Itay Shlomo

Global VP Capital Strategy ꓲ Board Member

📍 Zurich, Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2022
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Early stage investor
Nov 2022
Talon transforms the browser into a secure workspace with the market’s most leading Enterprise Browsing Platform, which includes the Talon Enterprise Browser, Talon Extension, and Talon Mobile. With Talon, IT and security teams benefit from deep visibility and tight control over all SaaS and web applications, enabling them to secure any user, in any location, on any device. Talon was named the Most Innovative Startup of 2022 at the prestigious RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest.
Seed Investor
Jul 2022
Opus Security set out to transform vulnerability management by bringing automation and intelligence into one of the hardest problems in cybersecurity: remediation. Our platform was built around a fleet of AI-driven security agents designed to analyze, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities at scale. By embedding expertise into existing IT, engineering, and security workflows, Opus aimed to remove manual bottlenecks and make vulnerability management proactive, continuous, and seamless. The mission was simple: reduce backlog, eliminate wasted cycles, and help organizations stay ahead of risk with always-on security operations.
Seed Investor
May 2022
Guardz is the unified cybersecurity platform purpose-built for MSPs. We consolidate the essential security controls, including identities, endpoints, email, awareness, and more, into one AI-native framework designed for operational efficiency. Our identity-centric approach connects the dots across vectors, reducing the gaps that siloed tools leave behind so MSPs can see, understand, and act on user risk in real time. Backed by an elite research and threat hunting team, Guardz strengthens detection across environments, turning signals into actionable insights. With 24/7 AI + human-led MDR, Guardz utilizes agentic AI to triage at machine speed while expert analysts validate, mitigate, and guide response, giving MSPs scalable protection without adding headcount. Our mission is simple: give MSPs the scale, confidence, and clarity they need to stay ahead of attackers and deliver protection to every SMB they serve.
Early Stage Investor
Dec 2021
Vicarius helps security and IT teams protect their most critical apps and assets against software exploitation through vRx, a consolidated end-to-end vulnerability remediation platform. Headquartered in New York and backed by tier-one Silicon Valley investors, Vicarius was founded by security experts on a mission to provide problem-solving remediation solutions that proactively reduce risk wherever assets reside. Effortlessly find and eliminate threats while reducing the strain on internal security resources, freeing up personnel to focus on other mission-critical tasks without sacrificing security. Get started for free today or learn more at https://vicarius.io
Seed Investor
Nov 2021
The first and only solution that combines data security posture management (DSPM) with real-time data detection and response (DDR) – a full-encompassing solution that helps discover, classify, protect, and govern your cloud data. Recent Awards –Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) 2023 Global InfoSec Awards 🏆Most Comprehensive Cloud Security Solution 🏆Most Comprehensive Data Security Solution 🏆Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Startup –2023 Globee® Cybersecurity Award 🥇Gold for Data Security 🥈Silver for Most Innovative Security Company of the Year – Security Cloud/SaaS. –2023 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 🥇Data Security Posture Management 🥇Cloud Native Data Security 🥈Best Cybersecurity Startup –The Cloud Awards 🏆Security Innovation of the Year (Enterprise) Dig’s comprehensive solution gives you instant visibility into your data risk in real-time. With access to context for each of your data assets, Dig helps you locate, classify and prioritize your Cloud data estate to ensure your data is protected. Learn more about our platform: https://www.dig.security/product Check out our Buyer’s Guide: https://www.dig.security/pages/dspm-buyers-guide Dig by Industry Finance: https://www.dig.security/solution-financial-services Healthcare: https://www.dig.security/solution-healthcare Tech: https://www.dig.security/solution-tech Dig by Cloud AWS: https://www.dig.security/aws Azure: https://www.dig.security/dig-for-azure Get a free risk assessment here: https://www.dig.security/pages/data-risk-assessment
Early-Stage Investor
Oct 2021
ZecOps for Mobile empowers security professionals to automatically discover and analyze mobile cyber attacks, reducing manual investigation time from months to minutes. Mobile attacks are growing by the day. When breaching a mobile device, not only do hackers have direct access to company sensitive data, but they also gain power to bypass all 2FA authentications and access the employee’s computer as well. • ZecOps checks within minutes if and when a device was attacked, how the attack occurred, and what was the impact. • Automatically discover 0-clicks, browser attacks, baseband attacks, mail-related attacks, etc. • Assure internal mobile security by integrating ZecOps into your corporate security policy and red/blue teams workflows Wondering if your mobile device has been breached? Contact us for a free scan.
Early Stage Investor
Dec 2020
The CardinalOps platform is powered by automation and MITRE ATT&CK to optimize the security controls of your existing tools in order to maximize your threat detection coverage and reduce your organizations overall risk and exposure. It improves detection engineering productivity by more than 10x and integrates with existing tools including CrowdStrike LogScale, Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle), IBM QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, and Splunk. With CardinalOps, organizations can eliminate critical security exposures, operationalize threat intelligence, and gain comprehensive visibility into their detection posture.
Seed Investor
Aug 2020
Zero Networks is a pioneer in automated microsegmentation and network security. Our agentless microsegmentation solutions provide effortless deployment, automatically learning and classifying endpoints to generate precise security policies that orchestrate native firewalls. By preventing unauthorized lateral movement, enforcing just-in-time multi-factor authentication for privileged access, and enhancing protection for critical assets, we empower organizations across every sector to strengthen their cyber resilience with minimal effort.
Seed Investor
Jul 2020
A Datadog company, acquired in 2022. APIs have become strategic assets and the building blocks for modern software. They are now mission-critical for every company in the world and Seekret provides the first ever mission control. Designed to control 100% of the API lifecycle, Seekret’s API Observability solution empowers developers with revolutionary eBPF-powered APIOps through automation, governance, and observability. Our goal is to make every company API-first by providing engineering leaders with the tooling and data they need to quickly deliver high-quality APIs.
Seed Investor
Jun 2020
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.
Seed Investor
Oct 2018
Fireblocks is the worlds most trusted digital asset infrastructure company, empowering organizations of all sizes to build, manage, and grow their business on the blockchain. With the industrys most scalable and secure platform, Fireblocks streamlines stablecoin payments, settlement, custody, tokenization, and trading operations across the largest ecosystem of banks, payment providers, stablecoin issuers, exchanges, and custodians. More than 2,200 organizations including Worldpay, BNY Mellon, Galaxy, and Revolut trust Fireblocks to secure over $10 trillion in digital asset transactions across 100 blockchains. Fireblocks provides the infrastructure that powers financial possibility. We help institutions unlock new use cases, deliver real-world value, and scale securely in the onchain economy. Fireblocks operates globally with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, France, and Switzerland. To stay up to date, follow us on X @FireblocksHQ or visit our blog for the latest company news - https://www.fireblocks.com/blog/
Early-Stage Investor
Sep 2018
CyberX accelerates digital innovation by delivering the simplest and most robust solution for reducing risk from unmanaged IoT/OT devices. The company was acquired by Microsoft in June 2020. Founded by blue-team experts with a track record of defending critical national infrastructure, CyberX was the only cybersecurity company with a patent for IoT/ICS-aware behavioral analytics and machine learning technology.
Early-Stage Investor
Sep 2018
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.
Early-Stage Investor
Apr 2018
Our mission is to help every organization put systems in place to manage their weather challenges and opportunities. Selected by TIME Magazine as one of the TOP 100 Most Influential Companies in the world, Tomorrow.io is the world’s leading Resilience Platform™. Supercharged by next-generation space technology, cutting-edge generative AI, and proprietary modeling capabilities, global leaders, including JetBlue, The United States Air Force, and Uber, rely on Tomorrow.io to predict, improve decision-making, and solve for any weather-related challenge. From innovative weather intelligence and actionable insights to early warning systems and climate adaptation, organizations can predict impact, mitigate risk, and ensure operational resilience with Tomorrow.io. We believe “weather security is the new cyber security.” Join the resilience revolution at www.tomorrow.io.
Early-Stage Investor
Jul 2016
BioCatch prevents financial crime by recognizing patterns in human behavior. We continuously collect more than 3,000 anonymized data points – keystroke and mouse activity, touch screen behavior, physical device attributes, and more – as people interact with their digital banking platforms. With these inputs, our machine-learning models reveal patterns in user behavior and provide device intelligence that, together, distinguish the criminal from the legitimate. Today, more than 30 of the worlds largest 100 banks and 287 total financial institutions deploy our solutions, analyzing 16 billion user sessions per month and protecting 532 million people around the world from fraud and financial crime. Fraud is incessant, pervasive, and ever-evolving. It’s relentless. And thats why, at BioCatch, we fight to make banking safer every day.
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2022
Early stage investor
Nov 2022
Talon transforms the browser into a secure workspace with the market’s most leading Enterprise Browsing Platform, which includes the Talon Enterprise Browser, Talon Extension, and Talon Mobile. With Talon, IT and security teams benefit from deep visibility and tight control over all SaaS and web applications, enabling them to secure any user, in any location, on any device. Talon was named the Most Innovative Startup of 2022 at the prestigious RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest.
Seed Investor
Jul 2022
Opus Security set out to transform vulnerability management by bringing automation and intelligence into one of the hardest problems in cybersecurity: remediation. Our platform was built around a fleet of AI-driven security agents designed to analyze, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities at scale. By embedding expertise into existing IT, engineering, and security workflows, Opus aimed to remove manual bottlenecks and make vulnerability management proactive, continuous, and seamless. The mission was simple: reduce backlog, eliminate wasted cycles, and help organizations stay ahead of risk with always-on security operations.
Seed Investor
May 2022
Guardz is the unified cybersecurity platform purpose-built for MSPs. We consolidate the essential security controls, including identities, endpoints, email, awareness, and more, into one AI-native framework designed for operational efficiency. Our identity-centric approach connects the dots across vectors, reducing the gaps that siloed tools leave behind so MSPs can see, understand, and act on user risk in real time. Backed by an elite research and threat hunting team, Guardz strengthens detection across environments, turning signals into actionable insights. With 24/7 AI + human-led MDR, Guardz utilizes agentic AI to triage at machine speed while expert analysts validate, mitigate, and guide response, giving MSPs scalable protection without adding headcount. Our mission is simple: give MSPs the scale, confidence, and clarity they need to stay ahead of attackers and deliver protection to every SMB they serve.
2021
Early Stage Investor
Dec 2021
Vicarius helps security and IT teams protect their most critical apps and assets against software exploitation through vRx, a consolidated end-to-end vulnerability remediation platform. Headquartered in New York and backed by tier-one Silicon Valley investors, Vicarius was founded by security experts on a mission to provide problem-solving remediation solutions that proactively reduce risk wherever assets reside. Effortlessly find and eliminate threats while reducing the strain on internal security resources, freeing up personnel to focus on other mission-critical tasks without sacrificing security. Get started for free today or learn more at https://vicarius.io
Seed Investor
Nov 2021
The first and only solution that combines data security posture management (DSPM) with real-time data detection and response (DDR) – a full-encompassing solution that helps discover, classify, protect, and govern your cloud data. Recent Awards –Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) 2023 Global InfoSec Awards 🏆Most Comprehensive Cloud Security Solution 🏆Most Comprehensive Data Security Solution 🏆Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Startup –2023 Globee® Cybersecurity Award 🥇Gold for Data Security 🥈Silver for Most Innovative Security Company of the Year – Security Cloud/SaaS. –2023 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 🥇Data Security Posture Management 🥇Cloud Native Data Security 🥈Best Cybersecurity Startup –The Cloud Awards 🏆Security Innovation of the Year (Enterprise) Dig’s comprehensive solution gives you instant visibility into your data risk in real-time. With access to context for each of your data assets, Dig helps you locate, classify and prioritize your Cloud data estate to ensure your data is protected. Learn more about our platform: https://www.dig.security/product Check out our Buyer’s Guide: https://www.dig.security/pages/dspm-buyers-guide Dig by Industry Finance: https://www.dig.security/solution-financial-services Healthcare: https://www.dig.security/solution-healthcare Tech: https://www.dig.security/solution-tech Dig by Cloud AWS: https://www.dig.security/aws Azure: https://www.dig.security/dig-for-azure Get a free risk assessment here: https://www.dig.security/pages/data-risk-assessment
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