Skip to content
It's time to build
Nav Opener
  • Portfolio
  • Team
  • Focus Areas
    • American Dynamism
    • Bio + Health
    • Cultural Leadership Fund
    • Consumer
    • Crypto
    • Enterprise
    • Fintech
    • Games
    • Growth
    • Talent x Opportunity
  • Content
    Topics
    • Bio + Health
    • Consumer
    • Creator Economy
    • Marketplaces
    • Gaming & Social
    • Fintech
    • Enterprise & SaaS
    • Security & Privacy
    • Cryptocurrencies & Blockchains
    Type
    • Articles
    • Video
    • Podcasts
    • Newsletters
  • About
  • Jobs
  • Newsletters
Close

Joel de la Garza

Joel de la Garza

Joel de la Garza is a partner focused on information security related investments and other chaos adjacent businesses. He believes information security is getting better with security products that combine usability and security, the move to the cloud, the rise of hardware-based multi-factor authentication, and other trends.

Prior to a16z, he was the chief security officer at Box, where he joined post Series B and scaled up through post IPO. From 2007 to 2013, Joel was the global head of Threat Management and Cyber Intelligence for Citigroup, where he built the first open and closed source intelligence center outside of the defense industrial base. He also ran incident response for Deutsche Bank and founded and worked at assorted security startups. He attended Stanford University where he studied Computer Science and German.

Latest Posts

Ransomware, Cyber-Savviness, and the Public-Private Security Connection

by Joel de la Garza and Nitin Natarajan

16 Minutes #65: Ransomware Attacks on the Rise; Hackers Target IoT

by Martin Casado, Joel de la Garza, and Zoran Basich
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • news
  • policy & regulation
  • security & privacy
  • 16 Minutes

16 Minutes #61: J&J Vaccine Pause; FBI Removes Code in Hacked Exchange Servers

by Vineeta Agarwala, Jorge Conde, Joel de la Garza, and Zoran Basich
  • bio + health
  • China
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • news
  • policy & regulation
  • security & privacy
  • 16 Minutes
  • coronavirus & the COVID-19 pandemic
  • vaccines

a16z Podcast: All About Ransomware

by Joel de la Garza, Das Rush, and Tom Hofmann
  • security & privacy
  • hacked!
Software is eating the world
© 2023 Andreessen Horowitz
Software is eating the world
    • Twitter
    • Simplecast
  • Contact
  • Jobs
  • Briefings
  • Terms of Use & Privacy
  • Disclosures
  • Conduct
  • Who We Are