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Michael Yamnitsky

Managing Director at Insight Partners (hiring for portcos)

United States

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $350,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Managing Director

    2022

    Investing in developer-driven businesses from the earliest stages of company formation. Deno (Series A), Tailscale (Series B), Evinced (Series B), AtomicJar (acquired by Docker Dec. '23), Fermyon (Series A) and several more still in stealth.

  • Board Member

    2022

    Building a community and products around WebAssembly.

2022

  • Board Member

    2022

    Ensures software is accessible to the hearing and visually impaired.

2022

  • Board Observer

    2022

    A simplified VPN built on Wireguard.

2022

  • Investor

    2022

    Simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that uses V8 and is built in Rust.

2022 - 2023

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2023

    Acquired by Docker in December of 2023. With over 100M downloads of #testcontainers open source, AtomicJar is building a cloud platform to streamline shift-left integration testing.

2019 - 2022

  • Private Investor

    2019 - 2022

    I angel invest in stealth/early-stage startups, with a particular focus on developer tools, cybersecurity, enterprise software, digital health, and the food & agriculture supply chain.

2018 - 2021

  • Director of Product Strategy

    2018 - 2021

    Ran a team of product managers building cloud security products. Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. IPO - September 2019 (NASDAQ: DDOG).

2015 - 2019

  • Venture Partner

    2015 - 2019

    Work-Bench is an enterprise-focused venture capital fund supporting early stage software companies. I focused on sourcing/managing investments and developing the firm's network of F500 CIOs. Select investments I have worked on: CoreOS (application container management software) [acquired by Red Hat January 2018] Cockroach Labs (distributed SQL database) Portfolio companies I was actively involved with: DialPad (cloud-based unified communications, $1.2B valuation), vArmour (datacenter and cloud security), Tamr (data governance software) Positions held: Venture Partner (2016-Present) Associate (2015-2016)

2017 - 2017

  • Chief of Staff Intern

    2017 - 2017

    vArmour is a growth-stage cybersecurity startup with $83M+ in venture funding. I spent the summer between my first and second year at Wharton assisting the CEO and executive team in product, operations, marketing, and finance.