Lance Cottrell
Principal at Obscura Security
Healdsburg, California
Overview
Work Experience
President & BoD Chair
2025 - Current
The North Bay Angels (NBA) is the oldest and largest angel investment group north of the Golden Gate. We are an active investor group that invests primarily in early-stage equity and venture debt, where our participation will have an impact on the success of the company. We also consider current return opportunities.
Board Member
2015 - 2025
The North Bay Angels (NBA) is the oldest and largest angel investment group north of the Golden Gate. We are an active investor group who invests primarily in early stage equity and venture debt, where our participation will have an impact on the success of the company. We also consider current return opportunities. http://northbayangels.com
Chief Executive Officer
2019
Helping entrepreneurs go from overwhelmed founder to successful CEO through free online training and individual advising.
Global Entrepreneur in Residence
2020
Founder Institute Global Entrepreneurs in residence mentor select entrepreneurs in the Founder Institute program one on one and in group sessions.
Venture Partner
2022
The Veteran Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology startups led by exceptional founders from the military community. Learn more and get involved: http://veteran.fund
Veteran Fund is an Advancing America through venture capital firm.
Member Board Of Directors
2017
Investor and BoD member at Scollar, makers of the first modular smart collar for pets.
Scollar is a powerful animal industry platform combining a multi-vendor marketplace with an AI powered recommendation engine.
Raised $1,873,000.00 from Founder Funding.
Strategic Advisor
2021
Strategic Advisor
2020
Advising the Ntrepid C-Suite on corporate strategy, product strategy, and security strategy.
Chief Scientist - Passages
2010 - 2019
Passages is a fully protected and isolated cross platform virtualized environment built for the enterprise that looks and feels just like a normal browser. Only passages protects you by isolating the browser from your local computer, your local network, and your identity (preventing targeted attacks). I am involved in R&D for the product, and security research.
Chief Scientist
2010 - 2019
Provided product strategy, security strategy, thought leadership, and product evangelism for Ntrepid
Principal
1995
Founder and Principle. Consulting and advising on security, privacy, anonymity, and cryptography.
Strategic Advisor
2021 - 2025
Strategic Advisor
2020 - 2025
Advising the founders on security, business, and fundraising.