# Barry Bycoff

> Barry Bycoff is a Series B investor at Duke University backing Security. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Duke University](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duke-university)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2008
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-bycoff-59641b42

Barry Bycoff is a Series B investor at Duke University focused on Security and Analytics. Barry Bycoff has over 25 years of experience in the computer and software industry. He is currently a director of Progress Software (NASDQ: PRGS). He also serves as chairman of the Board of Directors of Day Software (Swiss: DAYN), a leading developer of web content management products and as chairman of Aveksa Inc, a software company providingindustry leading access governance solutions. He also serves on the Board of Visitors at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering.Prior to Progress, he spent two years at FirstMark Ventures (formerly Pequot) as a Venture Partner assisting with the development of investment strategies. He made two investments in his short tenure; one in StubHub, an online events ticket marketplace (sold to eBay for $310 million) and the other in Aveksa.In 1996, Bycoff founded Netegrity and created a new product category for enterprise security software. The company received the "Product of the Year" award from Network World Magazine. At the same time, as Chairman, CEO and President, he engineered the transformation of Netegrity's predecessor company into a leading developer of enterprise software. Bycoff had directed the company's growth from publicly held start up to one of the fastest growing software companies in the industry with a dominant market share and revenues of $100 million when the company was acquired by Computer Associates for approximately $450 million at the end of November 2004.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Security | 1 | 100% |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Risk Management | 1 | 100% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aveksa | Aveksa, Inc. provides enterprise access governance solutions. The company's solutions enable organizations to respond to security and regulatory demands by automating access certification, role management, entitlement administration, controls automation, and risk analytics. It offers Compliance Manager that provides policy-based governancethrough automated monitoring, review, and remediation of user entitlements and roles; and Role Manager that provides roles-based governance through roles discovery, modeling, and lifecycle management. The company also offers implementation and support services, such as application inventory, requirements definition, and planning; server installation and setup; application collector deployment; user certification and reporting; and project completion. It serves financial services, health care, manufacturing, and retail organizations. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. | $12M | Series B | Jan 23, 2008 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FirstMark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmark-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FTVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ftventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Duke University

VC Fund · Durham, United States

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its NorthCarolina campus and around the world.

5 contacts available at Duke University.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adrian Bejan | J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor | — |
| Barry Bycoff | Member of the Board of Visitors, Pratt School of Engineering | — |
| Dan Ariely | Senior Fellow | — |
| Greg Crawford | Professor | — |
| Janet Hill | Trustee | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Barry Bycoff invest in?

Barry Bycoff invests primarily in Security, Analytics and Risk Management startups, most often at Series B stage. Most of the 1 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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### When did Barry Bycoff last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Barry Bycoff closed in Jan 2008. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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