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John Jack

Venture Partner at Shield Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview 

John Jack is a highly successful Startup Advisor and Board Member based in San Francisco, California, with a notable career as a Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and Principal at Castle Peak Group. His key achievements include serving on the Board of Directors for companies such as Illumio and Contrast Security, and investing in notable startups like ArmorCode and oak9.

Work Experience 

  • Board Partner

    2012 - Current

    Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm that provides seed, venture and growth-stage funding to the best new technology companies.

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

  • Principal

    2012

    Start-Up Consultant and Board Member to venture-backed companies.

  • CEO Partner

    2019

    Harmonic combines an established, successful investment team with proven, world class tech operators to invest in market leading growth companies and deliver unparalleled support and guidance toward their success.

Investing in market-leading growth companies and delivering unparalleled support and guidance toward their success

  • Venture Partner

    2022

    We invest in company founders building frontier technologies that matter

Shield Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in founders building frontier technologies.

  • Member, Board of Directors

    2013

    Traditional Security Doesn't Stop Lateral Threats. Illumio's Adaptive Segmentation Does

Illumio is a provider of a SaaS platform offering automated enforcement against cyberattacks.

Raised $557,500,000.00 from Thoma Bravo, Owl Rock Capital, BAM Elevate, Hamilton Lane and Franklin Templeton.

  • Member, Board of Directors

    2015

    Contrast Enterprise knows where apps are weak and can instantly deploy adaptive defenses to protect an organization's entire application portfolio. Contrast is the first application security product to integrate defenses across development and operations, unifying vulnerability assessment, security visibility and attack protection throughout the application lifecycle.

Contrast Security is a modernized application security, embedding code analysis, and attack prevention directly into the software.

Raised $269,000,000.00 from AXA Venture Partners, Acero Capital, Warburg Pincus, General Catalyst, Battery Ventures, Liberty Strategic Capital and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.

  • Member, Board of Directors

    2022

    The Extended Enterprise is full of hidden risks – Aravo for Third-Party Management makes them visible, measurable, and manageable.

Aravo Solutions provides on-demand, SaaS-based supplier information management (SIM) solutions and services for enterprises.

Raised $51,388,500.00 from Stephen Friedman, Big Sky Partners, Stephen Friedman and Big Sky Partners.

  • Member, Board of Directors

    2012 - 2021

    CipherCloud is committed to building trust in the cloud. Our revolutionary cloud encryption gateway technology is enabling organizations worldwide to enjoy the benefits of the cloud that otherwise wouldn't be able to due to concerns about data security, privacy, residency, and regulatory compliance. Acquired by Lookout March 2021

Lookout, Inc. is the endpoint to cloud security company purpose-built for the intersection of enterprise and personal data.

Raised $432,339,000.00 from BlackRock.

  • Member, Board of Directors

    2017 - 2020

    Respond acquired by Fireye November 2020.

Respond Software is a provider of automated cyber security threat protection.

Raised $32,000,000.00 from CRV, ClearSky and Foundation Capital.

  • Founder and Co-CEO

    2016 - 2019

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