John Watters is a venture capital investor at SYN Ventures who built three successive commercial cyber threat intelligence businesses over 20+ years (iDEFENSE, iSIGHT Partners, and iCOUNTER) and helped create the commercial threat intelligence category that defines how enterprises consume threat intel today. He came out of retirement specifically to build iCOUNTER because he saw how AI would transform cyber attacks, while simultaneously serving as a Venture Partner at SYN—an unusually hands-on approach that combines active company building with venture investing.
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SYN Ventures is the only CISO-founded cyber VC with two former Fortune 500 CISOs as full-time founding partners, backed by an unusually heavyweight bench of cyber operators as venture partners that leads other VCs to actively pull SYN into cyber rounds to add operator depth. The fund runs two distinct vehicles under one brand so founders can stay with a single, deeply specialized capital partner from seed through growth, while using its CISO network to materially drive revenue for portfolio companies through introductions and go-to-market support that often represents a material portion of new ARR in the first 12-24 months after investment.
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