Tim McKnight is a venture partner at SYN Ventures who simultaneously serves as Chief Information Security Officer of UnitedHealth Group, bringing an active Fortune 5 CISO perspective directly into investment decisions rather than being a traditional full-time VC. His investment approach is shaped by hands-on breach and incident experience from his early FBI career leading National Infrastructure Protection Center investigations, plus having held top security roles across multiple global enterprises in different regulated industries including Fidelity Investments, General Electric, Thomson Reuters, SAP, and UnitedHealth Group.
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Cybersecurity, AI, Enterprise, Devtools, Insurtech
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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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