# Jake Seid

> Jake Seid is Co-Founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, a cybersecurity-only venture capital firm managing over $700M in assets. A MIT-trained engineer with the school's highest student honor, he helped commercialize broadband at Cisco, launched Lightspeed Venture Partners as a founding team member, ran the 800-person team at Auction.com through its $1.6B acquisition, then backed 12 unicorns solo at Stone Bridge Ventures before co-founding Ballistic to go all-in on securing the digital world.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures
- **Organizations:** Ballistic Ventures, Stone Bridge Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ten-X / Auction.com, Cisco Systems, MIT Club of Northern California, World Economic Forum
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (with Economics minor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Karl Taylor Compton Prize winner - highest student honor at MIT, Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum (2009-2014), Featured in Business Insider's '100 Rising-Star VCs' list

## Career timeline

- **~1994-1998** — Earned BS and M.Eng at MIT; won Karl Taylor Compton Prize (highest student honor)
- **Early career** — Business development role at Boston Technology (Comverse) in Tokyo, Japan
- **1998-2000** — Product lead at Cisco Systems; helped write the DOCSIS standard powering modern broadband; scaled broadband unit from near-zero to $1B annual revenue in two years
- **2000-2011** — Founding team member and Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners; served on Global Investment Committee as one of six managing directors
- **2011-2015** — President of Ten-X / Auction.com; managed 800-person organization; grew platform to industry-leading status; company acquired for $1.6B
- **2015-present** — Founder of Stone Bridge Ventures; 12 early-stage portfolio companies grew into unicorns, including Brex, Abnormal Security, Blend, Bolt, Carta, Cresta.ai, Drata, and DataRobot
- **2021-present** — Co-Founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, cybersecurity-only VC fund; launched $300M Fund I, followed by additional capital raising toward $700M+ AUM
- **2025-04** — Ballistic Ventures raised $100M additional fund (latest funding round)

## Achievements

- Karl Taylor Compton Prize winner - highest student honor at MIT
- Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum (2009-2014)
- Featured in Business Insider's '100 Rising-Star VCs' list
- 12 portfolio companies became unicorns through Stone Bridge Ventures
- Helped write the DOCSIS standard that underpins modern broadband internet
- Led Auction.com as President through its $1.6B acquisition
- Scaled Cisco broadband unit from startup to $1B annual revenue in two years
- Founding team member of Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Managing over $700M in assets at Ballistic Ventures focused exclusively on cybersecurity
- Long-serving board member of MIT Club of Northern California

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Ballistic Ventures raised $100M in additional funding, bringing total AUM to over $700M
- **2025-08** — Jake Seid appeared at Black Hat 2025 to discuss cybersecurity investment themes
- **2026-03** — Ballistic portfolio company Native raised $31M Series A
- **2025-07** — Ballistic portfolio company Noma Security raised $100M Series B
- **2025-04** — Ballistic portfolio company Veza raised $110M Series D

## Links

- Website: https://ballisticventures.com/team/jake-seid/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake1/

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