Liran Grinberg

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Team8

📍 Israel, Israel🔄 Updated September 2026💼 26 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Feb 2026
Data Loss Prevention is a broken promise. Were here to fix it. For too long, security teams have been trapped in a cycle of failure. Legacy DLP systems, built on rigid rules and broken formulas, have created a storm of noise and alert fatigue. They bury teams in false positives while real threats get missed. This isnt just ineffective; its exhausting. Jazz is DLP, Remastered. We didnt just add another layer to the problem; we rebuilt the solution from first principles. We replaced outdated rules with an AI-powered Agentic Investigator that understands the one thing that matters: context. Our platform automatically investigates data movement to understand the "why" behind every action, providing clear, actionable answers instead of more alerts. Its the difference between noise and signal. Were giving security teams their time, their sanity, and their effectiveness back. Welcome to the new era of DLP.
Board Member
Jan 2026
AI has made phishing, deepfakes, and social engineering faster, more targeted, and nearly impossible to distinguish from the real thing. Yet most organizations are still defending against yesterdays attacks – with training built for nobody in particular. Static content libraries. Generic phishing simulations. Modules built around threats that no longer exist. The same awareness video for your CFO, your developers, and your AP clerk. This is the gap where breaches happen. Frame delivers human risk security, built for your world. Frame learns your organization – your people, your policies, your threat surface – and generates personalized security training and simulations in minutes. Not pulled from a library. Built around you and the threats targeting your organization right now. Attackers already know your company. What about your people? framesecurity.com
Board Member
Aug 2025
At BAND, we believe the future of enterprise productivity lies in the seamless interaction between humans and AI. As organizations deploy increasingly complex, distributed multi-agent ecosystems, the challenge is no longer just building agents - it’s governing how they work together. BAND is the enterprise-grade interaction infrastructure designed to solve the chaos of heterogeneous agent environments. We provide a shared interaction layer that enables real-time, multi-peer collaboration with built-in governance. While frameworks focus on how agents think, we focus on how they interact. By defining the rules of engagement, BAND ensures that collaboration is structured, secure, and scalable - not constrained by technical fragmentation.
Board Member / Observer
May 2025
Mate is the first continuous detection/continuous response solution. Mate enables a new security operations architecture where detection, investigation, response and threat hunting run as one, self improving cycle that outperforms AI-scale attacks. At its core is Mate’s home-grown security context graph: the institutional brain serving as a unified reasoning plane for AI agents. Fortune 500 organizations use Mate to investigate their entire alert queue, respond to threats before attackers can execute, keep detections up to date, eliminate SIEM lock-in and reduce costs. Mate’s is led by Wiz and Microsoft veterans and backed by Team8 and Insight Partners.
Board Member
2025
Checklists don’t catch risks. Lema transforms third-party risk teams from compliance auditors into Risk Engineers - uncovering the material risks that everything else misses. Powered by an AI Agent trained to think like an elite vulnerability researcher, Lema automatically analyzes vendor artifacts, gathers publicly available intelligence, and monitors the interface between you and the vendor. With Lema, Risk Engineers reveal the risks that genuinely threaten your business - and deliver the exact steps to shut them down.
Board Member / Observer
2025
Fig leads Security Operations Resilience – keeping detection and response working through constant change. Fig finds and fixes broken security flows across your entire SecOps stack and lets you quickly simulate and deploy planned changes. With Fig, change powers the SOC instead of breaking it.
Board Member
Sep 2024
OX Security is unifying AppSec practices with its pioneering Active ASPM platform, enabling users to prevent risks by providing visibility and traceability, contextualized prioritization, and automated response throughout the software development lifecycle. The platform goes beyond traditional AppSec solutions, empowering organizations to eliminate manual practices and embrace scalable, secure development.
Board Member
2024
Sawmills is the first AI-powered telemetry management platform, enabling enterprises to optimize observability costs while improving data quality and reliability. Built on OpenTelemetry, Sawmills leverages advanced AI to analyze and refine telemetry data in real-time, preventing system outages and unexpected cost spikes. By intelligently routing observability data and enforcing automated policies, Sawmills empowers companies to maintain complete visibility into their systems without vendor lock-in. Backed by Team8, Mayfield, and Alumni Ventures, Sawmills is redefining how organizations manage their observability infrastructure. Learn more at sawmills.ai.
Board Member
Jul 2023
We combined hundreds of years of DevOps knowledge with thousands of hours of research to transform the developer experience as the world sees it today. Starting by building the Developer Portal that brings everyone together, and going forward as the developer experience forefront. Join our Community on Slack to discuss DevEx with your peers and influence our roadmap: https://www.getport.io/community
Board Member
Jan 2023
Nagomi Security gives enterprise security teams the control to eliminate exposure, faster and at scale. As the execution layer of Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), Nagomi unifies asset visibility, contextual prioritization, remediation guidance, and performance reporting in a single platform. At its core is Exposure Lens, the only engine that correlates assets, controls, vulnerabilities, and threats to show risk in context across subsidiaries and business units. By validating defenses and directing fixes to the right owners, Nagomi ensures issues are resolved instead of tracked, closing exposures faster, strengthening defenses continuously, and delivering measurable progress for both security and business leaders. Recognized by Gartner® as a Cool Vendor, Nagomi is a pioneer in Automated Security Control Assessment (ASCA), helping organizations operationalize exposure management and drive down risk with the tools they already own.
Board Member
2023
Clover Security delivers design-led product security, using AI agents to embed security into the earliest stages of development. Our agents replicate the thinking of experienced security architects to surface risks early, anticipate flaws, and make software products secure by nature.
Board Observer
Nov 2022
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.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Experience the ultimate FinOps tool with Finout - the all-in-one solution designed to meet the needs of companies of any size. Effortlessly streamline your FinOps management with Finouts robust features, including instant tagging, zero-fee cost optimization, and a comprehensive cost governance suite. With its intuitive interface, you can optimize your cloud spend by up to 45% without the hassle of coding or tag changes. Say goodbye to unnecessary expenses and hello to the only FinOps tool you will ever need.
Board Member
Oct 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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Board Member
Feb 2026
Data Loss Prevention is a broken promise. Were here to fix it. For too long, security teams have been trapped in a cycle of failure. Legacy DLP systems, built on rigid rules and broken formulas, have created a storm of noise and alert fatigue. They bury teams in false positives while real threats get missed. This isnt just ineffective; its exhausting. Jazz is DLP, Remastered. We didnt just add another layer to the problem; we rebuilt the solution from first principles. We replaced outdated rules with an AI-powered Agentic Investigator that understands the one thing that matters: context. Our platform automatically investigates data movement to understand the "why" behind every action, providing clear, actionable answers instead of more alerts. Its the difference between noise and signal. Were giving security teams their time, their sanity, and their effectiveness back. Welcome to the new era of DLP.
Board Member
Jan 2026
AI has made phishing, deepfakes, and social engineering faster, more targeted, and nearly impossible to distinguish from the real thing. Yet most organizations are still defending against yesterdays attacks – with training built for nobody in particular. Static content libraries. Generic phishing simulations. Modules built around threats that no longer exist. The same awareness video for your CFO, your developers, and your AP clerk. This is the gap where breaches happen. Frame delivers human risk security, built for your world. Frame learns your organization – your people, your policies, your threat surface – and generates personalized security training and simulations in minutes. Not pulled from a library. Built around you and the threats targeting your organization right now. Attackers already know your company. What about your people? framesecurity.com
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Board Member
Aug 2025
At BAND, we believe the future of enterprise productivity lies in the seamless interaction between humans and AI. As organizations deploy increasingly complex, distributed multi-agent ecosystems, the challenge is no longer just building agents - it’s governing how they work together. BAND is the enterprise-grade interaction infrastructure designed to solve the chaos of heterogeneous agent environments. We provide a shared interaction layer that enables real-time, multi-peer collaboration with built-in governance. While frameworks focus on how agents think, we focus on how they interact. By defining the rules of engagement, BAND ensures that collaboration is structured, secure, and scalable - not constrained by technical fragmentation.
Board Member / Observer
May 2025
Mate is the first continuous detection/continuous response solution. Mate enables a new security operations architecture where detection, investigation, response and threat hunting run as one, self improving cycle that outperforms AI-scale attacks. At its core is Mate’s home-grown security context graph: the institutional brain serving as a unified reasoning plane for AI agents. Fortune 500 organizations use Mate to investigate their entire alert queue, respond to threats before attackers can execute, keep detections up to date, eliminate SIEM lock-in and reduce costs. Mate’s is led by Wiz and Microsoft veterans and backed by Team8 and Insight Partners.
Board Member
2025
Checklists don’t catch risks. Lema transforms third-party risk teams from compliance auditors into Risk Engineers - uncovering the material risks that everything else misses. Powered by an AI Agent trained to think like an elite vulnerability researcher, Lema automatically analyzes vendor artifacts, gathers publicly available intelligence, and monitors the interface between you and the vendor. With Lema, Risk Engineers reveal the risks that genuinely threaten your business - and deliver the exact steps to shut them down.
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