Venture Guides Management, L.P.

Ben Holzman, ex‑CFO of Artemis Health and former Bain Capital Ventures investor, guides technical B2B software founders (security, dev tools, cloud infra), authors GTM content and prioritizes structured go‑to‑market execution.

Jenny Pyle combines legal training, hands-on HR leadership at Turbonomic, and venture capital experience, authors detailed step-by-step go-to-market guidebooks, and mentors student groups as a practitioner-teacher offering structured operational guidance.

Anton Simunovic is a former CIO who helped build a network-powered venture platform and now focuses on early-stage infrastructure and security software, teaching non-professional investors and taking board-level governance roles.

Ben Nye, ex-Turbonomic CEO and former Bain Capital Ventures investor, is an operator-heavy partner who founded a Sales Academy and helps founders hire, ramp sales teams and build go-to-market playbooks.

Bear Brofft is an investor at Venture Guides, an early-stage investment firm focused on security and infrastructure software. His work centers on the cybersecurity and compliance sectors.

Corey Thomas is the Chairman and CEO of Rapid7, a Boston-based cybersecurity data and analytics company. He previously worked as a VP at Parallels and as a Group Product Manager at Microsoft. He also serves on the Cyber Threat Alliance Board of Directors and the Massachusetts Cybersecurity Strategy Council.

Ian Penny is a Partner at Venture Guides, a US venture capital firm, where he works with founders in AI, cybersecurity, data, and infrastructure software. He previously held senior executive roles including ECB-approved Chief Operating Officer and FCA/PRA-approved Senior Manager (SMF24), with responsibility for operations, technology, cybersecurity, data, and transformation, and served as an independent board member of Turbonomic through its $2bn acquisition by IBM. He holds an MA in International Affairs from King's College London, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and was recognised as UK CIO of the Year in 2018.

Josh Valentine is an investor at Venture Guides, an early-stage investment firm focused on cybersecurity, infrastructure, and AI, where he concentrates on security and compliance. He was previously a small business owner.

Strategic advisor to Venture Guides; Partner and Global Head at EQT Growth Equity.

Ram Malladi is an investor at Venture Guides, an early-stage infrastructure software investment firm, where he focuses on AI, infrastructure, and data. Venture Guides invests in infrastructure software companies and its team has been involved in investments in companies including Dynatrace, DocuSign, LinkedIn, Rapid7, SolarWinds, Sysdig, Turbonomic, and Archer Technologies.

Strategic advisor to Venture Guides; Chief Digital Officer at Twilio.

Roslyn McLean is an Office Guide at Venture Guides. She has over fifteen years of experience as a Senior Executive Assistant, Office Manager, and Personal Assistant in the financial services and technology industries, with a focus on executive-level administrative support including calendar and project management, scheduling, meeting and event coordination, document preparation, travel planning, and expense reporting. Her experience includes working with founders, C-level executives, senior managers, and board directors, and she is proficient in MS Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint on both PC and Mac.

Steve Wood is VP of Finance at Venture Guides, with over 20 years of experience in the venture capital industry. His work covers venture firm financial operations, including accounting, forecasting, budgeting, financial systems, audits, reporting, tax matters, valuations, and investor communications, as well as investment due diligence and monitoring of portfolio company strategy and operations. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont and an MBA from the Boston College Carroll School of Management.

Co-founder and Managing General Partner of Global Forward Capital and a veteran cybersecurity leader with over 30 years of experience. Formerly CEO of Forescout and President & COO of Trend Micro, he currently serves on the board of Rapid7.

Strategic advisor to Venture Guides; Managing Director at Jeavio.

Mike Shanahan is Chief Financial Officer at Venture Guides, with over 40 years of experience as an investor working with 80 early-stage technology companies and serving on more than 20 private company boards, in addition to various interim management roles. He previously spent three years as a senior operating executive at SevOne and manages a local media group that produces 10 community-focused publications on the North Shore of Boston. His areas of focus include finance, strategy, corporate development, planning, governance, capitalization, and compensation.

Mo Garad, part of his firm's founding leadership, combines CFO and customer-success experience from scaling Turbonomic’s enterprise software business and takes an operator-style approach, working alongside portfolio teams.

Nishkam Prabodh is a Senior Principal at Venture Guides, an early-stage fund investing in infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI, and data software. He brings operating experience from co-founding a seed-stage startup, serving as a product manager at a consumer health company in India, and working in consulting. At Venture Guides, he focuses on go-to-market strategy and operational support for portfolio companies, drawing on the firm's model of investor-operators who were previously founders, CEOs, CFOs, or COOs. Prabodh holds an electrical engineering degree from IIT Delhi and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Sage Nye, a Forbes 30 Under 30 founding partner who helped shape her firm's strategy and culture, focuses on early-stage software infrastructure and works hands-on with founders on go-to-market execution.

Chintan Patel is co-founder and CEO of Sparkle Security, an agentic security platform designed to enable human and AI collaboration in threat detection and response. The platform aims to shift security operations from reactive to autonomous, contextual protection operating at machine speed.