TJ (Tsion) Gonen

Still Hungry | Cyber founder, Advisor, Investor, Deal Maker

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
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Board Member
Feb 2026
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.
Advisory Board Member & Investor
Jul 2024
Tamnoon is an AI-powered cloud remediation solution that combines cutting-edge technology with leading CloudPros to help teams quickly and safely remediate their cloud risks, reducing exposure while ensuring engineers can move fast without disruption.
Member of the Board of Advisors & Investor
Jul 2024
Ray Security provides the first remediation-focused data security platform that delivers visibility and real-time control over how data is accessed, by users, applications, LLMs, AI agents, and shadow AI, and automatically remediates risky or unnecessary exposure, reducing data risk and ensuring access remains aligned with actual usage.
Board Member
Jun 2024
Acquired by F5, CalypsoAI is an adaptive AI security platform that empowers enterprises to innovate safely—staying ahead of evolving threats to deliver unmatched protection and performance. As a trusted global leader, CalypsoAI partners with organizations of all sizes to responsibly unlock AI’s full potential. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2018 by the most talented minds in AI, data science and machine learning, CalypsoAI has established key partnerships with some of the world’s largest companies and secured backing from investors including Paladin Capital Group, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, 8VC, Hakluyt Capital and Empros Capital. The company has raised $38.2 million to date.
Founding Investor
2023
Perimeters is a SaaS Security platform built to work for you. Allowing you to automatically discover and remediate SaaS risks like Shadow IT, Identity Threats, and Compliance Misconfigurations in just 5 minutes per day.
Founding Investor
2022
We’re bringing back sanity to Data & API Security! A whole new way to understand and secure your most important assets – APIs & the Data they carry. Say goodbye to silos and say hello to ProtectOnce, the Data First API Security Platform.
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2026
Board Member
Feb 2026
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.
2025
Navigator - Cyber Security & AI
May 2025
Founded in 1986, Nautic Partners LLC is a middle-market private equity firm that has managed over $9.5 billion of equity capital spanning three decades. We have completed more than 150 transactions and partnered with a wide array of talented management teams. Nautic continues to actively seek new investment opportunities in the Healthcare, Industrials, and Services sectors. We typically deploy $50 million or more of equity for each new platform acquisition. In addition, many of our portfolio companies are eager to review potential add-on acquisitions. If you have new investment ideas, would like to learn more about our investment criteria, or would like to discuss potential add-on candidates for our portfolio companies, please contact: Jim Beakey Managing Director of Business Development 401-278-5678 jbeakey@nautic.com www.nautic.com www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-beakey/3/134/b4
2024
Advisory Board Member & Investor
Jul 2024
Tamnoon is an AI-powered cloud remediation solution that combines cutting-edge technology with leading CloudPros to help teams quickly and safely remediate their cloud risks, reducing exposure while ensuring engineers can move fast without disruption.
Member of the Board of Advisors & Investor
Jul 2024
Ray Security provides the first remediation-focused data security platform that delivers visibility and real-time control over how data is accessed, by users, applications, LLMs, AI agents, and shadow AI, and automatically remediates risky or unnecessary exposure, reducing data risk and ensuring access remains aligned with actual usage.
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