# Serge Plotkin

> Serge Plotkin is a startup investor at Opus Capital (San Francisco). See 0 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
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sergeplotkin

Serge Plotkin is a venture partner for Opus Capital, where he sources and evaluates investment opportunities and contributes technical assistance to portfolio companies. Serge is also an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he has served since 1989.Together with Opus Capital General Partner Dan Avida, Sergeco-founded Decru in 2001 where he served as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering. Serge has published more than a hundred technical papers and has been issued fourteen patents. He served as the vice chair of the Security in Storage Workgroup P1619/P1619.1, IEEE standardization committee, which is tasked with creating a standard for storage encryption, and is the editor of the IEEE1619 standard.Serge obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT and BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ben Gurion University, Israel. Before his studies at MIT, Serge served for five years as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.

## 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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