Michael Coates | Cybersecurity Executive, Founder & Investor 

Investing Focus

Cybersecurity Advantage

I invest in bold companies innovating in cybersecurity and secure critical enterprise software such as artificial intelligence, cloud, data science, software development lifecycle and CI/CD.

Partnering Early - Ideation <> Seed

As a former CISO, security operator, founder and investor I can provide unique perspective on product direction, selling and GTM, building and operating your company and fundraising. I work with founders as early as possible - ping me even if it’s just you and an idea

Background

  • First Chief Information Security Officer, Twitter

  • Head of Security, Mozilla

  • Co-founder & CEO, Altitude Networks

  • Chairman of the Board, OWASP

  • Early employee Shape Security

  • Investor to numerous pre-seed & seed stage venture backed startups

  • Advisor to late stage companies pre-ipo

Contact Me

Portfolio

Cider Security

Acquired by Palo Alto Networks

Provides security teams with a single, consistent method to orchestrate and implement end-to-end CI/CD security.

 

Project Discovery

Monitor your infrastructure. Real vulnerabilities. Zero noise.

Trusted by 100k+ security professionals to streamline vulnerabilities that can actually be exploited.

Spirl

Untangle the production identity mess with SPIRL. SSO for your workloads in minutes, no matter where they run. Fully compatible with existing IdPs, OAuth and mTLS.

Resourcely

Configuration platform for cloud resources: deploy and govern infrastructure without slowing down developers.

Lucidum

Lucidum’s cutting-edge technology transforms overwhelming data chaos into clear, actionable intelligence by seamlessly extracting, categorizing, and enriching data from over 500+ connectors. This process ensures that all data is unified, consistent, and ready to drive informed, strategic decisions.

Mammoth Cyber

Mammoth Cyber's Enterprise Access Browser secures remote access by combining browser isolation, identity, and authorization.

Night Vision

NightVision is a Web and API Security Testing Platform that saves time and generates a tangible increase in ROI.

Fletch

Prioritize cyber alerts with threat forecasting

Help your security and IT teams eliminate never-ending busy work. Instantly prioritize the most timely threats to your business and know what to do about each one.

Noma Security

Secure Your Entire Data & AI Lifecycle

Application security for the Data & AI Lifecycle from development to production.

Kenzo Security

Seamlessly scale your security operations

Augment and transform your legacy SIEM and security stack into a next generation AI native security operations platform

Klarytee

Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes.