Irit Kahan

Managing Director, Head of Israel | Goldman Sachs Growth Equity

📍 Israel, Israel🔄 Updated July 2026💼 17 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
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Apr 2026
Aidoc is a pioneering force in clinical AI. We focus on aiding and empowering healthcare teams to optimize patient outcomes, which results in improved economic value and clinical outcomes. Our clinically proven AI solutions eliminate silos, increase efficiencies, and improve outcomes by delivering critical information when and where care teams need it leading to immediate collective action. Built on Aidoc’s exclusive aiOS™, we analyze and aggregate medical data to enable care teams to operationalize the unexpected and work seamlessly with a continued focus on the patient. Aidoc AI is always on, running in the background to change the foreground. For safety information on Aidoc’s products, please visit our safety and compliance page on our website.
Board Member
Nov 2025
Armis, the cyber exposure management & security company, protects the entire attack surface and manages an organization’s cyber risk exposure in real time. In a rapidly evolving, perimeter-less world, Armis ensures that organizations continuously see, protect and manage all critical assets - from the ground to the cloud. Armis secures Fortune 100, 200 and 500 companies as well as national governments, state and local entities to help keep critical infrastructure, economies and society stay safe and secure 24/7. Armis is a privately held company headquartered in California.
Board Member
Mar 2025
Navina was born with the vision to create a new world where the time-consuming chaos of patient data is replaced by a logical actionable platform that makes it possible for every physician to assess even the most complex cases in minutes. Our technology creates a new era of simplicity by restructuring disorganized data into an intelligible patient portrait, intuitively organized for sophisticated and empathetic patient care. We use AI and machine learning to make sure that whats most important is immediately clear, diagnostically linked, and contextually surfaced, so physicians can have the entirety of each patient’s data. The result: optimum patient wellness and enhanced financial performance for providers and payers. Navina is a partner of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Innovation Lab.
Board Member
Oct 2023
Lightricks is an AI-first company best known for creative products like Facetune and LTX. Our mission is to bridge the gap between imagination and realization - and we’re doing that by building world-class AI models, the infrastructure to deploy them, and the applications that bring them to millions of creators and businesses. At the foundation is LTX-2, our open-source generative video model - already recognized as one of the top performers in the world.
Board Observer
Jan 2022
Hunters is a Human-Driven, AI-Powered Next-Gen SIEM that revolutionizes the way SOCs operate. Hunters automates the entire TDIR process, replacing repetitive human work with machine-powered detection, enrichment, correlation, prioritization, triage, and investigation, freeing analysts to proactively protect their organizations. Hunters utilizes an open security data lake architecture, ensuring complete and cost-effective coverage of the entire security stack. Companies like Booking.com and Snowflake use Hunters to empower their security teams. Hunters is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors including Stripes, YL Ventures, DTCP, Cisco Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Microsoft’s venture fund M12, Blumberg Capital, Snowflake, Databricks, and Okta.
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2021
Axonius is the asset intelligence platform for unified security operations and exposure management. The Axonius Asset Cloud is the one source of truth for assets and exposures across an organization’s entire environment, providing all the right context to prioritize risks and coordinate fixes. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius supports millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world. The power to transform asset intelligence into intelligent action.
Board Observer
Jul 2020
Epsagon simplifies modern cloud application development as the pioneering microservices-native Observability platform, used by Engineering leaders, Devs, and Architects to promote team knowledge of architecture and confidently scale and iterate services faster.
Board Observer
Mar 2019
Guardicore is the segmentation company disrupting the legacy firewall market. Our software-only approach is decoupled from the physical network, providing a faster alternative to firewalls. Built for the agile enterprise, we offer greater security and visibility in the cloud, data-center and endpoint.
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Mar 2019
Guardicore is the segmentation company disrupting the legacy firewall market. Our software-only approach is decoupled from the physical network, providing a faster alternative to firewalls. Built for the agile enterprise, we offer greater security and visibility in the cloud, data-center and endpoint.
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May 2017
Dynamic Yield by Mastercard helps businesses deliver digital customer experiences that are personalized, optimized, and synchronized. Marketing, Product, Development, and eCommerce teams from more than 400 global companies are using Dynamic Yield’s Experience OS as the technology layer on top of existing CMS or Commerce solutions, to algorithmically match content, products, and offers to each individual customer to increase revenue, build customer loyalty, and gain a sustainable competitive advantage.
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May 2017
Dynamic Yield by Mastercard helps businesses deliver digital customer experiences that are personalized, optimized, and synchronized. Marketing, Product, Development, and eCommerce teams from more than 400 global companies are using Dynamic Yield’s Experience OS as the technology layer on top of existing CMS or Commerce solutions, to algorithmically match content, products, and offers to each individual customer to increase revenue, build customer loyalty, and gain a sustainable competitive advantage.
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Dec 2016
AppsFlyer is the Modern Marketing Cloud that helps businesses transform complex data into clarity and growth. A foundation for unified, measurable, autonomous marketing, AppsFlyer breaks down silos across measurement, deep linking, data collaboration, and autonomous AI workflows. For more than a decade, AppsFlyer has been the leader in mobile attribution, trusted by over 15,000 businesses worldwide. To learn more, visit www.appsflyer.com
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Dec 2016
AppsFlyer is the Modern Marketing Cloud that helps businesses transform complex data into clarity and growth. A foundation for unified, measurable, autonomous marketing, AppsFlyer breaks down silos across measurement, deep linking, data collaboration, and autonomous AI workflows. For more than a decade, AppsFlyer has been the leader in mobile attribution, trusted by over 15,000 businesses worldwide. To learn more, visit www.appsflyer.com
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2016
Fireglass allows users to click with confidence from any device by eliminating malware and phishing from web and email with no endpoint agent. Organizations protected by Fireglass maximize user productivity while solving the operational overhead and complexity of web gateways through true isolation, where all traffic is executed remotely and does not reach the corporate network. Deployed at Fortune 500 companies, Fireglass was founded by network security leaders and military intelligence veterans and is backed by world-class investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.
Board Observer
Dec 2015
We empower organizations with resilient, self-healing capabilities that prevent 
and neutralize even the most advanced cyber threats.
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2026
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Apr 2026
Aidoc is a pioneering force in clinical AI. We focus on aiding and empowering healthcare teams to optimize patient outcomes, which results in improved economic value and clinical outcomes. Our clinically proven AI solutions eliminate silos, increase efficiencies, and improve outcomes by delivering critical information when and where care teams need it leading to immediate collective action. Built on Aidoc’s exclusive aiOS™, we analyze and aggregate medical data to enable care teams to operationalize the unexpected and work seamlessly with a continued focus on the patient. Aidoc AI is always on, running in the background to change the foreground. For safety information on Aidoc’s products, please visit our safety and compliance page on our website.
2025
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Nov 2025
Armis, the cyber exposure management & security company, protects the entire attack surface and manages an organization’s cyber risk exposure in real time. In a rapidly evolving, perimeter-less world, Armis ensures that organizations continuously see, protect and manage all critical assets - from the ground to the cloud. Armis secures Fortune 100, 200 and 500 companies as well as national governments, state and local entities to help keep critical infrastructure, economies and society stay safe and secure 24/7. Armis is a privately held company headquartered in California.
Board Member
Mar 2025
Navina was born with the vision to create a new world where the time-consuming chaos of patient data is replaced by a logical actionable platform that makes it possible for every physician to assess even the most complex cases in minutes. Our technology creates a new era of simplicity by restructuring disorganized data into an intelligible patient portrait, intuitively organized for sophisticated and empathetic patient care. We use AI and machine learning to make sure that whats most important is immediately clear, diagnostically linked, and contextually surfaced, so physicians can have the entirety of each patient’s data. The result: optimum patient wellness and enhanced financial performance for providers and payers. Navina is a partner of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Innovation Lab.
2023
Board Member
Oct 2023
Lightricks is an AI-first company best known for creative products like Facetune and LTX. Our mission is to bridge the gap between imagination and realization - and we’re doing that by building world-class AI models, the infrastructure to deploy them, and the applications that bring them to millions of creators and businesses. At the foundation is LTX-2, our open-source generative video model - already recognized as one of the top performers in the world.
Managing Director, Head of Israel Growth Equity
Oct 2023
We aspire to be the world’s most exceptional financial institution, united by our shared values of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence. Operating at the center of capital markets, we act as one firm, mobilizing our people, capital, and ideas to deliver superior results across our clients’ most complex challenges. For 157 years, Goldman Sachs has delivered world-class execution on a global scale across our leading Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses. Apprenticeship is central to our culture, with hands-on coaching and access to leaders who bring decades of experience and expertise. With office locations around the world, we offer a broad range of career opportunities to those who insist on excellence and thrive on performance. Find our Social Media Disclosures here: gs.com/social-media-disclosures
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