Ballistic Ventures is a cybersecurity-only venture capital fund founded and led by cybersecurity operators and founders including Kevin Mandia (Mandiant), Barmak Meftah (AlienVault/AT&T Cybersecurity), Roger Thornton (Fortify, AlienVault), Jake Seid, and longtime Kleiner Perkins security investor Ted Schlein, who have personally built many of the industry's flagship security companies. The firm functions as a hands-on incubator that co-founds and incubates companies alongside world-class technologists rather than only reacting to inbound pitches, and has rapidly scaled to ~$600M in assets under management within roughly two years while positioning itself as existing to "save the digital world" in national-security and societal-resilience terms.