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The Cyber Fund That Wants Homework From Its Founders
Runtime Ventures raised $32 million to back cyber companies before the market has made up its mind. Its edge is less about prediction than participation: two former operators, an LP bench full of security veterans, and a standing invitation for founders to put them to work.
Jake Seid
Jake Seid is Co-Founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, a cybersecurity-only venture capital firm managing over $700M in assets. A MIT-trained engineer with the school's highest student honor, he helped commercialize broadband at Cisco, launched Lightspeed Venture Partners as a founding team member, ran the 800-person team at Auction.com through its $1.6B acquisition, then backed 12 unicorns solo at Stone Bridge Ventures before co-founding Ballistic to go all-in on securing the digital world.