# William Crowell

> William Crowell is a seed investor at Alsop Louie Partners backing Security and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alsop Louie Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alsop-louie-partners)
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-crowell-65bb433a

William Crowell is a Partner of Alsop Louie Partners and a Board Member of Seaport and CYR3CON. He was an Independent Consultant specializing in Information Technology, Security, and Intelligence Systems before that. He is a director at SafeNet, Inc., encryption, data protection, and authentication solutions, which is in the process of beingacquired by Gemalto. He is also a director at DeviceAuthority, device authentication; SAP NS2, a subsidiary of SAP; and Toopher, multifactor authentication.He is Chairman of the Board of Centripetal, a startup in the rule-based packet gateway and filter area. Until its acquisition by Cisco in June 2007, he was Chairman of Broadware Technologies, a video surveillance software company.He was also a director at ArcSight, Inc. (ARST), which was acquired by HP in October 2010; Narus, Inc. which was acquired by Boeing in July 2010; Six3 Systems which was acquired by CACI in November 2013, Air Patrol, wireless network security company acquired by Sysorex in May 2014, and Fixmo, Inc., a mobile device security company acquired by Good Technologies in June 2014.Crowell served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Santa Clara, California-based Cylink Corporation, a public company and leading provider of e-business security solutions from November 1998 to February 2003, when Cylink was acquired by SafeNet, Inc.Crowell came to Cylink from the National Security Agency, where he held a series of senior positions in operations, analysis, strategic planning, research and development, and finance. He served as Deputy Director of Operations from 1991 to 1994 running its core signals intelligence mission. In February 1994 he was appointed by President Clinton as the Deputy Director of NSA and served in that post until his retirement in September 1997.From 1989 to 1990, Crowell served as a vice president at Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation, later acquired by Titan Corp, leading business development in space technology, signal processing, and intelligence systems. In April 1999, Crowell was appointed to the President’s Export Council (PEC), which advised the administration on trade and export policy.After 9/11, he served on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, which published three landmark studies on Homeland Security and information sharing. He has also served on numerous panels to investigate and improve military command and control, intelligence, and security systems and served as Chairman of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group from 2007 – 2014.Crowell is an expert on network and information security issues. In December 2008 Security Magazine selected him as one of the 25 most influential people in the security industry. In May 2007 he co-authored the book, “Physical and Logical Security Convergence,” published by Elsevier. He has been quoted in many trades and business publications including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, USA Today, Information Week, Network World, Computer World, Federal Computer Week, CIO Magazine, and the San Jose Mercury News. Crowell has also appeared on CBS MarketWatch, CNET News, CNBC, and The Charlie Rose Show.He was the technical advisor to the TV series, “Threat Matrix” during its run on ABC in the 2003 season.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Security | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 33% |
| Network Security | 2 | 33% |
| Computer | 1 | 17% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RunSafe Security | RunSafe Security is on a mission to immunize software from cyber attacks and disrupt hacker economics without developer friction. RunSafe's patented technology, Alkemist, inoculates customers' systems from an entire class of cyber attacks by stopping the infection at its source. Our customers integrate our product across build and deploytoolchains to protect open source, in-house code, and 3rd party binaries. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an office in Huntsville, Alabama, RunSafe Security's customers span the critical infrastructure, IIoT, automotive, medical, develops, and national security industries. | $12M | Series B | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Device Authority | Device Authority provides simple, innovative solutions to address the challenges of securing the Internet of Things (IoT). We help our customers simplify the process of establishing a robust, end-to-end security architecture within the IoT and deliver efficiencies at scale through security automation.IoT brings new security challengesintroduced by the scale and pace of adoption, as well as the physical consequences of compromised security. These challenges cannot be effectively addressed by traditional Information Technology (IT) security solutions. The Device Authority IoT security platform is purpose-built to address these challenges through automated device provisioning, credential management, secure updates and policy-driven data encryption.The IoT promises countless efficiencies, increased competitiveness, improved customer service and even brand new market opportunities. However, deploying strong security is hard and always has been. Deploying strong IoT security is even harder. According to Gartner, by 2020, around 25% of all identified security breaches will involve IoT. To address this, Device Authority introduces a new paradigm of IoT Security Automation that accelerates and simplifies the deployment of strong IoT security.Advanced, policy driven security automation is critical for industrial, healthcare, transportation and other large scale security sensitive IoT environments. Our patented dynamic key technology provides the essential device-based trust anchor for IoT devices, enabling policy-driven provisioning, access control and data protection for mission-critical IoT applications and services.The dedicated IoT Security entity was launched in September 2014 when the Cryptosoft technology was spun out with backing from the current investors. In April 2016 Cryptosoft acquired DeviceAuthority Inc, and subsequently the changed its name to Device Authority Ltd, headquartered in the UK and with a technical development center based in Fremont, CA. | $2.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 02, 2021 |  |
| RunSafe Security | RunSafe Security is on a mission to immunize software from cyber attacks and disrupt hacker economics without developer friction. RunSafe's patented technology, Alkemist, inoculates customers' systems from an entire class of cyber attacks by stopping the infection at its source. Our customers integrate our product across build and deploytoolchains to protect open source, in-house code, and 3rd party binaries. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an office in Huntsville, Alabama, RunSafe Security's customers span the critical infrastructure, IIoT, automotive, medical, develops, and national security industries. | $6.3M | Series A | Nov 30, 2019 |  |
| RunSafe Security | RunSafe Security is on a mission to immunize software from cyber attacks and disrupt hacker economics without developer friction. RunSafe's patented technology, Alkemist, inoculates customers' systems from an entire class of cyber attacks by stopping the infection at its source. Our customers integrate our product across build and deploytoolchains to protect open source, in-house code, and 3rd party binaries. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an office in Huntsville, Alabama, RunSafe Security's customers span the critical infrastructure, IIoT, automotive, medical, develops, and national security industries. | $2.4M | Seed | May 16, 2018 |  |
| Device Authority | Device Authority provides simple, innovative solutions to address the challenges of securing the Internet of Things (IoT). We help our customers simplify the process of establishing a robust, end-to-end security architecture within the IoT and deliver efficiencies at scale through security automation.IoT brings new security challengesintroduced by the scale and pace of adoption, as well as the physical consequences of compromised security. These challenges cannot be effectively addressed by traditional Information Technology (IT) security solutions. The Device Authority IoT security platform is purpose-built to address these challenges through automated device provisioning, credential management, secure updates and policy-driven data encryption.The IoT promises countless efficiencies, increased competitiveness, improved customer service and even brand new market opportunities. However, deploying strong security is hard and always has been. Deploying strong IoT security is even harder. According to Gartner, by 2020, around 25% of all identified security breaches will involve IoT. To address this, Device Authority introduces a new paradigm of IoT Security Automation that accelerates and simplifies the deployment of strong IoT security.Advanced, policy driven security automation is critical for industrial, healthcare, transportation and other large scale security sensitive IoT environments. Our patented dynamic key technology provides the essential device-based trust anchor for IoT devices, enabling policy-driven provisioning, access control and data protection for mission-critical IoT applications and services.The dedicated IoT Security entity was launched in September 2014 when the Cryptosoft technology was spun out with backing from the current investors. In April 2016 Cryptosoft acquired DeviceAuthority Inc, and subsequently the changed its name to Device Authority Ltd, headquartered in the UK and with a technical development center based in Fremont, CA. |  |  | Apr 21, 2016 |  |
| Device Authority | Device Authority provides simple, innovative solutions to address the challenges of securing the Internet of Things (IoT). We help our customers simplify the process of establishing a robust, end-to-end security architecture within the IoT and deliver efficiencies at scale through security automation.IoT brings new security challengesintroduced by the scale and pace of adoption, as well as the physical consequences of compromised security. These challenges cannot be effectively addressed by traditional Information Technology (IT) security solutions. The Device Authority IoT security platform is purpose-built to address these challenges through automated device provisioning, credential management, secure updates and policy-driven data encryption.The IoT promises countless efficiencies, increased competitiveness, improved customer service and even brand new market opportunities. However, deploying strong security is hard and always has been. Deploying strong IoT security is even harder. According to Gartner, by 2020, around 25% of all identified security breaches will involve IoT. To address this, Device Authority introduces a new paradigm of IoT Security Automation that accelerates and simplifies the deployment of strong IoT security.Advanced, policy driven security automation is critical for industrial, healthcare, transportation and other large scale security sensitive IoT environments. Our patented dynamic key technology provides the essential device-based trust anchor for IoT devices, enabling policy-driven provisioning, access control and data protection for mission-critical IoT applications and services.The dedicated IoT Security entity was launched in September 2014 when the Cryptosoft technology was spun out with backing from the current investors. In April 2016 Cryptosoft acquired DeviceAuthority Inc, and subsequently the changed its name to Device Authority Ltd, headquartered in the UK and with a technical development center based in Fremont, CA. |  |  | Mar 30, 2015 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tern](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ternplc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [NextGen Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextgenvp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BMW i Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bmw-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Center for Innovative Technology](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/center-for-innovative-technology) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Virginia Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cit-gap-funds) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Critical Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/critical-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Alsop Louie Partners

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Alsop Louie Partners focuses on identifying the most promising entrepreneurs and working with information technology companies specializing in traditional VC parlance and early-stage technology investments. The firm prefers to follow the instincts and experience of the entrepreneurs and invest in all kinds of technology-based ventures. It believesthat it is not the job of venture investors to fund companies that require large amounts of capital, more than $20M, to create a stable, validated business operation.

5 contacts available at Alsop Louie Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jason Preston | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-preston-2 |
| Jim Ward | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-ward |
| Jim Whims | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-whims |
| Mark G Fields | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-fields-2 |
| William Crowell | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-p-crowell |

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## FAQ

### What does William Crowell invest in?

William Crowell invests primarily in Security, Software and Cyber Security startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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 William Crowell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for William Crowell closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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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