Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Team8, Israel
Liran Grinberg is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Team8, a venture group with nearly $2 billion in exits and over $1 billion in AUM. Team8 incubates and invests in early-stage companies, bringing deep domain expertise in cybersecurity, infrastructure, fintech, and digital health. Grinberg is focused on cybersecurity and enterprise infrastructure investments, having led the seed investments in Talon Cyber Security (acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $625M) and Dig Security (acquired by Palo Alto for $315M), and worked closely with founding teams on the ideation in Claroty (now a unicorn backed by $635M in funding), Curv (acquired by PayPal), Portshift (acquired by Cisco), Sygnia (acquired by Temasek for $250M), and more.
Grinberg is a board director at Akeyless (secret management), Finout (cloud cost observability), Port (internal developer portal), Ionix (attack surface management), Monogoto (software-defined connectivity), Vena Security (defense optimization and Clover Security (secure design), and observes the boards of Claroty (XIoT security, industrial and medical) and Gem Security (cloud detection and response).
Grinberg co-founded Team8 in 2014, initially focusing on the design of its foundry model, then transitioning to building and leading Team8’s Go-to-Market group alongside the formation of the “Team8 Village,” – a tightknit community encompassing hundreds of C-level executives from the world’s leading enterprises. Combined, the two initiatives have become a powerful and differentiated advantage of Team8 in accelerating the success of its portfolio companies.
Before co-founding Team8, Grinberg led the flagship product at fintech unicorn eToro as well as the API and developers’ platforms for publisher engagement unicorn Conduit. He began his career as a distinguished officer in the cyber and data division of Israel’s elite military and technology intelligence unit 8200. Grinberg is a member of YPO, and has been selected by Forbes for its ’30 Under 30′ list as well as by The Marker for its ‘40 Under 40 Promising Young People’ list. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel Aviv.
