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Zero To $100 Million In Nine Months: Index, Sequoia Back Cybersecurity Company Led By Former Microsoft Execs

In March, as the Covid-19 pandemic was sweeping the globe, Assaf Rappaport was pushing hard to convince major companies that his new cybersecurity company was going to be the hot new thing. Having just left his post as a Microsoft executive in Israel, the bet needed to pay off. “We were meeting CISOs, shaking hands,” Rappaport says. The timing couldn’t have felt worse.

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Udi Mokady

CyberArk Chairman, CEO &
Co-Founder

Assaf Rappaport

Beyond Security CEO & Co-Founder

Dan Amiga

FireGlass CTO & Co-Founder

Yevgeny Dibrov

Armis CEO & Co-Founder

Yuval Cohen

Neebula, CEO & Co-Founder

Nir Zuk

Palo Alto Networks CTO & Founder

Mickey Boodaei

Imperva, Trusteer, and Transmit Founder

Guy Podjarny

Snyk Founder & President

Nadir Izrael

Armis CTO & Co-Founder

Slavik Markovich

Demisto CEO & Co-Founder

Rakesh K. Loonkar

Transmit Security President 

Amichai Shulman

Imperva CTO & Co-Founder

Yair Grindlinger

FireLayers Co-Founder & CEO

Ofer Ben-Noon

Argus Cyber Security CEO & Founder

Pradeep Aswani 

Cloud Harmonics, Secure Dynamics, Securematics, OneSecure Founder
 

Shlomo Kramer

Check Point, Imperva, Cato Networks Founder

Roy Zisapel

Radware CEO

Zohar Alon

Dome9 CEO & Co-Founder

Gonen Fink

 LightCyber CEO

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Karl Mattson 

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