# Jacques Benkoski

> Jacques Benkoski is a Series A investor at Medigate by Claroty backing Software. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Medigate by Claroty](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/medigate-eae8)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacques-benkoski-ab9133/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/JacBenko
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jacques.benkoski

Jacques Benkoski is a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 35% |
| Network Security | 6 | 30% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 25% |
| Cloud Security | 4 | 20% |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 20% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 35% |
| Series B | 5 | 25% |
| Series C | 3 | 15% |
| Series D | 2 | 10% |
| Series E | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 40% |
| Israel | 7 | 35% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adaptive6 | Adaptive6 is a Cloud Cost Governance platform that addresses both cloud and code, providing a comprehensive approach to managing costs effectively. The platform empowers engineers to take immediate action on cloud costs and prevents waste at the code level, enhancing efficiency in cloud management. | $28M | Series A | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Apono | Apono helps companies become secure and compliant while maintaining their productivity and agility. The company aims to simplify how teams manage access to critical systems by automating the provisioning and deprovisioning of permissions based on real-time needs, ensuring only the right people have access at the right time. | $34M | Series B | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Stream Security | Stream Security provides real-time cloud threat and exposure detection solutions, helping SecOps teams manage security in cloud environments. The Stream Security platform empowers SecOps teams with unmatched visibility, enabling them to identify vulnerabilities and threats by comprehending the past, present, and future of their cloudinfrastructure. The AI-powered platform assists in determining attack paths and blast radius across all cloud infrastructure components, helping to eliminate gaps, accelerate MTTR through streamlined investigations, reduce knowledge gaps, maximize team productivity, and mitigate burnout. | $30M | Series B | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| IONIX | Cyberpion solves the rising cybersecurity challenge of understanding the risks and vulnerabilities of your connected online assets that form an external attack surface. Knowing how your organization is vulnerable, where those threats come from, and what infrastructures are at risk, is critical to preventing an attack before it happens. Cyberpionhelps organizations mitigate these advanced threats by continuously monitoring, discovering, and assessing the threat vectors present throughout online ecosystems that exist outside the traditional security perimeter. With an R&D team based in Israel, the company is funded by leading cybersecurity venture capitalists. To learn more, visit cyberpion.com. | $15M | Series A | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| Securithings | SecuriThings is redefining the way organizations manage and secure IoT devices at scale. The Horizon platform provides real-time security and operational efficiency to improve system availability, organizational compliance, and cyber protection while reducing costs and streamlining future planning. Our advanced technology enables automation,analytics and actionable alerts so your fleet of IoT devices is fully operational and secure. The power, depth and breadth of our capabilities only take one day to deploy, remotely. The solution is trusted by Fortune 100 companies and has been deployed by numerous large enterprises such as major airports, universities, hospitals and more. SecuriThings partners with key system integrators as well as device manufacturers to provide unprecedented insights, coverage, and reliability. | $21M | Series B | Oct 13, 2022 |  |
| IONIX | Cyberpion solves the rising cybersecurity challenge of understanding the risks and vulnerabilities of your connected online assets that form an external attack surface. Knowing how your organization is vulnerable, where those threats come from, and what infrastructures are at risk, is critical to preventing an attack before it happens. Cyberpionhelps organizations mitigate these advanced threats by continuously monitoring, discovering, and assessing the threat vectors present throughout online ecosystems that exist outside the traditional security perimeter. With an R&D team based in Israel, the company is funded by leading cybersecurity venture capitalists. To learn more, visit cyberpion.com. | $27M | Series A | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Hunters | Hunters SOC Platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to incidents that matter, helping teams mitigate real threats faster and more reliably than SIEM. | $68M | Series C | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Qnovo | Qnovo is redefining the foundation of mobility and technology for a more resilient and mobile future—the lithium-ion battery. Since 2010, Qnovo has enabled the electrification revolution with its intelligent battery management software and predictive analytics that improves the performance of electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and consumerdevices with enhanced health and safety. Qnovo is working with the world’s top automotive OEMs, holds over 50 patents in the space, and the first generation of Qnovo technology is on more than 150 million smartphones worldwide. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, California. Its investors include BorgWarner, OGCI Climate Investments, Constellation Technology Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and RockPort Capital. Visit www.qnovo.com. | $24M | Series C | Jan 11, 2022 |  |
| Hunters | Hunters SOC Platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to incidents that matter, helping teams mitigate real threats faster and more reliably than SIEM. | $30M | Series B | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Human Interest | Human Interest is a 401(k) provider that makes it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to help their employees save for retirement.The company built an end-to-end technology to solve administrative and compliance problems for small and medium-sized businesses. It also offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans and helped thousandsof businesses across America to offer retirement accounts to their employees.In 2015, the San Francisco, California-headquartered company was formed by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee. | $200M | Series D | Aug 04, 2021 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blumberg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blumberg-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [YL Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yl-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Aleph](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleph-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Medigate by Claroty

VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Israel

Medigate owns and operates a medical device security platform that protects all connected medical devices on health care provider networks. The platform offers threat detection and attack prevention services. Itay Kirshenbaum, Jonathan Langer, and Pini Pinhasov founded Medigate on September 1, 2017. It has its headquarters in New York City.

5 contacts available at Medigate by Claroty.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Itay Kirshenbaum | Co-Founder & VP R&D | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itay-kirshenbaum |
| Jacques Benkoski | Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacques-benkoski |
| John Vergara | Director of Marketing-Content | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-vergara |
| Jonathan Langer | Co Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-langer-cbdb |
| Mark Elliott | Senior Sales Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-elliott-b068 |

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## FAQ

### What does Jacques Benkoski invest in?

Jacques Benkoski invests primarily in Software, Network Security and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 20 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 Jacques Benkoski last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jacques Benkoski closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 20 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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