Virtue AI’s Post

Cybersecurity Buyer Pitch Results? 🎉 Congratulations to the 10 finalist and winner of the 11/20 Cybersecurity Buyer Pitch presented by Auth0 for Startup & Okta Ventures! Thank you for co-hosting this amazing event Eli Rabek & Eunice Wong! What is a buyer pitch? It's like a VC pitch but with buyers...yes, the people whose opinions should matter the most ☺️ We have a simple agenda... 5-min --> buyers share top priorities they're solving 35-min --> buyers review 10 startup pitches 1-min --> buyers select the most likely tool they'd consider buying (aka the winner 🏆) 15-min --> Q&A - a chance for those not selected to ask relevant questions to the buyers This is more than event; it's a movement to help founders grow faster. This is also SO much bigger than anyone person or company. 👇 Look at all the people who participated to make this possible 🙌 🏆 Winner: Virtue AI, Bo Li 🏅Top 3: Zluri, Ritish Reddy IceGuard, Anders Holden 🎉 Finalist / Top 10: Lume Security, Adon Mallory DeepTrail, Mahendra Kutare Mind, Eran Barak Soteria, Rosemary Nwosu-Ihueze Open Refactory, Munawar Hafiz Aesopic AI, Naresh Guntupalli HERD Security, Brandon Min 🎤 Shoutout to the amazing panel of CISO's / Head of Cybersecurity: Okta's Regional CSO, Americas Matthew Immler --> 🙏 thank Eli Rabek for intro! Confluent's CISO Chris Sandulow --> 🙏 thank Tim Graczewski for intro! Chargebee's Head of Cybersecurity, Suhel Khan --> 🙏 thank Baargav Duggirala for intro! 🙏 Big thanks to the pre-vote judges for helping shape this: Rick. N. Dinesh Rajasekharan Wagner Nascimento Yogesh Badwe Joshua Copeland Thank you to a few of the VCs / partners that referred startups! Anna (Klute) Kessler, Lightspeed Austin A., Okta Ventures Helen Hyungmin P., Antler John Eng, Right Side Capital Management Sharran Deora, DV Gopi Rangan, Sure Ventures Arpan Punyani, Garuda Ventures Dr. Paul Fang, Bay Area Founders Club Vivek Sodera, Supercharge.vc 🎉 Shoutout to the incredible hosts & sponsors powering this event: Drake Dukes Gravity, Aditya Rohit, Tim Graczewski, Baargav Duggirala, and The Founder Initiative (TFI)