Daniel C.

VP JPMorgan - AI Research, Growth M&A

📍 Israel🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2024
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Dec 2024
A personalized AI-based robot you can mentor.
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Mar 2024
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.
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Oct 2023
Gem delivers a centralized approach to tackle cloud native threats, from incident readiness, through real-time threat detection, investigation and response at the speed of cloud.
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Oct 2023
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.
Board Observer
Aug 2023
A complete data platform to run mission-critical workloads on the cloud offering performance, security, and reliability on par with on-premises enviornments. Lightbits is compatible with any cloud and orchestration system delivering unmatched performance speeds for analytics, high-performance databases (i.e. Oracle, SQL, Cassandra, Kafka), and transactional workloads. The platform makes cloud-native applications run 6X faster and at half the cost than native cloud solutions. We help our customers store data on the cloud more simply, flexibly, and efficiently. WE ARE HIRING! ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Lets help our customers reimagine a faster, more secure, and reliable cloud platform. At Lightbits Labs, this is the goal we work toward every day: faster and more efficient cloud infrastructure for a sustainable future and delighted customers. Join us in our quest to remake modern clouds on a global scale. We are looking for really good software engineers. And by really good we mean, really, really good. If you hack kernels and write device drivers for fun; if you enjoy pushing systems to their limits and beyond; if you enjoy writing good, clean, well-documented, high-performing code that works; then you should work with us. ✉ info@lightbitslabs.com ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
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Feb 2023
Lightspin (acquired by Cisco) is an agentless and easy to deploy Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that efficiently prioritizes and remediates cloud security risks in minutes using the industrys only Attack Path Engine built on the graph. Supporting Amazon Web Services, Google Public Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, Lightspin simplifies cloud security and compliance via its self-serve offering and graph-based algorithms. Leading companies such as ZoomInfo, ITV, Riskified, and Next Insurance trust Lightspin to protect their data and workloads in the cloud.
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Nov 2022
Rookout empowers engineers to solve customer issues 5x faster, by making debugging easy and accessible in any environment; from cloud native to on-prem and from dev to production. With its live data collection and debugging platform, Rookout allows software engineers to handle the complexity of modern applications by seeing into their code in real-time, as it's running. Using Non-Breaking Breakpoints, software engineers get the data they need instantly, without additional coding, restarts, or redeployment of their application required. See what Rookout can do for you at https://www.rookout.com.
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Nov 2022
What if the enterprise had complete control over the browser? What would it mean for security, for productivity, for work itself? Introducing Island, the Enterprise Browser - the ideal enterprise workplace, where work flows freely while remaining fundamentally secure. With the core needs of the enterprise naturally embedded in the browser itself, Island gives organizations complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile, while delivering the same smooth Chromium-based browser experience users expect. Led by experienced leaders in enterprise security and browser technology and backed by leading venture funds -- Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts and Stripes Capital -- Island is redefining the future of work for some of the largest, most respected enterprises in the world. Welcome to work as it should be. www.island.io
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Nov 2022
Transform how your revenue team wins with AI✨ The Gong Revenue AI Operating System brings customer data, insights, and workflows together in one trusted place. 4,800+ companies rely on Gong to understand their business better, automate workflows, and win more. Follow our page for more updates.
Board Member
Aug 2021
Talenya, a Paycor company, uses AI to automate talent sourcing, saving recruiters 50% of the process time and cost, and delivering interviews with qualified and diverse talent - effortlessly. Increase the representation of quality diverse candidates in your talent pools – with the #1 AI-powered diverse talent sourcing solution!
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2025
Vice President, Emerging Tech M&A
May 2025
J.P. Morgan is a leader in financial services, offering solutions to clients in more than 100 countries with one of the most comprehensive global product platforms available. We have been helping our clients to do business and manage their wealth for more than 200 years. Our business has been built upon our core principle of putting our clients​ interests first. J.P. Morgan is part of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), a global financial services firm. Social Media Terms and Conditions: https://bit.ly/JPMCSocialTerms © 2017 JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPMorgan Chase is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer Disability/Veteran.
2024
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Dec 2024
A personalized AI-based robot you can mentor.
Investor
Mar 2024
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.
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Oct 2023
Gem delivers a centralized approach to tackle cloud native threats, from incident readiness, through real-time threat detection, investigation and response at the speed of cloud.
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Oct 2023
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.
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