access, and processes are protected. The only way to address these risks effectively is by dynamically connecting data, identity, AI systems, and business context into a unified risk monitoring solution. Cymphony empowers security teams to do just that, providing 360° workforce visibility to confidently embrace AI, prevent insider threats, and manage risks continuously and seamlessly. Backed by Sequoia Capital.
Series A Investor
Mar 2026
Astelia is an AI-native exposure management platform that enables organizations to focus exclusively on vulnerabilities that are truly reachable and exploitable in their environment. By mapping real network topology and applying agentic AI to analyze exploit requirements, Astelia replaces vulnerability guesswork with predictive analysis. It eliminates noise, surfaces the ~1% of vulnerabilities that actually represent real exposure, and delivers evidence-based remediation guidance beyond patching. The result is faster, more practical mitigation that aligns security and IT while saving time and resources.
2025
Seed Investor
Nov 2025
AI has turned everyone into a builder. Enterprise development and creation are no longer centralized. Security now needs a way to keep up - with clarity, control, and confidence, without slowing innovation.
Seed Investor
Aug 2025
Novee is the AI penetration testing platform built to secure an environment that’s constantly changing against attackers operating at machine speed. It starts with true black-box testing, reasoning about your environment the way a real attacker would: uncovering novel vulnerabilities, business logic flaws, and chained attack paths continuously, not just at fixed points in time. Built by veteran offensive security operators, Novee’s AI models are purpose-trained on real attacker tradecraft and adapt as your environment evolves, getting smarter over time. And because finding risk isn’t enough, every issue is validated and paired with precise, personalized fixes tailored to your architecture, tech stack, and business logic- so teams can reduce real risk as fast as attackers create it.
Seed Investor
Jul 2025
Mate is the first continuous detection/continuous response solution. Mate enables a new security operations architecture where detection, investigation, response and threat hunting run as one, self improving cycle that outperforms AI-scale attacks. At its core is Mate’s home-grown security context graph: the institutional brain serving as a unified reasoning plane for AI agents. Fortune 500 organizations use Mate to investigate their entire alert queue, respond to threats before attackers can execute, keep detections up to date, eliminate SIEM lock-in and reduce costs. Mate’s is led by Wiz and Microsoft veterans and backed by Team8 and Insight Partners.
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