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Jason Martin Built for the Breach - Then AI Gave Every Machine a Badge
After 25 years in cybersecurity, Martin stopped treating identity as a login problem and started following what every human, machine, and AI agent did next. That bet took Permiso from 100 interviews before code to an acquisition by Okta.
Amir Khayat Spent a Decade Learning to See What Security Teams Miss
Before Amir Khayat built Vorlon, he moved from code to customers to the machinery between them. His bet is that the next security fight lives inside the connections businesses barely see.
David Goldschlag Is Giving Machines Their Own ID Check
He helped invent onion routing, built and sold two security companies, and now wants applications and AI agents to stop borrowing human credentials. The through-line is a career spent replacing assumed trust with evidence.
Bala Venkatramani’s Long Bet on Less Friction
After more than sixteen years inside Zoho, the product leader started Securden with a stubborn premise: enterprise security works better when people can actually use it. The bet now stretches from privileged passwords to AI agents.
Vivek Nair
Vivek Nair is the co-founder and CEO of Multifactor (YC F25), an applied cryptography company building zero-trust authentication, authorization, and auditing for AI agents. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley at 22 as a Hertz Fellow, published landmark work on privacy in virtual reality, and served as a technical lead in cyber units at the Department of Defense and CIA before starting the company.
Itamar Apelblat
Itamar Apelblat is the co-founder and CEO of Token Security, a cybersecurity company focused on securing non-human identities (NHIs) - the service accounts, API tokens, workloads, and AI agents that now vastly outnumber human users inside enterprises. A veteran of Israel's Unit 8200 with more than 15 years in cybersecurity, he founded Token Security in 2023 with Ido Shlomo after encountering a forgotten contractor service account that still had full access to a company's systems. The company emerged from stealth in 2024 and raised a $20M Series A in January 2025, relocating its headquarters to New York as enterprises race to secure the machine-first, AI-agent era.