Gula Tech Adventures Complete Portfolio Overview
November 12 2019 Filed in: Cyber Technology
Since founding in 2017, Gula Tech Adventures has performed a variety of investments directly in cyber start-ups as well as cyber funds. This blog captures all companies across each of our funds and direct investments and is updated as needed. Some companies are listed in multiple categories.
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CyberWire Episode 864
November 07 2019 Filed in: Gula Interviews
Ron Gula was interviewed for The CyberWire Daily Podcast episode 684 by Dave Bittner. We spoke a lot about the types of pitfalls cyber entrepreneurs fall into. Read More…
Securing Salesforce and your favorite SaaS Applications
If you have not moved to the cloud, you likely will soon. Along the way you will likely have adopted software as a service applications (SaaS) such as Salesforce, Service Now and Office365. Security teams that grew up counting corporate on-premise vulnerabilities or finding exploitable web applications are ill equipped to secure and audit these applications. Fortunately, AppOmni enables security teams to audit their major SaaS applications. I got to ask the former CISO of Salesforce and former Security CTO for ServiceNow, Brendan O’Connor, about why he created AppOmni and what sorts of cyber risks SaaS applications can introduce into an organization.
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Cyber Entrepreneur PitFalls You Can Avoid
September 23 2019 Filed in: Cyber Start-Ups | Popular
I have the privilege of meeting a handful of new cyber entrepreneurs every week, but unfortunately, a very small percentage of the companies I meet with receive an investment for a variety of reasons. I point many entrepreneurs to my “Five Slide Pitch Deck” blog which asks them to clearly state what problem they solve, how they solve it, some proof that it works, what they want to accomplish with an investment and their long term vision for the company.
Even with those questions clearly stated, there is still a lot of opportunity for an entrepreneur to quickly lose the interest of a potential investor. In this blog, I asked several cyber venture capitalists about what bugs them during pitches, what “pet peeves” they have entrepreneurs should avoid and what I like to refer as “sins” entrepreneurs often make without realizing it.
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Using AI to Grow Your Next Agile Development Team
Catalyte uses AI and data science to build technology workforces for the world’s most progressive companies. During the last few years, I've gotten to know Catalyte CEO Jacob Hsu and Gula Tech Adventures participated in Catalyte's last round of fund raising. Catalyte's ability to grow agile software teams here in the US in places like Baltimore City resonated with me. In this interview, I ask Jacob a wide variety of questions about how modern software companies should think about leveraging Catalyte to grow more developers from within their organizations and in their backyards.
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