About
I'm a Partner at Cervin Ventures, focused on the infrastructure and Developer stacks: Cloud/Cloud-Native, DevOps, DevTools, Cyber Security, Networking, Data, Operations and Observability. Current investments: Stream Security, Conveyor, Causely.io, RADICL defense, loophole Labs, paz.ai, Datum.net, FlightControl, Brinker, Lemma AI, Scott AI. Previous investments include: Gong.io ($7.25Bn valuation), Isovalent (acquired by Cisco), Habana Labs (acquired by Intel for $2Bn), GuardiCore (acquired by Akamai for over $600M), MemVerge, TriggerMesh, Sealights, Rookout (acquired by Dynatrace), LightBits Labs, illusive Networks (acquired by Proofpoint), Elastifile (acquired by Google), Prospera (acquired by Valmont for $300M), Stratoscale (acquired by Zadara), Ctera, Celeno (acquired by Renesas Technologies for $315M), Jungo Connectivity (TASE: JNGO), QWILT and Innovid Angel Investments: Tenzai, Ciroos.ai, Gen Labs, LinearB, Gelt Technologies. Previous Limited Partner Positions include: Team8 Ventu…
Experience
General Partner
Cervin Ventures · Palo Alto, California, United States
Present
Enterprise Infrastructure and Developer stack software focus. #opensource, #cloudnative, #infra, #cybersecurity, #Data, #DevOps Board Director: Conveyor, Loophole Labs, Paz.ai, ownID (acquired by UnicoID) Board Observer: Stream Security, Causely.ai Investor: RADICL Defense, Datum.net, FlightControl, Brinker, 2xTBA (AI Dev tool, AI-Product Observability) Email: Daniel@cervin.com
Partner
Cervin · Palo Alto, California, United States
Board Member
Conveyor · Palo Alto, California, United States
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Series A Lead investor. Conveyor is solving a pain-point that's felt by any SaaS and many software vendors - the inherent friction and tedious nature associated with Security vendor Questionnaire fill-out. Conveyor does so by bringing together the most accurate AI, which reduces the manual work by 80-90%, and through an easily accessible Trust Portal. This helps security and sales teams meaningfully reduce sales friction and increase close-rates.
Board Member
Loophole Labs · United States
Present
Series seed lead investor. The modern infrastructure software company.
Board Member
Paz.ai · San Francisco Bay Area
Present
Paz.ai is an agentic commerce platform which enables retailers to provide both humans and agents with the best online commerce experiences.
Board Observer
Causely · New York, United States
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Series Seed investor. Causely.ai uses a Causal AI approach to reduce the tedious and human-centric nature of AIOps/K8sOps, thus solving the complexities of remediation and lack of tooling that help close the loop between observability solutions, and the auto-remediation process. Causely's Simple and elegant solution alleviates the life of SRE/Platform/Infra teams.
Observer, Board of Directors
Stream.Security · Palo Alto, California, United States
Present
Series A investor. Stream security is the only event-driven Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), taking the best of both the scanning world and the workload protection world, all while adding holistic detection and response capabilities.
A Round Investor
RADICL · Palo Alto, California, United States
Present
RADICL brings an enterprise-grade, modular security platform, to SMBs, using AI-first principles and a vSOC delivery model. In doing so, RADICL helps protect US critical infrastructure and the companies behind it. Round A investor
Seed Investor
Datum · Palo Alto, California, United States
Present
Bringing the internet to the AI-era. Seed investor
Seed Investor
Brinker · United States
Present
Brinker is an automated security solution which pro-actively mitigates social-media disinformation campaigns. Pre-seed investor
Seed Investor
Flightcontrol · Dayton, Ohio, United States
Present
Cloud-native PaaS, build Cloud apps fast, via an easy-to-manage interface. Seed investor
Education
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
MBA, Finance, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship
Tel Aviv University
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering
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