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Chenxi Wang

General Partner at Rain Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Chenxi Wang is a seasoned investor, cybersecurity expert, and Fortune 500 board member based in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, she has held leadership roles at notable companies like Twistlock and Intel Security, and currently serves as the Managing General Partner at Rain Capital, while also investing in a range of tech startups including JupiterOne and ProjectDiscovery. Wang's career highlights include being recognized with the Venturebeat Women-in-AI award and serving on the board of directors for MDU Resources Group, Inc., showcasing her expertise in cybersecurity, venture capital, and board governance within the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Managing General Partner

    2017 - Current

    As the founder and General Partner of Rain Capital, I am responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and managing investments in early-stage technology companies. We invested in Claroty, Project Discovery, Ox Security, Oasis Labs, Elisity, Mitiga, JupiterOne, and many other innovative startups.

Rain Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund focusing on transformative technologies in the Cybersecurity, AI, and analytics space.

  • Member of the Board of Directors

    2019

    Serving on Audit Committee, Environmental & Sustainability Committee.

  • Board of Advisors, Entrepreneurship council, School of Computer Science

    2025

  • Investor & board observer - Various Companies

    2021

    Working with management of the portfolio companies to define product and GTM strategies, including achieving product-market fit, marketing and sales execution, fundraising, and scaling operations.

ProjectDiscovery is an open-source software that simplifies security operations for engineers and developers.

Raised $26,700,000.00 from Rain Capital, Point72, Caleb Sima, Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Talha Tariq, Mango Capital, CRV, SignalFire and Guillermo Rauch.

  • Founder & Board member

    2022

  • Investor

    2018

Claroty is a cybersecurity firm that provides products and solutions to protect infrastructure and industrial networks from cyber threats.

Raised $740,000,000.00 from Princeville Capital, Bosch Ventures, Constellation Technology Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Bosch Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, SE Ventures, Princeville Capital, Standard Investments and Toshiba Digital Solutions.

  • Investor

    2018 - 2023

Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology.

Raised $45,000,000.00 from Breyer Labs, Pantera Capital and Electric Capital.

  • Investor (acquired by Coinlist)

    2018 - 2022

  • Investor (acquired by Sophos)

    2018 - 2021

    One of the first investors in Capsule8, from seed to exit (acquired by Sophos)

High-performance attack protection for Linux production environments – whether containerized, virtualized, or bare-metal, on-prem or cloud

Raised $30,000,000.00 from Intel Capital, Rain Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and ClearSky.

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2017 - 2019

The Open Web Application Security Project is a non-profit organization focused on improving the security of software.

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