Amnon Shoham
Managing Partner & Co-Founder @ Cedar Fund
Herzliyya, Israel
Amnon Shoham is a Series B investor at Cedar Fund in Herzliyya focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Amnon Shoham brings to Cedar Fund a wealth of experience investing in and building quality high tech companies from the ground up since 1993. His Cedar Fund success record includes early stage investments in companies that he helped build to successful exits, including Guardium (acquired by IBM in 2009,) Onaro (acquired by Network Appliance -NetApp(NASDAQ: NTAP) in 2008) and Appilog (acquired in 2004 by HP/Mercury (NYSE:HPQ.) Mr. Shoham focuses on investments in the enterprise software space, and is an active board member on several of Cedar Fund’s portfolio companies.Mr. Shoham brings to Cedar Fund a wealth of experience investing in and building quality high tech companies from the ground up since 1993. Prior to founding Cedar Fund, Mr. Shoham was the Managing Partner of Star Ventures in Israel, where he built and managed its investment activity in Israel. Mr. Shoham has served as director on the following NASDAQ-traded companies' boards: Accord Networks (ACCD, acquired by Polycom, PLCM); BreezeCOM (BRZE, now Alvarion, ALVR); Fourth Dimension Software (DDDF, acquired by BMC Software, BMC); Fundtech (FNDT); Jacada (JCDA); NICEcom (acquired by 3com Corp.,COMS); Paradigm Geophysical (PGEO) and ViryaNet (VRYA). Mr. Shoham's activity on Star's behalf also included investments in Armon Networking (acquired by Bay Networks), Summit Design (now Innoveda, INOV) and Precise Software (PRSE). He was also instrumental in facilitating Star's investment in Creo Products, (CREO) and Orckit Communications (ORCT). Before turning to venture capital investing, Mr. Shoham worked as an attorney in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a leading U.S. law firm, where he focused on public offerings and mergers and acquisitions involving high technology companies.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (45%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (27%)
- Internet 2 (18%)
- Analytics 2 (18%)
- ISP 1 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 5 (45%)
- Series C 2 (18%)
- Funding Round 2 (18%)
- Series D 1 (9%)
Investments
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| CloudLock is a cloud data security company that provides enterprise-class solutions designed to give organizations control over their data in the public cloud, without requiring invasive in-band technology, complicated overhead, or unanswered regulatory risk. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. | $8.7M / Series B / Mar 27, 2012 | ||
| For mobile, cable and telecom operators who need to optimize their investments in next-generation networks, PeerApp provides open, adaptable solutions for local delivery of streaming video and other OTT content. PACache and PALive belong to a suite of PeerApp solutions that run on our Ultraband to slash network costs and dramatically improve yoursubscribers’ Internet quality of experience. PeerApp’s specialized solutions comprise content localization and caching and live streaming delivery. PeerApp is part of the ZephyrTel portfolio serving the global telecommunications industry. | $8M / Sep 20, 2011 | ||
| ClickFox is the market leader in journey analytics and the only specialized journey solution certified in Hadoop. With over a decade of expertise monetizing the world’s largest customer interaction sources, we have proven success transforming big data into connected, dynamic journeys delivering billions in incremental revenue, operationalefficiencies, NPS and C-SAT improvements to our clients. | $17.9M / Series C / Nov 29, 2010 | ||
| Profitect’s Profit Amplification software, a pattern-seeking solution, enables retailers to quickly realize increased revenue and reduced costs across the entire retail supply chain. Profit Amplification pattern-seeking algorithms can “tell a story” by identifying the root cause of anomalies such as inventory distortion, on-shelf availability,shrink/waste/damage, or process non-compliance – helping retailers minimize the effort necessary to identify controllable factors which the solution translates into action. As a result, retailers can move quickly to prevent profit leakage at all levels of the organization, ultimately improving business processes and the top and bottom line. | $5.5M / Series B / Oct 26, 2009 | ||
| For mobile, cable and telecom operators who need to optimize their investments in next-generation networks, PeerApp provides open, adaptable solutions for local delivery of streaming video and other OTT content. PACache and PALive belong to a suite of PeerApp solutions that run on our Ultraband to slash network costs and dramatically improve yoursubscribers’ Internet quality of experience. PeerApp’s specialized solutions comprise content localization and caching and live streaming delivery. PeerApp is part of the ZephyrTel portfolio serving the global telecommunications industry. | $8M / Series B / Nov 11, 2008 | ||
| ClickFox is the market leader in journey analytics and the only specialized journey solution certified in Hadoop. With over a decade of expertise monetizing the world’s largest customer interaction sources, we have proven success transforming big data into connected, dynamic journeys delivering billions in incremental revenue, operationalefficiencies, NPS and C-SAT improvements to our clients. | $12.5M / Series B / Apr 11, 2008 | ||
| Onaro develops storage-management software that allows Storage Area Networks (SAN) to be mapped, predictively tested, and monitored. | $10M / Jan 03, 2008 | ||
| For mobile, cable and telecom operators who need to optimize their investments in next-generation networks, PeerApp provides open, adaptable solutions for local delivery of streaming video and other OTT content. PACache and PALive belong to a suite of PeerApp solutions that run on our Ultraband to slash network costs and dramatically improve yoursubscribers’ Internet quality of experience. PeerApp’s specialized solutions comprise content localization and caching and live streaming delivery. PeerApp is part of the ZephyrTel portfolio serving the global telecommunications industry. | $3M / Jan 01, 2008 | ||
| Guardium, the database security company, delivers the most widely-used solution for preventing information leaks from the data center and ensuring the integrity of enterprise data.The company's enterprise security platform is now installed in more than 450 data centers worldwide, including 5 of the top 5 banks; 3 of the top 5 insurers; topgovernment agencies; 2 of the top 3 retailers; 15 of the world's top telcos; 2 of the world's favorite beverage brands; the most recognized name in PCs; a top 3 auto maker; a top 3 aerospace company; and a leading supplier of business intelligence software. Guardium has partnerships with Accenture, ArcSight, BMC, EMC/RSA, IBM, McAfee, Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase and Teradata, with Cisco as a strategic investor, and is a member of IBM's prestigious Data Governance Council and the PCI Security Standards Council.Founded in 2002, Guardium was the first company to address the core data security gap by delivering a scalable, cross-DBMS enterprise platform that both protects databases in real-time and automates the entire compliance auditing process. | $6.3M / Series D / May 17, 2006 | ||
| Guardium, the database security company, delivers the most widely-used solution for preventing information leaks from the data center and ensuring the integrity of enterprise data.The company's enterprise security platform is now installed in more than 450 data centers worldwide, including 5 of the top 5 banks; 3 of the top 5 insurers; topgovernment agencies; 2 of the top 3 retailers; 15 of the world's top telcos; 2 of the world's favorite beverage brands; the most recognized name in PCs; a top 3 auto maker; a top 3 aerospace company; and a leading supplier of business intelligence software. Guardium has partnerships with Accenture, ArcSight, BMC, EMC/RSA, IBM, McAfee, Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase and Teradata, with Cisco as a strategic investor, and is a member of IBM's prestigious Data Governance Council and the PCI Security Standards Council.Founded in 2002, Guardium was the first company to address the core data security gap by delivering a scalable, cross-DBMS enterprise platform that both protects databases in real-time and automates the entire compliance auditing process. | $5.5M / Series C / Aug 12, 2005 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Cedar Fund
Cedar Fund specializes in early stage, Israel-related investments, including Pre-Seed, seed and first round, where its strategy and capabilities offer the greatest potential. With its quality investment track record and over $225 million under management, the Cedar Fund is among the world's largest and most notable venture capital firmsfocusing on Israel-related, early stage investments.
Cedar Fund Contacts
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Gal Israely
Managing Partner &Co-Founder
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Amnon Shoham
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
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Dorin Miller
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Eyal Ziv
Controller
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Hila Leibovitz
Corporate Counsel.
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What does Amnon Shoham invest in?
Amnon Shoham invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Amnon Shoham closed in Mar 2012. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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