Team8

Team8 is a global venture group that builds and invests in companies specializing in enterprise technology, cybersecurity, data science, AI, and fintech. It combines an in-house, multi-disciplinary team of company-builders with a network of C‑level executives and industry thought leaders to identify significant problems, ideate practical solutions, and accelerate progress through technology, market fit, and talent acquisition. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Team8 operates a signature Foundry model that creates new companies from scratch and supports their development through early growth stages. It is backed by strategic corporate partners including Microsoft, Walmart, Cisco, Barclays, and Moody’s, among others, which provide domain expertise and industry connections to help startups scale.

Ori Barzilay

Principal

Galia Beer-Gabel

Partner

Aaron Dubin

Vice President, Strategy and Business Research

Sarit Firon

Managing Partner

Israel Grimberg

Investor

Past deals in Risk Management

IONIX

Series A in 2024
IONIX is a security solutions provider specializing in attack surface management through its innovative platform, which leverages Connective Intelligence to identify and mitigate exploitable risks across both digital and internet-facing assets. The company's technology employs machine learning to discover and monitor organizational assets, analyze their connections, and assess risks with a contextual approach. By utilizing inside-out and reverse detection techniques, IONIX helps organizations uncover new vulnerabilities and respond to risky changes effectively. Its comprehensive suite of tools facilitates the prioritization of critical threats and supports end-to-end remediation workflows. Esteemed global companies, such as Infosys and Warner Music Group, rely on IONIX to enhance their security posture and proactively manage their complex attack surfaces in an ever-evolving threat landscape.

Gem Security

Series A in 2023
Gem Security specializes in cloud-based cybersecurity solutions. Its platform offers centralized threat management, real-time detection, investigation, and response capabilities, empowering businesses to automate their security processes.

Ballerine

Seed Round in 2023
Ballerine is a GenAI-powered platform that streamlines onboarding, underwriting, and ongoing monitoring for fast, secure, and compliant operations. It combines advanced AI with built-in security and regulatory safeguards to reduce manual work, mitigate risk, and deliver real-time insights, enabling faster approvals and stronger fraud detection. The company also offers an open-source identification and risk management platform with a unified API that connects to data sources, government lists, identity verification providers, and open banking, allowing organizations to automate decisions, improve conversions, and deliver a secure customer experience.

Datricks

Series A in 2023
Datricks is an enterprise software company founded in 2019 and based in Herzliya, Israel. It specializes in an AI-powered automated risk mining solution tailored for financial teams. This innovative platform empowers internal auditors and finance leaders to maintain continuous financial compliance with enhanced efficiency and confidence. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Datricks automates risk assessments and uncovers hidden patterns, providing actionable insights that facilitate proactive risk management and safeguard financial integrity. The company's technology is designed to enhance business process insights, thereby increasing productivity and efficiency for organizations.

Gem Security

Seed Round in 2023
Gem Security specializes in cloud-based cybersecurity solutions. Its platform offers centralized threat management, real-time detection, investigation, and response capabilities, empowering businesses to automate their security processes.

Nagomi Security

Seed Round in 2023
Nagomi is changing the way security teams balance risk and defense, empowering customers to focus on what matters now. By mapping customers’ existing security tools to the threats that matter and providing prescriptive remediation plans, the Nagomi Proactive Defense Platform finally makes it possible to optimize, measure, and maximize the ROI of security investments. By taking a threat-centered, data-driven, and actionable approach to risk and cybersecurity, customers are able to provide high-level cybersecurity maturity metrics to executives while simultaneously showing security practitioners exactly what to do to reduce risk, fix misconfigurations, and make strategic decisions with business context. Learn more at nagomi.security.

Ox Security

Seed Round in 2022
Ox Security is a company that provides a comprehensive security platform aimed at safeguarding the modern software supply chain from vulnerabilities. Its solution offers real-time, end-to-end visibility into various elements that affect software throughout the development pipeline. By providing insight into the software supply chain attack surface, including source code, pipelines, artifacts, container images, runtime assets, and applications, Ox Security enables DevOps teams to effectively identify and mitigate potential security risks. This holistic approach allows organizations to prevent attacks and enhance their overall software security posture.

Planck

Venture Round in 2022
Planck is a commercial insurance data platform that enhances the underwriting process for insurers through advanced technology and artificial intelligence. The platform aggregates extensive datasets to provide real-time analytics and insights, streamlining the assessment of risks associated with businesses. By automating the completion of ACORD forms and leveraging publicly available data, image processing, and company reports, Planck facilitates accurate and efficient underwriting. This approach minimizes the potential for fraud and errors, ultimately helping insurance providers to develop tailored policies and reduce loss ratios. Through its innovative solutions, Planck aims to transform the way insurance companies evaluate and underwrite risks in the commercial sector.

Talon Cyber Security

Series A in 2022
Talon Cyber Security is a provider of innovative cybersecurity solutions tailored for the distributed workforce. The company offers a next-generation secure browser that delivers enterprise-grade security to both managed and unmanaged devices, regardless of their location, type, or operating system. By addressing the unique threats associated with remote work and increased cloud usage, Talon empowers businesses to enhance productivity and flexibility while maintaining robust cybersecurity measures. Its technology is designed to effectively mitigate risks posed by the evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, making it a valuable partner for organizations navigating the complexities of a hybrid work environment.

IONIX

Series A in 2022
IONIX is a security solutions provider specializing in attack surface management through its innovative platform, which leverages Connective Intelligence to identify and mitigate exploitable risks across both digital and internet-facing assets. The company's technology employs machine learning to discover and monitor organizational assets, analyze their connections, and assess risks with a contextual approach. By utilizing inside-out and reverse detection techniques, IONIX helps organizations uncover new vulnerabilities and respond to risky changes effectively. Its comprehensive suite of tools facilitates the prioritization of critical threats and supports end-to-end remediation workflows. Esteemed global companies, such as Infosys and Warner Music Group, rely on IONIX to enhance their security posture and proactively manage their complex attack surfaces in an ever-evolving threat landscape.

Talon Cyber Security

Seed Round in 2022
Talon Cyber Security is a provider of innovative cybersecurity solutions tailored for the distributed workforce. The company offers a next-generation secure browser that delivers enterprise-grade security to both managed and unmanaged devices, regardless of their location, type, or operating system. By addressing the unique threats associated with remote work and increased cloud usage, Talon empowers businesses to enhance productivity and flexibility while maintaining robust cybersecurity measures. Its technology is designed to effectively mitigate risks posed by the evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, making it a valuable partner for organizations navigating the complexities of a hybrid work environment.

Sayata

Series A in 2022
Sayata Labs Ltd., established in 2016 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in data-driven cybersecurity solutions for the insurance industry. The company's platform, Sayata, streamlines the commercial risk placement process for brokers and carriers, enabling them to issue quotes, bind, and issue policies swiftly and efficiently. By leveraging AI technology, Sayata provides actionable insights to help manage cyber risks, thereby facilitating rapid and profitable growth of cyber insurance books. As of now, over 1,000 users across 75 brokerages and carriers utilize Sayata's platform to expand their commercial risk portfolios.

Claroty

Series E in 2021
Claroty is an industrial cybersecurity company offering an OT/IoT/IIoT security platform to protect and optimize industrial networks. The platform discovers granular elements, extracts critical data, and provides actionable insights for engineers, operators, and security professionals. It provides visibility, threat detection, risk and vulnerability management, and secure remote access by integrating with customers' existing infrastructure, reducing downtime and improving uptime and efficiency across production sites. The solution covers assets such as industrial control systems and SCADA, enabling anomaly detection and safe operation without requiring extensive dedicated teams. It connects to customers' environments to manage security across operational technology without disrupting production.

Sayata

Series A in 2021
Sayata Labs Ltd., established in 2016 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in data-driven cybersecurity solutions for the insurance industry. The company's platform, Sayata, streamlines the commercial risk placement process for brokers and carriers, enabling them to issue quotes, bind, and issue policies swiftly and efficiently. By leveraging AI technology, Sayata provides actionable insights to help manage cyber risks, thereby facilitating rapid and profitable growth of cyber insurance books. As of now, over 1,000 users across 75 brokerages and carriers utilize Sayata's platform to expand their commercial risk portfolios.

Claroty

Series D in 2021
Claroty is an industrial cybersecurity company offering an OT/IoT/IIoT security platform to protect and optimize industrial networks. The platform discovers granular elements, extracts critical data, and provides actionable insights for engineers, operators, and security professionals. It provides visibility, threat detection, risk and vulnerability management, and secure remote access by integrating with customers' existing infrastructure, reducing downtime and improving uptime and efficiency across production sites. The solution covers assets such as industrial control systems and SCADA, enabling anomaly detection and safe operation without requiring extensive dedicated teams. It connects to customers' environments to manage security across operational technology without disrupting production.

VisibleRisk

Series A in 2021
VisibleRisk is a cybersecurity platform developed as a joint venture between Moody's and Team8, designed to help businesses understand and manage cyber risks in financial terms. The platform continuously monitors and assesses cyber threats, utilizing advanced risk measurement and cybersecurity technologies. By providing a clearer visualization of cyber risks, VisibleRisk enables business leaders to communicate these risks effectively, facilitating better governance and decision-making. The company's innovative approach allows organizations to integrate cyber risk management into their overall financial strategy, ensuring they can mitigate potential threats while maintaining operational integrity.

Planck

Venture Round in 2021
Planck is a commercial insurance data platform that enhances the underwriting process for insurers through advanced technology and artificial intelligence. The platform aggregates extensive datasets to provide real-time analytics and insights, streamlining the assessment of risks associated with businesses. By automating the completion of ACORD forms and leveraging publicly available data, image processing, and company reports, Planck facilitates accurate and efficient underwriting. This approach minimizes the potential for fraud and errors, ultimately helping insurance providers to develop tailored policies and reduce loss ratios. Through its innovative solutions, Planck aims to transform the way insurance companies evaluate and underwrite risks in the commercial sector.

Talon Cyber Security

Seed Round in 2021
Talon Cyber Security is a provider of innovative cybersecurity solutions tailored for the distributed workforce. The company offers a next-generation secure browser that delivers enterprise-grade security to both managed and unmanaged devices, regardless of their location, type, or operating system. By addressing the unique threats associated with remote work and increased cloud usage, Talon empowers businesses to enhance productivity and flexibility while maintaining robust cybersecurity measures. Its technology is designed to effectively mitigate risks posed by the evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, making it a valuable partner for organizations navigating the complexities of a hybrid work environment.

IONIX

Seed Round in 2020
IONIX is a security solutions provider specializing in attack surface management through its innovative platform, which leverages Connective Intelligence to identify and mitigate exploitable risks across both digital and internet-facing assets. The company's technology employs machine learning to discover and monitor organizational assets, analyze their connections, and assess risks with a contextual approach. By utilizing inside-out and reverse detection techniques, IONIX helps organizations uncover new vulnerabilities and respond to risky changes effectively. Its comprehensive suite of tools facilitates the prioritization of critical threats and supports end-to-end remediation workflows. Esteemed global companies, such as Infosys and Warner Music Group, rely on IONIX to enhance their security posture and proactively manage their complex attack surfaces in an ever-evolving threat landscape.

Curv

Series A in 2020
Curv Inc. is a company that specializes in developing cloud-based infrastructure for digital asset security. Founded in 2018 by Dan Yadlin and Itay Malinger, Curv provides a multi-party computation (MPC) solution that eliminates the need for private keys, enhancing safety against cyber threats and insider risks. Its technology allows users, including financial institutions and crypto-native companies, to securely build and manage digital wallets for storing and transferring various digital assets across different blockchains. Curv's offerings include a cloud-based wallet service that replaces conventional cold and hot storage solutions, as well as an enterprise-grade policy engine that enables organizations to define risk profiles and enforce compliance measures. Additionally, the company provides Curv Air Gap, which integrates an offline machine to facilitate secure transaction signing. Headquartered in Winchester, California, with research and development operations in Tel Aviv, Israel, Curv aims to streamline the transaction process while ensuring the highest levels of security.

Planck

Series B in 2020
Planck is a commercial insurance data platform that enhances the underwriting process for insurers through advanced technology and artificial intelligence. The platform aggregates extensive datasets to provide real-time analytics and insights, streamlining the assessment of risks associated with businesses. By automating the completion of ACORD forms and leveraging publicly available data, image processing, and company reports, Planck facilitates accurate and efficient underwriting. This approach minimizes the potential for fraud and errors, ultimately helping insurance providers to develop tailored policies and reduce loss ratios. Through its innovative solutions, Planck aims to transform the way insurance companies evaluate and underwrite risks in the commercial sector.

Curv

Seed Round in 2019
Curv Inc. is a company that specializes in developing cloud-based infrastructure for digital asset security. Founded in 2018 by Dan Yadlin and Itay Malinger, Curv provides a multi-party computation (MPC) solution that eliminates the need for private keys, enhancing safety against cyber threats and insider risks. Its technology allows users, including financial institutions and crypto-native companies, to securely build and manage digital wallets for storing and transferring various digital assets across different blockchains. Curv's offerings include a cloud-based wallet service that replaces conventional cold and hot storage solutions, as well as an enterprise-grade policy engine that enables organizations to define risk profiles and enforce compliance measures. Additionally, the company provides Curv Air Gap, which integrates an offline machine to facilitate secure transaction signing. Headquartered in Winchester, California, with research and development operations in Tel Aviv, Israel, Curv aims to streamline the transaction process while ensuring the highest levels of security.

Claroty

Series B in 2018
Claroty is an industrial cybersecurity company offering an OT/IoT/IIoT security platform to protect and optimize industrial networks. The platform discovers granular elements, extracts critical data, and provides actionable insights for engineers, operators, and security professionals. It provides visibility, threat detection, risk and vulnerability management, and secure remote access by integrating with customers' existing infrastructure, reducing downtime and improving uptime and efficiency across production sites. The solution covers assets such as industrial control systems and SCADA, enabling anomaly detection and safe operation without requiring extensive dedicated teams. It connects to customers' environments to manage security across operational technology without disrupting production.

Claroty

Series A in 2016
Claroty is an industrial cybersecurity company offering an OT/IoT/IIoT security platform to protect and optimize industrial networks. The platform discovers granular elements, extracts critical data, and provides actionable insights for engineers, operators, and security professionals. It provides visibility, threat detection, risk and vulnerability management, and secure remote access by integrating with customers' existing infrastructure, reducing downtime and improving uptime and efficiency across production sites. The solution covers assets such as industrial control systems and SCADA, enabling anomaly detection and safe operation without requiring extensive dedicated teams. It connects to customers' environments to manage security across operational technology without disrupting production.

Illusive Networks

Series B in 2016
Illusive Networks Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in deception-based solutions designed to protect enterprise systems from cyber threats. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in New York, Illusive aims to reduce cyber risk by shrinking the attack surface and hindering an attacker's lateral movement within the network. Its platform creates a hostile environment for potential intruders by replacing vulnerable connections with deceptive alternatives, enabling the identification of attackers and providing actionable forensic insights. The company's offerings include a range of services such as compliance support, insider threat defense, and cloud security, as well as tools like the Illusive Networks Management Platform and Attack Surface Manager. Illusive serves a diverse clientele across various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, retail, and technology, and is recognized for its advanced detection of persistent threats and targeted attacks.

Illusive Networks

Series A in 2015
Illusive Networks Ltd. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in deception-based solutions designed to protect enterprise systems from cyber threats. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in New York, Illusive aims to reduce cyber risk by shrinking the attack surface and hindering an attacker's lateral movement within the network. Its platform creates a hostile environment for potential intruders by replacing vulnerable connections with deceptive alternatives, enabling the identification of attackers and providing actionable forensic insights. The company's offerings include a range of services such as compliance support, insider threat defense, and cloud security, as well as tools like the Illusive Networks Management Platform and Attack Surface Manager. Illusive serves a diverse clientele across various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, retail, and technology, and is recognized for its advanced detection of persistent threats and targeted attacks.

Ox Security

Ox Security is a company that provides a comprehensive security platform aimed at safeguarding the modern software supply chain from vulnerabilities. Its solution offers real-time, end-to-end visibility into various elements that affect software throughout the development pipeline. By providing insight into the software supply chain attack surface, including source code, pipelines, artifacts, container images, runtime assets, and applications, Ox Security enables DevOps teams to effectively identify and mitigate potential security risks. This holistic approach allows organizations to prevent attacks and enhance their overall software security posture.

Celery

Celery is a cloud-based platform that automates internal controls and streamlines financial audits. It offers a centralized repository, pre-configured rules for automated payroll auditing, and a reporting dashboard to identify discrepancies and trends, helping finance teams enhance profitability, mitigate risk, and improve efficiency.
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