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John began his career in 2008 working on the security team for a large Hedge Fund where he was fortunate to work on best of breed technology platforms including a fully virtualized trading environment and the completion of a highly resilient trading operation connected by dark fiber to the production trading system. From Plainfield John Co-Founded a Private Cloud business as head of product and information security. At Pylon, John was responsible for the security of the firms fully managed infrastructure clients (primarily trading firms) In 2014 as his conviction grew that Private Cloud was ripe for disruption, John made a strategic decision to found a new business solely focusing on security strategy within the alternative investment vertical.
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- • 1 investors hold the Founder & Security role in VCSift. John Coursen is one of them.
- • 10,621 investors are based in New York, New York, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- New York, US
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