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Synack co-founder and CEO building crowdsourced security for defense and enterprise
Credibility
Firm Standing · 31th percentile
- Publicly identified as an active scout investor.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current founder and CEO of Synack.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @jaykap has been active for approximately 9 years (created October 2016).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @jaykap is dormant with no public repository push activity detected.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Synack was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Synack has raised $34M in total venture funding.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)GitHub account @jaykap is identified as Jay Kaplan's profile.
Investor score
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Publicly identified as an active scout investor.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Has at least one active investment on record as a scout.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in the room with late-stage security founders, defense-sector operators, and growth-equity investors who understand the government-adjacent SaaS model. Roundtables focused on exit readiness and strategic M&A would help you pressure-test Synack's positioning ahead of any liquidity event. Smaller, high-trust dinners with NSA and DoD alumni founders would accelerate both your angel syndicate ambitions and Synack's enterprise pipeline.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA dinner for cybersecurity CEOs who've raised $25M–$100M in venture to compare notes on growth-stage raise strategies and strategic partnership structures relevant to Synack's enterprise expansion
- introsAn NSA and DoD alumni founder roundtable to trade warm intros into defense-sector procurement channels and surface partnership opportunities for Synack's crowdsourced security platform
- tacticalA dinner with bankers and M&A advisors who've run exits for enterprise security companies (think Mandiant, Veracode, Cylance) to pressure-test whether Synack's 13-year trajectory is better positioned for a strategic acquisition or IPO
- introsA happy hour for cybersecurity and national-security founders who are formalizing scout activity into angel syndicates or micro-funds, to compare deal-flow structures and co-invest on early security bets
- positioningA dinner for enterprise security founders who publish regularly in TechCrunch and Fortune to sharpen public narratives around cybersecurity-for-enterprise and trade introductions to editors and speaking bookers
- hiringA roundtable with security engineering leaders and open-source maintainers to workshop which internal Synack tooling is worth open-sourcing on GitHub to rebuild Jay's technical credibility and attract senior engineering talent
- tacticalA dinner for founders of 10-plus-year-old venture-backed companies to compare notes on co-founder equity refresh, governance cleanup, and cap-table hygiene ahead of a potential liquidity event