dope.security is a Mountain View cybersecurity startup that rebuilt the Secure Web Gateway (SWG) so it runs directly on the endpoint instead of routing traffic through a vendor's cloud datacenter. Founded in 2021 by ex-Symantec and Forcepoint product leader Kunal Agarwal, its 'fly-direct' architecture inspects web traffic on-device, claiming faster performance, fewer outages, and better privacy than legacy cloud proxies. The company has expanded from its core dope.swg product into AI-powered data protection with CASB Neural and DOPAMINE DLP, backed by roughly $20M from GV (Google Ventures) and Boldstart Ventures.
Venn is a New York cybersecurity company that secures remote and hybrid work on personal, unmanaged, or contractor-owned computers. Its patented Blue Border technology installs a lightweight agent that creates a company-controlled Secure Enclave on any Windows or Mac machine - work apps run locally inside a literal blue border where data is encrypted and isolated from personal use, with no virtual desktop, no remote session, and no shipped laptop required.
Material Security is a San Francisco cloud workspace security company that protects email, files, and accounts inside Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. Founded in 2017 by three ex-Dropbox engineers, it assumes attackers will eventually get in - and locks down the sensitive data they came for, instead of stacking yet another perimeter.
Nightfall AI is a San Francisco-based data security company that uses AI-native detection to find and protect sensitive data across SaaS applications, AI tools, and endpoints. It pitches itself as the first DLP and insider risk platform purpose-built for the AI era.
Rohit Dixit is the Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at Proofpoint, the human-centric cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. With over 30 years of experience spanning SaaS, technology, and technology-enabled services, Dixit oversees Proofpoint's global customer success, professional services, managed services, and technical support teams. He joined Proofpoint in February 2024 from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he transformed a $1 billion advisory and professional services business into a record profit-generating unit. His career arc spans continents - from ESSEN Computers in India to oil fields in Kuwait, Egypt, and Turkmenistan with Halliburton, to strategy consulting at A.T. Kearney, to the C-suite of one of the world's leading cybersecurity firms.