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Optiv Co-Founder Dan Burns Joins Balance Theory Board of Directors

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Thursday, September 21, 2023

FULTON, Md., Sept. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Balance Theory, the leading cybersecurity ecosystem management platform, today welcomes Dan Burns, co-founder and former CEO of Optiv, to the Balance Theory board of directors. 

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  • FULTON, Md., Sept. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Balance Theory , the leading cybersecurity ecosystem management platform, today welcomes Dan Burns, co-founder and former CEO of Optiv, to the Balance Theory board of directors.
  • In 2015, as CEO, Burns and Blackstone merged Accuvant and Fishnet Security to create Optiv with over $2B in total revenues.
  • "Dan is an industry visionary who brings a wealth of insight on the security market and experience building customer-obsessed security companies," said Greg Baker, CEO of Balance Theory.
  • Dan and the Balance Theory team shared success after Optiv acquired Baker and his team's first company Decision Lab, in late 2017.

Balance Theory Announces Oversubscribed $3 Million Seed Funding Introducing Industry’s First Hardened Collaborative Workspace for Cybersecurity

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Monday, December 5, 2022

Balance Theory , the industrys first hardened collaborative workspace for cybersecurity, announced today a $3 million seed funding round, led by DataTribe , a global cyber foundry that invests in and co-builds next-generation cybersecurity and data science companies, with participation from TEDCO .

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  • Balance Theory , the industrys first hardened collaborative workspace for cybersecurity, announced today a $3 million seed funding round, led by DataTribe , a global cyber foundry that invests in and co-builds next-generation cybersecurity and data science companies, with participation from TEDCO .
  • Formed in early 2022, Balance Theory was founded by cybersecurity veterans, Greg Baker, Lisa Mathias, and Nathan Necaise.
  • For the enterprise cybersecurity teams, individuals and working groups, Balance Theory provides a secure workspace environment for cybersecurity collaboration.
  • Founded in 2022 by cybersecurity industry veterans from Fortune 500 and U.S. Intelligence Community, Balance Theory is the industrys first hardened collaborative workspace for cybersecurity.

Balance Theory Wins the 5th Annual Cybersecurity Startup Challenge

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Friday, November 4, 2022

DataTribe , a global cyber foundry that invests in and co-builds next-generation cybersecurity and data science companies, today announced Balance Theory as the winner of its Fifth Annual DataTribe Challenge .

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  • DataTribe , a global cyber foundry that invests in and co-builds next-generation cybersecurity and data science companies, today announced Balance Theory as the winner of its Fifth Annual DataTribe Challenge .
  • Balance Theory provides a knowledge sharing and collaboration platform purpose-built for security, the GitHub of cybersecurity.
  • The community-wide collaboration vision of Balance Theory addresses a key gap that, if filled, has the potential to change the entire cybersecurity industry.
  • To learn more about the 5th Annual DataTribe Challenge winner, please visit: https://datatribe.com/challenge
    DataTribe is a startup foundry that invests in and co-builds world class startups focused on generational leaps in cybersecurity and data science.