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Arik Kleinstein

Founder of GClub

Israel

Overview 

Arik Kleinstein is the Founding Managing Partner at Glilot Capital Partners in Israel, with a strong background in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and strategic planning. He has successfully invested in a variety of startups, including companies like Genoox and BrandTotal, and holds board positions in multiple organizations, showcasing his expertise in business development and corporate strategy.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder

    2023 - Current

  • Founding Managing Partner

    2010

    Glilot Capital Partners (www.glilotcapital.com) is an Israeli VC fund focusing on investments in seed & early stage software companies. Current boards: Genoox, Upstream, Lightrun, CardinalOps, Mitiga, Anecdotes, Phone.do, accessiBe, Appcharge, Sweet Security Former boards : LightCyber (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Aorato (acquired by Microsoft), Insightera (acquired by Marketo), CyberX (acquired by Microsoft), Solebit (acquired by Mimecast), Protego (acquired by Checkpoint), Mintigo (acquired by Anaplan), Porticor (acquired by Intuit), Polyrize (acquired by Varonis), Intsights (acquired by Rapid7), Cider Security (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Polar Security (acquired by IBM), Youappi (acquired by Affle), Ermetic (acquired by Tenable), Atmosec (acquired by Checkpoint), Entitle (acquired by BeyondTrust)

  • Seed Investor and Board Member

    2019

  • Seed Investor and Board Member

    2016

    Marketing Intelligence in the age of Dark Marketing (www.brandtotal.com)

  • Seed Investor and Board Member

    2017

  • Board Member

    2017

Genoox uses the power of the community to make genomic data actionable with a mission to create the largest RWE genomic and clinical dataset

Raised $20,000,000.00 from Glilot Capital Partners, Inimiti, Infinity Medical, Triventures, IN Venture, Inimiti, Triventures and Glilot Capital Partners.

  • Seed Investor and board member

    2016

Exceed is a Conversational Marketing and Sales Platform.

Raised $5,500,000.00 from Gur Shomron, Alex Pinchev, Glilot Capital Partners, West Fountain Global Fund and Glilot Capital Partners.

  • Seed Investor and Board Member

    2013

YouAppi is a digital marketing platform that provides user acquisition to retention via app retargeting and re-engagement services.

Raised $18,100,000.00 from AltaIR Capital, Digital Future, 2B Angels, Flint Capital, Emery Capital, Hawk Ventures, Global Brain Corporation, Glilot Capital Partners and Click Ventures.

  • Seed Investor and Board Member

    2015 - 2021

    Acquired by Rapid7

IntSights is an external threat intelligence and protection platform built to neutralize threats outside the wire.

Raised $71,300,000.00 from Qumra Capital.

  • Seed Investor and Board Member

    2018 - 2020

    Acquired by Varonis

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