Razi Ventures

Niloofar Razi Howe is the sole Principal and Founder, making all investment decisions. Her background includes senior operating roles at RSA Security and Endgame, and her investment activity is closely tied to her work as a board director at firms like Dragos and Enveil.

Niloofar Razi Howe is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Senior Fellow at New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative. These affiliations influence the firm's sourcing pipeline and strategic perspective, making national-security policy a lens through which investments are identified and evaluated, not just a marketing point.

Razi Ventures operates as a personal investment vehicle, deploying Niloofar Razi Howe's own capital alongside a tight circle of co-investors and operators such as David Cole and Dan Burton. It does not disclose a fund structure or outside limited partners, functioning more like an outsized family office mandate than a traditional institutional venture firm.

All identified activity points to direct venture and balance-sheet investing, primarily in board-level positions where Howe takes an active governance role. There is no public indication of fund-of-fund commitments or passive LP stakes.

There is no public exclusion list, but the observable portfolio pattern shows strict concentration in cybersecurity and energy-transition infrastructure. General consumer tech, biotech, and conventional enterprise SaaS without a security overlay appear absent from its published activity.