Aaron Applbaum

Bio

Aaron Applbaum is a Partner at MizMaa Ventures. He sits on the boards of Ottopia and Protego, and has an observer seat for Aurora Labs. Aaron was a Principal and Director at Strategic Cyber Ventures, a cybersecurity focused Venture Capital fund, where he helped lead the firm’s efforts to identify key sectors for investment, played a critical role throughout eh investment evaluation and execution process. He held an observer seat on the board of E8 Security, one of SCV’s four portfolio companies. Previously, Aaron worked on the Direct Investments desk of Hudson Bay Capital Management, a multi-strategy, New York based asset management firm. Prior to Hudson, Aaron spent time in both government an non-profit sectors in defense related fields, including at the Department of Defense, the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Aaron graduated from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public International Affairs, where his independent research focused on the intelligence community, Mideast politics and cybersecurity. At Princeton, he was a senior columnist with the Daily Princetonian. He currently sits on the Board of Trustees at the Institute for National Strategic Studies and on the boards of Ottopia, Protego Labs (exited) and Cheq.