Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$5,000,000.00Max Investment:
$25,000,000.00Target Investment:
$12,500,000.00
Skills
Education
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Work Experience
2025
Security Engineer
2025
First security hire
2023 - 2025
Staff Software Engineer, Security
2023 - 2025
First security hire
2022 - 2023
Staff Software Engineer, Security
2022 - 2023
First security engineer hire
2018 - 2021
Principal
2018 - 2021
Dell Technologies Capital is the financially-driven investment arm for Dell Technologies. We lead investments in disruptive, early-stage startups in enterprise and cloud infrastructure. Some past companies include Arista, JFrog, Redis Labs, Docusign, Redlock, Twistlock, and Zscaler. I focused on cybersecurity, data infrastructure, and crypto/blockchain. Investments: BastionZero (acq. by Cloudflare, Series A/Board Director), Remediant (acq. by Netwrix, Series A/Board Observer), Cequence Security (Series B/Board Observer), Clovyr (Lead Seed), Soluble (acq. by Lacework, Lead Seed), Appdome (Board Observer)
2015 - 2018
Co-Founder
2015 - 2018
A summer program for early stage security startups started with Sean Dalton (Meteor VC, formerly Highland). Notable portfolio companies: Huntress Labs, Akita Software (acquired by Postman), Oso, BastionZero (acq. by Cloudflare), Pixm, Gitlinks (acquired by Infor), BlueFyre (acquired by Threat Stack) Source, evaluate, and mentor the teams on business and technical security strategy. Built a community of industry mentors who are top executives in successful security companies, such as Akamai, Imprivata, Rapid7, Tenable, Qualys, and Cybereason.
2012 - 2018
Research Assistant
2012 - 2018
I did my PhD in the PDOS lab at MIT, advised by Nickolai Zeldovich and James Mickens. I wrote 5 first-author papers, which were published at top-tier systems and security conferences. My research was at the intersection of cybersecurity, distributed systems, and cryptography.
2014 - 2018
Venture Fellow
2014 - 2018
Sourcing and investing in pre-seed student startups (focused on enterprise). Notable investments: Instabase, LogRocket, GitLinks (acquired by Infor)
2013 - 2013
Security Engineer Research Intern
2013 - 2013
Built applications to analyze security logs and improve incident reponse.
2012 - 2012
Software Engineering Intern
2012 - 2012
I worked on the Security Research Team under Elie Bursztein and Ulfar Erlingsson. I worked closely with the Chrome cache team to improve security and performance of Google Chrome, specifically to reduce vulnerabilities caused by third-party Javascript libraries.
2009 - 2012
Research Assistant
2010 - 2012
I worked under Dan Boneh in the computer security lab. I did a variety of projects involving applied cryptography and computer security.
Research Assistant
2011 - 2011
I worked under John C Mitchell. I designed and implemented a secure health information exchange system using advanced cryptographic tools and logic programming.
Research Assisant
2009 - 2010
I worked in the Flow Physics and Computational Engineering Lab. I developed computational tools to perform analysis on electrochemical energy systems.