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Location San Francisco, California, United States
Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US
Gender Male

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Website michaelcoates.co/c/cybersecurity-investor
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Michael Coates is the Chief Operating Officer & Chief Information Security Officer of CoinList. He was previously the a co-Founder and CEO of Altitude Networks a (acquired by CoinList). Michael manages an angel fund focusing on early stage cybersecurity companies. Michael's background includes roles such as CISO of Twitter, Head of

Security Mozilla, OWASP Chairman.

Michael Coates attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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investments. Their latest investment was

Series B - Defakto Security

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Defakto Security	—	Series B - Defakto Security	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Kenzo Security	—	Seed Round - Kenzo Security	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Noma Security	—	Seed Round - Noma Security	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Klarytee	—	Pre Seed Round - Klarytee	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Resourcely	—	Seed Round - Resourcely	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Fletch	—	Series A - Fletch	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Cider Security	No	Seed Round - Cider Security	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Lucidum	—	Seed Round - Lucidum	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	ProjectDiscovery	—	Seed Round - ProjectDiscovery	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Mammoth Cyber	—	Seed Round - Mammoth Cyber	obfuscated obfuscation

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Lucidum

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exits. Their most notable exits are

Lucidum

Kenzo Security

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Fletch

Lucidum Lucidum is the asset discovery company that eliminates blind spots across cloud, security and IT operations.
Kenzo Security Kenzo Security operates as an agentic security platform.
Fletch Fletch provides ready-to-use analytics organized in solutions sets that are easy to understand and actionable on day one.
Cider Security Cider Security provides security teams with a single, consistent method to orchestrate and implement end-to-end CI/CD security.

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Michael Coates

is the

Executive

August Equity

. Additionally,

Michael Coates

has had

past jobs including

COO & CISO

CoinList

August Equity Executive

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
CoinList	COO & CISO	Mar 2022	Jan 10, 2025
Altitude Networks	Co-Founder & CEO	Apr 2018	2022
X (formerly Twitter)	Chief Information Security Officer	Jan 5, 2015	Mar 2018
Shape Security	Director of Product Security	2013	2014
Mozilla	Director Security Assurance	2010	2013

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Michael Coates

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Advisory Board Member

The Millennium Alliance

The Millennium Alliance Advisory Board Member2019

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Synack	Board Advisor	2016	2018
Open Web Application Security Project	Global Board of Directors	2011	Dec 2017
BlackDuck	Advisory Board Member	2016	—
Vendor Security Alliance	Board Member	2016	—
Comprehend Systems	Advisor	2014	—