# Paul Sagan

> Paul Sagan is a Series A investor at Northwestern University backing Software. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Northwestern University](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northwestern-university)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-sagan-59654a1/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/PaulSagan1
- Website: https://x.com/PaulSagan1
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sagan.paul

Paul Sagan is a Series A investor at Northwestern University in Boston focused on Software and Cyber Security. Paul Sagan is based out of Toronto, Ontario and is the Board of Directors of Thomson Reuters and Okta and also Catalyst Advisor of General Catalyst. Paul previously worked as Chief Executive Officer of Akamai Technologies. Paul Sagan attended Northwestern University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 38% |
| Cyber Security | 6 | 29% |
| Security | 5 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 24% |
| SaaS | 4 | 19% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 43% |
| Series B | 6 | 29% |
| Seed | 3 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Series E | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 81% |
| France | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lanai | Lanai provides an AI-driven empowerment platform to help enterprises discover, protect, and accelerate human-AI collaboration. It offers a suite of tools designed to enhance developer productivity, focusing on improving the workflow for software teams. Its platform provides features that enable better project management, task coordination, andreal-time collaboration. | $10M | Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Bugcrowd | Bugcrowd connects companies and their applications to a crowd of tens of thousands of security researchers to identify critical software vulnerabilities. Powered by Bugcrowd’s platform, companies of all sizes can run both private and public bounty programs to efficiently test their applications and reward valid vulnerabilities.Based in SanFrancisco, Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. | $102M | Series E | Feb 12, 2024 |  |
| Casana | Casana is unlocking a new category in healthcare technologies that enable effortless, integrated and consistent in-home heart health monitoring. Casana’s first product, The Heart Seat™ is an IoT heart health toilet seat that captures clinically relevant measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, and cardiac output.Casana’s mission is to assist medical teams in their care management of patients with chronic conditions beyond the four walls of the hospital, starting with the 6M+ people in the US living with Heart Failure. | $40M | Series B | Jan 21, 2022 |  |
| Zorus | Zorus is the movement of cyber security from on-premise to the Cloud. Cloud based cyber security as a service has several advantages. | $9M | Series A | Dec 09, 2021 |  |
| Section4 | Section4 is democratizing business education through innovative and engaging 2-3 week sprints. | $30M | Series A | Mar 11, 2021 |  |
| Casana | Casana is unlocking a new category in healthcare technologies that enable effortless, integrated and consistent in-home heart health monitoring. Casana’s first product, The Heart Seat™ is an IoT heart health toilet seat that captures clinically relevant measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, and cardiac output.Casana’s mission is to assist medical teams in their care management of patients with chronic conditions beyond the four walls of the hospital, starting with the 6M+ people in the US living with Heart Failure. | $14M | Series A | Feb 03, 2021 |  |
| airSlate | airSlate is a global SaaS technology company that provides no-code business process automation and document management solutions. The company's PDF editing, e-signature workflow, and business process automation solutions empower users to digitally transform their businesses to run faster and easier. airSlate, pdfFiller, signNow, and USLegalmake up the company's portfolio of award-winning products. | $40M | Series B | Jan 12, 2021 |  |
| Vade Secure | Vade Secure is the global leader on anti-phishing, spear phishing, malware and ransomware with heuristic filtering. Language independent, the filter analyzes globally all incoming emails (links, attached files, content…) to detect all threats in zero-day, even the most targeted attacks. After elimination all threats, we eliminate the nuisance oflow priority emails with the Graymail Management. Ads, social networks notifications, and newsletters are automatically sent to the graymail folder while the Safe Unsubscribe button eliminate them forever.Protecting more than 500 million of mailboxes in 76 countries, our solutions are used by major ISPs, OEMs, and Enterprises worldwide. Vade Secure is implanted in 5 countries (USA, Canada, France, Hong Kong, and Japan) to offer a 24/7 support.For more information, please visit www.vadesecure.com/en. | $76.8M | Series A | Jun 12, 2019 |  |
| RiskRecon | RiskRecon is the only continuous vendor monitoring solution that delivers risk-prioritized action plans custom-tuned to match your risk priorities, providing the world’s easiest path to understanding and acting on third-party cyber risk. Partner with RiskRecon to build your scalable, third-party risk management program to realize dramaticallybetter risk outcomes. To learn more about RiskRecon’s approach, request a demo or visit the website at www.riskrecon.com. | $25M | Series B | Aug 07, 2018 |  |
| RiskRecon | RiskRecon is the only continuous vendor monitoring solution that delivers risk-prioritized action plans custom-tuned to match your risk priorities, providing the world’s easiest path to understanding and acting on third-party cyber risk. Partner with RiskRecon to build your scalable, third-party risk management program to realize dramaticallybetter risk outcomes. To learn more about RiskRecon’s approach, request a demo or visit the website at www.riskrecon.com. | $12M | Series A | Jun 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Dell Technologies Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dell-technologies-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Outsiders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outsiders-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acero Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acero-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asymmetric Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asymmetric-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Northwestern University

VC Fund · Evanston, United States

For a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate degree from a school with history and prestige, look no further than Northwestern University, a Big Ten school located in Evanston, Illinois.Northwestern is a large school and features many different areas of study. Though the school is known for its strong arts programs, many students also enroll inscience, engineering, and medical fields.Programs include Biological Sciences, Computer Engineering, Drama, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Film and Media Studies, Integrated Marketing Communication, Journalism, Performance Studies, Sociology, and Theatre, as well as many others.Don’t allow the idea of tuition keep you from attending school. In the financial aid options, counselors can point you toward loans, grants, and work-study programs. There are also many scholarships to choose from including the Northwestern University Scholarship.The annual job fairs aren’t the only resource for students looking to find employment. There are also internship and job listings, as well as programs to explore majors and career options.If Evanston isn’t convenient to you, Northwestern also has a campus in Chicago and even a new satellite campus in Qatar for those studying overseas.As far as student life goes, NU is the place to be. Northwestern University has over 200 extracurricular groups for students be involved in their interests and socialize with others. There is also a museum, concert hall, cinema, and theater for daily entertainment, and a strong athletic program.

5 contacts available at Northwestern University.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aviv Nevo | Professor of Economics and Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aviv-nevo |
| Francesca Cornelli | Dean | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francesca-cornelli |
| Jian Cao | Professor | — |
| Paul Sagan | Life Trustee | — |
| William Osborn | Chairman of the Board of Trustees | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Sagan invest in?

Paul Sagan invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Security startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Paul Sagan?

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### When did Paul Sagan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Sagan closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 21 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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