Member-led. Operator-run.
The buyers became the backers.
The CXO Syndicate is a ring of senior security operators drawn from the Beyond CISO room. They have evaluated, bought, and lived with security products across a working career. When the ring believes in one, members can do more than vet it. They can back it.
Judgment you cannot hire.
The ring is operators all the way down.
They run things
CISOs, CTOs, and CXOs who own the budgets and the outcomes at enterprises, scale-ups, and public bodies.
They have seen everything
Careers spent evaluating, buying, and living with the tools. Pattern recognition money does not buy.
They open doors
Straight feedback, group ideation, and introductions straight to the people who sign.
How the ring works.
Early looks
Security companies present to the ring first.
Real diligence
The same leaders who would buy the product pressure-test it. The vetting and the buying are the same people.
Member-led interest
Members express interest deal by deal, as operators, not as a fund. Anand Thangaraju convenes it; the members decide.
Judgment, not control
No board seats and no takeover. Pattern recognition and real doors.
Advise for equity
Members can advise the companies they rate, on their own terms.
The CXO Syndicate is member-led and still forming. It is not a fund and nothing here is an offer to invest or advice to do so. Any interest, terms, or deal is arranged privately between members and founders.
Building in security. The ring wants the early look.
Most founders meet this room after the market has decided. Meet it first.
Present on the merits. The ring decides.
Get pressure-tested by the people who would sign the purchase order.
When the ring rates a company, members can vet it, back it, advise it, and walk it through their own doors.
See it first. Back it together.
The ring is drawn from the room. If you are in Beyond CISO, raise your hand. If you are not yet, that is the first door.
Early looks that come through the room, not a mailing list.
Diligence you run with peers who have bought this category before.
Always your call, on your terms, at your size.
Member-led. Not a fund. Nothing here is an offer to invest.
The ring lives inside the room.
The CXO Syndicate is drawn from Beyond CISO, the invite-only room of 2,500 senior security leaders. The room talks. The ring acts.
See Beyond CISOThe portfolio.
Positions held across the ring.
Discern Security
Discern turns security posture into action with connected AI agents
Seed
Muro
We help SaaS startups and growing companies run their cybersecurity and compliance programs
Pre-seed
Daydream
Full-service organic search delivered through SEO agents paired with dedicated experts.
Seed
Anthropic
AI research and products that put safety at the frontier
Series B
AccuKnox
Secure all assets (Apps, Cloud, Containers, APIs, AI/LLMs) with AccuKnox's platform.
Seed
Jazz
Jazz replaces rule-writing and alert chasing with AI DLP that deeply understands your organization
Seed
Outtake
Outtake protects brand, people, location, and product across domains, ads, social, and the dark web.
Series B
Crusoe
Crusoe provides next-gen AI infrastructure and cloud compute using an energy-first approach.
Series E
Tumeryk
Secure your AI deployments with Tumeryk's AI Trust Score™ platform.
Pre-seed
Go Comply
Automate workflows, manage risks, and ensure regulatory adherence across your entire organization.
Pre-seed
Moonfort
You Set The Strategy. Moonfort Runs The Mission.
Seed
Vero Security
Vero is the Agent Detection and Enforcement platform that maps every agent and stops risky or forbidden actions.
Seed
Huskeys
Huskeys layers on top of your existing WAFs and network edge stack to continuously assess, adapt, and orchestrate security.
Seed
Asymptote Labs
Asymptote is the AI Detection & Response layer for every agent harness.
Pre-seed
Torch Security
Torch helps connect any application to your identity governance program
Seed
Milestone
Connect AI spend, engineering output, quality, and governance in one platform.
Seed
VulNow
VulNow identifies verified vulnerabilities in your software supply chain an average of 10 days before they appear in public CVE feeds.
Seed
Bulkhead security
Next-gen security for the enterprise of the future.
Pre-seed
Forge
Discover every AI system, govern the identities and MCPs they use, and enforce policy at runtime.
Seed
A working CISO convenes the ring.
Anand Thangaraju convenes the ring. A practicing Field CISO who still sits on the buyer's side of the table every week, which is exactly why founders want the ring's read and members trust its judgment.
Alchemy Cyber, the advisory behind the room, sits with founders one day and buyers the next.
Express interest.
Members and founders both start here. Two doors, one form each.
The member door
The founder door
Member-led. Convened by hand.
Straight answers.
Is this a fund?
No. It is member-led and still forming. Nothing here is an offer to invest or advice to do so.
Do members have to invest?
Never. Interest is opt-in, deal by deal, on each member's own terms.
How do I get into the ring?
Through the room. The Syndicate is drawn from Beyond CISO members in good standing.