# Dan Avida

> Dan Avida is a Series A investor at Opus Capital backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Opus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/opus-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jan 2017
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-avida

Dan Avida is a Series A investor at Opus Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Enterprise Software. A General Partner at Opus Capital, Dan Avida has 16 years experience building successful companies and guiding them through to profitable outcomes. Dan specializes in the developing systems, cloud and enterprise infrastructure and applications, solutions for the post-PC world, security, and next generation collaboration platforms.Most recently,Dan was President and CEO of Decru Inc., a pioneering storage security company that Dan co-founded in 2001. Decru was acquired for $272.5M by Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) in 2005.In 1989, Dan was a founding member of Electronics for Imaging (NASDAQ: EFII). Under Dan’s leadership, EFI experienced five years of dramatic, consecutive growth, placing the company on Business Week, Fortune and Forbes lists of fastest growing companies, and on the Nasdaq 100 index.Dan holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, where he graduated summa cum laude. Dan has five granted patents.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 31% |
| Big Data | 2 | 15% |
| Cloud Computing | 2 | 15% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 46% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |
| Series D | 2 | 15% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Series E | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 62% |
| Israel | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Panzura | Panzura empowers today’s digital-first organizations to do impossible things with file data, making them more agile, efficient, and productive. They trust Panzura to help them consolidate dispersed data, see and manage data in and out of the cloud, make it more cyber-resilient and AI ready, and ensure it is available to people and processes exactlywhere and when it’s needed. Discover how Panzura can fuel your success at panzura.com | $32M | Series E | Jan 10, 2017 |  |
| Apteligent | Crittercism, based in San Francisco, California, is the company behind the world’s first mobile application performance management (mAPM) solution.The company’s flagship product monitors every aspect of mobile app performance, allowing Developers, IT Operations and Product Managers to deliver high performing, highly reliable, highly resourcefulmobile apps.Crittercism provides a real-time global view of app diagnostics across iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Hybrid and HTML5 apps and is used on more than 600 million unique devices and in more than 100 billion app sessions.The company’s investors include Google Ventures, Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures. Crittercism was part of ** | $30M | Series C | May 04, 2014 |  |
| SolarEdge Technologiesa | SolarEdge Technologies, a global leader in the DC power optimizer market. The company provides module-level electronics for solar power harvesting and monitoring systems for residential, commercial and utility-scale solar photovoltaic installers. The SolarEdge portfolio of products includes power optimizers and a web portal for module-leveloptimization and monitoring, as well as PV inverters, specialized to work with power optimizers. SolarEdge envisions that every solar module will be individually managed by DC-DC module-level electronics, accelerating the pace towards grid parity and making clean energy affordable.Founded in 2006, SolarEdge established the DC power optimizer segment and is leading it with over 70% market share. By Q4 2012, SolarEdge has shipped over 1,600,000 power optimizers to more than 40 countries worldwide. With strategic partnerships across the PV value-chain from module manufacturers to integrators, SolarEdge installations can be found in five continents. | $58M | Series D | Mar 31, 2014 |  |
| CyberSense | CyberSense is a provider of cloud-based and on-premises cybersecurity solutions. Some of the world’s leading Global 2000 enterprises serving the financial services, national critical infrastructure, retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical and other industries rely on CyberSense to strengthen their IT ecosystems and reduce the risk of costly anddisruptive compromises, data breaches and compliance violations. With the CyberSense360 platform, Global 2000 enterprises are able to detect and analyze zero-day, undetected malware in use by the world’s most destructive Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) organizations, build threat profiles, block attacks and automatically remediate damage inflicted on IT ecosystems. CyberSense360 traps zero-day malware in its virtualized sensor network of honey pots and next-generation malware traps before the malware can inflict significant damage to customers’ data centers or cloud deployments. | $5M | Series A | Feb 26, 2014 |  |
| Insightera | Insightera provides a cutting edge, real-time inbound marketing platform that accelerates B2B customer acquisition. | $5M | Series A | Jun 27, 2013 |  |
| Apteligent | Crittercism, based in San Francisco, California, is the company behind the world’s first mobile application performance management (mAPM) solution.The company’s flagship product monitors every aspect of mobile app performance, allowing Developers, IT Operations and Product Managers to deliver high performing, highly reliable, highly resourcefulmobile apps.Crittercism provides a real-time global view of app diagnostics across iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Hybrid and HTML5 apps and is used on more than 600 million unique devices and in more than 100 billion app sessions.The company’s investors include Google Ventures, Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures. Crittercism was part of ** | $12M | Series B | Mar 12, 2013 |  |
| Apteligent | Crittercism, based in San Francisco, California, is the company behind the world’s first mobile application performance management (mAPM) solution.The company’s flagship product monitors every aspect of mobile app performance, allowing Developers, IT Operations and Product Managers to deliver high performing, highly reliable, highly resourcefulmobile apps.Crittercism provides a real-time global view of app diagnostics across iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Hybrid and HTML5 apps and is used on more than 600 million unique devices and in more than 100 billion app sessions.The company’s investors include Google Ventures, Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures. Crittercism was part of ** | $5.5M | Series A | Jun 01, 2012 |  |
| Wanova | Wanova provides Distributed Desktop Virtualization solutions that transform how companies manage, support and protect their desktops and laptops. Wanova's Distributed Desktop Virtualization centralizes control of the desktop infrastructure while optimizing the user experience and providing full support for offline use. Wanova's uniquearchitecture enables companies to reduce costs while dramatically improving IT operations and users' productivity. | $10M | Convertible Note | Aug 23, 2011 |  |
| Dome9 Security | Dome9 is the leading cloud firewall management service.Their patent-pending security automation creates a strong, front-line defense that stops zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits, secures remote access, and centralizes policy management.Available for the enterprise and hosting providers, Dome9 automates security policy management for cloud,dedicated, and Virtual Private Servers (VPS). Their sophisticated security management platform controls Amazon EC2 & VPC Security Groups, as well as any OpenStack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and VMware vCloud-based private and public clouds.Dome9 is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with U.S. offices in San Mateo, Calif., and is backed by Opus Capital Ventures. | $2M | Series A | May 23, 2011 |  |
| Clarizen | Clarizen is a global leader in collaborative work management software, bringing together cross-company project management, configurable workflow automation, in-context collaboration, and a tailored, role-based experience, all built on a secure, scalable enterprise platform. Clarizen simplifies work, reduces communication overload, and providesextensive visibility at any level of the enterprise, so everyone can work more effectively, adapt to changes, and achieve their objectives. | $12M | Series D | Apr 28, 2011 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Genesis Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Shasta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shasta-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Viola Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/violaventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Vertex Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vertex-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Opus Capital

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Opus Capital is providing access to critical resources and giving counsel on strategy, finance and operations.

5 contacts available at Opus Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Avida | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-avida |
| Evelyn Lassman | Controller | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evelyn-lassman |
| Joseph Cutts | CFO & Administrative Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joseph-cutts |
| Serge Plotkin | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/serge-plotkin |
| Gill Cogan | Managing General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gill-cogan |

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## FAQ

### What does Dan Avida invest in?

Dan Avida invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Dan Avida last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dan Avida closed in Jan 2017. Shizune tracks 13 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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