Sven Wollschlaeger

Despite growing up in a Midwestern farm town with more cows than people, I quickly fell in love with computers and software.  Engineers raised me, and luminary hackers and creators inspired me.  By high school, I won national CS competitions, and in college, I co-founded a technology company that proudly built its way from my dorm room to being deployed at universities all across the U.S.  We made every architectural and business model mistake imaginable – but this experience gave me tremendous respect and an earned empathy for the intense struggles of the founder journey.

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I went on to work with technical teams at publicly-traded companies and pre-IPO unicorn startups, before briefly joining a16z, and then ultimately, spending the past three years at Insight Partners alongside Jeff Horing (Insight’s Founding Partner) and Steve Ward. At Insight, I helped lead seed and Series A investments into various security companies, a number of emerging Gen AI platforms, as well as growth rounds in developer and data infrastructure companies, like Anaconda.  I built a vast network of operators, investors, and early-stage founders – and I learned to bring institutional venture experience, with an intense founder energy, to every founder I supported.

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I believe the next generation of software (and society) will change at an unimaginable rate – and innovation in cybersecurity will be the linchpin to protecting and enabling that evolution.  

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Outside of my professional life, I enjoy reading (read 30 books in 30 days during COVID), swimming, and pulling my 3 siblings out of the Midwest for travel.