# Kamal Shah

> Kamal Shah is a seed investor at Prophet Security backing Software. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Prophet Security
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kdshah
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kdshah
- Website: https://x.com/kdshah
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kamal.shah.52035772

Kamal Shah is a seed investor at Prophet Security in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Security. Kamal Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Prophet Security. He previously worked at Red Hat as a VP. Kamal Shah attended Harvard Business School.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$5.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 60% |
| Security | 2 | 40% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 40% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 40% |
| Big Data | 1 | 20% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 80% |
| Denmark | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coana (acquired by Socket) | Coana helps software teams tackle the flood of alerts from traditional SCA tools. By using advanced reachability analysis, Coana cuts false alerts by over 80%, freeing up significant engineering time without sacrificing security. Coana is developed by leading program analysis researchers and is backed by Sequoia Capital and Essence VC. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jan 23, 2024 |  |
| Abbey Labs | Abbey is a platform for security teams to automate and secure access to sensitive data. With Abbey, you can improve your security and compliance programs by automatically controlling and right-sizing permissions so the risks around unauthorized access is limited in the event of a breach. | $5.3M | Seed | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Cyberhaven | Cyberhaven is the data security company revolutionizing how companies protect their important information from theft and misuse.Security products only recognized and protected a limited range of data types because they relied on finding patterns in the content itself. Data tracing technology analyzes billions of events surrounding every piece ofdata to better understand and classify it, allowing for the protection of a broader range of sensitive data in any form, anywhere it goes. | $13M | Series A | Dec 05, 2019 |  |
| Remix | Remix is a platform for planning public transit, designing streets, and managing new mobility. Trusted by 4,000 planners in 300+ cities on three continents, Remix helps cities understand how streets, public transit, and private mobility work together. Remix brings critical datasets from disparate sources together into a unified view so you canunderstand existing conditions and gain insights across many dimensions.The company was founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California. | $2M | Seed | Dec 01, 2014 |  |
| Parastructure | Parastructure builds beautiful data analysis software powered by cutting-edge open source infrastructure. The company was started in 2012 by a team of computer scientists from Stanford University and is based in San Francisco, California. Parastructure is funded by Accel Partners and backed by several notable angel investors. | $2.5M | Seed | Mar 01, 2013 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Essence VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/essence-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Haystack](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haystack) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Costanoa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/costanoaventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Crane Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crane-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Prophet Security

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Prophet Security provides security operations by automating the triage, investigation and response process.

1 contacts available at Prophet Security.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kamal Shah | Co-founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kamal-shah-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Kamal Shah invest in?

Kamal Shah invests primarily in Software, Security and Cyber Security startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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.

### What is Kamal Shah's check size?

Kamal Shah typically joins rounds of $2M–$5.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kamal Shah participates in.

### How do I contact Kamal Shah?

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### When did Kamal Shah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kamal Shah closed in Jan 2024. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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