BlackHat 2024: Building Greatness in Security - Alberto Yepez, ForgePoint Capital

The venture capital market is fiercely competitive, and there is a reason today’s guest has so many top security investments to his name!

Oliver Legg welcomed Alberto Yepez, Co-founder & Managing Director of ForgePoint Capital, on to the BlackHat Edition of CyberBytes: The Podcast  

Alberto’s impressive career started as an early employee at Apple, helping build the foundations of the company we all know today. He has been involved in many of the most exciting security vendors, and driven ForgePoint to take a unique approach to investing. 

One key to their success has been a truly global reach and push away from just Silicon Valley. An example being finding the founders of Reversing Labs in Croatia and helping them become a leading supply chain security company. 

• The meaning and impact of bringing Context & Contacts to early stage companies 

• The creation of a defined talent function and the impact it has had on ForgePoint’s investments 

• The unique approach ForgePoint take with their own staff and deep exposure employees get very early on 

We did not have time to discuss the huge effort Alberto and his team put into diversity, both with their own staff and the companies they invest in. I hear many good things on this point from key figures across the industry, and it is refreshing to see a VC making it a priority. 

Thank you for coming on the show, Alberto!

Alberto’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertoyepez/

Oliver’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverlegg/

Aspiron Search - https://aspironsearch.com/

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