# Yuda Doron

> Yuda Doron is a seed investor backing Big Data, Data Center and Artificial Intelligence. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuda-doron-05491656

Yuda Doron is a Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners.Yuda Doron was appointed in 2010 to serve as a Senior Advisor focused on the firm's middle market strategy, Silver Lake Sumeru. He is the Senior Advisor for Israel. Mr. Doron has over 20 years of experience working with technology companies, helping to guide them from their inceptionthrough each stage of development, including capital raising, operations, competitive strategy, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Doron was an angel investor and strategy consultant who helped facilitate the sale of Bristol Technology to HP, as well as the sale of Appilog to Mercury Interactive. He also developed and implemented an operational plan to stabilize costs at Enterasys Networks. Previously, he managed the domestic sales channel at Computer Associates and held senior positions at Cheyenne Software, Cheyenne Communications, and Texas Instruments. Mr. Doron is also the founder of Texel, a software and integration company which was sold to Elco International. He is a veteran Israeli Navy commander and received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Tel Aviv.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$2M |
| Series B | $15M–$33M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $20M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 2 | 29% |
| Data Center | 2 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |
| Mobile | 1 | 14% |
| Finance | 1 | 14% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series B | 2 | 29% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 3 | 43% |
| United States | 2 | 29% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DustPhotonics | DustPhotonics develops and manufactures pluggable optical modules and solutions for data center, enterprise and HPC applications. Its innovative products and technology, such as AuraDP™, are targeted at enabling the next generation of optical modules and connectivity. DustPhotonics was founded in 2017 with offices in Modi'in, Israel andCupertino, California. | $24M | Series B | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Planck | Planck is a commercial insurance data platform, built to enable insurers to instantly and accurately underwrite any business. Planck’s technology platform aggregates and mines massive datasets, using the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically generate and deliver key insights, customized to the commercial underwritingprocess. The end result is a frictionless underwriting process with greater insurer visibility into risk factors, leading to improved new business conversion and retention rates and lower loss ratios. Planck’s platform brings automation and intelligence to the underwriting process. | $23M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| DustPhotonics | DustPhotonics develops and manufactures pluggable optical modules and solutions for data center, enterprise and HPC applications. Its innovative products and technology, such as AuraDP™, are targeted at enabling the next generation of optical modules and connectivity. DustPhotonics was founded in 2017 with offices in Modi'in, Israel andCupertino, California. | $33M | Series B | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| Planck | Planck is a commercial insurance data platform, built to enable insurers to instantly and accurately underwrite any business. Planck’s technology platform aggregates and mines massive datasets, using the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically generate and deliver key insights, customized to the commercial underwritingprocess. The end result is a frictionless underwriting process with greater insurer visibility into risk factors, leading to improved new business conversion and retention rates and lower loss ratios. Planck’s platform brings automation and intelligence to the underwriting process. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 12, 2021 |  |
| Guardicore | Guardicore is an innovator in data center and cloud security focused on delivering more accurate and effective ways to protect critical applications from compromise through unmatched visibility, micro-segmentation and real-time threat detection and response. For more information, visit www.guardicore.com. | $15M | Series B | Aug 01, 2017 |  |
| Reali | Reali is the first company to leverage first-in-kind technology to serve homebuyers and sellers in a single, integrated platform. The company’s wide range of alternative financing solutions make a complicated process like buying and selling at the same time much less complicated. Customers can buy and sell in one coordinated transaction,eliminating resale contingencies, moving twice, and paying two mortgages at once. Whether it’s buying, selling, financing, or owning a home, Reali’s high-tech, high-touch offering meets the unique and individual needs of their customers. | $1.2M | Seed | Oct 20, 2016 |  |
| Crosswise | Crosswise provides the world’s most authoritative consumer device map to ad tech vendors, consumer brands and premium publishers. Combining data science, Big Data and machine learning, Crosswise identifies which PCs, phones, tablets, digital TVs and other connected devices are being used by individual consumers. When leveraged for cross-devicetargeted advertising, content personalization and analytics, this data represents a huge source of untapped business potential. | $2M | Seed | Jan 08, 2014 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [3L Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3l-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arbor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arbor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nationwide](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nationwide) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Viola FinTech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/viola-fintech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atreides Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atreides-management-lp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Yuda Doron invest in?

Yuda Doron invests primarily in Big Data, Data Center and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yuda Doron's check size?

Yuda Doron typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$2M at Seed, $15M–$33M at Series B and $20M–$23M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yuda Doron participates in.

### When did Yuda Doron last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yuda Doron closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 7 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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