Yair Amit
Founder of Skycure
Israel
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2022 - Current
Walnut is a failure-free, codeless, and 100% customizable platform that empowers every sales rep to own their successful sales demo experience.
Seed investor, Advisor
2020
Walnut provides a personalized product demo and analytics platform to improve sales experiences.
Raised $56,000,000.00 from Kim Walsh, Eight Roads Ventures, James Ireson, Eynat Guez, Felicis, Ariel Cohen, Stephanie Robotham, A.Capital Ventures, Michael Shaulov and NFX.
Member
2018
The Cyber Security Founders Powered VC
Angel Investor
2021 - 2024
Acquired by Snyk.
Seed investor, Advisor
2020 - 2023
Acquired by Rubrik. Laminar provides full data observability across your entire public cloud. Data protection teams can reduce the attack surface, detect real-time data leaks and get back in control of their data.
Co-Founder
2020 - 2022
Maalot Climate was established to increase public awareness of the climate crisis as a step towards corrective action. We believe the future is in our hands; it is not too late.
Advisor
2018 - 2022
Snyk is the platform developers choose to build cloud native applications securely.
Snyk is a cloud native application security provider that enables millions of developers to build software securely.
Raised $1,195,500,000.00 from ServiceNow.
VP Product Strategy, Endpoint Solutions
2019 - 2019
VP & CTO, Modern OS Security
2017 - 2019
At Symantec, the Modern OS Security division enhances enterprise mobile security with a holistic approach that seamlessly identifies and remediates threats, vulnerabilities and attacks on all levels – physical, network, malware and the OS. Symantec's patented technology provides unparalleled visibility into threats without meddling with user experience. With Symantec's dedication to proactive security, enterprises can embrace BYOD and mobile productivity by staying ahead of attackers anywhere in the world—and enforcing mobile IT policy across all employees’ devices. Symantec also factors in crowd intelligence to ensure that notifications are descriptive, actionable and smart enough to neutralize alert fatigue.
Email Filtering Company
Raised $35,000,000.00 from TCV, Crosslink Capital, NortonLifeLock, Critical Path, Accel, Opportunity Capital Partners, Esther Dyson, Bill Joy and Thomas Weisel Partners.
Founder & CTO
2012 - 2019
Acquired by Symantec in July 2017. Skycure enhances enterprise mobile security with a holistic approach that seamlessly identifies and remediates threats, vulnerabilities and attacks on all levels – physical, network, malware and OS. Skycure’s patent-pending technology provides unparalleled visibility into threats without meddling with user experience. With Skycure’s dedication to proactive mobile security, enterprises can embrace BYOD and mobile productivity by staying ahead of attackers anywhere in the world—and enforcing mobile IT policy across all employees’ devices. Skycure also factors in crowd intelligence to ensure that notifications are descriptive, actionable and smart enough to neutralize alert fatigue.
Founder & CTO
2011 - 2012
Education
B.Sc
2006 - 2009