Neil Furukawa is the Founder and CEO of AKUA, a Momenta Ventures portfolio company providing actionable, real time, and secure intelligence for cargo owners. Neil is an accomplished operating executive with over 25 years of cybersecurity expertise solving hard problems in government defense and commercial markets. Prior to founding AKUA, he was COO of CyberPoint International, taking them from startup to over 150 employees and $60M+ in revenue over 5 years.
In our conversation, Neil discusses his digital industry journey as a cybersecurity and supply chain practitioner, and how this led to him founding AKUA. He shares his experience across information security and physical device security as well as key learnings being an early leader in active RFID tracking. Neil also touches on the continued impact of COVID-19 and how it has exposed inherent weaknesses in global supply chain.
This podcast is essential listening for industry practitioners, entrepreneurs and startups, as Neil shares advice for success and challenges he has faced through his hardware, software and business building experience.
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