Professional summary
Ted Schlein is a Partner and Advisor at Kleiner Perkins. His official profile emphasizes enterprise and cybersecurity investments, including companies in security orchestration, fraud prevention, supply-chain risk, authentication, defense and customer data infrastructure. Public cybersecurity and conference profiles describe him as a leading cybersecurity investor with a venture career spanning decades at Kleiner Perkins. Public sources also identify him as a General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, while the input role and firm association here are preserved as provided. His investments have helped define major security categories, including threat intelligence, application security, fraud prevention and security automation.
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
Framing and angles for outreach
Lead with a security-first thesis grounded in a real enterprise or national-security pain point, not a generic software pitch. The strongest angle is a differentiated technical approach to cyber defense, fraud, identity, security automation, supply-chain risk or resilient infrastructure.
What the partner has said or done recently
RSA Conference profile describes him as a leading cybersecurity investor and lists multiple successful cybersecurity investments.
Ballistic Ventures profile describes a cybersecurity career spanning more than 40 years and a 30-year venture career at Kleiner Perkins.
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