Cyber Leaders Investment Circle
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Founder intake · Network access

You're building for the CISO. Start with a room full of them.

CLIC is an operator-only circle of current and recent security leaders investing at the AI × security frontier. Members tell us which pressures are real in their environments, and we curate the founders working on them. Tell us what you're building and how we can help, and we'll come back within five business days.

What happens next

  1. We read itTwo partners review every submission. No auto-responders, no drip sequence.
  2. A 30-minute callWhat you're building, your stage, and where the circle can actually move the needle.
  3. In front of the roomIf what you're building meets a pressure members have named, you enter the pipeline members see first.

The demand you'd be meeting

80 : 1 Non-human identities to humans in the average enterprise. 86% of security leaders don't enforce access policy for AI identities. KPMG · Saviynt, 2026
+$670K Added cost of a breach involving shadow AI, present in one of every five breaches. IBM Cost of a Data Breach
96% Of CISOs now own AI governance, most without matching budget or headcount. SecurityWeek, Cyber Insights 2026

What you share here stays with the founding partners. We don't circulate decks outside the circle, and we won't put you in front of a member without talking to you first.

Who you are

Company and role are used to route the conversation. Nothing here is published anywhere.

Please enter your name.

Please enter a valid email address.

Please enter your role.

Please enter your company.

If you're in stealth, leave it blank.

Please select your stage.

What you're building

One line on the product, then the pressures it addresses. These are the same nine categories our members report on from their own environments, so your answers map directly onto live demand from the room. Select as many as apply.

Please describe what you're building.

How can we help?

The circle is capital, but it's also design partners, pilot environments, and operator angels who own the problem you're solving. Tell us which doors matter.

Be specific. The more concrete the ask, the faster we can route it: a pilot in a regulated environment, a lead for your seed, a CISO gut-check on the roadmap.

Please add a few details so we can route the ask.

Please select an option.

A deck, a demo, a memo. Whatever tells the story best.
A member's name, an event, a mutual connection. Anything helps.

Response within five business days. Your materials stay with the founding partners.

Received.

Two of the founding partners will read this personally. Expect a reply within five business days, from a person, not a sequence.

If something's changed in the meantime, or you'd rather talk sooner, write to join@oakseedvc.com.

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