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David Cross

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Venture Partner at Rain Capital · Chief Information Security Officer at Atlassian Ventures · Villager at Team8 Capital

Bellevue, Washington

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

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About

CISO at Atlassian and former CISO of Oracle Cloud; an angel investor and U.S. Navy veteran.

Experience

  1. AtlassianChief Information Security Officercurrent2024 — presentBellevue, Washington, United States
  2. Rain CapitalVenture Partnercurrent2019 — present
  3. Professional Association of CISOsFounding Membercurrent2024 — present
  4. Team8Villagercurrent2022 — presentGlobal
  5. StepSecurityAngel Investorcurrent2021 — present
  6. OracleSenior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer2018 — 2024Bellevue, WA
  7. Cross Property Investments, LLCOwner2006 — 2024Redmond, WA
  8. AphiniaMember2021 — 2024
  9. Cyber Defenders CouncilMember2022 — 2023
  10. ToucanAngel Investor2020
  11. POSaBITInvestor2015 — 2020Seattle, Washington, United States
  12. TwistlockSeed Investor2015 — 2019
  13. PlaceFullInvestor2011 — 2019Seattle, Washington, United States
  14. GoogleEngineering Director of Public Cloud Security Platform2016 — 2018Kirkland, Seattle, Sunnyvale
  15. MicrosoftGeneral Manager - Cloud and Enterprise Security2013 — 2016Redmond, WA
  16. MicrosoftEngineering Director - Windows Server at Microsoft Corporation2009 — 2013
  17. MicrosoftProduct Unit Manager2008 — 2009
  18. MicrosoftDirector of Program Management2000 — 2008Redmond, WA
  19. Us Army ReservesHHC 81st Brigade - US Army2000 — 2003Seattle, Washington, United States
  20. Microsoft Consulting ServicesSenior Consultant1998 — 2000
  21. Commerce OneArchitectural Consultant and Project Manager1997 — 1998Ann Arbor, Michigan
  22. Detroit EdisonSenior Analyst1996 — 1997Southfield, Michigan
  23. US NavyVAQ-130 Electronic Attack Squadron1991 — 1996Oak Harbor, WA

Skills & more

Strategy19Management22Jira3Enterprise Software99Operating Systems38Windows Server17SaaS14Windows9Windows Azure5Microsoft Azure5C#3Software as a Service (SaaS)5
+12 moreApache KafkaArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingSecurityProgram ManagementDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentIntegrationSoftware EngineeringProduct ManagementSoftware Project ManagementScalability
  • Build and Modernize Applications With Generative AI — Google
  • Deploy and Scale AI Models with Cloud Run — Google
  • Build Generative AI Agents with Vertex AI and Flutter — Google
  • Create Generative AI Apps on Google Cloud — Google
  • Accelerate App Development with Gemini CLI — Google
  • EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (Practical) (ECSA) — EC-Council
  • AI Literacy — Phished
  • AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations — Anthropic
  • Claude 101 — Anthropic
  • Cybersecurity Risk Management Across Critical Systems — University of Maryland

From David's professional profile.

Colleagues at Rain Capital

Candice (Yi) Luo
Chief of Staff at Rain Capital
Charisse Castagnoli
Counsel at Rain Capital
Chenxi Wang
General Partner at Rain Capital
Dr. Chenxi Wang
Founder, General Partner at Rain Capital
Dr. David Brumley
Venture Partner at Rain Capital
Léo Fernandes
Associate at Supernova Invest
Mark Godschalk
CFO & COO at Rain Capital
Sidra Ahmed Lefort
Venture Partner at Rain Capital

Network1

Chenxi WangScout
General Partner at Rain Capital

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Frequently asked questions

Who is David Cross?
CISO at Atlassian and former CISO of Oracle Cloud; an angel investor and U.S. Navy veteran.
Where does David Cross work?
David Cross is Venture Partner at Rain Capital.
What check size does David Cross write?
David Cross typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
Where did David Cross go to school?
David Cross studied at City University (Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management Information Systems); Chapman University (Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems).

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Also worked at Professional Association of CISOs1

Conor ShermanGlobal CISO at Sysdig