Bryan Taylor
Managing Partner @ Advent International
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Bryan Taylor is a Series B investor at Advent International in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence. Bryan Taylor joined Advent International in February 2019 as a Managing Partner and head of the firm’s technology investment team. He has been investing in the technology sector for more than 18 years and has led or participated in over 30 investments across a range of deal sizes, from later-stage growth equity to large-scale buyouts.Bryan hasworked on Advent’s investment in Definitive Healthcare and Transaction Services Group. Prior to Advent, Bryan worked on over 30 investments in the technology sector, including, most recently, McAfee, Ellucian, Tanium, Box, GreenSky, Advent Software, CCC Information Services and Eze Software.Most recently, Bryan was co-head of TPG Capital’s technology group, where he was instrumental in building the firm’s software investment capabilities and jointly led a 20-person team.Prior to joining TPG, Bryan was a founder and Managing Director at Symphony Technology Group, a private equity firm focused exclusively on software and technology services investments. Before Symphony, he was a Manager at Bain & Company, where he worked in the private equity and technology practice groups in San Francisco and Los Angeles.Bryan graduated with honors from Stanford University and earned an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 80%
Last updated:
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Industries Bryan Taylor invests in
Stages Bryan Taylor invests in
Countries Bryan Taylor invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 2 (40%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (40%)
- Software 1 (20%)
- Analytics 1 (20%)
- Agentic AI 1 (20%)
Stage
- Series B 1 (20%)
- Series C 1 (20%)
- Series D 1 (20%)
- Series G 1 (20%)
- Funding Round 1 (20%)
Country
- United States 2 (40%)
- Switzerland 1 (20%)
Investments
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Sonar
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SonarSource provides world-class solutions for continuous code quality management. Its open source and commercial products help customers of all size to manage the code quality of their applications, reduce risk and ultimately deliver better software. SonarSource solutions support development in 20+ programming languages such as Java, C#,Javascript, C/C++, COBOL and more. With 700+ customers around the world including Cisco Systems, Deutsche Bank, Samsung and used by more than 80'000 organizations SonarSource's products are the de facto standard solutions on the market. | $412M / Apr 26, 2022 | |
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Sonar
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SonarSource provides world-class solutions for continuous code quality management. Its open source and commercial products help customers of all size to manage the code quality of their applications, reduce risk and ultimately deliver better software. SonarSource solutions support development in 20+ programming languages such as Java, C#,Javascript, C/C++, COBOL and more. With 700+ customers around the world including Cisco Systems, Deutsche Bank, Samsung and used by more than 80'000 organizations SonarSource's products are the de facto standard solutions on the market. | $412M / Series B / Apr 26, 2022 | |
Salt Security
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Salt Security is an API security company based in Palo Alto, California. It provides an API protection platform to prevent attacks, using machine learning and AI to automatically and continuously identify and protect APIs. Deployed in minutes, the platform learns the granular behavior of a company’s APIs and requires no configuration orcustomization to pinpoint and block API attackers.The company was founded in 2018 and led by co-founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu and by co-founder & COO Michael Nicosia. | $140M / Series D / Feb 10, 2022 | |
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Salt Security
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Salt Security is an API security company based in Palo Alto, California. It provides an API protection platform to prevent attacks, using machine learning and AI to automatically and continuously identify and protect APIs. Deployed in minutes, the platform learns the granular behavior of a company’s APIs and requires no configuration orcustomization to pinpoint and block API attackers.The company was founded in 2018 and led by co-founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu and by co-founder & COO Michael Nicosia. | $70M / Series C / May 26, 2021 | |
Box
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Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls. Box provides more than 8 million users with secure cloud content management and collaboration. Box platform "allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any formatfrom anywhere." It also helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and manages their critical information in the cloud. | $150M / Series G |
Co-Investors
DFJ Growth
3 deals together
Insight Partners
3 deals together
Alkeon Capital
2 deals together
General Catalyst
2 deals together
Permira
2 deals together
S Capital
2 deals together
About Advent International
Advent International is a private equity firms that focused on buyouts and growth equity investments in five core sectors.
Advent International Contacts
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Bryan Taylor
Managing Partner
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Damien Lestang-Hourcastagné
Director
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Eric Wei
Managing Director
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Francesco Casiraghi
Managing Director
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Jaime Carvajal Urquijo
Chairman
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FAQ
What does Bryan Taylor invest in?
Bryan Taylor invests primarily in Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 5 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 Bryan Taylor last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bryan Taylor closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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 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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