Barry Bycoff
Member of the Board of Visitors, Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University
About
Barry Bycoff has over 25 years of experience in the computer and software industry. He is currently a director of Progress Software (NASDQ: PRGS). He also serves as chairman of the Board of Directors of Day Software (Swiss: DAYN), a leading developer of web content management products and as chairman of Aveksa Inc, a software company providing industry leading access governance solutions. He also serves on the Board of Visitors at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. Prior to Progress, he spent two years at FirstMark Ventures (formerly Pequot) as a Venture Partner assisting with the development of investment strategies. He made two investments in his short tenure; one in StubHub, an online events ticket marketplace (sold to eBay for $310 million) and the other in Aveksa. In 1996, Bycoff founded Netegrity and created a new product category for enterprise security software. The company received the "Product of the Year" award from Network World Magazine. At the same time, as
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 7 investors at Duke University are tracked.
- • 1 investors hold the Member of the Board of Visitors, Pratt School of Engineering role in VCSift. Barry Bycoff is one of them.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated June 2026.
Investment Focus
- Stages
- seed
Contact Information
Find more investors like Barry
Search Investors