Michael Kantarovich
Insider at YL Ventures
Israel
Overview
Work Experience
Investor & Advisor
2024 - Current
Helping amazing teams to build industry defining products. Seed investments include: - Imper (stealth) - Oasis Security (https://www.oasis.security) - Trustmi (https://www.trustmi.ai) - Velocity (https://velocity.tech)
Self Employed is a contracting company that provides independent contracting services.
Member
2018
Insider
2018
YL Ventures funds and supports seed-stage entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity sector.
VP Products
2022 - 2024
VP Engineering
2021 - 2022
First Zscaler acquisition in Israel. Built from the ground up and lead the Israeli site and development center for Zscaler
Zscaler is a global cloud-based information security company that enables secure digital transformation for mobile and cloud.
Raised $170,695,169.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund, EquityZen and Junipero Capital.
Co-Founder, CPO (Acquired by Zscaler)
2019 - 2021
Acquired by Zscaler: https://www.zscaler.com/press/zscaler-addresses-entitlement-gap-cloud-workloads-acquisition-trustdome Responsible for Product Management, R&D, Operations and Customer success.
VP Products, CASB
2017 - 2018
Responsible for the entire CASB business at Forcepoint and for the Israeli site.
Forcepoint is a data protection cybersecurity firm that helps businesses in securing users, data, and networks while enabling development.
Raised $18,000,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, Greylock, Lexington Partners and Sequoia Capital.
VP Products, CASB (Acquired by Forcepoint)
2014 - 2017
Acquired by Forcepoint LLC: https://www.forcepoint.com/newsroom/2017/forcepoint-acquires-skyfence-extend-its-leadership-cloud-security-data-leakage Responsible for Product Management, R&D and Operations; responsible for the Imperva-Skyfence site in Israel.
Co-Founder, VP R&D (Acquired by Imperva)
2012 - 2014
Acquired by Imperva Inc (IMPV): http://investors.imperva.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=247116&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1897860 Co-Founded a cyber security company, securing cloud-based organizational assets (cloud access security broker).
Director of R&D
2009 - 2012
Responsible for Imperva's File and SharePoint Security product line, including: - Building the R&D group from the ground-up - Customer interactions, determining requirements and product concept definition - Delivery of several major product releases - Sales enablement, training and support
Software Team Leader
2006 - 2009
Lead Java backend/infrastructure team to develop the SecureSphere management appliance.
Software Developer
2005 - 2006
Served as part of the Java backend/infrastructure team. Helped to develop the SecureSphere management appliance.
Imperva Incapsula is a cloud-based service that makes websites safer, faster, and more reliable.
Software Developer
1998 - 2005
Served for 7 years as software engineer and technology expert for multiple projects.