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Utkarsh Garg and the Quiet Grammar of Collective Defense
A decade inside cybersecurity has taken Garg from building software in Bengaluru to shaping the shared language of threat intelligence - the unglamorous, essential work that lets defenders act together.
Dataminr Sells the Most Expensive Minutes in the Room
The New York company built a multibillion-dollar business by finding the first credible signal in a very noisy world. Its product is not information. It is the head start before everyone else has it.
The Cyber-Only Fund That Bets on the People Who Built the Industry
A firm run entirely by cybersecurity operators, backing the founders trying to defend everything from cloud workloads to synthetic media - one narrow thesis, executed at scale.
Shai Gabay
Shai Gabay is co-founder and CEO of Trustmi, an end-to-end B2B payment security platform he started in 2021 with Eli Ben-Nun. Trustmi uses behavioral AI to catch business payment fraud, vendor impersonation and process errors in real time. Gabay was an amateur hacker at 13, served in Israel's Unit 8200, and before Trustmi ran security and product for banks and cyber companies including Discount Bank, Cyberbit, Cynet and Opera.
Ted Schlein
Ted Schlein is Chairman and Founding General Partner of Ballistic Ventures, a cybersecurity-dedicated venture capital firm based in Daly City, California. After nearly 30 years at Kleiner Perkins where he became Silicon Valley's foremost cybersecurity investor, Schlein launched Ballistic in 2021 with a $300 million inaugural fund, followed by a $360 million second fund in 2024 and a $100 million third raise in 2025. A former operator at Symantec and founding CEO of Fortify Software, he sits on the DHS Homeland Security Advisory Council and the CIA's InQTel board, bridging the gap between Silicon Valley capital and national security infrastructure.