Kyle Hanslovan
About Kyle Hanslovan
Kyle Hanslovan is co-founder and CEO of Huntress, a cybersecurity company. Crunchbase lists him in Jacksonville, Florida. Wikipedia says he served in the Maryland Air National Guard from 2010 to 2019, with the 175th Cyberspace Operations Group. Huntress's own bio says he spent a decade supporting offensive cyber operations in the US Intelligence Community and Air Force. As a ManTech contractor he led computer network operations development and testing for the NSA, and he later co-founded the defense contractor StrategicIO.
Huntress was founded in 2015 by Hanslovan, Chris Bisnett and John Ferrell, all former NSA cyber operators. The core technology was first built inside StrategicIO to detect malicious footholds and persistence mechanisms. Hanslovan has been CEO since the start. In a SaaS Club podcast he said Huntress's first outside money was a $750,000 convertible-note seed round from an angel group, about two and a half years after founding. A recent event announcement says he has raised more than $350 million in venture capital for Huntress.
Huntress sells to managed service providers (MSPs) and small and mid-sized businesses. Hanslovan has also been a CompTIA cybersecurity advisory council member (April 2020 to October 2024), according to a profile aggregator.
Hanslovan's public angel record is short. Crunchbase shows one personal investment, the IntelliGRC seed round. He appears to be a founder-operator who invests occasionally, not a high-volume angel. No fund, syndicate or investment thesis of his own has been published that we could find.
IntelliGRC is his one confirmed AI-related investment. It raised a $3.5M seed round that closed on January 31, 2026 and was announced in March 2026. Hanslovan, as co-founder and CEO of Huntress, and Blu Ventures co-led the round. Blu Ventures took a board seat through venture partner Marcos Torres, a former Huntress CFO.
IntelliGRC is based in Fairfax, Virginia. It builds a governance, risk and compliance platform for MSPs and MSSPs, using AI-driven automation, continuous control monitoring and automated evidence collection. The company said it would use the funds to expand its AI capabilities and its Intelligent Control Library, add integrations across the MSP ecosystem, and grow its sales, customer success and enablement teams.
The only public data point is a seed-stage cybersecurity compliance company selling into the MSP channel, a market Hanslovan knows from running Huntress. He has not published a check size, target stage or sector list. His public writing on founders focuses on speed. On X he said he often tells aspiring founders they are chasing perfection and failing to ship, and he credits Huntress's iteration speed to being minimum, viable and consistent.
- IntelliGRC: AI-driven cybersecurity GRC platform for MSPs and MSSPs; $3.5M seed co-led with Blu Ventures, closed January 2026 and announced March 2026.
- pulse2.com/intelligrc-3-5-million-seed-round-raised-for-cybersecurity-
- app.dealroom.co/news/feed/intelligrc-raises-3-5m-to-help-msps-deliver-
- regtechanalyst.com/cybersecurity-grc-platform-intelligrc-raises-3-5m-s
- crunchbase.com/person/kyle-hanslovan
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Hanslovan
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntress_(company))
- huntress.com/authors/kyle-hanslovan
- saasclub.io/podcast/huntress-kyle-hanslovan-429
Investing activity
Kyle Hanslovan appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the Lounge deals desk, and led 1 of them. The rounds are mostly Seed, with a median round size of $4M. The most recent is IntelliGRC (Seed, $3.5M, Mar 2026).
Kyle Hanslovan most often invests alongside Blu Ventures, SaaS Ventures, Hypershift Technologies and Early Light Ventures, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Kyle Hanslovan
Does Kyle Hanslovan invest in AI startups?
Yes, at least once publicly. He co-led the $3.5M seed round of IntelliGRC, an AI-driven compliance platform for MSPs, in early 2026.
What is Kyle Hanslovan's check size?
It is not public. The IntelliGRC round was $3.5M in total, co-led with Blu Ventures, and his individual amount was not disclosed.
What stage does Kyle Hanslovan invest in?
His only confirmed investment is a seed round. He has not published a stage preference.
What sectors does Kyle Hanslovan back?
The one public deal is in cybersecurity compliance for managed service providers. That fits his work as CEO of Huntress, though he has not listed sectors he focuses on.
Who is Kyle Hanslovan?
He is co-founder and CEO of Huntress, which he started in 2015 with two other former NSA cyber operators. Before that he served in the Air Force and Air National Guard and worked as a defense contractor.
How can founders reach Kyle Hanslovan?
He is active on X as @KyleHanslovan and has a LinkedIn profile. A warm introduction from someone in the MSP or cybersecurity community is likely the most relevant route, given where his only known deal came from.
Is Kyle Hanslovan an angel investor?
Yes. Kyle Hanslovan invests personally as an angel.
What AI companies has Kyle Hanslovan invested in?
Kyle Hanslovan's AI investments include IntelliGRC. The 1 round on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
What stage does Kyle Hanslovan invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Kyle Hanslovan has invested at Seed, with a median round of $4M. Kyle Hanslovan led 1 of those rounds.
Who does Kyle Hanslovan co-invest with?
Kyle Hanslovan's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are Blu Ventures (1 deal), SaaS Ventures (1 deal), Hypershift Technologies (1 deal) and Early Light Ventures (1 deal).