# Mahendra Ramsinghani

> Mahendra Ramsinghani is a seed investor at Secure Octane backing Cyber Security and Security. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Secure Octane](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/secure-octane)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahendraram/
- Website: https://www.secureoctane.com

Mahendra Ramsinghani is a seed investor at Secure Octane in San Francisco focused on Cyber Security and Security. Investor / advisor in leading security startups such as Icebrg (backed by Madrona, Formation8) Kryptnostic (backed by Index Ventures, Harrison Metal, Felicis Ventures) and Attivo Networks (backed by Bain Capital). As seed investor, invested in over fifty seed startups. Led the efforts for development of Fund-of-Funds legislation which deployed$200 million in VC Funds.Author of two books:(1) "The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies" (Wiley Finance, 2011) (2) Co-author of "Startup Boards" with VC Brad Feld. (Wiley, 2014). Co-founder of 3D Biomatrix, a life sciences tools startup. Recognized by Wall Street Journal Technology 2012 Innovation Awards (chosen among 536 entries).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyber Security | 9 | 56% |
| Security | 6 | 38% |
| Software | 6 | 38% |
| Network Security | 6 | 38% |
| Developer Platform | 3 | 19% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 63% |
| Series A | 3 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 81% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Colombia | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Airrived | Airrived is an enterprise-grade, agentic AI platform tailored specifically for cybersecurity applications. | $6.1M | Seed | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Kibsi | Kibsi is an end-to-end, fully integrated environment designed for building computer vision applications. Our cloud native, low-code platform democratizes computer vision, allowing customers to focus on their business needs, not the complexity. | $5M | Seed | Dec 31, 2022 |  |
| SensCy | SensCy provides sensible cybersecurity solutions for small and medium-sized organizations. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. | $4M | Seed | Dec 06, 2022 |  |
| Border0 | Border0 provides a platform that boosts productivity and innovation with secure seamless connections. |  | Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Orkes | Orkes provides a cloud-based platform for orchestrating workflows across microservices, APIs, and distributed systems, enabling developers to manage complex application processes and integrations. Its platform is built on the open-source Conductor project and delivers a managed service that supports workflow execution, event-driven architectures,and long-running processes. The system includes capabilities such as workflow modeling, state management, monitoring, and access control, which help track executions and maintain operational reliability. It also supports integration with various programming languages, cloud environments, and external services, allowing teams to define workflows as code and coordinate business logic across systems. Additionally, the platform incorporates features for observability and governance, offering visibility into workflows and tools to manage performance, errors, and system behavior in production environments. | $9.3M |  | Feb 28, 2022 |  |
| Orkes | Orkes provides a cloud-based platform for orchestrating workflows across microservices, APIs, and distributed systems, enabling developers to manage complex application processes and integrations. Its platform is built on the open-source Conductor project and delivers a managed service that supports workflow execution, event-driven architectures,and long-running processes. The system includes capabilities such as workflow modeling, state management, monitoring, and access control, which help track executions and maintain operational reliability. It also supports integration with various programming languages, cloud environments, and external services, allowing teams to define workflows as code and coordinate business logic across systems. Additionally, the platform incorporates features for observability and governance, offering visibility into workflows and tools to manage performance, errors, and system behavior in production environments. | $9.3M | Seed | Feb 28, 2022 |  |
| Cyrus Security | Cyrus is here to protect people from cybercrime. Our mission is to democratize security and make people safer. Cybercrime is an enormous threat to society, bigger than any one person or group and much harder to trace. Cyrus puts the person in the center and is here to protect you from this threat. Cyrus was founded by cybersecurity experts OrenArar, Jonathan Livneh, and Shahak Shalev combining their vast knowledge and experience to create the most accessible and world-class personal cybersecurity product. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2020 |  |
| DataDistillr | DataDistillr is an enterprise platform that enables data scientists to get value from the data. The company's powerful tool for security professionals because it can detect security threats at an early stage. Stop threats from infiltrating the systems, compromising valuable assets, or jeopardizing the organization. Its tool has powerfulcleanup capabilities. Enhance MAC addresses, port numbers, IP addresses, user agent strings, and other information. DataDistillr charts, dashboards, and graphs that are simple to set up provide visual insights into the cyber data. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Aug 15, 2020 |  |
| Attivo Networks | Attivo Networks provides required visibility and actionable, substantiated alerts to detect, isolate, and defend against cyber attacks. Attivo Networks, the leader in deception technology, provides accurate in-network threat detection, analysis, and accelerated response to advanced, credential, insider, and ransomware attacks. The AttivoDeception and Response Platform provide continuous visibility and efficient threat management for user networks, data centers, cloud, branch, IoT, ICS-SCADA, and POS environments. Camouflage dynamic deception sets high-interaction traps to misdirect and lure attackers into revealing themselves. The solution’s advanced attack analysis and lateral movement tracking automate investigation, deliver evidence-based alerts, and in-depth forensic reports. Incident response is simplified with ThreatOps™ playbooks and 3rd party integrations for automated attack blocking, quarantine, and threat hunting. | $15.4M | Series B | May 10, 2017 |  |
| Section | Section is an Edge Compute Platform that enables engineers to run any workload, anywhere, underpinned by modern DevOps principles. It now has offices in both Sydney, Australia, and Boulder, Colorado, and is backed by major Venture Capital groups including Foundry Group and Techstars Ventures. The Section team is comprised of dedicated individualswho come from diverse backgrounds in engineering, agile development, marketing, sales, and product.Section's industry-leading edge compute platform gives engineers the flexibility and control to run any workload, anywhere, underpinned by modern DevOps principles.With its container-based (Docker/Kubernetes) approach to HTTP traffic delivery, the platform includes an extensive library of highly available and highly performant edge compute modules that can be deployed anywhere along the edge continuum, including the ability to build/bring your own edge containers. Section operates across the HTTP delivery path from origin to distributed network, is hosting provider-agnostic (cloud, on-premise, self-hosted), and has already been proven to address challenges far beyond traditional CDN workloads.Section was founded in Australia in 2012 and moved its headquarters to the US in 2016. | $2.2M | Seed | Apr 30, 2017 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mod N Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/modnlabs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rainfall Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rainfall-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Vertex Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vertex-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Wipro Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wiproventure) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Secure Octane

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| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mahendra Ramsinghani | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mahendra-ramsinghani-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Mahendra Ramsinghani invest in?

Mahendra Ramsinghani invests primarily in Cyber Security, Security and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 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 Mahendra Ramsinghani last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mahendra Ramsinghani closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 16 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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