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Clearly AI
Clearly AI is a Seattle-based, Y Combinator-backed startup that automates security and privacy reviews for regulated enterprises. Its AI-native platform gathers context, assesses risk, and flags where human review is actually needed - so security, privacy, and compliance teams can clear their review backlogs and ship products faster without sacrificing trust. Founded in 2024 by former Amazon security engineers Emily and Joe Choi-Greene, the company raised an $8.4M seed round in February 2026 and counts Fortune 500 brands like Ericsson, Rivian, and HID Global among its customers.
Marshall Jones
Marshall Jones is the CTO and Co-Founder of Very Good Security (VGS), a San Francisco-based fintech company that has become the world's leader in payment tokenization with over 5 billion tokens stored. He co-founded VGS in 2015 alongside Mahmoud Abdelkader after building PCI-compliant payment vaults at Balanced Payments (later acquired by Stripe). Under his technical leadership, VGS has raised over $104 million in funding from top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, and Vertex Ventures, serving Fortune 500 companies, merchants, fintechs, and banks globally.
Jack Naglieri
Jack Naglieri is the founder and CEO of Panther, a cloud-native SIEM platform that achieved unicorn status in 2021 with a $1.4B valuation. A former security engineer at Yahoo and Airbnb, he open-sourced StreamAlert in 2017 and parlayed that practitioner frustration into a $140M-funded company serving enterprises like Coinbase and Docker. He also writes Detection at Scale, a widely read Substack newsletter covering AI's transformation of security operations.