Jayaram Bhat
Venture Partner @ Shasta Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Jayaram Bhat is a Series A investor at Shasta Ventures in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Security. Jayaram has spent the last 30 years in software. Founding, building and growing enterprise software companies have been his passion. Jayaram currently serves on the board of Crittercism and advises CEOs of CloudPassage and Resilinc. Most recently Jayaram was the founding CEO of Zenprise which was acquired by Citrix in 2013. Between 1993 and 2001as the first CMO of Mercury Interactive, he helped to drive it to a dominant market position, IPO, explosive growth and a market cap in excess of $10Billion. Before Mercury, Jayaram had marketing and sales roles at Cadence Design Systems, EDA Systems and Daisy Systems. Jayaram started his career at Intel as the product manager of the 286 microprocessor.Jayaram was an advisor and a board member of Tealeaf Technology which was acquired by IBM in 2012. He has also served as a director of Electric Cloud and Cyber Arc. In addition, Jayaram has mentored and advised CEOs and founders of Centerrun (Acquired by Sun Microsystems), VA Software and Euclid Software. Jayaram holds a MBA from University of Texas at Arlington, a MS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from National Institute for Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India and a BSEE from University of Mysore, India. He has a passion for collecting wines of Burgundy, travel, skiing and bicycling.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 1 (50%)
- Security 1 (50%)
- Cyber Security 1 (50%)
- Network Security 1 (50%)
Stage
- Series A 1 (50%)
- Series B 1 (50%)
Investments
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| Skycure is a predictive mobile threat defense (MTD) company with proactive defense solutions that actively detect and prevent mobile cyberattacks while preserving user privacy and experience and reducing the burden on IT. Skycure’s mission is to secure both BYO and corporate-owned mobile devices to allow companies to mobilize without compromise.Skycure closes the mobile security gaps in organizations to protect against network-based threats, malware, vulnerability exploits, and other targeted attacks originating from both internal and external sources. Skycure's patented technology employs a dual protection mechanism, which consists of a client-side module that resides on the device and protects it 24/7, together with a server-side service that provides heavy lifting analysis. Skycure’s predictive technology (often referred to as "waze" of mobile security) is based on mobile threat intelligence gathered via massive crowd intelligence and sophisticated machine learning. Skycure’s research team is accredited with cutting edge publications (such as Accessibility Clickjacking, Cookie Stealer, No iOS Zone, Malicious Profiles, WifiGate, HRH, LinkedOut), ensuring the solution is always ready for future threats.Skycure was founded in 2012 by Adi Sharabani and Yair Amit, two Unit 8200 veterans (U.S. National Security Agency equivalent), who possess extensive and proven technological and managerial experience in the security industry. The company is funded by Shasta Ventures, Pitango Venture Capital, NYL and other strategic investors. | $16.5M / Series B / Jul 19, 2016 | ||
| Skycure is a predictive mobile threat defense (MTD) company with proactive defense solutions that actively detect and prevent mobile cyberattacks while preserving user privacy and experience and reducing the burden on IT. Skycure’s mission is to secure both BYO and corporate-owned mobile devices to allow companies to mobilize without compromise.Skycure closes the mobile security gaps in organizations to protect against network-based threats, malware, vulnerability exploits, and other targeted attacks originating from both internal and external sources. Skycure's patented technology employs a dual protection mechanism, which consists of a client-side module that resides on the device and protects it 24/7, together with a server-side service that provides heavy lifting analysis. Skycure’s predictive technology (often referred to as "waze" of mobile security) is based on mobile threat intelligence gathered via massive crowd intelligence and sophisticated machine learning. Skycure’s research team is accredited with cutting edge publications (such as Accessibility Clickjacking, Cookie Stealer, No iOS Zone, Malicious Profiles, WifiGate, HRH, LinkedOut), ensuring the solution is always ready for future threats.Skycure was founded in 2012 by Adi Sharabani and Yair Amit, two Unit 8200 veterans (U.S. National Security Agency equivalent), who possess extensive and proven technological and managerial experience in the security industry. The company is funded by Shasta Ventures, Pitango Venture Capital, NYL and other strategic investors. | $8M / Series A / Mar 24, 2015 |
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About Shasta Ventures
Shasta Ventures invests in startups in sectors. Their program consists of a proven methodology and a set of comprehensive playbooks that dive deep into the obstacles and challenges of early-stage startups. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to early-stage, so this agile program allows founders to tap into the resources they need when they need them.
Shasta Ventures Contacts
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Balaji Yelamanchili
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Issac J Roth
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Jacob Mullins
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Jason Pressman
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Jayaram Bhat
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