# Danny Akerman

> Danny Akerman is a Series C investor at Ace Capital Partners backing Cyber Security. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ace Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ace-capital-partners-8a32)
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-akerman-ba001343
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danny.akerman.1

Danny Akerman is a Series C investor at Ace Capital Partners focused on Cyber Security and AI Infrastructure. Danny Akerman is based out of Israel and is the Co-Founder of Ace Capital Partners. Danny previously worked at Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director and Head of TMT Investment Banking for Israel. Danny Akerman attended Temple University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 40% |
| AI Infrastructure | 2 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 40% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 2 | 40% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Series D | 1 | 20% |
| Series E | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Israel | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xsight Labs | Xsight Labs is an Israeli company that develops technology for accelerating the next-generation, cloud-based, data-intensive workloads such as machine learning by offering new chipset designs that enhance scalability, performance and efficiency. | $300M | Series E | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Sentra | Sentra is the leader in continuous AI data readiness and governance, helping enterprises ensure their data is secure, governed, and AI-ready at all times. As organizations scale AI adoption, a critical gap emerges: most have invested in AI infrastructure and governance frameworks, but lack continuous visibility into the sensitive data AI canactually reach. Sentra closes that gap. The Sentra platform continuously discovers, classifies, governs, and protects sensitive and proprietary data — and maps who and what can access it, from employees and third parties to AI applications and autonomous agents. With AI-aware data security, automated governance, and intelligent remediation, Sentra helps enterprises reduce risk, enforce policy, and unlock the value of AI without losing control of their data. Sentra operates entirely within the customer's environment. No sensitive data is ever copied out. Trusted by global enterprises including Lyft, Expedia, and SoFi. Recognized by Gartner. Visit www.sentra.io. | $50M | Series B | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| WEKA | WekaIO has built the world's fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenges in AI deep learning and technical computing. Matrix, WekaIO’s flagship product, leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering the highest performance, lowest latency storage at a fraction of the cost or traditional NAS.WekaIO's software provides a seamless hybrid cloud solution between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. WekaIO has customers in several high performance markets including autonomous vehicle AI training, genomics, financial modeling, EDA, software development, satellite imaging and media and entertainment. | $135M | Series D | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| CHEQ | CHEQ is the CMO's security suite, trusted by over 10,000 customers to protect their funnels, sites and analytics from bots and fake users. Powered | $150M | Series C | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| WEKA | WekaIO has built the world's fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenges in AI deep learning and technical computing. Matrix, WekaIO’s flagship product, leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering the highest performance, lowest latency storage at a fraction of the cost or traditional NAS.WekaIO's software provides a seamless hybrid cloud solution between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. WekaIO has customers in several high performance markets including autonomous vehicle AI training, genomics, financial modeling, EDA, software development, satellite imaging and media and entertainment. | $73.1M | Series C | Aug 20, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hewlett-packard-enterprise) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hitachi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hitachi-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Micron Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/micron-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MoreTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moretech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Norwest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norwest-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Ace Capital Partners

VC Fund · Herzliya, Israel

Ace Capital Partners is an investment vehicle backing companies in the AS&D sector in series seed to B, both civilian and military.

5 contacts available at Ace Capital Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amit Pilowsky | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-pilowsky |
| Danny Akerman | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-akerman |
| Shimon Tsentsiper | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shimon-tsentsiper |
| Amikam Norkin | Co-Founder & Managing partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amikam-norkin |
| Sarel Eldor | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sarel-eldor |

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## FAQ

### What does Danny Akerman invest in?

Danny Akerman invests primarily in Cyber Security, AI Infrastructure and Information Technology startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 5 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 Danny Akerman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Danny Akerman closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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