Wrapping up an exciting week for NightDragon at Black Hat 2024! Nothing beats time together with the team, portfolio, and partners. NightDragon loves being part of this incredible cybersecurity community, and we look forward to doing it again!
NightDragon
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Francisco, California 11,770 followers
Investing in growth and late-stage companies within the cybersecurity, safety, security, and privacy industry
About us
NightDragon is an investment and advisory firm focused on investing in growth and late-stage companies within the cybersecurity, safety, security, and privacy industry. NightDragon is unique in providing deep operational expertise in cybersecurity gained by its founders Dave DeWalt and Ken Gonzalez from years serving as senior executives leading technology companies such as Documentum, EMC, Siebel Systems (Oracle), McAfee, Mandiant, Avast, and FireEye.
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https://nightdragon.com/
External link for NightDragon
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2018
Locations
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101 2nd St
San Francisco, California 94105, US
Employees at NightDragon
Updates
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Join us for our next Voices of Innovation event on August 7 at 12:30 PM ET, featuring NightDragon Founder and CEO Dave DeWalt and former CISA Chief of Staff and President, Wondros Kiersten E. Todt. The two will discuss growing software supply chain risk, which is rapidly rising in both scale and complexity. Additionally, they will speak to how AI can be a powerful tool to help mitigate these threats. Register at the link below:
Voices of Innovation: The AI Revolution in Supply Chain Cyber Defense
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Join NightDragon on Wednesday for the second event in our new Voices of Innovation Series, in partnership with Interos Inc! This event will feature a conversation between NightDragon CEO Dave DeWalt and former CISA Chief of Staff and Wondros President Kiersten E. Todt to discuss AI's impact on supply chain resilience. Register below to attend:
Join us for our next Voices of Innovation event on August 7 at 12:30 PM ET, featuring NightDragon Founder and CEO Dave DeWalt and former CISA Chief of Staff and President, Wondros Kiersten E. Todt. The two will discuss growing software supply chain risk, which is rapidly rising in both scale and complexity. Additionally, they will speak to how AI can be a powerful tool to help mitigate these threats. Register at the link below:
Voices of Innovation: The AI Revolution in Supply Chain Cyber Defense
www.linkedin.com
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Attending Black Hat next week? Join nonprofit Vision and Voice, a community working to improve leadership skills for women in cybersecurity, on August 7 from 9-11 AM for breakfast and a Glow-Up Vendors FAIR with amazing items to score while networking. The event will also feature a panel discussing the research, data, and art of improving your leadership skills as a woman in cybersecurity. Featured speakers include: ✨ Barbara Massa, Partner and Chief Operating Officer, NightDragon ✨ Brooke M., CEO and Co-founder, RAD Security ✨ Lisa Einstein, Chief AI Officer, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ✨Joanna McDaniel Burkey, Board Member and Advisor, former CISO HP and Siemens NightDragon is proud to co-sponsor this event alongside Forgepoint Capital, Uptycs, Elisity, Keyfactor, and fama PR. Email network@nightdragon.com to register.
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NightDragon is proud to welcome Omar Mir to the NightDragon Advisory Council and spotlight him as today’s NightFeature Advisor! Omar is a renowned expert in innovation and start-up incubation with deep subject matter expertise in the Middle East and Africa. His incredible experience has led him to act as a trusted and essential advisor across many different industries and continents, with a strong focus on nurturing the most critical technologies impacting the largest companies and governments around the world. As the International Board Member of World Wide Technology, Omar is pushing the envelope of innovation for USA-centric technology and additionally serves on various AI and Tech-centric boards across the US, Europe, and Middle East. Omar believes strongly in the power of networks and relationships and sees an immense opportunity for companies in the US to support cybersecurity, AI, data center infrastructure, environmental protection and more. He looks forward to driving NightDragon’s ecosystem of partners toward work with the GCC and United Kingdoms and alsosupporting US government interests in the Middle East and Africa. Keep an eye out for future NightFeature posts to meet more members of our NightDragon Advisor Council. To see a list of all members, please visit our website: https://lnkd.in/eSmJbun8 Amy De Salvatore Dave DeWalt Hannah Huffman
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Join us at #BlackHat2024 for an invite-only CISO breakfast on August 7th at Carama (formerly Lupo), within the Mandalay Bay hotel. You'll hear how AI models, combined with public data, can help organizations advance their third-party risk identification and continuous monitoring. This discussion will feature esteemed experts on the topic, including: 🌟 Brian Gumbel, President & COO, Dataminr 🌟 Dave DeWalt, CEO, NightDragon 🌟 Clark Smith, CISO Head of Engineering & Architecture, Citi Email network@nightdragon.com to save your seat. We hope to see you there!
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Check out the latest episode of the Aspiron Search podcast, CyberBytes, for a conversation with Joseph Cooper and NightDragon Partner, Amy De Salvatore! Tune in to learn more about her career journey and how she built one of NightDragon's key differentiators: the NightScale platform. Visit the link below for the full episode! https://lnkd.in/gZcU8YEt
EP108: Navigating NightDragon and Market Waves with Amy De Salvatore
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NightDragon is proud to announce our newest strategic partnership with Comcast Technology Solutions to accelerate access to new technology with a focus on data, security, AI, and critical infrastructure protection. As part of the new partnership, NightDragon will work closely with the teams from Comcast Technology Solutions, Comcast Ventures, and #DataBee to help advance innovative cybersecurity technologies through increased go-to-market support and opportunities and access to expanded combined networks of industry leaders. Read more about the announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eEkd8uKj Amy De Salvatore Joe Bubniak Nicole Bucala Noopur Davis Ken Klaer Andreas Ohrbeck Amy Heng Marc Silberman
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Yesterday, NightDragon announced our newest addition to the portfolio: Rhombus. NightDragon CEO Dave DeWalt sat down with CEO Garrett Larsson to talk about the new $45 million financing round and how it will help the company tap into the evolving and growing market for physical security. Read about the full announcement on our blog and in the press release: https://lnkd.in/e64DTwfY
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Why does NightDragon feel so passionate about Rhombus and the market opportunity ahead for the company? Read insights from NightDragon Managing Director Morgan Kyauk and Rhombus CEO Garrett Larsson from their interview with Mark Anderson in the Sacramento Business Journal: https://lnkd.in/e6ijFEid