Deepak Jeevankumar
Investor in BastionZero, Cequence, Dassana, Descope, Distyl.AI, Endor, Halcyon, Humio, JASK, Lightspin, Minio, OpenObserve, RedLock, Remediant, RiskRecon, Tetrate, Yugabyte.
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2017 - Current
Dell Technologies Capital is the investment arm for Dell Technologies. We are early investors in over 100 companies including category leaders such as Arista Networks, Cylance, Docusign, Graphcore, JFrog, MongoDB, Redislabs, RedLock, RiskRecon, Twistlock, Wavefront and Zscaler. www.delltechcapital.com I serve as a board director on Cequence, Dassana, Tetrate and Yugabyte. I formerly served as a board director on BastionZero (acquired by CloudFlare), Humio (acquired by CrowdStrike), RedLock (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), RiskRecon (acquired by Mastercard), JASK (acquired by Sumologic) Remediant (acquired by Netwrix), LastLine (board observer, acquired by VMware), Risklens (board observer, acquired by SAFE Security), Lightspin (board observer, acquired by Cisco).
Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Founding Investor
2023
Distyl AI develops a generative artificial intelligence platform to increase AI readiness and develop comprehensive AI-based solutions.
Raised $27,000,000.00 from Coatue, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital and Nat Friedman.
Board of Directors
2019
Cequence is an API security and bot management company that protects customers’ applications against attacks, targeted abuse, and fraud.
Raised $101,500,000.00 from Hewlett Packard Pathfinder and Prosperity7 Ventures.
Board of Directors (Series A) / Founding Investor
2019
Started by key contributors of Istio and Envoy, Tetrate aims to being enterprise grade service mesh to the Fortune 500
Tetrate provides enterprise-ready service mesh for all workloads and all environments.
Raised $52,500,000.00 from 8VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Samsung NEXT, NTT Venture Capital and Intel Capital.
Board of Directors (Series A)
2018
Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Raised $291,000,000.00 from Dell Technologies Capital, Alkeon Capital, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, 8VC, Sapphire Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Wipro Ventures.
Founding Investor (Seed, Series A)
2014
MinIO offers high-performance, S3 compatible object storage for multi-cloud architectures. Software-defined, cloud-native + 100% opensource.
Raised $126,300,000.00 from General Catalyst, Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Board of Directors (Seed)
2022 - 2024
Acquired by CloudFlare
BastionZero is developing technology to allow traders to maintain custody of their coins while trading at a cryptocurrency exchange
Raised $7,500,000.00 from Akamai Technologies, Dell Technologies Capital, DG Daiwa Ventures, Underscore VC, Underscore VC, Highland Capital Partners and Notation Capital.
Board of Directors, Observer (Series A)
2017 - 2023
Acquired by SAFE Security
RiskLens empowers risk officers and CISOs to manage their cyber risk from a business perspective by quantifying it in financial terms
Raised $26,800,000.00 from Osage Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, MassMutual Ventures, Paladin Capital Group and F-Prime Capital.
Investor
2022 - 2023
Acquired by Cisco
Board of Directors (Series A)
2019 - 2022
Just in Time Access for Privileged Access Management (PAM). Acquired by Netwrix
Remediant provides enterprises with Privileged Access Management (PAM) software to help them protect their accounts from misuse and abuse.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Dell Technologies Capital and Forgepoint Capital.