Ivan Novikov is the founder and CEO of Wallarm, an AI-powered API security platform that has raised over $70 million in funding including a $55M Series C in 2025. With 24+ years in cybersecurity, he is recognized as the inventor of memcached injection attacks and a pioneer of SSRF research, having earned bug bounty awards from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tesla, and Yandex. A Y Combinator S16 alumnus with a physics background from Moscow State University, Novikov transformed hands-on offensive security expertise into a company protecting APIs for enterprises worldwide.
Wallarm is a San Francisco-based API and application security company protecting more than half of public-facing APIs at large enterprises with a unified platform for API discovery, attack prevention, and AI-era threat protection.
Stepan Ilyin is the Co-Founder and COO of Wallarm, a San Francisco-based API and application security company that raised $55M in Series C funding in 2025. A former whitehat hacker and Bauman Moscow State Technical University graduate, he co-founded Wallarm in 2013 alongside Ivan Novikov and others, with the company graduating from Y Combinator's S16 batch. Wallarm now protects Fortune 500 enterprises with AI-powered API security, real-time threat detection, and CI/CD-integrated vulnerability management. Ilyin has authored over 500 publications on DevSecOps, API security, and AI threat prevention, and is a recognized conference speaker at Black Hat, RSA, and similar venues.
Gadi Bashvitz is the Co-founder and CEO of Bright Security (formerly NeuraLegion), a San Rafael-based developer-centric Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) platform. A veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces' elite Unit 8200, he brings 25+ years of cybersecurity, product, and go-to-market experience to his mission of making application security accessible to every developer. Under his leadership, Bright Security raised a $20M Series A in 2022 and launched the Bright STAR autonomous security testing and remediation platform at RSA Conference 2025, achieving approximately 85% auto-remediation rates for its customers.
Jonathan DiVincenzo is the CEO and Co-Founder of Impart Security, a San Francisco-based AI-native runtime protection platform for applications, APIs, and LLM workloads. A veteran of Signal Sciences - where he served as VP of Product through the company's $825M acquisition by Fastly - DiVincenzo founded Impart in 2021 alongside Marc Harrison and Brian Joe to tackle what they saw as the broken 'last mile' of application security. His platform has deployed over 2,400 security rules across enterprise customers, cutting deployment time from 18 days to 45 minutes. In June 2025, Impart raised a $12M Series A led by Madrona Ventures.