I first met the Backtrace co-founders at a sports bar in South Philly during the 2014 World Cup. Abel Mathew and Samy Al Bahra rented a car and drove down from New York City to meet me while I was in town for a family reunion. …

We’re excited to announce that Jessi Howard is joining Rally Ventures as our Chief People Officer (CPO). She will lead Rally’s HR practice and operate as a fractional CPO for the Rally portfolio, providing strategic guidance and tactical support.

Jessi brings 20+ years of experience in tech HR to the…

Industrial operators face unique cyber security challenges and today’s detection and monitoring products are inflexible, hardware-dependent and fail to provide the required visibility into Operations Technology environments. …

The critical skill sets founders need on their startup board.

The board of directors plays a critical role in the success of a venture-backed company. …

We’re thrilled to welcome Jay Borenstein to the Rally Ventures team. In his role as venture partner, Jay will be responsible for driving new investments, supporting existing portfolio companies and deepening our expertise in edtech and extended reality (XR).

Jay brings 25+ years of experience as a founder, operator and…

College graduation is a tremendous moment of transformation for many people — a time when you leave the known path of school and jump into the unknown world.

A full year has passed since I graduated from Colby College and joined Rally Ventures. …

Online businesses lose over $50B each year to fraudsters, scammers and identity thieves, even though they spend three times that amount maintaining and updating their defenses. Attackers have no-code tools and click-to-deploy networks that put them at an unfair advantage against busy risk engineering teams.

The founders at SpecTrust have…

Backer is a social savings platform that makes it quick and easy to set up a 529 plan account and get family and friends involved as contributors (“backers”).

Backer has helped families save $20 million for college, with 40% of the money coming from grandparents, aunts/uncles, and friends of the…