Arik Kleinstein

Founding Managing Partner at Glilot Capital Partners

📍 Israel, Israel🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2019
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Jul 2019
Founded by Incident Responders, for Incident Responders. Mitiga is the next thing in Cloud Security. Mitiga is the first and only company to deliver real-time detection, response and remediation across ALL 3 Cloud components - Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS Applications and Identities -- moving your SecOps beyond prevention to real-time detection and response. Mitiga is easy to use, quick to deploy, and delivers compelling savings with payback <6 mos. Mitiga is used by many Fortune 500 companies to enhance their SOCs and defeat attackers.
Seed Investor and Board Member
Jul 2019
With Tenable Cloud Security you can easily ramp up security across all your AWS, Azure and GCP environments. From full asset discovery and deep risk analysis to runtime threat detection and compliance, you can reduce complexity, minimize your cloud exposure and enforce least privilege at scale. Tenable's comprehensive approach accurately visualizes and prioritizes security gaps, and gives you the built-in expertise and tools you need to remediate the risks that matter most.
Seed Investor and Board Member
2018
Regain Control of the Public Cloud Polyrize gives security teams centralized visibility and control over user privileges, resource permissions and user actions — across your IaaS and SaaS environments — to prevent unauthorized access from internal or external threats.
Board Member
2017
Genoox harnesses the power of its community to enable actionable insights from the largest real time-real life genomic database serving professionals at the point of care. Genoox’s cloud-based AI platform, Franklin, connects clinicians, genetic counselors and healthcare organizations, while enabling platform users to make impactful discoveries using the most advanced genomic tools and applications. Genoox is used by over 1,700 health organizations, hospitals and medical facilities in 44 markets across the globe.
Seed Investor and Board Member
2017
Upstream delivers a cloud-based, AI-powered data management platform purpose-built for connected vehicles, smart mobility, and IoT ecosystem. The Upstream Platform transforms fragmented, distributed mobility data into centralized, structured, and contextualized data lakes, unlocking its full potential. By leveraging this data, Upstream empowers customers with advanced, AI-driven applications across various use cases, including proactive vehicle quality management, cybersecurity detection and response (XDR), fraud prevention, observability, usage-based insurance, and more. The Upstream Platform unlocks the value of vehicle data, empowering customers to build connected vehicle applications by transforming highly distributed vehicle data into centralized, structured, contextualized data lakes. Coupled with AutoThreat® Intelligence, the first automotive cybersecurity threat intelligence solution, Upstream provides industry-leading cyber threat protection and actionable insights, seamlessly integrated into the customer’s environment and vehicle security operations centers (VSOC). Upstream’s customers include some of the world’s leading automotive OEMs, suppliers, and others, protecting millions of vehicles.
Seed Investor and Board Member
Dec 2016
BrandTotal delivers social advertising insights powered by your competitors' data. The competitive advantage you always needed is here. See all of your competitors’ social ads and how consumers respond to them — in real time. No more blind spots. BrandTotal was founded in 2016 and serves customers in North America, Europe and Israel. Headquartered in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Israel, BrandTotal’s customers range from well-established Fortune 500 brands to the fastest-growing direct-to-consumer challenger brands. The company is funded by world-class VC firms INcapital Ventures, Flint Capital, NHN Investment, One Way Ventures, FJ Labs, Glilot Capital Partners, and Keshet Dick Clark Productions along with early support from Microsoft Accelerator and Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator.
Seed Investor and board member
2016
Exceed.ai is a Conversational AI Platform that helps augment marketing and sales capabilities through conversation automation to capture, engage, converse, qualify, and schedule meetings with leads at scale, with a personalized, two-way conversation over Email, Website Chat, and SMS. ​ Exceed.ai discovers more revenue opportunities with your existing pipeline, provides your prospects a better experience, and more time for sales and marketing teams to focus on doing the most impactful work such as building relationships with prospects, having meaningful conversations, and closing deals. ​ Exceed integrates with your CRM and your marketing automation platform. Companies such as Elkem, LTSE, SugarCRM, and Hearst are exceeding their revenue goals using Exceed.ai. How businesses use Exceed.ai Qualify more leads into sales opportunities - Augment your qualification process with AI by automatically asking qualification questions over email, chat and SMS. Book more qualified meetings - Exceed’s AI assistant schedules meetings using automated, personalized and contextual responses and follow ups. Optimize your sales rep time by eliminating tedious back and forth communications. Nurture existing leads to maximize your investment - Revive, re-engage and nurture neglected leads from your CRM with human-like conversations to maximize your marketing efforts and lower CAC. Webchat Bot - Increase your website visitor engagement and deliver a real-time, relevant, personalized experience throughout the entire customer lifecycle. Maximize your ROI on virtual events & webinars - Exceed’s AI assistant engages and nurtures your leads with human-like conversations, over email, chat and SMS. Every lead is followed-up with and qualified meetings are scheduled for your sales reps. Automate renewal process to keep revenue stream flowing - Exceed’s AI assistant is dedicated to managing renewal and upsell conversations.
Seed Investor and Board Member
2015
IntSights delivers best-in-class, cloud-native external threat detection to further extend Rapid7’s industry-leading security operations platform, providing customers with end-to-end external and internal threat detection, automation and remediation.
Seed Investor and Board Member
2015
Recognizing the inadequacy of traditional application security paradigms, Protego Labs designed the first comprehensive solution built with the unique constraints and opportunities of serverless in mind. Through continuous serverless security posture, dynamic serverless intelligence, and elastic defense, Protego helps organizations achieve control over the security of their applications.
Seed Investor and Board Member
2013
YouAppi is a leading performance-based mobile app marketing and retargeting platform for premium app publishers and brands. From user acquisition to retention via app retargeting and re-engagement, the company delivers a comprehensive range of mobile marketing solutions to grow your business at every stage of the funnel. Powered by machine learning and lookalike targeting, YouAppi’s proprietary and proven app retargeting technology finds and retains the most profitable users. As of May 2023, YouAppi is part of the Affle group, a global consumer intelligence technology company. Affle trades on the India stock exchanges (BSE: 542752 & NSE: AFFLE)
Seed Investor and Board Member
2012
Microsoft acquired Aorato, creators of Directory Services Application Firewall (DAF), in November 2014 to be included in their broader portfolio. Aorato gives our customers powerful identity and access solutions that span on-premises and the cloud, which is central to our overall hybrid cloud strategy. Aorato’s sophisticated technology uses machine learning to detect suspicious activity on a company’s network. It understands what normal behavior is and then identifies anomalies, so a company can quickly see suspicious behavior and take appropriate measures to help protect itself. Key to Aorato’s approach is the Organizational Security Graph, a living, continuously-updated view of all of the people and machines accessing an organization’s Windows Server Active Directory (AD). For more information about the Aorato acquisition visit: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/13/microsoft-acquires-aorato-give-enterprise-customers-better-defense-digital-intruders-hybrid-cloud-world/
Seed Investor and Board Member
2012
Porticor has been acquired by Intuit. Porticor infuses trust into the cloud with secure, easy to use, and scalable solutions for data encryption and key management. Porticor enables companies of all sizes to safeguard their data, comply with regulatory standards, and streamline operations. Porticor’s Virtual Private Data system combines state of the art encryption with patented key management to protect critical data in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Within minutes, customers can encrypt their entire data layer and safely store the encryption keys. With breakthrough homomorphic split-key encryption technology, Porticor Virtual Private Data is the only system available that offers the convenience of cloud-based key management without sacrificing trust. Founded in 2010 by experts in security, cloud computing and cryptography, Porticor is committed to protecting private information stored in public clouds. Porticor is an official Solution Provider for Amazon AWS, IBM and VMware. For more information visit us at www.porticor.com
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Sep 2023
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Jul 2019
Founded by Incident Responders, for Incident Responders. Mitiga is the next thing in Cloud Security. Mitiga is the first and only company to deliver real-time detection, response and remediation across ALL 3 Cloud components - Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS Applications and Identities -- moving your SecOps beyond prevention to real-time detection and response. Mitiga is easy to use, quick to deploy, and delivers compelling savings with payback <6 mos. Mitiga is used by many Fortune 500 companies to enhance their SOCs and defeat attackers.
Seed Investor and Board Member
Jul 2019
With Tenable Cloud Security you can easily ramp up security across all your AWS, Azure and GCP environments. From full asset discovery and deep risk analysis to runtime threat detection and compliance, you can reduce complexity, minimize your cloud exposure and enforce least privilege at scale. Tenable's comprehensive approach accurately visualizes and prioritizes security gaps, and gives you the built-in expertise and tools you need to remediate the risks that matter most.
2018
Seed Investor and Board Member
2018
Regain Control of the Public Cloud Polyrize gives security teams centralized visibility and control over user privileges, resource permissions and user actions — across your IaaS and SaaS environments — to prevent unauthorized access from internal or external threats.
SecureNative
Seed Investor and Board Member
2018
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