Ryan Benevides
Investor at WestCap
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2021 - Current
Team of 60+ operators helping founders scale from $10M to $500M+ in ARR. Lead investment activity in infrastructure software. Support various other capital markets initiatives given background at Blackstone Credit. Investments: Siepe, Dragos, Bishop Fox, Ledger Investing, Point, HUMAN Security Other portfolio company coverage: GoodLeap, Highnote
WestCap is a strategic operating and investing firm that focuses on tech-enabled, asset-light marketplaces.
Board Member
2024
Better data for private credit/CLO managers.
Siepe is a cloud-managed services and data analytics platform that specializes in portfolio and data management for asset managers.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from WestCap.
Investor
2023
Safegaurding Civilization.
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.
Investor
2022
Offensive Security.
Bishop Fox delivers offensive security solutions to protect dynamic attack surfaces.
Raised $146,000,000.00 from Rockpool Capital, WestCap, NextEquity Partners and Carrick Capital Partners.
Investor
2022
Building an open insurance system to connect insurance risk to capital markets. Actively helping to attract ILS investors (credit funds, pensions, insurance companies) to the platform.
Ledger Investing is an online marketplace powering interactions between investors and insurance carriers.
Raised $440,759,000.00 from WestCap, MassMutual Ventures, Allegis Capital, Teachers’ Venture Growth, Page One Ventures, SignalFire, Accel and Intact Ventures.
Investor & Board Observer
2022
Democratizing access to home equity.
Point is a home equity platform that allows homeowners to convert a portion of their home equity into cash without taking on a loan.
Raised $290,100,000.00 from Atalaya Capital.
Investor & Board Observer
2022
Bot hunting.
HUMAN is a cybersecurity company that protects the internet and enterprises from fraud and sophisticated bot attacks.
Raised $200,593,068.00 from NightDragon, Vertex Ventures US, WestCap, ClearSky, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Sigma Software Labs, WestCap, NightDragon, NightDragon and Grit Capital Partners.
Vice President
2017 - 2021
Blackstone Credit - Special Situations / Mezzanine / Distressed Investing
Provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans; pooled investment vehicles; institutional investors.
Board Observer
2019 - 2021
One Call is a provider of healthcare solutions for the workers' compensation industry.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Norwest Mezzanine Partners.
Board Observer
2018 - 2021
Sorenson Communications is a trusted services, which include Sorenson Video Relay Service, the highest-quality video interpreting service.