Ballistic Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Ballistic Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Cyber Security and Network Security. Ballistic Ventures operates as a venture capital firm and offers the unparalleled benefit of an experienced, connected team that is focused on cybersecurity. They believe the essential step they can take today is to provide collective experience, network, and enthusiasm to the world's finest cybersecurity entrepreneurs.
- Total investments:
- 95
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Ballistic Ventures invests in
Stages Ballistic Ventures invests in
Countries Ballistic Ventures invests in
Contacts
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Julie Tsai
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Phil Venables
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Barmak Meftah
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David Hahn
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David Schellhase
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 28 (29%)
- Network Security 17 (18%)
- Software 16 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 14 (15%)
- Information Technology 13 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 22 (23%)
- Seed 17 (18%)
- Series B 15 (16%)
- Series C 8 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (8%)
Country
- United States 50 (53%)
- Israel 5 (5%)
- United Kingdom 2 (2%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Julie Tsai
CISO-in-Residence
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CISO-in-Residence | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Phil Venables
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
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Barmak Meftah
Co-Founder & General Partner
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Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
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David Hahn
CISO Operating Partner
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CISO Operating Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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David Schellhase
Entrepreneur in Residence
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Entrepreneur in Residence | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Oligo Security
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Oligo is the industry's leading runtime security platform that solves today's toughest challenge: stopping attacks in real time in the AI era. Oligo transforms security from passive visibility to active protection across applications, cloud services, workloads, AI applications, and AI agents. By uncovering the deepest layers of whatactually runs in production, Oligo empowers customers to prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities, detect malicious behavior as it happens, and stop modern attacks in their tracks. | $60M / Series C / Aug 04, 2026 | |
Magnitude
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Magnitude deploys an autonomous AI workforce of risk agents engineered to modernize third-party risk management for enterprises. The platform continuously assesses vendor vulnerabilities and governs external AI interactions across both direct partners and downstream Nth-party supply chain dependencies. By gathering evidence and automatingremediations according to specific enterprise rules, the system replaces static periodic compliance checks with a real-time defense mechanism against machine-scale supply chain attacks | $10M / Seed / Jun 16, 2026 | |
Above Security
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Above Security provides cybersecurity services focused on threat detection, risk management, and compliance support for organizations. Its offerings include managed security services, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and incident response to help identify and address security risks. The company also delivers security operationscenter capabilities that monitor and analyze network activity to detect potential threats. In addition, it supports governance, risk, and compliance programs by helping organizations align with regulatory requirements and security frameworks. Its services are designed to assist businesses in maintaining visibility over their systems and improving overall security posture. | $50M / Series A / Mar 23, 2026 | |
Native
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Native Security is a cloud security control plane for enterprises. It translates security outcomes into native cloud controls, simulates deployment impacts, and maintains alignment as environments change. The platform enforces security at the architectural level across multi-cloud setups. | $31M / Series A / Mar 17, 2026 | |
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Native
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Native Security is a cloud security control plane for enterprises. It translates security outcomes into native cloud controls, simulates deployment impacts, and maintains alignment as environments change. The platform enforces security at the architectural level across multi-cloud setups. | $31M / Series A / Mar 17, 2026 | |
UFORCE
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UFORCE is a defence technology business that specialises on combat-proven unmanned systems for air, ground, and marine operations. | $50M / Seed / Mar 05, 2026 | |
ArmorCode
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ArmorCode offers an AppSecOps platform that reduces application exposure and risk for customers. Its customers use the platform for AppSec Posture, Vulnerability and Compliance Management, and DevSecOps automation. ArmorCode AppSecOps platform is delivering a 10X AppSec Force Multiplier impact to several marquee enterprises. The company wasfounded in 2020 and is based in Palo Alto, California. | $16M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 03, 2026 | |
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ArmorCode
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ArmorCode offers an AppSecOps platform that reduces application exposure and risk for customers. Its customers use the platform for AppSec Posture, Vulnerability and Compliance Management, and DevSecOps automation. ArmorCode AppSecOps platform is delivering a 10X AppSec Force Multiplier impact to several marquee enterprises. The company wasfounded in 2020 and is based in Palo Alto, California. | $16M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 03, 2026 | |
WitnessAI
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WitnessAI is building the guardrails that make AI safe, productive, and usable. It allows enterprises to innovate and enjoy the power of generative AI, without losing control, privacy, or security. | $58M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 13, 2026 | |
Armadin Security
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Armadin Security is an AI-powered cybersecurity company that specializes in real-time threat hunting. | $165.2M / Series A / Jan 13, 2026 | |
| See all 95 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Ballistic Ventures invest in?
Ballistic Ventures invests primarily in Cyber Security, Network Security and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 95 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Ballistic Ventures?
The team at Ballistic Ventures includes Julie Tsai (CISO-in-Residence), Phil Venables (Partner) and Barmak Meftah (Co-Founder & General Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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