Syn Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by former Fortune 500 executives, officially launched this week with a $165 million fund to invest in technologies that aim to disrupt the cybersecurity industry.
The West Palm Beach-based firm is led by Jay Leek, the former chief information security officer for New York private equity giant The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) and Patrick Heim, former head of security at Dropbox (Nasdaq: DBX) and chief trust officer for Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) in San Francisco.
