Bogomil Balkansky
Partner @ Sequoia Capital
San Francisco, United States
Bogomil Balkansky is a seed investor at Sequoia Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Bogomil Balkansky is based out of San Francisco, California and is a Partner of Sequoia Capital. Bogomil previously worked at VMware as a Senior Vice President. Bogomil Balkansky attended Cornell University.
- Total investments:
- 71
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 39%
Last updated:
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Industries Bogomil Balkansky invests in
Stages Bogomil Balkansky invests in
Countries Bogomil Balkansky invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$7M
- Series A
- $15M–$60M
- Series B
- $30M–$120M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 20 (28%)
- Artificial Intelligence 13 (18%)
- Enterprise Software 11 (15%)
- SaaS 9 (13%)
- Information Technology 9 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 25 (35%)
- Series A 18 (25%)
- Series B 7 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (6%)
- Series C 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 32 (45%)
- Israel 4 (6%)
- Bulgaria 2 (3%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
- Norway 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Temporal Technologies is a computer software company that enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives. It specializes in the fields of information technology, software development, and computer software. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $550M / Series E / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Cymphony provides a cybersecurity platform that connects workforce identity, access, behavior, data, and business context. Its platform supports insider risk posture, user behavior analytics, file risk management, collaboration risk management, identity risk management, and oversight of contractors and other extended-workforce users. Security teamsuse the platform to monitor exposure, investigate behavior-based threats, manage access risks, and address data-loss risks. Cymphony also provides integrations and a contextual investigation console for reviewing workforce-related security events. | $25M / Series A / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Empirik develops an AI infrastructure agent that maps the blast radius and operational impact of configuration, infrastructure, and code updates across cloud and on-premises environments before they are deployed. | $21M / Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Zafran Security is a cybersecurity startup specializing in vulnerability prioritization and threat exposure management, aiming to identify, remediate, and mitigate risks within organizations. The AI-native exposure management platform developed by the company aims to proactively avert the exploitation of vulnerabilities by incorporating autonomousagents throughout all stages of the vulnerability management lifecycle. With threat actors rapidly exploiting newly revealed security vulnerabilities through AI automation, Zafran's platform enables organizations to take action before these vulnerabilities result in incidents. The company’s solutions work alongside current security tools, utilizing AI agents to pinpoint weaknesses, provide contextual information, and address these issues by linking them to controls and evaluating the potential for exploitation. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 22, 2026 | ||
| Sandstone is the platform for AI-native legal departments. Sandstone is built by a team of lawyers, legal operations, and tech experts who understand that efficiency is not just about speed, but also about context. | $30M / Series A / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $600M / Series G / Jun 02, 2026 | ||
| Oasis Security is the top provider of Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) solutions. NHI Management is a major and unresolved security flaw that malevolent cyber attackers regularly exploit. | $120M / Series B / Mar 19, 2026 | ||
| Scanner is a SIEM companion that enables teams to augment tools like Splunk, Datadog, Sumo Logic, and Elastic for high volume log data, saving up to 90% per log source. After directly indexing your data, teams can find IP addresses and other IOCs in petabytes of logs in seconds.Teams can also leverage features like dashboards, detections-as-code,threat intelligence, and an API to connect with Scanner for Splunk, Grafana, SOARs like Tines or Torq, our library of Jupyter Notebooks for advanced threat hunting, Slack, Jira, or anything else with a custom webhook. | $22M / Series A / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| Temporal Technologies is a computer software company that enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives. It specializes in the fields of information technology, software development, and computer software. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $300M / Series D / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Sandstone is the platform for AI-native legal departments. Sandstone is built by a team of lawyers, legal operations, and tech experts who understand that efficiency is not just about speed, but also about context. | $39.6M / Seed / Jan 13, 2026 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital provides capital alongside strategic guidance, supporting areas such as product development, company building, and market expansion. The firm engages with a limited number of companies at a time, working closely with leadership teams throughout the business lifecycle. Sequoia Capital focuses on long-term partnerships, often entering at the idea or formation stage and remaining involved as companies scale and mature. Its approach emphasizes collaboration among its internal team and portfolio founders, drawing on shared experience to address operational and strategic challenges.
Sequoia Capital Contacts
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Anas Biad
Partner
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Andrew Lee
Vice President
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Carl Eschenbach
Partner
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Caroline Fu
Vice President
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Donald Valentine
Founder
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FAQ
What does Bogomil Balkansky invest in?
Bogomil Balkansky invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 71 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Bogomil Balkansky invest in?
Bogomil Balkansky typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$7M at Seed, $15M–$60M at Series A and $30M–$120M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Bogomil Balkansky's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Bogomil Balkansky took part in.
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When did Bogomil Balkansky last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bogomil Balkansky closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 71 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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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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