Raza Brilzen

A governance roundtable I attended earlier this year kept returning to the same realization: nobody in the room was struggling with the technology anymore. What they were stuck on was everything surrounding it, such as who owns the risk, where the data actually lives, and what happens when a system…

Artificial intelligence has become the central organizing challenge for the security industry. The old security playbook, with firewalls at the perimeter, antivirus on the endpoint, and periodic access reviews, was never built for systems that read untrusted data and act on their own. Cybersecurity in the age of AI is…

Venture capital followed a predictable path for decades. A startup raised a pre-seed round and secured a larger seed investment. Afterward, it graduated to Series A and, if growth continued, climbed through Series B, C, and beyond before reaching an IPO or acquisition. Every stage had its own investors, each…

Pitching a VC on autonomous drone swarms in 2023 would have gotten you a polite pass. Orbital manufacturing? “Interesting, but not for us.” Another cybersecurity dashboard? Good luck, but the market felt tapped out. Defense was unattractive to LPs with ethics mandates. The space was still nursing its SPAC hangover.…