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Sunil James

Taking a break to help others.

San Francisco Bay Area

Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Customer Acquisition
Executive Management
Early-Stage Startups
Competitive Analysis
Go-to-market Strategy
Product Management
Cloud Computing
Product Marketing
Business Alliances

Education

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Based in SF

3078 people

Work Experience

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Stanza

2022

  • Strategery Advisor & Board Member

    2022

    Working with amazing entrepreneurs and SRE -types from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Stripe, and more to help engineers understand what’s happening, collaborate efficiently, and act intelligently by fusing SRE wisdom with a real-time model of their production software environment.

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Stacklet

2020

  • Strategery Advisor

    2020

    Working with amazing entrepreneurs to deliver enterprise governance as code (similar to how infrastructure is managed as code today) to software and security engineering teams with an easy to use, standardized language for enforcing governance policies in large scale, dynamic cloud environments.

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Batteries Included

2022

  • Strategery Advisor

    2022

    Working with amazing entrepreneurs from Facebook and more who are helping the next generation of entrepnuerial engineers more easily build the modern, tech-forward enterprises of tomorrow.

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Accuknox

2020

  • Strategery Advisor

    2020

    Working with amazing entrepreneurs to deliver cloud security capabilities partially built upon AppArmor, eBPF, SELinux, and SPIFFE/SPIRE that allow enterprises to continuously monitor and protect running Kubernetes containers.

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Ubiquity Ventures

2017

  • Strategery Advisor

    2017

HP
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

2020 - 2023

  • Vice President of Software Engineering

    2022 - 2023

    I led a global team of HPE GreenLake engineers dedicated to securing customer data. My focus included strengthening our identity, authentication, and authorization services to safeguard our customers and cloud-native infrastructure. I also drove the productization of innovations from my prior HPE roles. Together, we helped shape a secure and innovative future for our customers.

  • Vice President, Product & Engineering

    2021 - 2022

    Following HPE’s acquisition of Scytale, I led product and engineering for HPE’s security engineering division, which has teammates in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We delivered security into (and through) HPE’s hardware and software products through efforts like Project Aurora. We partnered with HPE product and engineering leaders to understand the security needs of them and their customers.

  • Senior Director, Product & Engineering

    2020 - 2021

    Following HPE’s acquisition of Scytale, I led product and engineering for HPE’s security engineering division, which has teammates in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We delivered security into (and through) HPE’s hardware and software products through efforts like Project Aurora. We partnered with HPE product and engineering leaders to understand the security needs of them and their customers.

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Noq Software

2021 - 2023

  • Strategery Advisor

    2021 - 2023

    Worked with amazing entrepreneurs from Netflix, Google, Yelp, and more who were empowering developers to deliver stronger cloud security with self-service automation for IAMOps (cloud identity and access management operations).

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Passage

2021 - 2022

  • Strategery Advisor

    2021 - 2022

    Acquired by 1Password: https://blog.1password.com/1password-acquires-passage Worked with amazing entrepreneurs to breathe to life a developer-first and biometric-first approach to passwordless authentication, enabling users to login to web applications with Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, and other biometrics built into their devices.

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Scytale.io

2017 - 2020

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2017 - 2020

    Acquired by HPE: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/blog-post/2020/02/hpe-acquires-scytale-to-advance-open-secure-edge-to-cloud-strategy.html

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Bessemer Venture Partners

2014 - 2017

  • Vice President

    2014 - 2017

    Invested in: Bastille Networks: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bastille-networks-2 Claroty: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/claroty Illusive Networks: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/illusive-networks iSIGHT Partners: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/isight-partners Kandou Bus: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kandou-bus Team8: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/team8 Observer to: Endgame: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/endgame-inc Internet Identity (IID): https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/internet-identity Nominum: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nominum Reputation.com: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reputation-com Smule: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/smule