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Jamie Walker Learned to Live by a Number - Then Helped Keyfactor Reach $100 Million
A college basketball player turned door-to-door salesperson brought an athlete's stamina and a seller's respect for the scoreboard to cybersecurity marketing. At Keyfactor, that education met a five-year run from roughly $15 million to more than $100 million in recurring revenue.
Bureau Raised $50.5 Million to Answer the Internet's Most Expensive Question: Who Can You Trust?
Point solutions can verify a document and still miss the fraud ring holding it. Bureau's bet is that the winning risk product is not another check, but the connective tissue between every check.
Anthony Anzalone Burned the Artwork. Now He Wants the Technology to Disappear.
A $95,000 Banksy went up in stubborn flames. Five years later, the founder behind the spectacle is still obsessed with proving what is real - only now the fire has given way to invisible infrastructure.
Morgan Hayduk Found the Music Business Had a Fraud Problem Hiding in Plain Hearing
He set out to reconcile royalty statements. The trail led to bots, click farms and stolen accounts - and a company built to make every legitimate play count.
Lorena Magee Makes Encryption Make Sense
The Echoworx chief marketing officer has spent years turning an invisible technology into a human proposition: trust should be easy to use, simple to explain and difficult to break.
Socure Built a $4.5 Billion Business Around One Awkward Question: Are You Really You?
Banks once treated identity as a checklist. Socure turned it into a living graph - and now more than 3,000 customers use that graph to decide who gets through the digital front door.
The Internet Runs on Invisible ID Cards. Keyfactor Wants to Manage Every One.
Certificates quietly decide which machines, workloads, devices, code, and AI agents can be trusted. Keyfactor has spent 25 years turning that hidden machinery into infrastructure security teams can actually see and control.
Neelam Sandhu
After learning transformation from inside BlackBerry, Neelam Sandhu arrived at Vonage with a practical thesis: translate complex technology into human outcomes, and make trust part of the product story.
Burnt
Burnt is a New York-based Web3 company and the core team behind XION, a Layer 1 blockchain built to make crypto invisible to everyday users. Founded by Anthony Anzalone - better known as the artist-provocateur 'Burnt Banksy' - the company uses 'generalized abstraction' to remove wallets, private keys and gas fees so that people can sign in with an email or a face scan and pay in USDC. Burnt has raised more than $36M from investors including Animoca Brands, Circle Ventures and Multicoin, and pitches XION as consumer-grade infrastructure for brands like Uber, BMW and others. In 2026 the XION network rebranded to Verona.
Neural Defend
Neural Defend is a New York and Delhi-based cybersecurity startup building multimodal deepfake detection for enterprises. Founded in 2024 by MIT- and Intel-affiliated researchers, its proprietary AI spots AI-generated faces, manipulated video, cloned voices, and forged documents in real time - delivered as developer-friendly APIs and SDKs, plus on-premises deployments for banks, fintechs, and government. The pitch: make catching a deepfake as easy as an API call.
Alex Dhillon
Alex Dhillon is the founder and CEO of Outtake, a New York-based cybersecurity company building autonomous AI agents that detect, investigate, and remove digital threats like impersonation, phishing, and brand abuse in hours rather than weeks. A UC Berkeley triple major who spent nearly five years at Palantir on its experimental product team reporting to the CEO and CTO, Dhillon left in 2023 to bet that security needed a reset built around agents instead of alerts. Outtake has raised over $56 million across its rounds, counts OpenAI, AppLovin, Pershing Square, and federal agencies among its customers, and is backed by Iconiq, CRV, and angels including Satya Nadella, Nikesh Arora, Bill Ackman, and Shyam Sankar.
Outtake
Outtake is an AI cybersecurity company that deploys autonomous agents to detect, investigate, and dismantle digital threats - impersonation, phishing, fake domains, cloned apps, malicious ads, and deepfakes - across the open web, social platforms, app stores, and the dark web. Founded in 2023 by ex-Palantir engineer Alex Dhillon, the New York company turns threat detection-to-takedown into a single automated workflow, averaging takedowns in about 14 hours, and protects brands including OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Anthropic.
Sift
Sift is the AI-powered digital trust and safety platform that helps businesses stop fraud without blocking good customers. Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, it analyzes more than a trillion events per year across a global data network covering 34,000+ sites and apps, scoring transactions, logins, and content in real time so companies like DoorDash, Twitter and Yelp can grow revenue while keeping bad actors out.
Marc Friend
Marc Friend is the CEO of Sift, the leading digital trust and fraud prevention platform serving 700+ global enterprises. A Silicon Valley veteran with 30+ years spanning venture capital (US Venture Partners, Summit Partners, Partech) and operational CFO/CEO roles at high-growth tech companies including PubNub, Sun Basket, and Rapid (sold to Nokia in 2024), Friend brings an unusually broad toolkit to the fraud-detection space. He also competes in Ironman triathlons and funded an annual full-tuition merit scholarship at MIT, his alma mater.