Market Analysis With a VC – Introducing Will Lin – ESW #248
In our news segments, we often discuss and explore the ever-expanding vendor landscape. Funding rounds are getting huge, we're seeing upwards of 40 acquisitions each month - there's a lot of money and activity in the enterprise cybersecurity market.
This is going to be a quarterly, recurring segment, in which we bring on a VC to provide an investor's point-of-view on all this activity. It's hard to imagine a better investor to join us than Will Lin, co-founder of Forgepoint, one of the few VC firms that exclusively invests in cybersecurity startups!
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Will Lin is the CEO of AKA Identity, which he co-founded in 2023 with Rob Fry to solve the hardest problem in identity: data. Prior to co-founding AKA Identity, Will was the managing director at Forgepoint Capital, where he invested in some of today’s leading cybersecurity companies. Will also previously held roles at Trident Capital, where he focused on investments in cybersecurity, financial services, and software, and Citi. At Citi, Will was an investment banking analyst and worked on various strategic transactions and capital offerings with companies such as Facebook, GoPro, and SAP.
Will graduated with Honors in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Outside of AKA Identity, Will enjoys traveling, racing cars, and constantly experimenting with new gadgets.
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