A cybersecurity dealmaker with 30+ startup scale-ups to his name, and a poet who turns loss into perspective, on his birthday, a look at both sides of Sunil Sapra
There are entrepreneurs who build companies, and there are entrepreneurs who build ecosystems. Sunil Sapra belongs unmistakably to the latter category; and today, as he celebrates another year, it’s worth pausing to look at what exactly that has meant for India’s cybersecurity industry, and for everyone who has crossed paths with him along the way.
The Builder
Sapra’s journey through the cybersecurity world reads less like a résumé and more like a portfolio of conviction. A BITS Pilani engineering graduate with over three decades of experience, he has built his reputation on a simple but demanding philosophy; seed, operate, grow, exit — through Seedop Technologies Pte Ltd, the venture studio he founded in Singapore. As Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer of Eventus Security, a global managed security services provider with operations spanning India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Southeast Asia, and North America, he has helped scale over 30 startups across the cybersecurity landscape.
His portfolio speaks for itself: 2023 alone saw two of his backed ventures — PingSafe and Anlyz — acquired by global cybersecurity giants SentinelOne and Trend Micro respectively, a rare double in a single year even by the standards of a sector known for rapid churn. More recently, in 2025, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of RiskProfiler alongside a strategic investment, adding to a portfolio of advisory and investment roles that includes HEAL Software Inc., AccuKnox, Corsa Security, and Zero Trust Meet.
But what distinguishes Sapra from many in the startup-investor mould isn’t just the frequency of his wins. It’s the manner in which he shows up for them — publicly celebrating founders’ milestones as though they were his own, and quietly showing up in the comments of other people’s success with the kind of generosity that’s easy to promise and hard to practice.
The Faqeer
Ask anyone who follows him online, though, and the conversation rarely stays confined to term sheets and exits for long. As Co-Founder and Content Creator at Faqeera Productions, and under the banner of #ChalFaqeera, Sapra has built a second, quieter following, one drawn not to his deal-making, but to his reflections on grief, resilience, gratitude, and the strange, often absurd theatre of modern life. His writing carries the register of someone who has sat with real loss, including the passing of his father, which he wrote about publicly with unusual candour, and chosen to turn it into perspective rather than bitterness.
That duality; sharp enough to build and exit cybersecurity companies, soft enough to write poetry about the universe being “the biggest circus” — is, in many ways, the most instructive thing about him. It’s a reminder that the startup world’s obsession with hustle and hardness often misses the quieter disciplines that actually sustain people through it: reflection, faith, and the willingness to sit still long enough to learn something.
The Mentor
Ask the founders he has backed, and a common thread emerges: Sapra doesn’t just write cheques. As an advisor, coach, and self-described Master Reiki Healer, he has positioned himself as much as a steadying presence for founders navigating the brutal uncertainty of early-stage building as a source of capital. In an industry where investors are often measured purely by portfolio returns, Sapra has built something rarer, a reputation for being present, not just invested.
A Life, Not Just a Portfolio
Perhaps the most telling detail in Sapra’s public reflections is how openly he credits those around him — describing his wife, Jyoti Sapra, as his professional coach in the same breath as he discusses billion-dollar lessons from business books. It’s a small detail, but it says something larger about a man whose public persona of the sharp cybersecurity dealmaker sits comfortably alongside an equally public commitment to family, faith, and reflection.
On his birthday, the tributes will likely focus — as they usually do — on the exits, the ventures, the deals closed and the founders backed. All deserved. But perhaps the better tribute is this: an entrepreneur who has managed to stay a faqeer — a wanderer, unattached to the noise — even while building some of the very institutions that noise revolves around.
Happy Birthday, Sunil Sapra. Chal Faqeera — the walk continues.