Michael Yamnitsky
Managing Director at Insight Partners (hiring for portcos)
Michael Yamnitsky
Managing Director at Insight Partners (hiring for portcos)
United States
Overview
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.
Board Member
2022
Building a community and products around WebAssembly.
Board Member
2022
Ensures software is accessible to the hearing and visually impaired.
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.
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.
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).
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)
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.
Education
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