Tim Jaroch

Co-Founder & CEO at Critical Element

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 2 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2023
Operator-angel🌍 United States
2
Total investments
1
Early stage
1
Mid stage
0
Late stage
3y
Years active

Portfolio

2 investments · sorted by recency
All investments
Early stage
Mid stage
Late stage
Advisor & Angel Investor
Nov 2023
In business, stealth mode is a companys temporary state of secretiveness, usually undertaken to avoid alerting competitors to a pending product launch or other business initiative.
Advisor & Angel Investor
Nov 2023
Acquired by F5, SurePath AI is a security and governance platform built for an AI-everywhere world. As AI agents act, developers code with copilots, and organizations embed AI into products, traditional security tools fall short. SurePath AI governs AI usage at the network layer across public and private models, AI coding assistants, homegrown applications, and autonomous agents. Through real-time interception, model routing, and policy enforcement, SurePath AI provides full visibility and control without slowing teams down. It secures AI access, restricts interactions to approved systems, detects malicious or risky behavior, and protects sensitive data before it reaches a model. SurePath AI ensures AI accelerates business outcomes, not risk.
Experience · 4 entries
All (4)
Investments (2)
Founder (1)
2026
Co-Founder & CEO
Sep 2026
Critical Element is a Grafana Partner and Reseller. We help engineering and operations teams implement Grafana and get the most out of the full stack: Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Pyroscope, and OpenTelemetry. Our team brings 15+ years of observability experience from Grafana, Splunk, Cribl, and AppDynamics. We chose Grafana because it is where modern observability is happening: open, composable, and backed by the strongest community in the space. Our job is to make sure you get the full value of that platform from day one. What we do: 01 → Assess - A two-week review of your signals, cost, and coverage, with a written plan for your Grafana rollout. 02 → Build - OpenTelemetry collectors, pipelines, and Grafana dashboards, sized for your growth. 03 → Run - We operate alongside your team, with quarterly cost and coverage reviews and a direct line into Grafana Labs when you need it. Licensing, implementation, and ongoing operations from one partner, on one invoice. Talk to us: sales@criticalelement.io
2023
Advisor & Angel Investor
Nov 2023
In business, stealth mode is a companys temporary state of secretiveness, usually undertaken to avoid alerting competitors to a pending product launch or other business initiative.
Advisor & Angel Investor
Nov 2023
Acquired by F5, SurePath AI is a security and governance platform built for an AI-everywhere world. As AI agents act, developers code with copilots, and organizations embed AI into products, traditional security tools fall short. SurePath AI governs AI usage at the network layer across public and private models, AI coding assistants, homegrown applications, and autonomous agents. Through real-time interception, model routing, and policy enforcement, SurePath AI provides full visibility and control without slowing teams down. It secures AI access, restricts interactions to approved systems, detects malicious or risky behavior, and protects sensitive data before it reaches a model. SurePath AI ensures AI accelerates business outcomes, not risk.
2015
Associate Software Engineer
May 2015
Genesys acquired Interactive Intelligence in December 2016. Genesys® powers 25 billion of the world’s best customer experiences each year. Our success comes from seamlessly connecting employees and customers across channels, on-premise and in the cloud. Over 10,000 companies in 100+ countries trust our #1 customer experience platform to drive great business outcomes and lasting relationships. Visit genesys.com