Ballistic Ventures

Barmak Meftah: Ballistic Co-founder and General Partner | Global Business Leader in Cybersecurity | Former President of AT&T Cybersecurity | Top-Five MSSP

Gregory Crabb previously served as the CISO of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and is now a CISO-in-Residence at Ballistic Ventures.

Jake Seid: Ballistic Co-founder and General Partner | Operating and Investing Veteran | Founder of Stone Bridge Ventures | Successful Unicorn Investor | Former President of TenX/Auction | Key Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners | MIT Electrical Engineering Alumn

The company’s founders spent decades building cybersecurity companies. The company helps the next generation of founders realize sustained impact.

The venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to early-stage funding and incubation for entrepreneurs and innovations in cybersecurity.

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Reach Security raises over **$50 million** in Series B funding led by Top Tier Capital Partners to expand its AI-driven cybersecurity platform, **Reach Everywhere**. The company’s technology automates security control adjustments in real time, helping enterprises prioritize only actionable vulnerabilities while integrating with existing tools like ServiceNow and Jira. Customers, including Autodesk and Insurity, report **160+ hours saved weekly** and a **156% ROI** from streamlined exposure management. Reach’s deterministic AI validates controls continuously, addressing AI-fueled attack speeds—where adversaries now operate in as little as **27 seconds**—by ensuring defenses adapt without manual intervention.

Oct 2026 · FinTech GlobalNews article

Kevin Mandia’s startup Armadin raises $255.5 million in a Series B at a valuation above $2.5 billion. Andreessen Horowitz and Accel lead the financing, alongside Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint, 8VC, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Kleiner Perkins, and Menlo Ventures. Armadin’s platform runs always-on agentic swarms that chain vulnerabilities to test enterprise defenses, offering an alternative to traditional penetration tests. Its $190 million Series A in March brings total funding to more than $445 million.

Oct 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

Armadin raises $255.5 million in a Series B at a valuation above $2.5 billion to expand its AI-driven cybersecurity platform. Founded by Kevin Mandia, the company uses sandboxed AI-agent swarms to map organizations’ systems, scan for vulnerabilities, link weaknesses into attack paths, and recommend fixes; Andreessen Horowitz and Accel co-lead the round. In one customer assessment, 26,000 agents scan more than 25,000 assets and identify 38 verified attack paths, and the funding supports research, AI training, and go-to-market programs.

Oct 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article

WitnessAI provides enterprises with a platform that applies safeguards to employee use of custom generative AI models. Its modules enforce identity-based rules, redact sensitive information from prompts, and help protect models against prompt injection; each customer receives an isolated, encrypted instance. The company says 25 corporate users are in proof-of-concept and that its $27.5 million round from Ballistic Ventures and GV will support growth of its 18-person team.

May 2024 · TechCrunchNews article