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Karin Netzer Makes the Invisible Work of Enterprise Software Legible
From photography and television to smart cities and cloud integration, Karin Netzer has built a career translating complicated systems into reasons to care.
Danny Brickman
Danny Brickman is the co-founder and CEO of Oasis Security, a New York and Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company building the first enterprise platform for non-human identity management and agentic access management. A former Israel Defense Forces cyber R&D leader with 11 years of service and an Israel Defense Prize to his name, Brickman started Oasis in 2022 with Amit Zimerman to tackle the fast-growing security gap around machine identities, which now outnumber human identities by roughly 20 to 1. The company has raised about $195 million, backed by Sequoia, Accel, Cyberstarts and Craft Ventures.
Eli Singer
Eli Singer is a serial technology entrepreneur and the co-founder of Jethro (formerly JethroData), a big data company that built an index-based SQL engine and BI-on-Hadoop acceleration layer for tools like Tableau, Qlik and MicroStrategy. Over a career spanning more than two decades he founded Memco Software, which reached a NASDAQ IPO, and co-founded and led WebCollage, a cloud e-commerce content platform later acquired by Answers.com. At Jethro he served first as co-founder and CEO and later as President, helping the company raise more than $12 million to make interactive analytics on Hadoop fast enough for real business users.
Yisi Gross
Yisi Gross (Yisrael Gross) is an Israeli-rooted, New York-based technology entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded L7 Defense (now ammune.ai), an AI-driven API security company that raised Series A backing from TRUMPF Venture and Quick Heal, and today works as a Managing Partner at TYH Investments, backing early-stage high-tech startups. He built his reputation on the unglamorous frontier of API-borne attacks, arguing that autonomous, machine-learning defense - not human-tuned rules - is the only way to keep pace with modern cyberattacks.
Dror Nahumi
Dror Nahumi is a General Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, a multi-stage global VC firm managing $15.5 billion in assets. Based in Menlo Park, California, he leads Norwest's Israeli investment portfolio - a practice he helped build since the firm established its Israel presence in 2009. A former Bell Labs research engineer who developed the RCELP speech coder (now the CDMA standard for North American cellular), Nahumi transitioned from deep tech to entrepreneurship before landing in venture capital in 2010. He has backed companies that have been acquired by Microsoft, Google, EMC, and Symantec, and has seeded unicorns including Gong.io, VAST Data, and Weka.
Jacques Benkoski
Jacques Benkoski is a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) in Menlo Park, California, where he has invested since 2005 with a focus on cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and data services. Born in Belgium, educated at the Technion in Israel and Carnegie Mellon, he built his operational chops founding and running EDA and semiconductor startups before turning to early-stage investing across the U.S. and Israel. He is also the author of 'The Market Entry Strategy,' a book drawn from a seminar he gave to over 5,000 entrepreneurs.