Kabe Roashan
General Partner at Inflection Ventures
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and General Partner - Venture Investing and GTM Advisory
2022 - Current
Finding, funding and helping the next generation of company builders. Advising: https://www.oasis.security/ https://www.hackerone.com/ https://blackpointcyber.com/ https://www.aescape.com/ https://www.polar.security/ Investing: https://groq.com/ https://abnormalsecurity.com/ https://www.anduril.com/ https://www.shield.ai https://www.databricks.com/ https://www.spacex.com/ https://www.starlink.com/ https://www.palantir.com/ https://perplexity.ai/ https://www.cohesity.com/ https://www.fortanix.com/ https://mercury.co/
Global VP of Sales
2009 - 2022
20M -> 1B in annual recurring revenue (ARR) Growth over 11 years, 2012 IPO with $7B market cap, taken private by Thoma Bravo for $12.3 Billion. Proofpoint has grown to become one of the world's leading cloud security and compliance platform companies. The integrated suite of on-demand data protection solutions span advanced threat, threat response, social media security, regulatory compliance, data loss and theft prevention, governance and secure communications. Currently own the sales function globally for financial services, and archiving / digital risk. Other roles: - NY Metro Manager - Sr. Director of Strategic Accounts (Eastern US) - GVP Financial Services (Global finserv leadership) - VP Archiving and Digital Risk (Global ownership of archiving, e-discovery, supervision, & digital risk)
Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Raised $885,500,000.00 from KG Investments, Bridgescale Partners, Lighthouse Capital Partners, Benchmark, Meritech Capital Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Inventures Group, RRE Ventures, Icon Ventures and DAG Ventures.
Venture Partner
2020 - 2022
Investing in Seed to Series B SaaS/Cyber and Fintech/DeFi companies. Hustle Fund is widely regarded as one of the most founder friendly, and founder focused VCs in the valley.
AngelList PCN
2015 - 2022
AngelList Private Capital Network (PCN) - Exclusive network of the most active Angels on the world's top platform for high quality early stage deals.
AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.
Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.
Limited Partner
2013 - 2017
Seed, angel, and early stage / Series A investing in NYC's most promising Startups. Brooklyn Bridge Ventures wants to be part of the first $750,000 that goes into your company. BBV aims to help build up an innovation ecosystem in New York City as a participant, facilitator and a platform for others to connect and grow their ideas.
Angel Investor - Advisor
2012 - 2014
ThreatGRID's groundbreaking solution combined advanced malware analysis with deep threat analytics and content inspection to empower security teams to quickly recover from and proactively defend against attacks and malware outbreaks. ThreatGRID successfully exited to Cisco Systems in May of 2014.
Strategic Accounts (formerly ArcSight)
2008 - 2009
ArcSight was a world leader in security information and event management (SIEM). I was responsible for driving ArcSight's SIEM into an account list of strategic global customers and prospects. ArcSight went public in 2008, and was acquired by HP for 1.5 Billion dollars in Q4 2010.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud company that uses comprehensive solutions to accelerate business outcomes.
Raised $1,350,000,000.00.
Sales Manager (formerly Whale Communications)
2002 - 2008
SSL VPN combined endpoint detection, strong authentication, encryption, and application filtering to provide employees with browser based remote access to email and key business applications. Microsoft Acquired Whale in 2006. I was #1 Salesman in North America 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007. #2 in 2004
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Sales Manager
2001 - 2002
Biodata was a provider of PKI, PGP, encryption, firewalls, web filtering, and biometric authentication. I managed global accounts and grew northeastern territory by over 200%. This company flamed out. They can't all be winners!
Engineer (formerly DoubleClick)
1999 - 2001
Helped to deliver more revenue from our customers through strategy and hands on consulting work in what was the world's largest advertising infrastructure 'ASP'. DoubleClick was acquired by Google in 2007.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Education
BS
1993 - 1998