Ivan Novikov is the founder and CEO of Wallarm, an AI-powered API security platform that has raised over $70 million in funding including a $55M Series C in 2025. With 24+ years in cybersecurity, he is recognized as the inventor of memcached injection attacks and a pioneer of SSRF research, having earned bug bounty awards from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tesla, and Yandex. A Y Combinator S16 alumnus with a physics background from Moscow State University, Novikov transformed hands-on offensive security expertise into a company protecting APIs for enterprises worldwide.
Wallarm is a San Francisco-based API and application security company protecting more than half of public-facing APIs at large enterprises with a unified platform for API discovery, attack prevention, and AI-era threat protection.
Jonathan DiVincenzo is the CEO and Co-Founder of Impart Security, a San Francisco-based AI-native runtime protection platform for applications, APIs, and LLM workloads. A veteran of Signal Sciences - where he served as VP of Product through the company's $825M acquisition by Fastly - DiVincenzo founded Impart in 2021 alongside Marc Harrison and Brian Joe to tackle what they saw as the broken 'last mile' of application security. His platform has deployed over 2,400 security rules across enterprise customers, cutting deployment time from 18 days to 45 minutes. In June 2025, Impart raised a $12M Series A led by Madrona Ventures.
Gili Raanan is an Israeli cybersecurity pioneer turned venture capitalist who invented CAPTCHA, co-created the world's first Web Application Firewall, and then built Cyberstarts — a seed-only VC that turned $54M into over $1B and backed Wiz, the $32B cloud-security juggernaut acquired by Google in 2025. A decade in IDF Unit 8200, two successful exits, nine years as a Sequoia Capital Israel GP, and $1.4B+ in capital raised makes him arguably the most influential figure in the Israeli cyber startup ecosystem.