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Karim Faris posted thisToday, ServiceNow has completed its acquisition of Veza. We at GV (Google Ventures) are incredibly proud to have supported Tarun Thakur, Maohua Lu Ph.D, and Robert Whitcher on this journey. They had identified early on that Authorization was the missing piece and had the foresight to focus on permissions and entitlements, the purest form of access. It was a problem that everyone had but few had truly solved... As we enter the AI Era, Enterprises need to govern and manage both AI agent and human access to systems. This timely combination connects Veza's comprehensive Access Graph with ServiceNow's AI platform, empowering enterprises to scale access visibility and controls to protect all customers. I am excited for what comes next. Phil Venables, Suresh Vasudevan, Puneet Agarwal, Eric Wolford, Dave Zilberman, Aaron Jacobson, Jake Seid, Adam Fletcher, Chris Nims, Elena Zislin, Rich Dandliker, Amit Zavery, John Aisien, Philip Kirk
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Karim Faris posted thisCongratulations to the WitnessAI team on the $58M round! This moment coincides with the launch of an expanded set of agentic security controls, treating agents on a similar level as humans. Rick Caccia and the team have built the most comprehensive platform to secure AI environments and interactions. Witness turns AI potential into Enterprise reality, providing the secure foundation to confidently enable AI across the organization. This financing is led by Sound Ventures and joined by Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Fin Capital, B3 Capital, Artisanal Ventures, and Forgepoint Capital. We at GV (Google Ventures) are excited for the journey ahead. Juliette Bolea, Zach Gronfein, Deepak Prasad, Barmak Meftah, Roger Thornton, Paul M. Nakasone, Gil Spencer, Stephanie Gilliam, Dan Graves, Alex Waterman, Faisal Rahman.
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Karim Faris reposted thisKarim Faris reposted thisThis morning at 6am PT, we have publicly announced that Veza has entered into a definitive agreement to join ServiceNow. This is a monumental event in our journey, and one that reflects the incredible dedication and belief each of #Vezanite has put into building Veza. When Maohua Lu Ph.D, Robert Whitcher, and I founded Veza, we did so with the strong conviction that identity would evolve to become a critical pillar of security and that the legacy players had only - and could only - scratch the surface of what needed to be done. Over the past 5 years, we’ve collectively disrupted a traditionally sleepy part of the cybersecurity — identity security — by bringing a fundamentally transformative approach to solving an increasingly complex and challenging problem: how to achieve least privilege. Together, we’ve built more than a product; we’ve initiated a category-defining transformation in how enterprises think about identity and identity security. Most importantly, our vision resonates with customers who rely on Veza to answer the core question of identity security: who has access to what data, and who should. This clarity is mission-critical, and we’re proud to support customers such as Blackstone, Capital One, Intuit, Sallie Mae and Acrisure who trust us to bring transparency and control to their most sensitive access decisions. It's an honor to be partnering with sharpest data, identity, and AI enthusiasts: the team at ServiceNow - Bill McDermott Gina Mastantuono Amit Zavery John Aisien Philip Kirk Chris Bedi Ben de Bont Bryan Casper Pablo Stern Lou Fiorello and teams. Thank you Amit Zavery for setting a big bold business vision for this partnership and bringing it to life. Your commitment to both elite level execution and culture—ensuring Veza and ServiceNow’s hungry, humble, and customer-obsessed values remain aligned—sets the foundation for an exciting next chapter. Thank you Chris Bedi and Philip Kirk for believing in Veza’s unique architecture and our mission to transform identity when we met for the first time in 2023! Thank you John Aisien for recognizing the power of Veza’s Access Graph - I’m especially grateful for your unwavering support. This all started on July 4th @ 6am PST -- your pure startup mindset is the kernel behind ServiceNow + Veza. To our Vezanites: this moment is a tribute to your hard work, your engineering excellence, and your belief in a world where identity is secure by default. This acquisition validates everything we’ve achieved so far. Because of your hard work, persistence, and belief in our mission, we are now ready for the next step: partnering with ServiceNow teams to unleash the power of Veza’s platform across enterprise customers. To our Board of Directors and Investors: “thank you” doesn’t feel like enough. I’m incredibly grateful for your trust, support, advice, feedback, and dedication. You’ve challenged us, pushed us, and helped us grow into the company that reached this milestone. Onward!
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Karim Faris reposted thisKarim Faris reposted thisThank you to our VEZANITES, our customers and our partners for helping us build fast and grow bold into our mission and vision - securing access to data everywhere and anywhere. GO VEZA!! Thank you Fast Company for recognizing Veza — “Keeping data safe and the bad guys at bay” https://lnkd.in/gcyyuK3Y #identitysecurity #cybersecurity #leastprivilege
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Karim Faris reposted thisThe new GNSS/GPS L5 signal is much more accurate and 30x harder to jam. Our new mixed signal ASIC solves the very hard problem of acquiring the new L5 signal, without first acquiring the old L1 signal, with ultra-low power consumption. With US Space Force's announcement yesterday of the 19th new GPS satellite launch tomorrow that supports L5, the use of L5 will rapidly expand.Karim Faris reposted thisWe're pleased to announce the successful bring-up of the world's first L5-direct™ GNSS receiver ASIC. This groundbreaking L5 receiver, completely independent of vulnerable L1 signals, was rapidly developed and deployed leveraging the advanced GlobalFoundries (GF) 22nm FDX™ platform, benefiting from its exceptional mixed-signal capabilities and ultra-low power performance for both RF and digital domains. "GlobalFoundries is proud to partner with innovative companies like oneNav to enable the next generation of technologies," said Ezra Hall, senior director of aerospace, defense, and critical infrastructure at GlobalFoundries. "The successful bring-up of oneNav's groundbreaking L5-direct™ GNSS receiver on 22FDX+ showcases the unique advantages of our platform. Its optimized power and performance, combined with superior mixed-signal integration, make it an ideal choice for demanding applications requiring both high precision and low power consumption. Earlier this year, oneNav partnered with three military agencies to evaluate L5-direct in terrestrial, maritime, and aerial environments while under strong simulated electronic warfare conditions. The successful outcomes of these evaluations confirmed the technology's complete immunity to L1 signal interference and thirty-fold greater resilience to L5 signal interference. L5-direct can be deployed in defense, national security, industrial, and consumer applications giving an order of magnitude improvement in jamming resistance for critical GPS-based positioning and timing applications. To read the full press release, visit https://bit.ly/3Z6K7fG #resilientPNT #semiconductor #defense #L5direct
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Karim Faris shared thisCongratulations to the Altana team on today’s Series C announcement! It’s been a privilege to partner with Evan Smith, Peter Swartz, and Raphael Tehranian since the company’s Series A. The GV team is excited to support Altana’s growth as they create a value chain management system using applied AI that illuminates global supply chains.Karim Faris shared this"The era of unbridled outsourcing is over. Altana is uniquely suited to facilitate a new paradigm – organized around trusted global value chains." Founded in 2019, Altana addresses the need for more visibility across siloed supply chain networks with a dynamic, unified digital representation of global value chains. The company brings applied AI to the infrastructure of global commerce and unlocks new solutions, including: ➡️ The first-ever system to provide accurate Scope 3 carbon measurement. ➡️ The ability to coordinate supply and demand intelligently to reduce costs and working capital. ➡️ New methods to price and insure against the risks of supply chain business interruptions. We're thrilled to continue supporting Evan Smith, Peter Swartz, Raphael Tehranian, and the Altana team as they create resilient and sustainable global value chains for some of the world's most innovative companies. Read more in Forbes about Altana, where GV's Karim Faris and Altana's Evan Smith discuss the opportunity ahead. Congrats to Altana on today's announcement! 🎉 https://bit.ly/4dogXNxAltana, An AI Platform For Supply Chain Data, Hits Unicorn Status After $200 Million RaiseAltana, An AI Platform For Supply Chain Data, Hits Unicorn Status After $200 Million Raise
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Karim Faris shared thisSaaS sprawl and expectations from a new generation of workers present one of our era’s most critical cybersecurity challenges: staying on top of fast-moving software proliferation to ensure employees and employers have robust security in an ever-present threat landscape. Push Security has set out to solve this with a new approach to user-driven security, and GV (Google Ventures) is thrilled to lead a $15 million Series A in the company. Welcome to the portfolio, Adam Bateman, Tyrone Erasmus, and Jacques Louw! https://lnkd.in/g3-fKD9KKarim Faris shared thisWelcome to the portfolio, Push Security, Adam Bateman //O, Tyrone Erasmus //O, and Jacques Louw 🎉 GV’s Karim Faris and Vidu Shanmugarajah share more about Push’s approach to help enterprises scale SaaS security — http://bit.ly/3KdGHj4Push Security: A New Future for Enterprise SaaS SecurityPush Security: A New Future for Enterprise SaaS Security
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Karim Faris shared thisBuilt by some of cybersecurity's best serial entrepreneurs, Pangea provides a comprehensive set of services for builders. We're excited to welcome Oliver Friedrichs and the entire Pangea team to the GV (Google Ventures) portfolio! https://lnkd.in/g2zqqQXePangea Cyber wants to simplify security for developers with an API approach | TechCrunchPangea Cyber wants to simplify security for developers with an API approach | TechCrunch
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Karim Faris shared thisKarim Faris shared thisIt was my last day at Google today! I felt a bout of nostalgia as I handed in my laptop, phone, and badge. What's next? Another startup, likely in the consumer space in which I've worked for the majority of my time in Area 120. #google
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More here: https://www.servicenow.com/blogs/2026/enterprise-identity-control-plane-is-here
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Karim Faris liked thisKarim Faris liked thisFrom the day one Censys has prioritized collecting the best data on Earth. Censys CEO Zakir Durumeric on why best-in-class visibility and intelligence about Internet infrastructure is the foundation everything else is built on.Internet Intelligence & Visibility for Modern Security Operations | Censys CEO Zakir DurumericInternet Intelligence & Visibility for Modern Security Operations | Censys CEO Zakir Durumeric
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Karim Faris liked thisAfter more than three decades in uniform — including leading U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency — I've seen how quickly the threat facing individuals, families, and organizations are evolving. Today, I'm proud to introduce the Nakasone Group. We built this firm to bring the caliber of security counsel once reserved for the highest levels of government to those navigating today's most complex challenges — quietly, discreetly, and to the highest standard. Honored to serve as Founder and Chairman alongside an exceptional team, and looking forward to the work ahead. www.nakasonegroup.com
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Karim Faris liked thisKarim Faris liked thisA couple weeks out from Black Hat 2026, and I'm still reflecting on how incredible this event was: ServiceNow Security is HERE !!! Amazing to show up in such a BIG way and have the opportunity to share the ServiceNow Security story, architecture matters - and, introducing the principles of our shift-zero architecture, incorporating the category-defining innovations of Veza and Armis and our Risk and Security products. When we founded Veza in 2020, we believed that access permissions are the purest form of access. Every organization needed to see and control who has access to what — that identity and access had to be central to security. Six years later, that mission feels more urgent than ever now with AI Era - every AI App operates with service principals, AI Agent that access resources operates with dedicated service keys, singleplayer AI vs. multiplayer AI, Claude Tag access model, etc. Walking through the Black Hat show floor, meeting with security leaders wrestling with identity sprawl, least-privileged access, and the explosion of AI-driven risk... it's clear: the identity conversation has never mattered more. A huge thank you to the ServiceNow Security & Risk teams, and everyone who stopped by to hear what we're building together. The fact that we can now bring this identity security into the heart of the ServiceNow platform — woven into workflows, governance, and AI Agentic security — that's the moment we've been working toward. Already looking forward to BH2027! #Cybersecurity #ServiceNow #AIEra Yevgeny Dibrov Nadir Izrael Alex Mosher Yoav Nathaniel Or Priel Karl Klaessig Ellen James, MBA Shalabh M.BA Shalabh M. Maohua Lu Ph.D Simon Mouyal Amit Zavery Dana Gilboa-Gigushinski Lou Fiorello
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Karim Faris liked thisKarim Faris liked thisIt was fun to join Edward Ludlow to chat about Modular, a Qualcomm company’s recent acquisition by Qualcomm, and partnering with co-founders Chris Lattner and Tim Davis since the early days. As the industry moves toward a world where AI must run seamlessly across any chip, the foundation built by Modular will underpin the next decade of computing. Thanks to Bloomberg TV for having me!
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Karim Faris liked thisThis was a very interesting research report, and we are seeing AI cost and impact concerns on the rise across our pipeline. Take a read; if your company needs a better handle on token spend, give WitnessAI a call...Karim Faris liked thisEvery conversation about enterprise AI starts the same way: productivity, innovation, and competitive advantage. But after surveying 300 senior leaders at organizations with more than 1,000 employees, we found that many of those conversations eventually end somewhere else: budget overruns, governance, and unexpected risk. Everyone's betting on AI. Almost no one can prove the bet is paying off. As AI adoption accelerates, the biggest challenge isn't deciding whether to invest. It's understanding the hidden costs and risks that emerge once AI moves beyond pilots and into everyday business. Here's what we found: ➜ AI incidents are becoming million-dollar events — 43% of enterprise decision makers reported $2 million or more in costs from AI-related security incidents in the past year ➜ Most organizations still can't prove AI ROI — Only 9% say more than three-quarters of their AI initiatives have delivered measurable returns. ➜ 47% of shadow AI activity originates in IT and infrastructure — The department most responsible for governing AI use is also the one most likely to be operating outside its own policies. ➜ Executives and deployment teams see AI risk very differently — 68% of the C-suite feel confident in their AI visibility, versus 46% of VPs actually running deployments. Our newest research breaks down what it actually costs to get AI wrong and what separates the organizations managing it well from the ones running an experiment they can't see the results of yet. 📄 Download the 2026 Enterprise AI Risk Report, The Hidden Cost of Enterprise AI (see comments for link) #CyberSecurity #AISecurity #InfoSec #AIGovernance #AgenticAI #ShadowAI #CISO #AI #EnterpriseAI #RiskManagement
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Karim Faris liked thisKarim Faris liked thisFullstory is now live in the Anthropic Marketplace. If you are a Fullstory customer using Claude, please go give this a try today. For me, combining Fullcaptured data and Agentic Session Review with Claude’s intelligence has been incredibly powerful. Every morning, I have an army of agents diving deep on areas for improvement (probably much to the annoyance of our product team). Check it out: https://lnkd.in/eU9JDqAU
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Karim Faris liked thisKarim Faris liked thisSwung through Boston recently and had a hilarious evening with former Atlas Venture colleagues - Eric Hjerpe Ahmet Ozalp Jeffrey Andrews. Just 4 "middle-aged" retired guys reminiscing about the old days together, 20+ years ago. So many great stories that someone should write a book. While my stint there was brief, the one fund I was in is still alive and kicking, amazingly. Here's to the days of the OG $1B early stage funds, $4 on $4 Series A's, and Boston venture up on Winter St. #memorylane
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Karim Faris liked thisKarim Faris liked thisWe're thrilled to announce that Brian Gumbel has joined Armadin as Chief Revenue Officer. "Brian built the go-to-market organization at Armis from an early-stage startup into a category leader, and he has the pattern recognition to do it again. He knows how to scale revenue with both discipline and velocity — and that combination is exactly what this moment requires." — Kevin Mandia, CEO Brian will lead our global sales, partnerships, and go-to-market strategy as demand for Armadin Red grows and organizations worldwide prepare for AI-driven hyperattacks. Join us in welcoming Brian to Armadin. https://lnkd.in/dcJX6H_M
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