Profile
Ilia Shnaidman is a vice president at Blumberg Capital.
He’s an expert in cybersecurity and a white-hat hacker with a passion for investments in innovative ideas and helping entrepreneurs solve complex problems.
Prior to joining Blumberg Capital, Ilia was a founder at Nebokon, a cyber-security company that was acquired at the pre-seed stage.
Before that, he was a partner at Beame, an exclusive DevOps consulting company, and a senior leader at Firelayers, a startup in the cloud security space that was acquired by Proofpoint (Nasdaq: PFPT).
Earlier in his career, Ilia was the first employee at Dojo-Labs, a startup in the cyber-security consumer space that was acquired by BullGuard LTD.
Ilia is an alumnus of an elite unit in the IDF Intelligence Corps, where he served as a Captain, led several R&D teams and was the head of elite cyber training course in the IDF Intelligence Corps.
He earned a B.Sc in applied mathematics at age 18, while participating in the national youth excellence program, and has an MBA from Tel Aviv University, where he was part of the entrepreneurship and innovation program.
Former positions of Ilia Shnaidman
| Companies | Position | End |
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Blumberg Capital LLC
 Blumberg Capital LLC Investment ManagersFinance Blumberg Capital LLC (Blumberg Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1991 by David Blumberg. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Private Equity Investor | 29/02/2024 |
Beame.io, Inc.
 Beame.io, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Beame.io, Inc. engages in the provision of cryptographic identity services. It offers gatekeeper, mobile app, insta-SSL, nextcloud insta, jetbrains-insta, and opensource code. Its application tools facilitate assigning identities to devices which can be trusted based on the highest standards of encryption. The company is headquartered in FL. | Director/Board Member | 30/12/2021 |
| PROOFPOINT, INC. | Public Communications Contact | 30/09/2016 |
Training of Ilia Shnaidman
| Tel-Aviv University | Masters Business Admin |
| Bar-Ilan University | Undergraduate Degree |
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Proofpoint, Inc.
 Proofpoint, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Proofpoint, Inc. engages in provision of security-as-a-service that enables large and mid-sized organizations worldwide to defend, protect, archive and govern their most sensitive data. The firm's security and compliance platform comprises of an integrated suite of threat protection, information protection, and brand protection solutions. Its solutions also includes email protection, advanced threat protection, email authentication, data loss prevention, SaaS application protection, response orchestration and automation, digital risk, web browser isolation, email encryption, archiving, eDiscovery, supervision, secure communication, phishing simulation and security awareness computer-based training. The company was founded by Eric Hahn in May 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. | Technology Services |
Blumberg Capital LLC
Blumberg Capital LLC Investment ManagersFinance Blumberg Capital LLC (Blumberg Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1991 by David Blumberg. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
Beame.io, Inc.
Beame.io, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Beame.io, Inc. engages in the provision of cryptographic identity services. It offers gatekeeper, mobile app, insta-SSL, nextcloud insta, jetbrains-insta, and opensource code. Its application tools facilitate assigning identities to devices which can be trusted based on the highest standards of encryption. The company is headquartered in FL. | Technology Services |
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