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Cybersecurity VC co-founder at TechOperators with multiple exits including Endgame to Elastic
Credibility
Experience · 88th percentile
- Over 17 years of investing experience dating from TechOperators' founding in 2008 (capped at 15 years).
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current co-founder and Partner at TechOperators LLC, an early-stage cybersecurity venture capital firm he co-founded in 2008.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past co-founder of Endgame, a cybersecurity company he co-founded in 2008 and led as Chairman through its acquisition by Elastic.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Endgame was co-founded with other co-founders, confirming a co-founding team.
- 62%Probability of being accurate (62%)Endgame was acquired by Elastic for approximately $234M in 2019.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active GP and co-founder of TechOperators LLC, a recognized early-stage cybersecurity venture capital firm.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Partner at TechOperators LLC, a recognized early-stage VC firm specializing in cybersecurity.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Over 17 years of investing experience dating from TechOperators' founding in 2008 (capped at 15 years).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio company Bakkt (BKKT) completed an IPO in 2021 while Tom served as Chairman of its Board of Directors.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Two portfolio company acquisitions with undisclosed values: Avid Secure (acquired by Sophos) and SecureCircle (acquired by CrowdStrike).
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)At least 6 confirmed active investments including InstaSecure, Unibui, Peachscore, DuploCloud, Automox, and Caveonix.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in the room with LPs who have a strategic stake in cybersecurity outcomes — think defense primes, financial institutions, and sovereign funds who write checks because they need the portfolio, not just the return. You'd also benefit from tight founder dinners at the AI-security intersection where your Endgame, Avid Secure, and SecureCircle exits give you instant credibility and deal flow follows naturally. Roundtables with other cyber-focused fund managers and crossover investors would sharpen your AI-native security thesis and accelerate the TechOperators fundraise.
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 with corporate strategic LPs from defense primes (Lockheed, Raytheon, Palantir alumni) and Tier-1 financial institutions actively building cybersecurity investment arms, to accelerate TechOperators' next fund raise off your Endgame/Elastic and SecureCircle/CrowdStrike exit track record
- positioningA roundtable dinner with 8-10 technical founders building at the AI-security intersection — covering agentic threat detection, AI model security, and LLM red-teaming — where your TechOperators thesis serves as the anchor conversation for inbound deal flow
- tacticalA tactical dinner with founders and CTOs building in identity security and post-quantum cryptography to evaluate whether any are the right TechOperators portfolio addition to diversify beyond endpoint and cloud
- positioningA closed-door dinner with other early-stage cybersecurity fund managers (Ten Eleven, Ballistic Ventures, Forgepoint) to pressure-test TechOperators' public AI-native security investment thesis before you publish it
- introsA curated happy hour connecting your ICE Lead Independent Director network with fintech infrastructure security founders building in payment rail security, market data integrity, and financial identity — deal categories that map directly to TechOperators' focus
- tacticalA dinner with cloud infrastructure operators and follow-on investors already inside Automox and DuploCloud's ecosystems to sharpen your conviction on follow-on sizing in the cloud security and infrastructure category
- positioningA speaker prep roundtable with RSA and Black Hat program veterans and fellow cybersecurity investors to refine the TechOperators AI security narrative ahead of a main-stage submission that builds brand with technical founders
- fundraisingA networking night with defense contractor CISOs, In-Q-Tel alumni, and sovereign wealth fund allocators who view cybersecurity fund exposure as a strategic hedge, giving TechOperators a direct path to the LP base most aligned with your portfolio