Cyber Leaders Investment Circle
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Charter intake · By reference

You already underwrite this risk. Now own the upside.

CLIC is an operator-only circle of current and recent security leaders investing in the AI × security frontier. Tell us where you sit and what's actually burning in your environment, and we'll come back within five business days. We're curating a select list of founders and startups working on the problems you name, and members see that pipeline first.

What happens next

  1. We read itTwo partners review every submission. No auto-responders, no drip sequence.
  2. A 30-minute callMutual fit, cadence, conflicts, and what you'd want the room to look at.
  3. Reference and inviteCharter members are admitted by reference. Accreditation is confirmed at onboarding, not here.

Why we ask about pressure

80 : 1 Non-human identities to humans in the average enterprise. 86% of security leaders don't enforce access policy for AI identities. KPMG · Saviynt, 2026
+$670K Added cost of a breach involving shadow AI, present in one of every five breaches. IBM Cost of a Data Breach
96% Of CISOs now own AI governance, most without matching budget or headcount. SecurityWeek, Cyber Insights 2026

What you write here stays between the founding partners. We don't share submissions with portfolio companies, and we never introduce a vendor to you off the back of this form.

Who you are

Organization and title are used to confirm eligibility. Neither is published anywhere.

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Work or personal, whichever you'd rather we use.

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What's burning in your environment

Select everything that's real for you right now. This shapes what the room gets shown. It's the closest thing we have to a live signal on where the gaps are. Select as many as apply.

Fit

There's no wrong answer here. Several of our charter members have never written an angel check. We ask so the first conversation starts in the right place.

Please select an option.

A member's name, an event, a mutual connection. Anything helps.
What you'd want the room to look at, constraints your employer places on outside investing, or a question for us.

Response within five business days. Held in confidence by the founding partners.

Received.

Two of the founding partners will read this personally. Expect a reply within five business days, from a person, not a sequence.

If something's changed in the meantime, or you'd rather talk sooner, write to join@oakseedvc.com.

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