# Brandon Dixon

> Brandon Dixon is a seed investor at Microsoft backing Cloud Security and Cyber Security. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Microsoft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/microsoft)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonsdixon
- Website: https://x.com/9bplus

Brandon Dixon is a seed investor at Microsoft focused on Cloud Security and Cyber Security. Brandon has spent his career in information security performing analysis, building tools, and refining processes. As the VP of Strategy, Brandon generates and manages business strategies that take advantage of market, industry and economic opportunities while mitigating risks. Leveraging deep industry relationships and product developmentexperience, Brandon seeks to expand RiskIQ's global footprint in order to achieve maximum growth.Prior to RiskIQ, Brandon was the co-founder of PassiveTotal (acquired by RiskIQ) where he led development and product direction. Throughout the years, Brandon has developed several public tools, most notably PDF X-RAY, and NinjaJobs. His research and development on various security topics have gained him accolades from many major security vendors and peers in the industry.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cloud Security | 1 | 100% |
| Cyber Security | 1 | 100% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Permiso Security | Permiso Security delivers an identity-based cloud detection and response solution for cloud infrastructures. Permiso simplifies cloud security so that technology and security professionals can protect the cloud like a pro. Permiso's solution matches key events to key identities, allowing clients to see who is doing what with a quick alert inplain English and a response plan. | $10M | Seed | Jan 18, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [11.2 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/112capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Point72 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/point72-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rain-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Work-Bench](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/work-bench) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Microsoft

VC Fund · Redmond, United States

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

5 contacts available at Microsoft.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aparna Chennapragada | Corporate VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aparna-chennapragada |
| Bay Gross | Vice President of Health at Microsoft AI | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bay-gross |
| Bobby George | Creative Strategist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-george |
| Brandon Dixon | Product and Intel Strategy Leader | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-dixon |
| Brandon Middaugh | Sr. Director, Climate Innovation Fund | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-middaugh |

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## FAQ

### What does Brandon Dixon invest in?

Brandon Dixon invests primarily in Cloud Security, Cyber Security and Cloud Infrastructure startups, most often at Seed 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.

### When did Brandon Dixon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brandon Dixon closed in Jan 2022. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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