# Rick Caccia

> Rick Caccia is CEO and co-founder of WitnessAI, the Mountain View-based AI security company that raised $85.5M total (including a $58M round from Sound Ventures and Ashton Kutcher in January 2026) and delivered 500%+ ARR growth in 12 months. A Silicon Valley native with multiple UC Berkeley degrees, Caccia spent two decades in cybersecurity product and marketing leadership at Palo Alto Networks, Google (founding CMO for Chronicle), Exabeam, Red Canary, ArcSight, and Symantec before pivoting to the CEO seat to build purpose-built security guardrails for enterprise AI.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at WitnessAI
- **Organizations:** WitnessAI, Palo Alto Networks, Google, Chronicle, Exabeam, Red Canary, ArcSight, Symantec, Oracle, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- **From:** Silicon Valley, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MBA, University of California, Berkeley, Additional undergraduate degree(s), University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded WitnessAI in 2023, raising $85.5M total in under three years, Delivered 500%+ ARR growth and 5x headcount scaling at WitnessAI in 12 months, Serving CEO at WitnessAI, which secured enterprise customers in financial services, utilities, airlines, automotive, retail, and telecom

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Product and marketing roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oracle, and Vatic
- **2000s** — Marketing leadership at Symantec
- **2000s–2010s** — Led product marketing at ArcSight through its IPO and subsequent public company operations
- **2010s** — Marketing leadership at Google, including Google Cloud Security Products
- **2016** — Became founding Chief Marketing Officer for Chronicle, Google's cybersecurity unit
- **2019** — Joined Exabeam as first Chief Marketing Officer
- **2021** — Joined Red Canary as Chief Marketing Officer
- **2022** — Joined Palo Alto Networks as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (security operations and threat intelligence)
- **2023-09** — Co-founded WitnessAI and became CEO
- **2024-05** — WitnessAI raised $27.5M Series A co-led by Google Ventures and Ballistic Ventures
- **2026-01** — WitnessAI raised $58M led by Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), Fin Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Forgepoint Capital Partners

## Achievements

- Co-founded WitnessAI in 2023, raising $85.5M total in under three years
- Delivered 500%+ ARR growth and 5x headcount scaling at WitnessAI in 12 months
- Serving CEO at WitnessAI, which secured enterprise customers in financial services, utilities, airlines, automotive, retail, and telecom
- Founding CMO of Chronicle (Google's cybersecurity unit)
- Led product marketing at ArcSight through its IPO
- First CMO at Exabeam
- Named to AI 150 list by Constellation Research (2024-2025)
- Board member General Paul M. Nakasone (Ret.) - former NSA director - joined WitnessAI
- Collective 13 startup experiences between Rick and his wife

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — WitnessAI raised $58M led by Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), with participation from Fin Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Ventures, and Forgepoint Capital Partners
- **2026-01** — WitnessAI announced new agentic security capabilities to monitor and protect autonomous AI agents
- **2025** — WitnessAI appointed retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone (former NSA director) to Board of Directors
- **2024-05** — WitnessAI raised $27.5M Series A co-led by Google Ventures and Ballistic Ventures
- **2024** — Rick Caccia named to Constellation Research AI 150 list for 2024-2025

## Links

- Website: https://witness.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rcaccia/

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