William Lin
Creator at The Investor Field Guide
William Lin
Creator at The Investor Field Guide
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder, CEO
2023 - Current
Taking a love of building to the next level and putting all of my eggs in one basket: an IAM startup. We're manifesting the combination: amazing team, delightful solution, scalable company.
Co-Creator
2018
The Security Tinkerers is a community of professionals to educate, mentor, and generate opportunities for both todays and the next generation of leaders.
Creator
2022
I wrote a book about Venture Capital after 20,000 hours of experience and learning from hundreds of people that I admire within the ecosystem.
Venture Partner
2022 - 2023
A year of fun between supporting startups, writing about startups and preparing for my next startup!
Founding Team, Managing Director
2015 - 2023
Started Forgepoint Capital with my co-founders in 2015 to create one of the most active venture capital firms in Cybersecurity.
Series B Investor
2021 - 2023
Problem: Legacy IT Data Security solutions don't scale, are difficult to deploy and manage. Solution: Modern architecture with automated data discovery, classification and lineage. Category: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) & Data Detection & Response (DDR)
Series A Investor
2020 - 2023
Problem: Not enough visibility, consistency and scalable guardrails in cloud environments. Solution: Translate security policies and best practices into code, integrate into development pipelines and enable remediation with visibility. Closest Category: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Series A Investor
2020 - 2023
Problem: Managing end-user entitlements with least privilege principles is unmanageable at scale. Solution: Mix of expertise, automation and services to provide actionable remediation, mature IAM hygiene and minimize credential misuse's blast radius. Closest Category: Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)
Founding Investor, Board Advisor
2019 - 2023
Problem: Unmanageable data stores in a global and cloud world. Solution: Data classification via ML, graph analysis, access control and response capabilities. Category: Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Cloud Security & Database Activity Monitoring
Visiting Fellow
2018 - 2023
Series A Investor
2018 - 2023
Problem: Providing customers a consistent and delightful login across multiple applications. Solution: Leverage pre-built integrations and tokenized credentials to provide an customer identity service to developers. Category: Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)