Cybersecurity Investment Playbook - Colossus
Episode 416: Cybersecurity Investment Playbook Invest Like The Best Episode 416 Hosted by Patrick O'Shaughnessy 03.25.2025 Gili Raanan is the founder of Cyberstarts, a VC firm focused on cybersecurity. We cover how AI is redefining the cybersecurity industry, the most important signal of a quality founder, and the best lessons from his early investment in Wiz. This episode is brought to you by: Ramp. Ramp's mission is to help companies manage their spend in a way that reduces expenses and frees up time for teams to work on more valuable projects. Ramp is the fastest-growing FinTech company in history, and it’s backed by more of my favorite past guests (at least 16 of them!) than probably any other company I’m aware of. Go to Ramp.com/invest to sign up for free and get a $250 welcome bonus. AlphaSense. AlphaSense has completely transformed the research process with cutting-edge AI technology and a vast collection of top-tier, reliable business c
Introduction Patrick My guest today is Gili Raanan. Gili is the founder of Cyberstarts, a VC firm focused on cybersecurity and the world's first VC that is majorly backed by cyber entrepreneurs. Cyberstarts' $50 million first fund exploded to close to $2 billion in just three years. Gili describes cybersecurity today as the perfect storm, where global conflicts and AI advancements are creating unprecedented threats. He talks about Cyberstarts' Sunrise methodology, which uniquely identifies customer pain points before building solutions. We discuss a focus on finding resilient talent, overcomin
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