Ken Elefant
Partner, Palo Alto VC Unit @ Sorenson Capital
San Francisco, United States
Ken Elefant is a Series A investor at Sorenson Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Cyber Security. Ken Elefant joined Sorenson Capital in 2017 and leads the firm’s early-stage technology practice. Prior to Sorenson Capital, Ken spent more than 18 years in Silicon Valley at leading venture capital firms and over 6 years in operational roles at technology companies. Ken enjoys working closely with entrepreneurs to help them attack new marketopportunities and gain access to key initial customers and partners. His efforts have led to recognition as one of the most connected names in tech.Before joining Sorenson, Ken was Managing Director at Intel Capital and VP at Intel Corporation. Leading the software and security groups at Intel Capital, Ken invested in several market-leading companies including AtHoc (Blackberry), Prolexic (Akamai), Carbon Black, DocuSign, Forescout, AlienVault, Venafi, Vectra Networks, Gigya, BrightEdge, among many others.Prior to Intel Capital, Ken was a founding general partner at Opus Capital. While at Opus, he served on the boards of Spock Networks (Intelius), Transpond (Webtrends), Supersecret (Knowledge Adventure), Alert Enterprise, Jivox, and TrustedID (Equifax). Previously, Ken was a Senior Associate at both Lightspeed Venture Partners and Battery Ventures. Before business school, Ken worked at Radius, Claris Corporation (the software subsidiary of Apple), and RealNetworks, where he held various sales, marketing, finance, and business development positions.Ken received an MBA from Harvard Business School and holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from the Wharton School of Business. He is a Kauffman Fellow.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
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Industries Ken Elefant invests in
Stages Ken Elefant invests in
Countries Ken Elefant invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (26%)
- Cyber Security 6 (19%)
- Information Technology 6 (19%)
- SaaS 5 (16%)
- Security 4 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 13 (42%)
- Seed 8 (26%)
- Series B 5 (16%)
- Series C 1 (3%)
- Series D 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 16 (52%)
- Israel 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| StrongestLayer is a differently built, Zero Maintenance AI-based cybersecurity platform, provides products that mainly focus on email security, like TRACE, an AI system that provides genuine reasons about threats, more than just recognizing them. | $4.1M / Seed / Jul 22, 2026 | ||
| VulnCheck is a Cyber Threat Intelligence platform, which provides exploit and vulnerability intelligence directly into the tools, processes, programs, and systems that need it to outpace adversaries. | $25M / Series B / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Planera is a software company that makes construction industry more efficient & profitable. | $8M / Series A / Oct 07, 2025 | ||
| StrongestLayer is a differently built, Zero Maintenance AI-based cybersecurity platform, provides products that mainly focus on email security, like TRACE, an AI system that provides genuine reasons about threats, more than just recognizing them. | $5.2M / Seed / Jul 17, 2025 | ||
| VulnCheck is a Cyber Threat Intelligence platform, which provides exploit and vulnerability intelligence directly into the tools, processes, programs, and systems that need it to outpace adversaries. | $12M / Series A / Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| SmartSuite develops a work management platform integrating databases, spreadsheets, documents, collaboration tools, and automation features. The platform is designed to streamline business processes by consolidating essential workflow elements into a single system. It enables teams to manage tasks, organize information, and automate repetitiveprocesses without requiring coding expertise. | $13M / Series A / Feb 20, 2025 | ||
| Planera is a software company that makes construction industry more efficient & profitable. | $13.5M / Series A / Aug 27, 2024 | ||
| VulnCheck is a Cyber Threat Intelligence platform, which provides exploit and vulnerability intelligence directly into the tools, processes, programs, and systems that need it to outpace adversaries. | $4.8M / Seed / Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| Planera is a software company that makes construction industry more efficient & profitable. | $5.4M / Seed / May 17, 2023 | ||
| Talon Cyber Security is a provider of cybersecurity solutions for the distributed workforce. A next-generation solution designed to protect against a new category of threats posed by distributed work, Talon enables workforce productivity and flexibility alongside rock-solid cybersecurity. It delivers the industry’s first secure browser designed tobring enterprise-grade security to managed and unmanaged devices, regardless of location, device type, or operating system. | $100M / Series A / Aug 04, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Sorenson Capital
Sorenson Capital is a leading venture capital firm that invests in product-oriented early and growth-stage B2B software companies in the cybersecurity, application, developer tools & computing infrastructure, and analytics, ML, & AI sectors. Sorenson has over $1.6 billion of assets under management across its early and growth-stage funds.The firm supports entrepreneurs through every stage of their journey to accelerate revenue growth and further their product leadership position. Sorenson’s investments in product leaders include Amplitude, BambooHR, Bridgecrew, Couchbase, Fastly, Harness, and Socure. With offices in Lehi, Utah, and Palo Alto, California, Sorenson is proud to partner with entrepreneurs from coast to canyon. To learn more about Sorenson, please visit: https://www.sorensoncapital.com/.
Sorenson Capital Contacts
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Ken Elefant
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Mark Ludwig
Partner
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Fraser Bullock
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Luke Sorenson
Partner
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Rob Rueckert
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What does Ken Elefant invest in?
Ken Elefant invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Ken Elefant closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 31 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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