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Joel De La Garza

Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Menlo Park, California

Overview 

Joel de la Garza is an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, with a background in information security, risk management, and IT strategy. He has held key roles at companies like Box and Citi, overseeing cyber intelligence, threat management, and security operations. De la Garza's career highlights include serving as the Box Security Officer and Director of Cyber Intelligence and Threat Management at Citi, demonstrating expertise in security operations and risk management. Currently, as an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he focuses on investing in early-stage companies in the security sector in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Advisor

    2024 - Current

Socket is a developer-first security platform that protects your most critical apps from software supply chain attacks.

Raised $64,600,000.00 from Phil Venables, Abstract, Bret Taylor, Jeff Lawson, Scott Johnston, Ann Mather, Elad Gil, Christina Cacioppo, Andreessen Horowitz and Jerry Chih Yuan Yang.

  • Advisor

    2022

Truffle Security is an open source cybersecurity company that offers solutions for finding and remediating leaked software credentials.

Raised $15,000,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Travis McPeak and Abstract.

  • Advisor

    2020

Lumos is a tech company that develops unified access platforms for IT and security teams to manage app and data access.

Raised $65,000,000.00 from Scale Venture Partners, Neo, Andreessen Horowitz and Harpoon.

  • Advisor

    2020

Founded by the creators of slackhq/nebula, Defined Networking provides performant, simple, and secure mesh VPN software.

  • Board Observer

    2020

Eclypsium offers a platform for supply chain security for IT infrastructure.

Raised $84,049,983.00 from J-Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures, Intel Capital, Alumni Ventures, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Green D Ventures, Madrona, Global Brain Corporation, AV8 Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Board Observer

    2019

  • Investment Partner

    2018

Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.

  • Board Member

    2019 - 2021

  • Box Security Officer

    2013 - 2018

    Chief Security Officer

Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls.

Raised $1,458,950,000.00 from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

  • Director of Cyber Intelligence and Threat Management

    2006 - 2013

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.

Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

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