Kevin Cook

Kevin Cook is a veteran technology finance executive with more than three decades of experience spanning investment banking and operating CFO roles. He earned a BA in Economics-Business from UCLA and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, and began his career in the business and finance department of law firm Morrison & Foerster before moving into finance.

Cook spent much of his early career in technology investment banking, holding leadership positions at RBC Capital Markets — where he was a Managing Director heading the software investment banking group — as well as at Cowen, Credit Suisse, FBR Capital Markets, and Wachovia Securities (now part of Wells Fargo). From roughly 2010 to 2012 he served as Vice President of Strategic Finance, Corporate and Business Development at Barracuda Networks, a cybersecurity company.

He joined Cloudera, the hybrid cloud data and AI platform company, in August 2014 as Senior Vice President of Finance, Corporate Development & Investor Relations, a role he held through September 2021. In October 2021 he was promoted to Chief Financial Officer of Cloudera, serving through September 2023 and overseeing finance during the company's period under private (KKR/CD&R) ownership. In August 2025, Cook was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Bumble Inc., effective August 12, 2025.

Cook's profile appears in a VentureBANC directory of Palo Alto "high net worth" individuals / angels, which is the likely origin of the "Angel Investors / Seed Round" classification in the source record. His public track record, however, is that of a corporate finance leader and dealmaker (M&A, corporate development, investor relations) rather than a documented angel with a named startup portfolio.

• Classified in the source data and in the VentureBANC angel directory as an angel investor focused on seed-stage opportunities, based in Palo Alto — but no stated thesis, check size, or investment criteria is publicly documented for him.
• His domain expertise centers on enterprise software, data and AI platforms, and cybersecurity, the sectors in which he has operated as a banker and CFO.
• As a longtime corporate-development and IR leader, his value-add to a startup would more plausibly be in fundraising strategy, M&A, financial operations, and scaling toward IPO/exit than in writing large checks.
• No publicly available quote stating a personal investment thesis was found.