Jake Seid
General Partner at Ballistic Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and General Partner
2021 - Current
With over $700M in assets, Ballistic Ventures focuses on early stage cybersecurity and security-related venture investments. All partners bring deep operating experience as well as deep investing experience having funded over 100 cyber companies during our careers that created $50B in value. Because of our focus, every entrepreneur gets the support of all senior partners.
Ballistic Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to funding and incubating entrepreneurs and innovations in cybersecurity.
Investor
2020
Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Raised $534,000,000.00 from Menlo Ventures, Greylock, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, Wellington Management and Insight Partners.
Investor
2020
Veza is a data security platform that helps users use and share their data safely.
Raised $125,000,000.00 from The Syndicate Group.
Investor
2021
Drata is a compliance and security SaaS platform that automates the compliance workflows on a company's security controls.
Raised $328,240,856.00 from Jeff Weiner, SentinelOne, Jennifer Tejada, Notable Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Jonathan Rubinstein, Amit Agarwal, Olivier Pomel, ICONIQ Growth and Cowboy Ventures.
Investor
2021
Acquired by PANW Dec 2023. Largest venture-backed cyber acquisition of 2023.
Investor
2018
Netskope is an IT firm that specializes in real-time security, stopping threats, protecting data, and network management services.
Raised $1,441,100,000.00 from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Morgan Stanley, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and CPP Investments.
Investor
2018
Developer of Arbitrum (ARB), a L2 scaling protocol for ETH.
Offchain Labs develops a solution for scaling Ethereum smart contracts.
Raised $123,700,000.00 from Polychain, MCE Group, Mark Cuban, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ballistic Ventures, Alameda Research, Ribbit Capital, Redpoint and Pantera Capital.
Investor
2020
Cresta uses artificial intelligence to assist sales and service agents in the quality of customer service.
Raised $276,000,000.00 from Greylock, Workday Ventures, EnvisionX Capital, Sequoia Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, WiL (World Innovation Lab), Andreessen Horowitz, LG Technology Ventures, Tiger Global Management and Accenture.
Investor
2017
Brex Venture Debt is designed for early-stage, venture-backed technology companies.
Investor
2016
People.ai is an AI platform that provides workflow-based applications to transform business activities and increase sales productivity.
Raised $200,001,000.00 from Nimesh Kampani and Ballistic Ventures.