Published on: 2025-06-09 17:00:00
Former NSA deputy director George Barnes has made his first investment as a venture capitalist for his new job at the VC incubation studio Red Cell Partners. It’s a $3 million seed deal in an open source cybersecurity startup called Hunted Labs, he told TechCrunch exclusively. Barnes spent his entire 35-year career at the spy agency, starting as an engineer, traveling from cushy assignments in places like London to war zones, he said. He worked as deputy director from 2017 to 2023. During that
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