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Evan Kohlmann
Evan Kohlmann spent two decades tracking terrorists through their own chatrooms, earning the nickname 'the Terrorist Search Engine.' He built cyberintelligence firm Flashpoint from his bedroom, wrote its original code, and served as NBC News' terrorism analyst for nearly 18 years. Today he is founder and CEO of Cloudburst Technologies, a New York company that maps the off-chain human networks behind crypto fraud - the pump-and-dumps, pig-butchering rings, and market manipulation that live in forums and chatrooms rather than on the blockchain. Cloudburst raised a $7M Series A in 2025 backed by Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, and In-Q-Tel.
Stuart Jones Jr.
Stuart Jones Jr. is the co-founder and CEO of Sigma360, an AI-powered risk intelligence platform fighting financial crime for banks, payment providers and globally exposed corporations. A former senior U.S. Treasury official who chased illicit money through Afghanistan and the Arabian Gulf after 9/11, he turned a counterterrorism playbook into enterprise software. In March 2026 his company closed an oversubscribed $17.3M Series B, having reached profitability and the now protecting more than $2 trillion in assets.
Sarah Catanzaro
Sarah Catanzaro is General Partner at Amplify Partners, a Menlo Park-based venture firm investing in technical founders building data infrastructure, machine learning tools, and enterprise software. Before venture, she mapped Somali pirate networks and built threat intelligence systems for the US Secret Service. She joined Amplify in 2017, made partner in 2020, and became General Partner in 2022. Her portfolio includes RunwayML, LangChain, Modal Labs, Hex, DatologyAI, and WarpStream. She invests pre-product, bets on problem-obsessed founders, and argues that most AI struggles trace back to bad data.