Rakesh K. Loonkar
Cyber security entrepreneur and venture capital
Boston, Massachusetts
Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$5,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000.00
Education
- RP
Lists including Rakesh
Investments
Linx Security
Total Funding: $33M
PointFive
Total Funding: $16M
Entro
Total Funding: $24M
Silk Security
Total Funding: $13M
Neosec
Total Funding: $15M
Monument Bank
Total Funding: $39M
RiskRecon
Total Funding: $40M
Armis Security
Total Funding: $240M
Transmit Security
Total Funding: $580M
Insert
Total Funding: $15M
Preempt Security
Total Funding: $26M
Fireglass
Total Funding: $20M
TopSpin Security
Total Funding: $7M
vEyE Security
Total Funding: $2M
WireX Cube
Total Funding: $9M
Aorato
Total Funding: $12M
Comilion
Total Funding: $3M
Lacoon Mobile Security
Total Funding: $8M
Trusteer
Total Funding: $10M
Work Experience
2024
Partner
2024
2014
President & Co-Founder
2014
Leading the fusion of customer facing identity and fraud.
2019
Director Board Of Directors
2019
Market leading agentic application security
2003
Private Investor
2003
Investor: - Apiiro (Seed) - Vulcan Cyber (Series A) - Salt Security - Island.io - Cyberstarts - Abnormal Prior private investments include: Private company investments that were valued at over $1 billion: - Palo Alto Networks - NYSE: PANW - Trusteer - acquired by IBM - zScaler - Nasdaq: ZS - Armis Security (acquired by Insight) - McAfee (MCFE) - Sumo Logic (Nasdaq: SUMO) Industry Changing: - Preempt - acquired by CRWD - Fireglass - acquired by SYMC - Aorato - acquired by MSFT - RiskRecon - acquired by MasterCard - Hyperwise Security - acquired by CHKP - Lacoon Mobile Security - acquired by CHKP - Insert.io - acquired by Pendo - Mi5 Networks - acquired by SYMC - Securent - acquired by CSCO - Worklight - acquired by IBM - Mu Dynamics - acquired by LSE: SPT - End Game Systems - acquired by Elastic NV - WatchDox - acquired by BBRY Advisory Boards: - Perfigo (acquired by CSCO) [became Cisco NAC] - Sana Security (acquired by AVG).
2010 - 2014
Board Observer
2010 - 2014
2007 - 2013
President & Co-Founder
2007 - 2013
Acquired by IBM: http://www.zdnet.com/opening-new-doors-why-ibm-spent-1bn-on-security-firm-trusteer-7000027062/, Co-founded with Mickey Boodaei.
2006 - 2013
Member, Board of Directors
2006 - 2013
http://www.trusteer.com
2002 - 2003
Vice President of Sales
2002 - 2003
Responsible for North American Enterprise, Channel, and Emerging Technologies Sales. Responsible for over $120m in revenue increasing at 15% quarter over sequential quarter. Managed over 120 direct, channel, & sales engineering staff. $4b acquisition by Juniper Networks.
1999 - 2002
VP - Business Development, International Sales & Co-Founder
1999 - 2002
Co-founded OneSecure. Recruited founding & executive team, raised $92m in venture capital. Acquired by NetScreen Technologies. Founded with Nir Zuk, Brett Eldridge, and Pradeep Aswani
1997 - 1999
CEO
1997 - 1999
Network security integrator and Check Point reseller. Built company from out of my apartment to over 30 people and $12m run rate in 18 months. Bootstrapped.