# Yair Amit

> Yair Amit is a seed investor at Maalot Climate (Tel Aviv) backing CRM and SaaS. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Maalot Climate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maalot-climate)
- Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yairamit
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/yairamit
- Website: https://x.com/yairamit

Yair Amit is an entrepreneur, advisor and angel investor who specializes in the field of cyber security. Previously, he served as VP Product Strategy of Symantec's Endpoint Solutions and VP & CTO of the Modern OS Security business of Symantec. He joined Symantec through the acquisition of Skycure, which he co-founded in 2012. Mr. Amit ledSkycure's & Symantec's engineering, product, research and analyst-relations activities in the field of mobile & modern OS security since the Mobile Threat Defense market's inception. Yair holds 20 security-related patents and has been active in the security industry for the past two decades: his research and findings led to numerous high-profile disclosures and presentations in global conferences throughout the years. Prior to founding Skycure, Yair managed the Application Security and Research Group at IBM, to which he joined through the acquisition of Watchfire. In his role, Yair led the research and implementation of IBM’s application security next-generation technology. Mr. Amit holds a BSc, summa cum laude, from Tel Aviv University in Bioinformatics.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CRM | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Sales | 1 | 17% |
| Mining | 1 | 17% |
| Security | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 3 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oligo Security | Oligo is the industry's leading runtime security platform that solves today's toughest challenge: stopping attacks in real time in the AI era. Oligo transforms security from passive visibility to active protection across applications, cloud services, workloads, AI applications, and AI agents. By uncovering the deepest layers of whatactually runs in production, Oligo empowers customers to prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities, detect malicious behavior as it happens, and stop modern attacks in their tracks. | $20M | Series A | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| Helios | Helios gives you the power to understand, troubleshoot, and test all your applications and services. | $5M | Seed | Jun 29, 2022 |  |
| Oligo Security | Oligo is the industry's leading runtime security platform that solves today's toughest challenge: stopping attacks in real time in the AI era. Oligo transforms security from passive visibility to active protection across applications, cloud services, workloads, AI applications, and AI agents. By uncovering the deepest layers of whatactually runs in production, Oligo empowers customers to prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities, detect malicious behavior as it happens, and stop modern attacks in their tracks. | $8M | Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Helios | Helios is developing a reactor that can process lunar soil and Martian soil to oxygen and metals. The company solution is unique as its output yields two highly crucial materials at the same time, and it doesn’t require earth brought consumables. They seek to enable the establishment of a permanent base on the Moon. Another potential use of ourreactor can be to supply oxygen from the lunar surface to earth orbit, as it requires 26 times less energy than launching it from Earth. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Israel. | $6M | Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| Laminar | Laminar delivers data leakage protection for everything you build and run in the cloud. Laminar’s Cloud Data Security Platform is the only solution on the market that allows you to Discover and Classify continuously for complete visibility, Secure and Control to improve risk posture and Detect Leaks and Remediate without interrupting data flow.Complete data observability for everything running in your public cloud accounts. Both agentless and asynchronous monitoring of datastores, compute as well as data egress channels allows sanctioned data movements and alerts when something’s wrong. Data protection teams can reduce the attack surface, detect real-time data leaks and get back in control of their data. Founded in 2020 by a brilliant team of award winning Israeli red team experts, Laminar is proudly backed by Insight Partners, TLV Partners, and SentinelOne Ventures. To find out more please visit laminarsecurity.com | $5M | Seed | Nov 17, 2021 |  |
| Walnut | Walnut offers a failure-free, codeless, and 100% customizable platform that empowers every sales rep to own their successful sales demo experience. It aims to redefine inside sales in the new age. The first-of-its-kind codeless platform integrates with a company's CRMs and data sources, making the process of creating sales demos both automatedand customizable. Walnut's drag-and-drop solution eliminates the need for back-end teams and streamlines the demoing process by placing full control back in the hands of the sales team. To achieve a fail-proof experience, the demos are run live, even when the real product is offline. Founded in 2020 by serial entrepreneurs Yoav VIlner and Danni Friedland, Walnut is headquartered in New York City. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 06, 2020 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TLV Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tlv-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amiti Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amiti-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anglo American](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anglo-american) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [At One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Maalot Climate

VC Fund

Maalot Climate is a non-profit organization that fixates on environmental conservation to increase awareness of the climate crisis.

1 contacts available at Maalot Climate.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yair Amit | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yair-amit |

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## FAQ

### What does Yair Amit invest in?

Yair Amit invests primarily in CRM, SaaS and Sales startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yair Amit's check size?

Yair Amit typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yair Amit participates in.

### When did Yair Amit last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yair Amit closed in Feb 2023. Shizune tracks 6 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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