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Investor profile

Zane Lackey

General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

About

Zane Lackey brings a rare combination of hands-on hacking experience, CISO operations at Etsy during the early DevOps era, and founder experience building Signal Sciences from his own painful problems as a security leader. He focuses on backing founders who embed security directly into developer workflows rather than bolting it on, and champions an "AI-native security" approach where companies build security from the ground up around AI workflows instead of retrofitting existing tools. Zane Lackey brings a rare combination of hands-on hacking experience, CISO operations at Etsy during the early DevOps era, and founder experience building Signal Sciences from his own painful problems as a security leader. He focuses on backing founders who embed security directly into developer workflows rather than bolting it on, and champions an "AI-native security" approach where companies build security from the ground up around AI workflows instead of retrofitting existing tools.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Early Stage VC
Late Stage VC
Sectors
AI
Defense
BioTech
Consumer
Web3
Crypto

Investment details

Avg check size$500K - $100M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
Asia-Pacific
USA