Muriel Kay
Major Gifts Officer at The Shed
Muriel Kay
Major Gifts Officer at The Shed
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Major Gifts Officer
2023 - Current
The Shed is a new cultural institution of and for the 21st century, producing and welcoming innovative art and ideas, across all forms of creativity, to build a shared understanding of our rapidly changing world and a more equitable society.
Cybersecurity Moderator
2022 - 2023
Part of a network of 2,700+ women strong across 1,700+ venture firms and 160+ cities globally; our goal is to help more women investors around the world better find each other to connect, collaborate, and create a sense of community.
Partner
2022 - 2023
Senior Venture Associate
2021 - 2022
Cyber Mentor Fund is a mentorship fund focusing on early stage cyber security companies. We dedicate money, time, and mentorship to our portfolio companies. We invest in companies where we, and our network of mentors and advisors, can make the most impact.
Venture Associate
2018 - 2021
Cyber Mentor Fund is a venture fund focused on early-stage cybersecurity companies.
CMF Catapult Program Manager
2020 - 2022
Acquired by Devo Kognos is the industry’s first and only autonomous threat hunting and investigator platform that detects, investigates, and responds to attack campaigns. Founded on the principle that attacker behavior is indicative of attack methodology, attribution, and data for exfiltration, Kognos leverages the power of relationships, using security aware AI, to fundamentally reduce dwell time by tracing the attacker’s path in real-time. A Cyber Mentor Fund portfolio company.
Kognos is a cloud-based detection and investigation platform that detects, investigates, and responds to attack campaigns.
Raised $1,800,000.00 from Cyber Mentor Fund and Lucas Venture Group.
CMF Catapult Program Manager
2020 - 2020
Acquired by KnowBe4 The SecurityAdvisor security awareness and automation platform provides real time, contextual, and personalized education to end users to help them avoid cybersecurity errors. A Cyber Mentor Fund portfolio company.
SecurityAdvisor provides the only personalized security awareness platform that quantifiably reduces security incidents
Raised $7,300,000.00 from Cyber Mentor Fund, ClearSky, SixThirty and Crosslink Capital.
Congressional Intern
2017 - 2018
Site Supervisor
2015 - 2017
Worked as a site supervisor for Picnic in the Park, distributing lunches from the Santa Barbara Food Bank. Supported families with local resources to help diminish food insecurity in the Santa Barbara area.
Food Bank Santa Barbara County provides nourishment and food education to transform health by eliminating hunger.