Lucas Nelson Email & Phone Number

New York, US

Lytical Ventures is an NYC based venture fund which focuses on corporate intelligence including Cyber Security, Data and Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. We are a robust team comprised of professionals with decades of combined experience in direct investing and extensive knowledge of our focus areas.

The Kauffman Fellows Program identifies, develops, and networks the next generation of global leaders in the venture capital industry.

Houston, Texas, US

Falls Church, Virginia, US

New York, NY, US

Mountain View, California, US

Brooklyn, NY, US

Teaching "Entrepreneurship for Hackers" for Spring 2014 to graduate and undergraduate students. Over the semester they will work in teams to make a product that delivers value to customers. Students will learn tools and tricks of the trade including storyboarding, customer interviews, prototyping tools, lean and agile methodologies, business frameworks, as.

Focused on developing the firm's seed stage investment portfolio of Security, Cloud, SaaS, and Enterprise Infrastructure companies.

New York, New York, US

Based in New York City and Zurich, Evolution Equity Partners invests in growth stage technology companies in the United States, Europe and Israel helping exceptional entrepreneurs develop market leading companies.The firm has a focus on Cyber-Security and Enterprise Software and its partners have been involved as founders, investors and as senior operating.

New York, New York, US

US

Seed and A-round investing with a focus on cloud computing, online security, local commerce, and the SMB market.

New York, NY, US

Mentoring the students and companies emerging from Cornell Tech.

At this exclusive, attendance limited, CTO focused event, join Mike Bryzek, CTO/Founder Gilt Groupe, Eliot Horowitz, CTO/Co-founder MongoDB, Ken Little, VP Eng. Tumblr, Lon Binder, CTO Warby Parker, Daniel Seltzer, ex-CTO of Amplify, Liz Crawford, CTO of BirchBox, Kurt Schrader, CTO Intent Media, Daniel Doubrovkine, Head of Engineering Art.sy, Matt Story.

New York, NY, US

I'm a big fan of the Lean Startup Machine and I try to help out as a mentor and judge at the New York events.

San Jose, CA, US

Managing a team of security researchers who are in charge of security in the software development life cycle at Adobe.

Working with the Chief Privacy Officer to define Adobe's privacy strategy and then deploying that vision throughout the development organization.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Investment Associate (August – December 2009) Performed due diligence and working with early stage companies on strategic vision
• Created and executed marketing and pricing plan for cloud-based testing company
• Analyzed cloud computing and security market for new investment areas Summer Associate (Summer 2008)Member of group reviewing and recommending early stage, venture investments in information technology
• Lead associate on $6 million investment in security software company; performed due diligence, valuation analysis, significant contributor to investment memorandum.
• Co-authored three investment memorandums; performed business plan analysis in sectors including security, social networks, cloud computing, and water technologies; attended investment pitches for 30 startups.

San Jose, California, US

• Managed the consultants in Symantec’s New York office, overseeing their career growth and managing their billable engagements.Technical Manager (2006-2007)
• Drove 6-person team to develop security services for large clients including large financial institutions, software developers, and telecommunications firms
• Led 30-person, multinational team on security best practices and testing
• With Singapore Finance Ministry, created testing lab and training classesLead Consultant (2005 - 2006)
• Taught classes on computer security in locations including Japan, Norway, and Hong Kong
• Managed teams performing many security services for leading corporations including financial institutions, large software developers, online retailers, and telephone companies

• @stake was purchased by SYMC in October of 2004
• Led security services teams in protecting financial institutions and other Fortune 500 clients from hacking
• Created security IP and developed Centers of Excellence for 100 application security consultants
• Consulted with over twenty Fortune 500 clients a year and generated $500,000 in revenues

• (2000−2001) DoubleClick Engineer
• Developed detailed features, work plan and timelines for DoubleClick Promotions, the company’s online promotions marketing platform
• Rolled out over 100 lotteries in the first year, exceeding performance milestones set during buy out(Jan - Oct 2000) FlashBase - Web startup that was bought out by DoubleClick Engineer
• Created an online lottery platform; bought by DoubleClick within one year.
• Wrote and maintained web application with over 100,000 lines of Perl

Researched the use of smart cards for secure client key storage in a collocation-hosting environment. Modified an open source network monitoring tool written in Java to do dynamic loading of libraries and modules, and wrote modules utilizing native C code to perform raw socket IO. Worked on various small crypto projects in Java and Perl writing glue code.

Mba, Business

Bs, Computer Science, English