Number of Portfolio Companies 3
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 10
  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel

John Stewart is the President of Talons Ventures Inc. He has previously worked at Cisco as senior vice president and chief security and trust officer. Under Stewart’s leadership, the organization’s core missions include protecting Cisco's public and private customers, enabling and ensuring Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle and Trustworthy

Systems efforts across Cisco's portfolio, and leadership in the areas of privacy, trust, and assurance, and efforts with governments globally.

Throughout his 25-year career, Stewart has led or participated in widely ranging security initiatives from IT design for elementary schools to national security programs. In addition to his role at Cisco, he sits on technical advisory boards for Area 1 Security, BlackStratus, Inc., and Threatstream.

He is a Board member at Shape Security and RiskSense, Inc. and serves as a special advisor to RedSeal’s Board of Directors. Additionally, Stewart serves on the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Cyber Security Review panel and was formerly on the Cybersecurity Think Tank at University of Maryland University College.

He served on the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th United States Presidency, was on the Board of Directors for Fixmo, Koolspan, the National Cyber-Forensics Training Alliance (NCFTA), and Shadow Networks, and was on advisory boards for many companies including Akonix, Cloudshield, Finjan, Ingrian Networks, Nok-Nok Labs, Riverhead, and TripWire.

John is a highly sought public and closed-door speaker and his team was most recently recognized with the 2016 Global Excellence Award for Security Organization of the Year by Info Security Products Guide, and he was individually recognized with the RSA 2015 award for Excellence in Information Security. Other recent honors include the 2014 Global Golden Bridge Award for CISO of the Year, as well as the CSO 40 Silver Award for Chief Security Officer of the Year in 2014.

Stewart has a Master of Science degree in computer and information science from Syracuse University.

Number of Investments 4
John Stewart has made 4 investments. Their latest investment was Seed Round - Arcanna.ai on Dec 19, 2023, when Arcanna.ai raised
$3.5M
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Dec 19, 2023
Arcanna.ai
Seed Round - Arcanna.ai
$3.5M
May 12, 2022
BalkanID
Seed Round - BalkanID
$5.8M
Nov 2, 2021
Vaultree
No
Seed Round - Vaultree
$3.3M
Jun 30, 2021
Arcanna.ai
Pre Seed Round - Arcanna.ai
$1.4M
Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 1
John Stewart has 2 current jobs as Venture Partner at AllegisCyber and President at Talons Ventures, LLC. Additionally, John Stewart has had 1 past job as the Senior Vice President, Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cisco.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Cisco
Senior Vice President, Chief Security and Trust Officer
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 10
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 11
John Stewart holds 10 board and advisor roles including Board of Directors at SightGain Inc, Advisor at Arcanna.ai, and Board of Director at TrustMAPP.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
NCFTA
Member of the Board of Directors
Riverhead Networks
Member of the Board of Advisors
Ingrian Networks
Member of the Board of Advisors
Tripwire
Member of the Board of Advisors
Finjan Holdings
Member of the Board of Advisors
KoolSpan
Member of the Board of DirectorsJun 4, 2007
Shadow Networks
Member of the Board of Directors
Fixmo
Member of the Board of Directors
RiskSense
Member of the Board of Directors
Nok Nok Labs
Member of the Board of Advisors
John Stewart studied at Syracuse University and Syracuse University.
Number of News Articles 43
Funding RoundDec 19, 2023
Arcanna.ai raised $3,500,000 / Seed from Defined and 4 other investors
Funding RoundMay 12, 2022
BalkanID raised $5,750,000 / Seed from Afore Capital and 8 other investors
Funding RoundNov 2, 2021
Vaultree raised $3,300,000 / Seed from Enterprise Ireland and 4 other investors
Funding RoundJun 30, 2021
Arcanna.ai raised $1,400,000 / Pre Seed from John Stewart and 2 other investors
NewsMar 10, 2021
TrustMAPP | Security Performance Management — TrustMAPP Successfully Closes First Funding Round
NewsJan 29, 2021
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NewsMar 27, 2020