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Skip Glass

Chairman at Directus

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Skip Glass is currently the Chairman at Directus in San Francisco, California. With a strong background in enterprise software and computer security, he has made significant contributions as a Managing Director at Union Square Advisors LLC and through his advisory roles at various tech companies, including RiskIQ and RiskSense, Inc. Glass has been instrumental in advising and serving on the boards of companies like Zebrium and ZaiNar, Inc., and has made strategic investments in companies like Zetta and GroundWork, showcasing his expertise in venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, and business development within the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Advisor

    2025 - Current

    S28 Capital is a venture capital firm focused on early stage investing. The firm is comprised of operators and entrepreneurs with diverse global backgrounds that they leverage to help startup teams build and scale industry defining companies. S28 Capital funds both enterprise software and consumer software startups. The firm has been instrumental in helping to create multiple unicorn valued companies that have hired thousands of employees.

  • Chairman

    2022

    Directus is the world's first Open Data Platform for instantly turning any SQL database into an API and beautiful no-code app. With over 18 million downloads Directus is deployed globally by Fortune 500 companies as well as thousands of small and medium sized businesses.

  • Managing Director

    2019

  • Advisor

    2019

    ZaiNar is developing the next generation of wireless radio location tracking technologies for mobile and IoT applications. ZaiNar achieves sub-meter precision positioning with cross compatibility across a wide range of devices and communication protocols.

ZaiNar is a technology that can track the real-time location of anything.

Raised $16,663,570.00 from Hella Ventures, SBNY, George Godula, Sand Hill Angels, CP Ventures, Chris Sang and Samsung NEXT.

  • Board Of Directors

    2020

    Onymos provides professional application developers foundational software components such as Chat, Login, Geo-Location, Payments, Monitoring, and In-App Purchase to speed mobile application development. Backed by Engineering Capital and Benhamou Global Ventures Onymos is used by companies looking to enhance and speed development, decrease cost of goods, and reduce support costs.

Onymos offers an app foundation that bundles end-to-end functions and building blocks to create software applications.

Raised $15,150,000.00 from Benhamou Global Ventures, Industry Ventures, Engineering Capital and GreatPoint Ventures.

  • Advisor

    2021 - 2025

    Celesta Capital is a global venture capital firm focused on funding companies that are building core technologies that help their customers transform existing markets as well as create new markets. Celesta Capital provides superior returns by investing in early stage companies and then utilizing the collective experience and relationships of Celesta’s investment professionals, advisors and industry partners to propel the growth of those companies.

Celesta Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs and disruptive technology companies.

  • Member Board of Directors

    2021 - 2025

    Zelros specializes in leveraging their deep domain expertise in insurance to bridge the gap between what prospects and customers expect from an insurance company and what insurance companies can offer in terms of customer experience. Zelros customers leverage Zelros's AI and ML solutions to deliver meaningful revenue growth while simultaneously increasing customer satisfaction. In 2021, based on strong customer demand Zelros expanded from Europe to North America.

  • Advisor

    2020 - 2022

    Zebrium backed by Accel Partners, GGV Capital, and Uncorrelated Ventures is the industry leader in deploying AIOps for Logs and Metrics. Zebrium uses unsupervised machine learning to automatically find root cause.

  • Advisor

    2020 - 2021

    RiskIQ is the industry leader in attack surface management. RiskIQ products are used by a significant portion of the Fortune 500 as well as hundreds of smaller and medium sized businesses.

  • Board of Directors and Advisor

    2018 - 2021

    RiskSense, Inc., is the pioneer and market leader in pro-active cyber risk management solutions that allow enterprises and governments to contextualize internal security intelligence, external threat data feeds, and business criticality to identify imminent cyber risks and prioritize remediation actions.

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