About

We’re passionate about cybersecurity

Kerr Ventures is Chris and Deb Romeo. We founded Security Journey in 2016, bootstrapped it, and sold it in 2022. We did it again with Devici, and sold that in 2025. What we do now — consulting, investing, incubating — is all downstream of having actually built these.

Our vision

We exist to see the connected world become more secure.

We want to see new security companies get their start, and fledgling ones become successful. We provide funding and guidance along the way.

We want to see companies improve their application security posture. As consultants we are tenacious students of your particular architecture first, and only then bring years of experience to bear on helping your team ship secure software continuously.

And we want the whole industry to know more about application security than it does. That is why the podcasts, the essays, and the newsletter are free and always will be. Application security can always improve; giving the knowledge away is the fastest way we know to make that happen.

What we stand for

Put the customer at the center.: We’re about your success.
Think like a security person.: Every contributor’s mindset matters.
Keep it simple.: Complexity adds attack vectors.
Crawl. Walk. Run.: Small effective changes, compounding into something big.
Respect everyone’s input.: Listening well produces better ideas.
Practice extreme ownership.: We own our mistakes, make it right, move on.
Win together.: When an individual succeeds, the team celebrates.

Our founders

Chris Romeo

Co-founder and General Partner

Chris is a leading voice in application security, threat modeling, and security champion programs. He has founded multiple companies, including Security Journey, which he led to its acquisition by Level Equity in 2022 and where he still sits on the board. Twenty-nine years of security experience across startups, multinationals, and everything between — application security, security engineering, incident response, and executive leadership. Before Security Journey he was Chief Security Advocate at Cisco. He is a highly rated speaker and trainer, and holds the CISSP and CSSLP.

Alongside Kerr Ventures he invests as an angel, advises founders, and is a limited partner in Jurassic Capital Growth Fund I — the firm’s inaugural fund, backing bootstrapped B2B SaaS founders. He hosts the Application Security Podcast with Robert Hurlbut, co-hosts the Security Table, and writes the Reasonable AppSec newsletter every week.

Deb Romeo

Co-founder and CFO

Deb brings deep experience in SaaS financial stability. As CFO and co-founder of Security Journey for nearly seven years, she was instrumental in the company’s fiscal success — startup finances, operational efficiency, and the unglamorous discipline that lets a bootstrapped company survive long enough to be worth buying. She then co-founded Devici and served as its CFO through its acquisition by Security Compass in June 2025. She also serves her local community as Ministry and Finance Coordinator at Redeemer Community Church.

Ready to learn more?

Let’s make the world more secure together.

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