Andy Cao
President at ProjectDiscovery
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Cao is a growth-stage investor-turned-operator who now leads ProjectDiscovery as President, applying three years of hands-on leadership to commercialize open-source vulnerability detection for modern security teams. With a decade-plus background in venture investing at Comcast Ventures, Sunstone Partners, and Trident Capital, he has sourced and supported multiple cybersecurity and enterprise software exits and built firm infrastructure from the ground up. He combines financial rigor—FP&A, KPI dashboards and M&A execution—with product and go-to-market instincts honed by founding a growth equity firm and running a security-focused company. Based in Las Vegas, Andy pairs a Wharton finance and entrepreneurship background with engineering training from Penn, an uncommon blend that helps him translate technical tradeoffs into investor-ready metrics.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.e, Materials Science and Engineering, Minor: Math, B.S.e, Materials Science and Engineering, Minor: Math at University of PennsylvaniaB.S.e, Dual Concentration: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Finance, B.S.e, Dual Concentration: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Finance at The Wharton School
Github Skills (6)
vulnerabilities10
fingerprint10
vulnerability-detection10
source-code-analysis10
infosec10
security10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
andymcao/docs
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
projectdiscovery/docs
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
Centralized docs of ProjectDiscovery
Contributions:7 PRs, 8 pushes, 8 branches in 8 months
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