Richard Reiner

Entrepreneur, investor, and executive in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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I am a serial entrepreneur and company builder, active as an executive, investor, mentor, and Board member with many high-growth companies at the intersections of cybersecurity, blockchain, AI, and IoT, a space in which I have built and successfully exited multiple companies, and in which I hold numerous patents.

I am Executive Chair of dfuse, the leading platform for developers building the decentralized Web 3.0, as well as Chair of Cybeats Technologies, a venture-funded IoT security company building a full-lifecycle immune system for IoT devices.

I am also Founding Partner at CC Stratus Capital, an innovative investment firm that helps early-stage technology companies succeed in fast-growing markets, with a strategic focus on cybersecurity, blockchain, identity, and IoT (Internet of Things).

I was formerly Chief Technology Officer - Safe Identity in Intel's Security Group, and VP Safe Identity at McAfee. I was President of PasswordBox, the leading digital identity company, leading up to the acquisition of PasswordBox by Intel.

Previously I was Executive Chair of Fluent.ai, a venture-backed company building a revolutionary AI-based speech recognition platform, and Chairman and CEO of Enomaly, a pioneer and leader in the cloud computing and cloud security space, culminating in the acquisition of Enomaly by Virtustream in 2011. Virtustream was in turn acquired by EMC, which was then acquired by Dell.

Before that I was the founder and CEO/CTO of Assurent Secure Technologies, a cybersecurity SaaS company that was acquired in 2006. Subsequent to the acquisition of Assurent, I served as Chief Security & Technology Officer at TELUS.

Since 2006, I have served on the Boards and Advisory Boards of many highly regarded early-stage companies in the cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS sectors, such as Fluent.ai, Immunio, PasswordBox, Elliptic Technologies, Veracode, Enomaly, NetClarity, Virima, Stonewall Software, and Fonolo.

I am often quoted by the press, and have appeared on the cover of CIO Magazine, as well as frequent appearances in media such as the New York Times, CBS, NBC, USA Today, etc. and hundreds of technology publications.

I hold a Ph.D. and numerous patents in the fields of cloud and software security.

I also climb the occasional mountain.

  • Work
    • CC Stratus Capital
  • Education
    • Ph.D.