Kevin Mandia is a longtime operator-turned-investor who founded Mandiant from scratch, scaled it to 3,700+ employees through a $5.4B Google acquisition, and now applies 26 quarters of public-company CEO experience as a GP at Ballistic Ventures to help cyber founders avoid scaling mistakes. He brings an unusual combination of front-line technical work as a former USAF cyber investigator, Big Tech advisory experience at Google Cloud, and White House-level policy access as a 2023 presidential appointee to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, while actively co-founding offensive AI security tools like Armadin to stress-test the defenses his portfolio companies are building. Kevin Mandia is a longtime operator-turned-investor who founded Mandiant from scratch, scaled it to 3,700+ employees through a $5.4B Google acquisition, and now applies 26 quarters of public-company CEO experience as a GP at Ballistic Ventures to help cyber founders avoid scaling mistakes. He brings an unusual combination of front-line technical work as a former USAF cyber investigator, Big Tech advisory experience at Google Cloud, and White House-level policy access as a 2023 presidential appointee to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, while actively co-founding offensive AI security tools like Armadin to stress-test the defenses his portfolio companies are building.