# Andy Chou

> Andy Chou is a seed investor at Cyberhaven (San Francisco) backing Software and Cyber Security. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cyberhaven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyberhaven)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jul 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acchou/

Andy Chou is a seed investor at Cyberhaven in San Francisco focused on Software and Cyber Security. Founder of Coverity, angel investor, startup advisor.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$4.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 40% |
| Cyber Security | 3 | 30% |
| Cloud Security | 2 | 20% |
| Developer Tools | 2 | 20% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 20% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RAPIDFORT | RapidFort provides software supply chain security solutions focused on identifying, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities in containerized applications without requiring code changes. The company’s platform combines curated near-zero CVE container images, automated scanning, profiling, and runtime protection tools to manage software attacksurfaces and support compliance workflows. RapidFort’s technology generates software bills of materials and runtime insights to help teams reduce exposure to vulnerabilities across the development lifecycle and integrate security into existing CI/CD processes. The platform is designed to assist engineering and security teams in streamlining vulnerability management and optimizing container security at scale. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 31, 2021 |  |
| Moderne | The growth in code volume, variety and velocity make code automation essential. Software is composed of more third-party components than ever, and the pace of change continues to accelerate. This has made software maintenance harder but also more repeatable and amenable to automation. Keep up-to-date with API changes, fix vulnerabilities, andimprove code quality. Moderne automates these changes on codebases of hundreds of millions of lines of code in seconds. | $4.7M | Seed | Jun 21, 2021 |  |
| Moderne | The growth in code volume, variety and velocity make code automation essential. Software is composed of more third-party components than ever, and the pace of change continues to accelerate. This has made software maintenance harder but also more repeatable and amenable to automation. Keep up-to-date with API changes, fix vulnerabilities, andimprove code quality. Moderne automates these changes on codebases of hundreds of millions of lines of code in seconds. | $4.7M |  | Jun 21, 2021 |  |
| Dasera | Dasera is a Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform that automates security and governance controls across structured and unstructured data in your cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. It empowers organizations to manage risk across their entire data lifecycle, from creation to deletion, ensuring compliance with evolving data privacyregulations. | $6M | Seed | Apr 21, 2021 |  |
| Loom | Loom is a work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos. The company's tool helps users to capture, record, and narrate a video that can be instantly shared with a link without switching applications or uploading content. | $3.2M | Seed | May 22, 2017 |  |
| Loom | Loom is a work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos. The company's tool helps users to capture, record, and narrate a video that can be instantly shared with a link without switching applications or uploading content. | $600K | Seed | Oct 07, 2016 |  |
| DeepScale | DeepScale is a technology company that develops perceptual systems for semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles. It help automakers use industry-standard low-wattage processors to power more accurate perception. Alongside sensors, mapping, planning and control systems, perception, (sometimes referenced as “computer vision”) enables vehicles to makesense of what’s going on around them in real time. | $500K | Angel | Oct 01, 2016 |  |
| LaunchDarkly | LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers. With the ability to gradually release new software features to any segment of users on any platform, DevOpsteams can standardize safe releases at scale, accelerate their journey to the cloud and collaborate more effectively with business teams. Today, LaunchDarkly deploys peaks of 20 trillion feature flags each day, and that number continues to grow. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year list, and the Enterprise Tech 30 list. | $2.6M | Seed | Jun 04, 2015 |  |
| Graphistry | Graphistry is a visual investigation platform. It helps your team investigate more quickly, easily, and reliably. The platform achieves this by introducing a powerful suite of capabilities: graph reasoning, GPU-accelerated visual analytics, visual pivoting, and rich investigation templating. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2015 |  |
| Bright Funds | Bright Funds is the next generation platform for individual and workplace giving, empowering everyday donors to become strategic philanthropists. Bright Funds supports thousands of individuals in their personal giving, and partners with the world's leading companies to bring impact-focused workplace giving to employees on a global scale.Bright Funds helps companies realize the true potential of a comprehensive corporate social responsibility strategy that takes into account the demands and expectations of a new generation of donors. | $850K | Convertible Note | Jul 17, 2014 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mango Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mango-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [overtime.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/overtime-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [True Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1517 Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1517-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cyberhaven

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Cyberhaven is the data security company revolutionizing how companies protect their important information from theft and misuse.Security products only recognized and protected a limited range of data types because they relied on finding patterns in the content itself. Data tracing technology analyzes billions of events surrounding every piece ofdata to better understand and classify it, allowing for the protection of a broader range of sensitive data in any form, anywhere it goes.

5 contacts available at Cyberhaven.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron Spiegel | Head of Cloud Infrastructure & Ops | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-spiegel |
| Aman Sirohi | Chief Information Security Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aman-sirohi-7912 |
| Andy Chou | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-chou |
| Christopher Lynch | Founding Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-lynch |
| Cristian Zamfir | Co-founder ,GM EMEA & CISO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristian-zamfir |

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## FAQ

### What does Andy Chou invest in?

Andy Chou invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Cloud Security startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Andy Chou's check size?

Andy Chou typically joins rounds of $600k–$4.7M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Andy Chou participates in.

### When did Andy Chou last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andy Chou closed in Jul 2021. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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