Phil Venables
Partner @ Ballistic Ventures
New York, United States
Phil Venables is a Series A investor at Ballistic Ventures in New York focused on Cyber Security and Security. Phil Venables is based out of New York, New York, and is a Partner of Ballistic Ventures and also serves as Board Member of Native. Phil previously worked at Veza as a Board of Director. Phil Venables attended the University of York. Phil Venables has been awarded the ISACA Wasserman Award.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 5 (50%)
- Security 4 (40%)
- Software 3 (30%)
- Cloud Security 3 (30%)
- Network Security 3 (30%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (50%)
- Seed 2 (20%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 6 (60%)
- Israel 2 (20%)
Investments
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| Above Security provides cybersecurity services focused on threat detection, risk management, and compliance support for organizations. Its offerings include managed security services, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and incident response to help identify and address security risks. The company also delivers security operationscenter capabilities that monitor and analyze network activity to detect potential threats. In addition, it supports governance, risk, and compliance programs by helping organizations align with regulatory requirements and security frameworks. Its services are designed to assist businesses in maintaining visibility over their systems and improving overall security posture. | $50M / Series A / Mar 23, 2026 | ||
| Native Security is a cloud security control plane for enterprises. It translates security outcomes into native cloud controls, simulates deployment impacts, and maintains alignment as environments change. The platform enforces security at the architectural level across multi-cloud setups. | $31M / Series A / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| ArmorCode offers an AppSecOps platform that reduces application exposure and risk for customers. Its customers use the platform for AppSec Posture, Vulnerability and Compliance Management, and DevSecOps automation. ArmorCode AppSecOps platform is delivering a 10X AppSec Force Multiplier impact to several marquee enterprises. The company wasfounded in 2020 and is based in Palo Alto, California. | $16M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 03, 2026 | ||
| Method Security develops autonomous cyber defenses. | $21.5M / Series A / Nov 19, 2025 | ||
| Socket is a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks. We are taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities.Socket is built by a team of open sourcemaintainers with over 1 billion monthly downloads. Everyone on the Socket team is an open source maintainer. We are all driven to defend the open source ecosystem from supply chain attacks and make it safe for everyone.Socket is unique because, unlike other tools, it detects and blocks supply chain attacks before they strike, mitigating the worst consequences. | $40M / Series B / Oct 22, 2024 | ||
| Lumos is an IT company that provides secure management processes. They offer SaaS management and access management services. Additionally, they provide flexible workflows and spend management solutions. | $30M / Series A / May 03, 2022 | ||
| Valence enables security teams to find and fix SaaS risks. As SaaS complexity and distributed management present security challenges, the Valence SaaS security platform provides unparalleled and actionable insights into configuration, identity, data, SaaS-to-SaaS integration, and GenAI risks. The Valence platform offers comprehensive SaaS securityposture management (SSPM), risk remediation, and identity threat detection and response (ITDR). Valence’s unique remediation by choice capabilities allow security teams to leverage manual remediation, automated workflows and business user collaboration to scale their risk reduction and proactively secure their SaaS. Leading organizations leverage Valence to empower their business to securely adopt SaaS. | $7M / Seed / Oct 19, 2021 | ||
| Transcend is the data privacy infrastructure that makes it simple for companies to give their users control over their personal data. Personal data is disorganized, hard to spot, and stored across many systems. That makes offering data rights—like deleting your data—very hard for companies. Transcend automatically fulfills data subject requestsinside companies, across all of their data systems and vendors. Transcend also provides their end-users with a control panel, or “Privacy Center”, hosted at privacy.<company>.com where users can manage their privacy preferences, export their data, or delete it. By making data subject requests painless for companies, Transcend is putting users everywhere in the driver’s seat of their personal data. | $25M / Series A / Jun 10, 2020 | ||
| Open Raven is the data security posture management company that prevents leaks, breaches, and compliance incidents. For security teams with modern cloud infrastructures to locate and secure sensitive, toxic, and exposed data within hundreds or thousands of accounts, billions of objects, and petabytes of data, existing tools don’t work. The OpenRaven Data Security Platform is the secure, private, budget-safe solution that closes data visibility gaps – and just works. | $4.1M / Seed / Feb 11, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Ballistic Ventures
Ballistic Ventures operates as a venture capital firm and offers the unparalleled benefit of an experienced, connected team that is focused on cybersecurity. They believe the essential step they can take today is to provide collective experience, network, and enthusiasm to the world's finest cybersecurity entrepreneurs.
Ballistic Ventures Contacts
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Julie Tsai
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Phil Venables
Partner
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Barmak Meftah
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David Hahn
CISO Operating Partner
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David Schellhase
Entrepreneur in Residence
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What does Phil Venables invest in?
Phil Venables invests primarily in Cyber Security, Security and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 10 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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