Michael Coates
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Seven Hill Ventures is launching a $25 MM pre-seed venture fund in San Francisco to back US and Israel cybersecurity startups, leveraging the partner's 3x CISO experience in top tech firms and founder experience. Checks will be 500-750k depoloyed at pre-seed and seed with a 30% reserve for follow-on funding of top performers. Previous microfunds to test this investment theory yeilded top 3% performance with 3.57 TVPI and 2.5 DPI in 5 years and for the second fund, TVPI 1.83 in 2 years.
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Who Is Michael Coates? The Former Twitter Security Chief Now Tasked With Securing Solana
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Cryptonews.net
Solana Foundation appoints former Twitter security chief Michael Coates as CISO
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Apr 2025
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Feb 2025
Man gets 80 years in prison for carjacking an elderly couple in Briar Forest, DA says
Aug 2024
Muncie death case still unsolved 3 years later
May 2022
CoinList Launches CoinList Digital Asset Services, Hires Former Twitter CISO
Apr 2022
After 3 decades, Georgia sex offender charged with killing 8-year-old boy
Jul 2021
Twitter’s Chief Information Security Officer to Leave the Site
Mar 2018
New ‘gypsy’ brewery venture set to launch jointly in Dayton, Columbus
Oct 2017
MLive.com
Doreen Coates Obituary (2016) - Grand Rapids, MI
Dec 2016
Twitter reveals there was a bug in its password recovery system; no information exposed
Feb 2016
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Court Log For EG Arrests
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