Today’s Talent Pools

DriveNets, an Israeli networking software startup, raised $410M at an $8.5B valuation. Bessemer and Atreides Management led, joined by Pitango, D1 Capital Partners, AMD, and Red Dot Capital Partners.

  1. Yuval Lev in Israel (Stealth)

    1. Role: 1st SWE & Team Leader @ DriveNets (5.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Senser (acq by DriveNets), Co-Founder @ PiTo, Project Manager @ IDF Unit Matzov

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/26

  2. Or Sadeh in Israel (Stealth)

    1. Role: Sr SWE Director @ DriveNets (5.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Senser (acq by DriveNets), RT Embedded Engineer @ IDF Unit Matzov

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/26

Impulse Space, an LA-based developer of highly-maneuverable spacecraft, raised $500M in Series D. 137 Ventures and Banner VC led, joined by Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Linse Capital.

  1. Barry Matsumori in LA (Stealth)

    1. Role: COO @ Impulse Space (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: President & COO @ Skydweller Aero, SVP Sales & BD @ SpaceX, SVP @ Virgin Galactic

    3. Description: Stealth Space Tech since 4/25

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  2. Jack Oswald in LA (Stealth)

    1. Role: 1st Technical Hire @ Impulse Space (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Combustion Devices @ SpaceX, Vehicle Architecture @ Tesla, MIT BS Aerospace Eng, Stanford MS Aerospace Eng

    3. Description: Stealth Defense Tech since 6/23

  3. Matt Costello in LA (Stealth)

    1. Role: Sr Mission Design Engineer @ Impulse Space (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Astrodynamics & Mission Design Engineer @ Aerospace Corp, Sr Space Systems Engineer @ Raytheon

    3. Description: "Securing Space Missions"

Cyera, an NYC-based AI data security platform, raised $300M at a $12B valuation. Evolution Equity Partners led, joined by Georgian, Greenoaks, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Sapphire, Redpoint, Cyberstarts, Coatue, Accel, and Spark.

  1. Tomer Mesika in Israel (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Architecture @ Cyera (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director of Architecture @ Wix, Co-Founder & CTO @ RapidUI (acq by Wix), SWE @ IDF Unit 81

    3. Description: "Building the next big thing in the enterprise data industry"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  2. Ehud Halamish in Israel (Stealth)

    1. Role: Staff Engineer @ Cyera (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Chief Architect @ Nym (>$50M raised), SWE Dev Team Lead @ IDF Military Intelligence

    3. Description: Stealth since 3/26

  3. Ori Siegal in Israel (Advisor)

    1. Role: Applied AI Lead & Data Scientist @ Cyera (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Data Scientist @ ELSC, Data & Cyber Analytics Lead @ CyberMDX, Team Leader @ IDF Unit 8200

    3. Description: "From founding a team in 8200 to shipping frontier AI to production with enterprise customers, I've learned what AI can actually do when it's built right. Now rethinking data infrastructure for the AI era”

Contentful, a composable content platform, was acquired by Salesforce. Previously raised at a $3B+ valuation from Tiger Global, Base10, and Tidemark.

  1. Chris Hodson in UK (Stealth)

    1. Role: CISO @ Contentful (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CPO & CSO @ Cyberhaven ($250M from Redpoint, Costanoa), Global CISO @ Tanium, CISO EMEA @ Zscaler

    3. Description: Stealth since 8/24

Cadastral, an AI commercial real estate platform, was acquired by Legora (legal-tech valued at $5.6B by VCs).

  1. Vihaan Jagiasi in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Cadastral

    2. Other Experience: Growth @ Perplexity, U of Waterloo CS

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/26

    4. Contact: Site, [email protected], Twitter

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