Tony Huie
Founder of Twingate
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
CEO/Cofounder
2019 - Current
Ditch your VPN. Twingate makes it easy to securely access networks, technical infrastructure, and SaaS apps for companies of all sizes. We've built a new security platform that rethinks security and access control from the ground up, bringing together network access, authentication, and device controls into a single, easy-to-use solution. We incubated Twingate with a killer team combining world-class technical + product/design talent and funded the company with a fantastic investor group including Wndrco, 8VC, BOND, Green Bay Ventures, SignalFire, and Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdwosi. Learn more: https://www.twingate.com/blog/twingate-series-a-announcement/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/28/twingate-series-a/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/04/14/twingate-series-b-400-million-taking-down-vpn/?sh=7322d835656b
Twingate provides businesses and their distributed workforces with modern, secure remote access to private resources.
Raised $59,000,000.00 from WndrCo, SignalFire, 8VC and Bond.
Partner/Boards
2016
SignalFire is a venture capital firm with $2 billion+ AUM built on a proprietary software platform along with a distributed network model of advisors from many of the leading Silicon Valley technology companies. We invest in technology companies from inception through the breakout/ growth stages and across a wide range of sectors. I'm fortunate to be able to partner with category-defining companies like Ro, Lyric, Grammarly, Twingate, and Pango. Previously led early & growth stage investments, and incubated Twingate in 2019 where I am currently CEO.
SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.
Investor & COO
2018 - 2020
Originally led SignalFire's investment in Pango and then served as COO. The internet is a crazy place, and we're building the security and privacy company for the modern world to protect consumers and businesses. Our products are used by millions of people around the world every day. Pango was backed by SignalFire, WndrCo, Accel, and 8VC and merged with Aura in 2020 to form the leading consumer security & privacy company.
Pango Group provides consumers identity protection and security services through a growing portfolio of industry-leading products.
Head of International & New Markets
2014 - 2016
70% of Dropbox users and half of revenue came from non-US markets. Managed and led Dropbox's international expansion to 10+ global offices * Created operating playbook for new market entry * Owned P&L, strategy, and hiring
Head of Business Operations
2011 - 2014
One of the first business hires for Dropbox. Over the years, helped create, lead, and scale various functions around the company to grow Dropbox from 50 to 1000+ employees, 40 to 400m+ users, <$50 million to $1 billion revenue. Built and led Dropbox's first teams across: * Partnerships/bizdev * Sales & Sales Ops * Marketing/growth * People/recruiting * Analytics * Operations/strategy
Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Raised $1,709,215,000.00 from JP Morgan Chase, RBC Capital, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Partners.
Associate
2008 - 2011
TCV is a $7.7 billion growth equity fund focused on growing, mid-market technology businesses. Focused on software, internet, healthcare, and business services investments.
TCV provides investment capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry.
Business Analyst | Consultant
2006 - 2008
Worked with a variety clients in the healthcare, semiconductor, software, telecommunications, retail, and private equity sectors. Engagements in US, Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, China), and Europe (UK and Italy).
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Product Marketing
2005 - 2005
Product marketing for flash memory manufacturer
Advanced Micro Devices is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Design Engineer
2004 - 2004
Advanced Technologies Development Laboratory in Osaka, Japan