Lance Matthews
Partner, Growth Equity @ DTCP
San Francisco, United States
Lance Matthews is a seed investor at DTCP in San Francisco focused on Cyber Security and SaaS. Lance is an Associate at DTCP in the Venture Capital team.He joined DTCP from Touchdown Ventures, a SF based Corporate Venture firm, where he worked on company sourcing, investment analysis and diligence, and portfolio management. Prior to that, he spent time at Illuminate Ventures, a seed stage Enterprise Saas firm and at Twitter holding aposition in the finance department.Lance holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, a Master’s degree in History from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from CSU Fresno.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Lance Matthews invests in
Stages Lance Matthews invests in
Countries Lance Matthews invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 3 (60%)
- SaaS 1 (20%)
- Software 1 (20%)
- Generative AI 1 (20%)
- Cloud Security 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (20%)
- Series A 1 (20%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
- Series C 1 (20%)
- Funding Round 1 (20%)
Country
- United States 2 (40%)
- Canada 1 (20%)
- Israel 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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TENEX.AI
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TENEX.AI is an automation-first security company designed for the AI-driven era. By leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence, TENEX.AI automates and enhances security measures to protect digital assets, networks, and data. Their solutions are built to address modern threats in real-time, providing proactive defense and rapid response. As thelandscape of cyber threats evolves, TENEX.AI ensures businesses stay one step ahead with intelligent, automated security solutions that minimize risks and maximize protection. | $27M / Series A / Sep 11, 2025 | |
Cerby
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Cerby is the identity automation platform purpose-built to secure disconnected applications—those that fall outside the reach of traditional identity security tools. By integrating with existing IAM, IGA, and PAM systems, Cerby brings centralized access controls, automates manual security tasks, and extends governance across your entire applicationecosystem. IT and security teams gain complete visibility and control, reducing risk and operational overhead. Founded in 2020, Cerby is backed by leading investors and trusted by global enterprises. | $40M / Series B / May 28, 2025 | |
Mesh Security
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Mesh Security is the industry’s first complete Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM) SaaS platform, a single source of truth that enables companies to implement a unified Zero Trust Architecture on top of their existing stack. Without using agents, Mesh effortlessly and seamlessly maps a company’s entire cloud XaaS estate in minutes, providing fullcontextual visibility, control, and protection of the Everywhere Enterprise. | $1.5M / Jun 01, 2024 | |
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Mesh Security
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Mesh Security is the industry’s first complete Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM) SaaS platform, a single source of truth that enables companies to implement a unified Zero Trust Architecture on top of their existing stack. Without using agents, Mesh effortlessly and seamlessly maps a company’s entire cloud XaaS estate in minutes, providing fullcontextual visibility, control, and protection of the Everywhere Enterprise. | $2M / Seed / Jun 01, 2024 | |
Cohere
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Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $270M / Series C / May 02, 2023 |
Co-Investors
About DTCP
DTCP is an investment management firm focused on growth equity and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2015, the firm has raised more than $1 billion in funds from corporate and institutional investors and invested in over 60 companies. DTCP Growth invests in enterprise application and infrastructure software companies. DTCP Infra invests in mobileaccess, fiber, and data center infrastructure. DTCP is headquartered in Hamburg with offices in Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.
DTCP Contacts
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Joshua Müller
Principal
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Lance Matthews
Partner, Growth Equity
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Thomas Preuss
Managing Partner, Growth Equity
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Thomas Vogel
Investment Director
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Vicente Vento
Founder and CEO
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FAQ
What does Lance Matthews invest in?
Lance Matthews invests primarily in Cyber Security, SaaS and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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 Lance Matthews last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Lance Matthews closed in Sep 2025. 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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