# David Matalon

> David Matalon is the founder and CEO of Venn, a New York cybersecurity company that secures remote work on personal, unmanaged laptops without virtual desktops. His Blue Border technology builds an encrypted, isolated workspace on a worker's own computer, an approach now trusted by 700-plus organizations, many of them FINRA- and SEC-regulated financial firms. A native New Yorker who started teaching neighbors how to use computers at 13, Matalon has spent more than two decades building secure-workspace companies, from Offyx to OS33 to Venn.

- **Role:** CEO & Founder at Venn
- **Organizations:** Venn, OS33, External IT, Offyx
- **From:** New York, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Undergraduate degree, NYU Stern School of Business, Master's degree, Columbia University
- **Known for:** Built Blue Border, described as the first purpose-built technology to secure work on unmanaged BYOD computers, Grew Venn to be trusted by 700-plus organizations, including 400-plus regulated financial services firms, Helped customers meet FINRA, SEC, NAIC, SOC 2 and similar compliance standards

## Career timeline

- **2000** — Co-founded Offyx, one of the earliest Application Service Providers in the US, backed by Oppenheimer, IBM and Cisco
- **2003** — Co-founded External IT, serving as CEO and VP of Sales through 2010
- **2010** — Co-founded and led OS33, a secure workspace solution for RIAs, broker-dealers and compliance-driven firms
- **2019** — Founded Venn, evolving OS33's vision into a software-based BYOD security platform
- **2023** — Venn raised a $29M Series A (June 2023)

## Achievements

- Built Blue Border, described as the first purpose-built technology to secure work on unmanaged BYOD computers
- Grew Venn to be trusted by 700-plus organizations, including 400-plus regulated financial services firms
- Helped customers meet FINRA, SEC, NAIC, SOC 2 and similar compliance standards
- Raised roughly $58M in total funding for Venn, including a $29M Series A
- Pioneered secure-workspace and early cloud computing products across three companies over two decades

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Spoke with ISMG at the 2025 Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit about the future of remote work security.
- **2025-04** — Venn reframed its mission around securing the distributed workforce in the age of AI and shadow-AI risk.

## Links

- Website: https://venn.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmatalon

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Last updated: 2026-06-04