Who We Are
Led by a team of founders and operators with combined 40+ years’ experience at both early and later stages and each with multiple successful exits, Hyperion Ventures sources top deals based on our extensive network of founders, operators and investors.
Click the links below to read our bios and get a feel for our operating and investing experience:
Ryan Windham: Former CorpDev at Websense (now Forcepoint - acquired by Raytheon for $1.9B), Cybersecurity at F5, CEO at Cedexis (acquired by Citrix), CEO at AppviewX, EIR at Madrona Venture Labs, Founder/CEO at Zeitworks. He is currently VP, Product Management at Imperva.
Ross Paul: Former Founder/CTO at Onvia ($1.5B Nasdaq IPO - now Deltek), Venture Associate at DN Capital, Product at Websense (now Forcepoint - acquired by Raytheon for $1.9B), BizDev at AVG ($900M Nasdaq IPO), Investor, Advisor and COO at Wazoku, GTM and Global Ops at Galvanize (acquired by Diligent Corp for $1B), Investor, Board Member and Growth at LemonStand (acquired by Mailchimp), BizDev at Mailchimp (acquired by Intuit for $12B).
As a team, we have invested in 40+ startups over the past 10 years.
Some companies we’ve backed: Gryphon, Acuity.ai, Concertio, Zeitworks, Vyrill, Bloom Credit, Bungalow, Chipper Cash, Klue, mParticle, Observe.ai, Blueboard, Owl.co, Raydiant, Facet, and many more.
We’ve invested alongside: Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Craft Ventures, Menlo Ventures, 8VC, Atomic, Accel, Eniac Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Creative Destruction Lab, Slow Ventures, 500 Startups, Bezos Expeditions, Social Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Greycroft, Bullpen Capital, Inovia Capital, Omers Ventures, Rhino Ventures, Framework Venture Partners and more.
Investment Thesis
Hyperion Ventures invests in early-stage innovative technology companies with mission-driven founders across sectors and industries including but not limited to:
- B2B SaaS
- Fintech/eCommerce
- MarTech
- Automation/RPA
- Future of Work
- No-code/low-code
- Security/Privacy/Compliance
- AI/ML/Analytics
- IoT
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Web 3.0
We work closely with founders and aim to provide value pre and post-investment. By leveraging the collective skills, experience, and capital of a larger group, we can help our portfolio companies execute better and grow faster.
Why Join Us
- Led by experienced founders/operators who have had consistent successful exits and are driven to add deep value to the founders we invest in.
- High-quality deal flow. This is not a “spray and pray” syndicate. Each deal we syndicate will be high conviction.
- Build your own portfolio. You have the power to choose which deal you want to invest in.
- Low minimum investments. Build a diversified portfolio for as little as $1,000 per investment.
- No management fees. We win and lose together.
- Potential to earn carry if you refer a startup to us and we invest.
- Potential to earn carry if you help out portfolio companies in a material way.
- Access to online resources for our community
- Access to invite-only events for our community.
More details are available on our website:
We source our deals based on our extensive network of founders, operators, and investors and intend to syndicate all deals where we can get an allocation subject to founder approval. We're also open to co-syndicating deals where there are synergies.
