2 investors at Ballistic Ventures, based in San Francisco, CA with $360M under management.
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Founding Partner, Ballistic Ventures
Jake Seid is a Founding Partner at Ballistic Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on identifying and scaling transformative companies in high-growth sectors. With deep expertise spanning cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, and SaaS, Jake brings a strategic investment perspective to early and growth-stage ventures. His investment track record includes notable exits and successful scaling stories, including companies like Carta and Cresta, demonstrating his ability to identify market-leading opportunities. As a founding partner, Jake plays a key role in shaping the firm's investment thesis and portfolio strategy. He is an active participant in the venture capital community and shares insights regularly on industry trends through social channels, maintaining an engaged presence with founders and fellow investors.
Founding Partner, Ballistic Ventures
Kevin Mandia is a longtime operator-turned-investor who founded Mandiant from scratch, scaled it to 3,700+ employees through a $5.4B Google acquisition, and now applies 26 quarters of public-company CEO experience as a GP at Ballistic Ventures to help cyber founders avoid scaling mistakes. He brings an unusual combination of front-line technical work as a former USAF cyber investigator, Big Tech advisory experience at Google Cloud, and White House-level policy access as a 2023 presidential appointee to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, while actively co-founding offensive AI security tools like Armadin to stress-test the defenses his portfolio companies are building.
Ballistic Ventures's investment team consists of 2 professionals, headquartered in San Francisco, CA and managing $360M in assets. The team brings diverse backgrounds and specialized expertise to evaluate and support portfolio companies.
Across the team, Ballistic Ventures's investors cover expertise in Cybersecurity, AI, Enterprise, SaaS. This breadth of sector knowledge enables the firm to evaluate opportunities across multiple verticals and provide specialized post-investment support to founders.
Ballistic Ventures has 2 investors and partners on their team, based in San Francisco, CA. Each team member brings specialized expertise across different sectors and investment stages.
Ballistic Ventures's team consists of 2 investment professionals. View individual investor profiles above for detailed backgrounds, focus areas, and portfolio companies.
Ballistic Ventures manages approximately $360M in assets under management with a team of 2 investment professionals, headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
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