Shay Banon
CTO and Co-Founder @ Elastic
Mountain View, United States
Shay Banon is a seed investor at Elastic in Mountain View focused on Open Source and Information Technology. Shay Banon is the CTO and Co-Founder of Elastic. Shay Banon attended Reichman University.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Shay Banon invests in
Stages Shay Banon invests in
Countries Shay Banon invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $3.3M–$13M
- Series A
- $26M–$26M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Open Source 3 (38%)
- Information Technology 3 (38%)
- Database 2 (25%)
- Software 2 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (63%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 4 (50%)
- Israel 2 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Airweave
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Airweave transforms content into searchable knowledge bases for agents to search user apps by connecting productivity tools and databases. | $6M / Seed / Jul 02, 2025 | |
Mastra
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Mastra is an AI software that helps users to typescript complex operations and complete set of work using AI. | $13M / Seed / Mar 12, 2025 | |
Prequel
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Prequel is a real-time problem identification and resolution tool supported by the global dependability community. | $3.3M / Seed / Dec 16, 2024 | |
Keep
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Keep is an open-source alerting tool for developers. | $2.7M / Pre-Seed / Oct 16, 2024 | |
Valence Security
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Valence enables security teams to find and fix SaaS risks. As SaaS complexity and distributed management present security challenges, the Valence SaaS security platform provides unparalleled and actionable insights into configuration, identity, data, SaaS-to-SaaS integration, and GenAI risks. The Valence platform offers comprehensive SaaS securityposture management (SSPM), risk remediation, and identity threat detection and response (ITDR). Valence’s unique remediation by choice capabilities allow security teams to leverage manual remediation, automated workflows and business user collaboration to scale their risk reduction and proactively secure their SaaS. Leading organizations leverage Valence to empower their business to securely adopt SaaS. | $7M / Seed / Oct 19, 2021 | |
Xata.io
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Xata is a fully-managed PostgreSQL database platform. Designed for businesses to build faster, ship reliably and scale infinitely. | $5M / Seed / Sep 20, 2021 | |
Airbyte
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Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that syncs data from applications, APIs, and databases to warehouses. Their platform automates data pipelines with pre-built or custom connectors, enabling businesses to gather data analytics from all users, including those who use ad-blocking tools. | $26M / Series A / May 25, 2021 | |
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Airbyte
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Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that syncs data from applications, APIs, and databases to warehouses. Their platform automates data pipelines with pre-built or custom connectors, enabling businesses to gather data analytics from all users, including those who use ad-blocking tools. | $26M / Series A / May 25, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Elastic Contacts
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Amit Kanfer
Senior Director Of Engineering, Site Leader
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Chuck Goldman
Team Elevate
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Justin Hoffman
Senior Vice President WW Sales
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Pankaj Khushani
APAC Partnerships & Alliances Leader
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Uri Boness
Founder and Engineer
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FAQ
What does Shay Banon invest in?
Shay Banon invests primarily in Open Source, Information Technology and Database startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Shay Banon's check size?
Shay Banon typically joins rounds of $3.3M–$13M at Seed and $26M–$26M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Shay Banon participates in.
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When did Shay Banon last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Shay Banon closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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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