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Moti Rafalin

Enterprise Software Entrepreneur and Executive

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Moti Rafalin is an accomplished Enterprise Software Entrepreneur and Executive based in Palo Alto, California. He currently serves as the CEO, Chairman, and Founder of vFunction, and has held advisory and executive roles at top companies like SafeBreach and Zoom Video Communications. With a background in business strategy and market penetration, Rafalin has successfully navigated the realms of enterprise software, security, and SaaS, making significant contributions to the tech industry. Rafalin's career highlights include founding vFunction and being recognized as an Official Member of the Forbes Technology Council. His expertise in business development, entrepreneurship, and software development has led to impactful roles at companies like BlackBerry and Shasta Ventures, showcasing his strong leadership and strategic acumen in the tech sector.

Work Experience 

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vFunction

  • CEO, Chairman & Founder

    2017 - Current

    vFunction is an AI-driven architectural observability platform that increases engineering velocity, scalability, and resiliency by continuously identifying and recommending ways to reduce technical debt and complexity in your applications.

VFunction allows enterprises to tackle application modernization and accelerate digital transformation.

Raised $38,200,000.00 from Utiliti Group.

vfunction.com
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Forbes Technology Council

  • Official Member

    2021

Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for senior-level tech executives.

forbestechcouncil.com
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Certora

  • Investor and Advisor

    2018

    Ensuring smart contract security. Top-notch scientists led by Prof. Mooly Sagiv.

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Cyberstarts - The Founders Powered VC

  • Member

    2018

    Cyberstarts is focused on cybersecurity and is the world’s first VC that is mostly backed by cyber entrepreneurs. Cyberstarts portfolio includes Fireblocks, Wiz, Axis Security, Bionic, Noname, and other innovative security companies.

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SafeBreach

  • Advisory Board Member

    2015

    Breach and attack simulation platform that safely and countinuosly uses real hacking techniques to quantify risks and validate security controls.

SafeBreach executes active breach scenarios and performs continuous validation to find holes in an environment before an attacker does.

Raised $106,500,000.00 from Sands Capital Ventures, Leumi Partners, Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM), Israel Growth Partners and ServiceNow.

safebreach.com
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Baffle, Inc.

  • Advisor

    2015

    A solution that makes data breaches irrelevant by keeping data encrypted from production through processing.

Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.

Raised $36,500,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, National Grid Partners (NGP), Lytical Ventures, Celesta Capital and Nepenthe Capital.

baffle.io
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Zoom Video Communications

  • Advisor

    2015 - 2024

    Unparalleled video conferencing.

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LearnUp

  • Interim CEO

    2016 - 2017

    Interim CEO at a Shasta Ventures portfolio company. Stepped in as CEO after advising the company founder and board. Structured and executed the sale of LearnUp to ManpowerGroup (MAN) in February 2017.

LearnUp specializes in the fields of online education, job skills training, job placement, and employment.

Raised $17,400,001.00 from Floodgate, Third Kind Venture Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Shasta Ventures and Greylock.

learnup.com
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Shasta Ventures

  • Executive in Residence

    2015 - 2016

Shasta Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing capital in enterprises.

shasta.vc
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BlackBerry

  • Senior Vice President

    2015 - 2015

    Helped transition WatchDox into BlackBerry (WatchDox became BlackBerry Workspaces).

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