Overview
Dan Amiga is a Partner at Picture Capital as of March 2024 [4]. Amiga serves as Co-Founder and CTO of Island, a position held since August 2020 [3]. Amiga has been a founding investor and board member at multiple cybersecurity companies, including Axis Security [5], Cycode [7], and Build.Security, which was acquired by Elastic [6]. Additional founding investments include ScaleOps [9] and CyClops Security [8]. Amiga holds a BA in Computer Science from Reichman University [11] and an MA in Business Law from Bar-Ilan University [12]. Amiga is also a member of Cyberstarts, a venture capital firm [10].
Profile introduction
Co-Founder and CTO of Island. Founding investor at Axis Security (Acquired by HPE) , Cycode (ASPM Leader), Build.Security (Acquired by Elastic), ScaleOps (K8S optimization stars) & CyClops (Search security..). Inventor of RBI and the Founder and CTO of Fireglass (Acquired in 2017 by Symantec). Previously, Chief software architect of Schneider Electric, Security @ Microsoft Technology Center in Tel Aviv. 8200 for 5 years focusing on inventing and developing new security solutions that go far beyond firewalls, proxies or heuristic-based anti-malware solutions. Frequent presenter in many s…
Career history
- Co-Founder & CTOAug 2020 to presentIsland
- PartnerMar 2024 to presentPicture Capital
- Founding InvestorDec 2018 to presentAxis Security
- Founding Investor & Board MemberFeb 2020 to presentbuild.security (acquired by Elastic)
- Founding Investor & Board MemberJul 2019 to presentCycode
- Founding InvestorAug 2022 to presentCyclops Security
- Founding InvestorMar 2022 to presentScaleOps - Cloud-Native Optimization
- MemberApr 2018 to presentCyberstarts - The Founders Powered VC
Education
BA, Computer Science2003 - 2006Reichman University
MA, Business Law2007 - 2008Bar-Ilan University
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