William Lin

Co-Founder, CEO

2023

Taking a love of building to the next stage: an IAM startup. We've manifested the combination: amazing team, delightful solution, scalable company.

Co-Creator

2018

The Security Tinkerers is a community of professionals to educate, mentor, and generate opportunities for both todays and the next generation of leaders.

Visiting Fellow

2018

Seed

2023 - 2023

Venture Partner

2022 - 2023

Founding Team, Managing Director

2015 - 2023

Three of us spun out Forgepoint Capital from Trident Capital in 2015 to create one of the most active venture capital firms in Cybersecurity.

Board, Series B

2021 - 2023

Problem: Legacy IT Data Security solutions don't scale, are difficult to deploy and manage. Solution: Modern architecture with automated data discovery, classification and lineage. Category: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) & Data Detection & Response (DDR)

Seed (Drata M&A)

2021 - 2023

Board, Series A (Fortinet M&A)

2020 - 2023

Problem: Not enough visibility, consistency and scalable guardrails in cloud environments. Solution: Translate security policies and best practices into code, integrate into development pipelines and enable remediation with visibility. Closest Category: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Board, Series A

2020 - 2023

Problem: Managing end-user entitlements with least privilege principles is unmanageable at scale. Solution: Mix of expertise, automation and services to provide actionable remediation, mature IAM hygiene and minimize credential misuse's blast radius. Closest Category: Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)

Board, Founding Investor

2019 - 2023

Problem: Unmanageable data stores in a global and cloud world. Solution: Data classification via ML, graph analysis, access control and response capabilities. Category: Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Cloud Security & Database Activity Monitoring