Cyber Investing in the AI Exploit Era

What happens to security investing when vulnerability discovery becomes continuous and exploitation windows shrink from weeks to hours? I sit down with Chenxi Wang of Rain Capital to dig into it.

Chenxi is the Founder and Managing General Partner at Rain Capital, a venture fund focused on early-stage cybersecurity companies. She's been a Carnegie Mellon professor, a Forrester VP, and a strategy leader at Intel Security and Twistlock, and her portfolio includes companies like Claroty, ProjectDiscovery, Ox Security, runZero, and Straiker. She closes out my July run of conversations with security investors.

In this episode:

• The AI Exploit Age and why vulnerability discovery is becoming continuous
• Guardian Agents and the case that it takes an AI to govern an AI
• Separating AI agent identity from traditional machine identity
• The signals that predict enterprise adoption for early-stage security startups
• The barbell funding market and the squeeze on Series B and C
• What security leaders should do differently over the next twelve months

Connect with Chenxi:
 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chenxiwang88/
Rain Capital: https://raincap.vc/
Rain Capital Insights: https://raincapital.substack.com

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