# Tom Killalea

> Tom Killalea is a seed investor backing Cloud Security and Cyber Security. See 8 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/killalea
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/tomk_

Tom Killalea is a seed investor in Seattle focused on Cloud Security and Cyber Security. Helping companies that are making transformative use of innovation.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cloud Security | 3 | 38% |
| Cyber Security | 3 | 38% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 3 | 38% |
| Security | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Series A | 4 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| Israel | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Scanner.dev | Scanner is a SIEM companion that enables teams to augment tools like Splunk, Datadog, Sumo Logic, and Elastic for high volume log data, saving up to 90% per log source. After directly indexing your data, teams can find IP addresses and other IOCs in petabytes of logs in seconds.Teams can also leverage features like dashboards, detections-as-code,threat intelligence, and an API to connect with Scanner for Splunk, Grafana, SOARs like Tines or Torq, our library of Jupyter Notebooks for advanced threat hunting, Slack, Jira, or anything else with a custom webhook. | $22M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 | https://scanner.dev |
| Momento | Momento was founded with the vision to enable developers to write reliable and powerful apps faster than ever thought possible. Momento removes the need to manage caches by providing a serverless caching solution that works at any scale, so developers can concentrate on doing what they love: developing better products and services, faster. Momentois a team of distributed systems and database experts. The company is headquartered out of Seattle, Washington with a team that is distributed worldwide.Visit gomomento.com for more information—or see just how fast and simple it is to get going with Momento by starting for free at start.gomomento.com. | $15M | Series A | Jul 18, 2024 | https://www.gomomento.com |
| Momento | Momento was founded with the vision to enable developers to write reliable and powerful apps faster than ever thought possible. Momento removes the need to manage caches by providing a serverless caching solution that works at any scale, so developers can concentrate on doing what they love: developing better products and services, faster. Momentois a team of distributed systems and database experts. The company is headquartered out of Seattle, Washington with a team that is distributed worldwide.Visit gomomento.com for more information—or see just how fast and simple it is to get going with Momento by starting for free at start.gomomento.com. | $15M | Seed | Nov 02, 2022 | https://www.gomomento.com |
| Cosmonic | Steward leaders and creators of CNCF wasmCloud. Cosmonic is building the distributed application platform for the enterprise. | $8.5M | Seed | Oct 25, 2022 | https://cosmonic.com |
| Chainguard | Chainguard provides hardened, minimal container images that are continuously rebuilt from source in secure environments, aiming to eliminate known vulnerabilities and ensure end-to-end integrity. These images come with built-in cryptographic signatures, Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), and Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)provenance. In addition to container images, Chainguard offers a catalog of guarded Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries, built securely from source in SLSA-certified infrastructure. The company also contributes to and maintains several widely used open source projects, reflecting its commitment to the open source community. | $50M | Series A | Jun 02, 2022 | https://chainguard.dev |
| Dig Security | Dig Security is a cloud data security startup that provides real-time visibility, control, and protection of data assets. Monitoring and detecting data exfiltration and policy violations has become a challenging problem with few, fragmented solutions as enterprises transition to complex settings with dozens of different database types acrossclouds. To help businesses better manage cloud data sprawl, Dig's cloud-native and entirely agentless methodology reinvents cloud DLP with DDR (Data Detection & Response) capabilities. | $11M | Seed | May 19, 2022 | https://www.dig.security/ |
| Soveren | With Soveren you can fulfill your mission-critical production data observability and security goals.Soveren helps identify and protect crown jewels in Kubernetes-based environments. It automatically discovers sensitive data and assets, mapping the flows between them and immediately alerting you before risks become full-blown incidents.Ourmission is to help leading organizations protect millions of consumer data records without slowing down their business. We have built our solution in partnership with the most innovative security leaders in Europe and the US.We enable security teams to:1. Enrich your data inventory and improve the quality of manual reviews2. Gain near real-time visibility into sensitive assets and data flows3. Protect sensitive data and assets in the cloud from common security risks4. Maintain ongoing compliance with data regulations (PCI DSS, GDPR, CPRA, etc.)5. Reduce supply-chain attack risks and control sensitive data sharing | $6.5M | Seed | Nov 30, 2021 | https://soveren.io/ |
| Orreco | Orreco Their mission is to deliver a cutting edge biomarker program to optimise player performance, recovery and welfare. A tailored biomarker program can optimise player health and welfare and use sports science resources to target key or “at risk” players which will lead to increased player availability. Tailoring of recovery and playermanagement strategies to individuals’ own biomarker profiles backs up decision making processes with data giving your team an informed recovery strategy. | $2M | Series A | Feb 15, 2017 | http://orreco.com/ |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MANTIS Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mantis-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The General Partnership](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-general-partnership) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Banana Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banana-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Tom Killalea invest in?

Tom Killalea invests primarily in Cloud Security, Cyber Security and Cloud Infrastructure startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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 Tom Killalea?

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### When did Tom Killalea last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tom Killalea closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 8 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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