Warren Weiss
Founder & Partner @ WestWave Capital
Menlo Park, United States
Warren Weiss is a Series A investor at WestWave Capital in Menlo Park focused on Software and Information Technology. Warren, more commonly known as "Bunny", thrives on seeking out and uncovering early emerging technology winners. He remains a General Partner at Foundation Capital (where he is no longer making new investments). He currently serves on the boards of Orkus, ForgeRock, Visier, Moxie Software, SilkRoad Technology. He was named to the ForbesMidas List of Technology's Top Investors for his work with SilverSpring Networks. Bunny is a four time CEO of venture backed companies, and worked with Steve Jobs at Next Software. Bunny is also on the board of the Weiss Scholarship Foundation. The foundation was created in memory of Bernard and Elsie Weiss. In spite of their difficult circumstances, they worked hard to make sure their three sons had a great education—and therefore great lives. Bernard and Elsie were passionate about education and understood its importance in creating a successful life. That’s why Brett, their son, felt it was appropriate to begin this foundation in their memory. Inspired by Bernard’s and Elsie’s dedication and passion, we work each day to empower children by trying to create a world in which every child has the opportunity to receive a great education.Most recently, Warren was President and Chief Executive Officer at Asera, a real-time software solutions provider. Previously, Warren served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Prism Solutions during the company’s transition from data warehousing tools provider to business intelligence application deliverer. Prior to that, Warren was President of SQRIBE Technologies (now Hyperion) and earlier, President and Chief Executive Officer at SMI. Warren has held numerous other senior executive positions at Next Software (Apple), Continuum (Computer Sciences Corporation) and Dun & Bradstreet Software. Warren holds a B.S. degree from Western Illinois University.
- Total investments:
- 74
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Warren Weiss invests in
Stages Warren Weiss invests in
Countries Warren Weiss invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$11M
- Series A
- $4.9M–$16M
- Series B
- $15M–$85M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (22%)
- Information Technology 12 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (15%)
- SaaS 10 (14%)
- Cyber Security 10 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 19 (26%)
- Seed 18 (24%)
- Series B 4 (5%)
- Funding Round 4 (5%)
- Series C 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 31 (42%)
- Germany 1 (1%)
- Ireland 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Discern Security
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Discern Security develops artificial intelligence software that helps organizations assess, prioritize, and remediate cybersecurity risks across enterprise environments. The company's platform integrates with security tools to consolidate posture, configuration, asset, identity, vulnerability, and compliance data into a unified operationalview for security teams. Its technology provides AI-powered analysis, risk prioritization, automated security controls assessment, remediation workflows, policy management, and security dashboards that support continuous monitoring and operational decision-making.Discern Security also offers autonomous AI agents that assist with posture evaluation, remediation planning, workflow orchestration, reporting, and cross-platform security management while maintaining governance and auditability. The company's platform is designed to help security teams improve visibility, automate routine security operations, optimize existing security controls, and manage cyber risk across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and software-as-a-service environments. | $13M / Series A / Jul 30, 2026 | |
Lative
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Lative provides a real-time growth efficiency platform for sales organizations by analyzing sales performance with precision and purpose. It provides an investment decision platform to manage growth efficiency, headcount effectiveness, and capacity planning. | $7.5M / Nov 13, 2025 | |
TrustLogix
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TrustLogix is a patented, AI-powered data security platform that accelerates business with AI-ready data control. By unifying DSPM, policy enforcement, and AI data protection, TrustLogix keeps access, protection, and compliance continuously aligned across data, analytics, and AI. The platform automatically detects risks, right-sizes entitlements,and enforces least-privilege policies across Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI, and more—helping enterprises move faster, innovate safely, and stay future-proof in an era defined by speed, trust, and data-driven leadership. | $13M / Seed / Jan 28, 2025 | |
Binarly
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Binarly is a global firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021. The company’s flagship Binarly Transparency Platform is an enterprise-class, AI-powered solution used by device manufacturers, OEMs, IBVs and product security teams to identify known and unknown vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and signs of malicious codeimplantation. Binarly’s validated remediation playbooks have significantly reduced the cost and time to respond to security exposures. Based in Los Angeles, California, Binarly brings decades of research and program analysis expertise to build solutions to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, and consumers around the world. | $10.5M / Seed / Mar 26, 2024 | |
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Lative
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Lative provides a real-time growth efficiency platform for sales organizations by analyzing sales performance with precision and purpose. It provides an investment decision platform to manage growth efficiency, headcount effectiveness, and capacity planning. | $2.9M / Seed / Jan 18, 2024 | |
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Discern Security
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Discern Security develops artificial intelligence software that helps organizations assess, prioritize, and remediate cybersecurity risks across enterprise environments. The company's platform integrates with security tools to consolidate posture, configuration, asset, identity, vulnerability, and compliance data into a unified operationalview for security teams. Its technology provides AI-powered analysis, risk prioritization, automated security controls assessment, remediation workflows, policy management, and security dashboards that support continuous monitoring and operational decision-making.Discern Security also offers autonomous AI agents that assist with posture evaluation, remediation planning, workflow orchestration, reporting, and cross-platform security management while maintaining governance and auditability. The company's platform is designed to help security teams improve visibility, automate routine security operations, optimize existing security controls, and manage cyber risk across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and software-as-a-service environments. | $3M / Seed / Sep 19, 2023 | |
Secuvy Inc
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Secuvy is a Next-Generation Cloud Platform to automate Data Security, Privacy Compliance and Governance via AI-Driven workflows. Best in class Data Intelligence especially for Unstructured data. Single Click Deploy within minutes. Agentless, No Patching and Upgrade needed. Auto-classification eliminates any manual rules. Data Intelligence atPetabyte Scale. No Rules or Policies. Drastic reduction in costs, time and errors. | Seed / Mar 16, 2023 | |
Elate
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Elate is driving alignment and making reporting easier by creating a single source of truth for goals and KPIs. Be sure to follow our Twitter and company LinkedIn page to stay up to date with our latest news and content! | $4.9M / Series A / Feb 14, 2023 | |
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Binarly
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Binarly is a global firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021. The company’s flagship Binarly Transparency Platform is an enterprise-class, AI-powered solution used by device manufacturers, OEMs, IBVs and product security teams to identify known and unknown vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and signs of malicious codeimplantation. Binarly’s validated remediation playbooks have significantly reduced the cost and time to respond to security exposures. Based in Los Angeles, California, Binarly brings decades of research and program analysis expertise to build solutions to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, and consumers around the world. | $3.6M / Seed / Jun 22, 2022 | |
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Binarly
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Binarly is a global firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021. The company’s flagship Binarly Transparency Platform is an enterprise-class, AI-powered solution used by device manufacturers, OEMs, IBVs and product security teams to identify known and unknown vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and signs of malicious codeimplantation. Binarly’s validated remediation playbooks have significantly reduced the cost and time to respond to security exposures. Based in Los Angeles, California, Binarly brings decades of research and program analysis expertise to build solutions to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, and consumers around the world. | $3.6M / Pre-Seed / Jun 08, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About WestWave Capital
WestWave Capital is an early-stage Venture Capital firm that invests in Seed and Series A Enterprise companies building deep technology solutions. They focus on SaaS, security, cloud infrastructure, blockchain, analytics, and IoT companies.
WestWave Capital Contacts
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Gaurav Manglik
Partner
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Rong Cao
Partner
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Gail Haney
CFO
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Rohan Puranik
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Warren Weiss
Founder & Partner
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What does Warren Weiss invest in?
Warren Weiss invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 74 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Warren Weiss's check size?
Warren Weiss typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$11M at Seed, $4.9M–$16M at Series A and $15M–$85M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Warren Weiss participates in.
When did Warren Weiss last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Warren Weiss closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 74 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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