WE’RE HERE TO HELP.

We know good security is hard, and we’ll do everything we can to make it easier. Our vision is to secure Linux everywhere, and as such, we’re committed to working with our customers to find their path to proper security.

Our Story

Vali Cyber, Inc. was founded in 2020 with the mission of addressing the specific security needs of Linux. Based on DARPA-funded research from MIT and CMU, we created ZeroLock™, a security product that provides comprehensive lockdown capability and unparalleled threat detection efficacy while consuming a mere fraction of the resources required by legacy Linux security tools. Our approach is built to put our clients in control—by automating the time-consuming (and error-prone) tasks of securing systems against attack, using state-of-the-art behavioral and AI/ML techniques to detect and stop threats, and automating recovery from attacks. Imagine detecting and fully remediating a ransomware attack in milliseconds… that dream has become reality.

Our Mission

- Secure workloads effectively, prevent attacks via hardening and catch anything that gets through
- Minimize resource impact of security, saving costly computer resources for real work
- Minimize time to deploy and manage, across all Linux environments from cloud to the edge
- Automate wherever possible, enabling rapid recovery from incidents and reduced burden on security team

LEADERSHIP, BOARD, and ADVISORS

Anthony J. Gadient

CEO & Cofounder

Founder/Cofounder 3 startups – Voci Technologies, Renovis Surgical, Neolinear
$250M in successful exits
PhD CMU, MBA WSU, BSEE UVA

Austin Gadient

CTO & Cofounder

Expert in Linux Security. Former Team lead for USAFA hacking team Delogrand and former member of MIT hacking team Galhacktic.
Published research on Control Flow Integrity and Automated Exploit Generation.
BS Computer Engineering United States Air Force Academy, S.M. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT

Sean Singleton

Partner and VP of Business Development at America’s Frontier Fund
Fortune 200 company leadership experiences with an entrepreneurial mindset
U.S. Air Force Acadamy Graduate—Integrity First. Service Before Self. Excellence in All We Do.

Martin Rinard, PhD

Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Chairman Scientific Advisory Board

Mark S. Rossi

Chairman

Founder Cornerstone Equity Investors
Cornerstone has invested in excess of $1 billion in more than 120 companies through venture, growth and buyout financings. Portfolio companies in the technology space have included Micron Technology, Dell Computer, and Linear Technology

Sarah Achour, PhD

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Member Scientific Advisory Board

Robert J. Parker

Former SentinelOne CFO
Successfully raised over $500M in helping to drive SentinelOne to it’s IPO

Mahadev Satyanarayanan, PhD

The Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Member Scientific Advisory Board

Stephen Beckett

VP of Engineering

Founder/Cofounder 3 startups – OpenSpan (Acquired 2016, Pega Systems), Cliffstone, Witness Systems (IPO 2002)
Expert in OS kernels and reverse engineering, patents in code injection/interception, remote location monitoring and non-programmatic software development
BS in Engineering from Virginia Tech

Mark Danckert

Executive Vice President, Sales

Over 20 years of sales and go-to-market experience in network infrastructure, application delivery, firewall, cloud and endpoint security solutions
Pre-IPO sales leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, Carbon Black and SentinelOne

Fritz Yoder

VP of Customer Success

Cofounder – Cliffstone, early employee of OpenSpan and Witness Systems
35 years of delivering groundbreaking technologies to enterprises such as Dell, HSBC, Capital One, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and scaling to hundreds of thousands of machines
Experienced in building support and customer success organizations that delivered an outstanding customer experience

Norman Sadeh

Advisor

Founder Wombat Security Technologies acquired by Proofpoint Inc. for $225M
Professor of Computer Science & Co-Founder of the Privacy Engineering Program at Carnegie Mellon University
Technical interests include cybersecurity and privacy, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things

Steve Fredrick

Observer

Serves on the board of the National Venture Capital Association
BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech
Focuses on investments in software and services with a particular interest in security and big data
Has been on the board of prior Grotech portfolio companies including Voci Technologies, BlackLynx, Parsley, ThreatConnect, and Two Six Labs

Rich Lunak

Co-Founder and Managing Director of Riverfront Ventures
Entrepreneur and technology executive who successfully scaled several robotics and software companies
Former or current board member of CoverMyMeds, Trellis-Rx, Softwriters, Aesynt, Othot, Micro Merchant Systems, Kaarta, and American Textile Company
BS in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and an MBA from University of Pittsburgh

Andy Rabin

Co-founder and General Partner of 412 Venture fund focused on companies with a strong connection to Pittsburgh
Entrepreneur in Residence, Carnegie Mellon University
Former VP CTO of Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting 3,400+ U.S. hospitals and 110,000+ providers

Gary Mello

Over 24 years of experience in Cyber Security
Early stage employee across multiple start-ups, such as MxLogic (acquired by McAfee) and SentinelOne. Channel leadership experience as Field CTO at EVOTEK and CISO (Mountain States) at Trace3
BS, Computer Information Systems from Bentley University and 3-time NCAA All-American (Cross Country and Track & Field)

CAREERS

We’re always looking for great people who share our vision: To secure Linux everywhere. Do you have experience in cybersecurity and behavioral detection? Do you want to help create a more secure world?

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