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The Multiplier Effects of Distributed Security Architecture
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Michael Yamnitsky
Managing Director at Insight Partners (hiring for portcos)
United States
Overview
Michael Yamnitsky is the Managing Director at Insight Partners, overseeing the hiring for portfolio companies, with a focus on venture capital, strategic partnerships, and SaaS. He has made significant investments in companies like Fermyon Technologies (Series A) and Evinced (Series B), leveraging his expertise in cloud computing, go-to-market strategy, and competitive analysis to drive success in the IoT, security, and AI sectors.
Work Experience
Managing Director
2022 - Current
Investing in developer-driven businesses from the earliest stages of company formation. Deno (Series A), Tailscale (Series B), Evinced (Series B), AtomicJar (acquired by Docker Dec. '23), Fermyon (Series A) and several more still in stealth.
Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup companies.
Board Member
2022
Building a community and products around WebAssembly.
Fermyon Technologies is a software development company that pioneers the next wave of cloud computing.
Raised $29,999,983.00 from Lachlan Evenson, Insight Partners, Daniel Lopez, Armon Dadgar, Grant Miller, Tyler McMullen, Marc Campbell and Amplify Partners.
Board Member
2022
Ensures software is accessible to the hearing and visually impaired.
The leading software for integrating accessibility into web and mobile development.
Raised $57,000,000.00 from Engineering Capital, Insight Partners, Capital One Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.
Board Observer
2022
A simplified VPN built on Wireguard.
Investor
2022
Simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that uses V8 and is built in Rust.
A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript and a globally distributed JavaScript VM
Raised $25,900,000.00 from Shasta Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Four Rivers Group, Rauch Capital, Mozilla, Long Journey Ventures and Insight Partners.
Board Observer
2022 - 2023
Acquired by Docker in December of 2023. With over 100M downloads of #testcontainers open source, AtomicJar is building a cloud platform to streamline shift-left integration testing.
AtomicJar is an integration testing platform that enables developers to build databases and web frameworks more efficiently.
Raised $29,050,000.00 from Peter McKay, Chalfen Ventures, Guy Podjarny, Walter Scott, Irregular Expressions, Insight Partners, Tribe Capital and boldstart ventures.
Private Investor
2019 - 2022
I angel invest in stealth/early-stage startups, with a particular focus on developer tools, cybersecurity, enterprise software, digital health, and the food & agriculture supply chain.
Director of Product Strategy
2018 - 2021
Ran a team of product managers building cloud security products. Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. IPO - September 2019 (NASDAQ: DDOG).
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
Raised $1,017,900,000.00 from IVP.
Venture Partner
2015 - 2019
Work-Bench is an enterprise-focused venture capital fund supporting early stage software companies. I focused on sourcing/managing investments and developing the firm's network of F500 CIOs. Select investments I have worked on: CoreOS (application container management software) [acquired by Red Hat January 2018] Cockroach Labs (distributed SQL database) Portfolio companies I was actively involved with: DialPad (cloud-based unified communications, $1.2B valuation), vArmour (datacenter and cloud security), Tamr (data governance software) Positions held: Venture Partner (2016-Present) Associate (2015-2016)
Work-Bench is an Seed-stage enterprise venture capital firm based in NYC.
Chief of Staff Intern
2017 - 2017
vArmour is a growth-stage cybersecurity startup with $83M+ in venture funding. I spent the summer between my first and second year at Wharton assisting the CEO and executive team in product, operations, marketing, and finance.
VArmour offers data defined perimeter security solutions for mobile, virtual, and cloud platforms.
Raised $185,000,000.00 from Redline Capital, Highland Capital Partners, NightDragon, AllegisCyber, Employee Stock Option Fund, Titanium Ventures, EDBI and SC Ventures.
Education
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