Robert R. Ackerman Jr.
Managing Director at AllegisCyber Capital
Fulton, Maryland
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Director
1996 - Current
Early-Stage Venture Capital firm focused on cutting-edge Cyber Security and Data Sciences innovation. With a 20 year history of cyber security investing, Allegis was the first dedicated cyber security venture firm in the world and raised the industry's first dedicated cyber security fund.
AllegisCyber invests in early stage companies developing technology and software to serve emerging markets.
Co-Founder & Member of the Board of Directors
2016
DataTribe is a start-up "co-creation" foundry based in Columbia, Maryland. DataTribe teams with technologists to leverage research and development from US National Laboratories and other sources of cutting edge innovation to build disruptive start-ups in the domains of Data, Analytics and Cyber Security.
DataTribe Opportunities Fund is a investment firm.
Chairman
2018
The Global Cyber Innovation Summit (described as the "Davos of Cybersecurity") is an "invitation-only" gathering of Chief Information Security Officers, industry, policy and government leaders, leading technology innovators and industry investors. The Summit takes place each year in Baltimore, Maryland, ground zero for the largest cyber security community in the world.
Official Member of Forbes Finance Council
2022
Executive Chairman
2015
FEP is a venture secondary firm that provides structured and flexible liquidity solutions for founders, employees, and early investors.
Member Board of Directors
2023
SixMap is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of network security, software, and cybersecurity.
Raised $11,758,729.00 from California Innovation Fund.
Member Board Of Directors
2017
Dragos Inc. is the trusted authority on threats to industrial networks (ICS/IoT). The Dragos Platform is an on-premise or cloud-based security technology that continually and passively collects data to perform asset identification, detects cyber threats through industrial specific behavioral analytics, and enables better efficiency and effectiveness of security personnel through the codification of automated workflows, best practices and incident response procedures. The Dragos Platform is continually enhanced through the Dragos Threat Operations Center, a team of experts providing services that include incident response, threat hunting, and compromise assessments. Both are backed by Dragos Intelligence, which allows for the analysis of adversary intrusions and provides the industry with weekly threat intelligence reports and adds new behavioral analytics to the Dragos Platform
Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company that detects and responds to threats in industrial control systems.
Raised $438,200,000.00 from WestCap, Global Reserve Group, Empede Capital, National Grid Partners (NGP), Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, BlackRock, Emerson, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Koch Disruptive Technologies and DataTribe.
Member Board Of Directors
2021
Panaseer has been pioneering a totally new category of cybersecurity technology – Continuous Controls Monitoring. In 2020, years of our hard work have been validated as Gartner recognized CCM as a new category in risk management. Panseer's goal is to give enterprise security teams and their stakeholders the insights they need to make risk-informed decisions that will keep their organization and its data secure.
Member Board Of Directors
2017
Pioneer in Homomorphic Encryption and leader in securing Data in Use.
Enveil is a privacy enhancing technology company that specializes in secure data usage, collaboration, and monetization services.
Raised $40,000,000.00 from Mastercard, C5 Capital, DataTribe, IQT, Cyber Mentor Fund, USAA, GC&H Investments, Capital One Ventures, 1843 Capital and Bloomberg Beta.
Investor
2017
Callsign’s Intelligence Driven Authentication (IDA) consists of passive (intelligence) aspect as well as active (authentication challenge from finger to face) components. It is being deployed by a range of different organizations from tier 1 banks to governments.