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FDB and the art of saying less
The company behind medication checks has learned a useful lesson: a warning earns its place by knowing when to stay quiet. Now FDB is taking that idea from drug databases into prescribing networks and AI.
Octagos Built a Bouncer for the Cardiac Data Flood
Remote heart devices produce a blizzard of alerts. Octagos raised $43 million to decide which ones deserve a clinician's attention - and to make the rest of the clinic run on time.
GreyNoise Built a Business by Telling Security Teams What to Ignore
Most cyber vendors sell more alarms. GreyNoise built thousands of patient decoys, learned the rhythm of indiscriminate attacks, and made a business out of the far more useful answer: not this one.
Edward Wu
Edward Wu is the founder and CEO of Dropzone AI, a Seattle company building autonomous AI agents that investigate security alerts like a tier-1 SOC analyst. After eight years at ExtraHop Networks leading AI/ML detection engineering and dropping out of a computer science Ph.D. at the University of Washington, he started Dropzone in 2023 to attack what he calls the defender's dilemma. The company raised a $37 million Series B in July 2025 led by Theory Ventures, serves more than 100 enterprises, and counts UiPath, Zapier and Pipe among its customers. Wu holds more than 30 patents in machine learning and cybersecurity and contributes to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.