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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.
Zane Lackey
Zane Lackey is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) focused on enterprise infrastructure and security investments. A former hacker turned CISO turned founder, he co-founded Signal Sciences - which Fastly acquired for $775 million in 2020 - after serving as Director of Security Engineering at Etsy during its DevOps revolution. He brings rare operator credibility to security investing, having personally defended production systems at scale before writing checks.