Team8

Team8 is a global company-building venture group and venture capital firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in New York, focused on creating and investing in companies across cybersecurity, data and AI, fintech, and digital health. The firm operates a distinctive foundry model in which an in-house multidisciplinary team of over 90 company builders works with entrepreneurs to identify major unsolved problems, develop theses on potential solutions, and co-found companies from the ground up, combining this with a venture capital arm that invests in external seed and Series A rounds. The firm's leadership includes serial entrepreneurs and former leaders of Israel's elite intelligence technology Unit 8200, and the firm is backed by strategic investors including Microsoft, Walmart, Cisco, Barclays, and Moody's. Notable portfolio companies built and funded by Team8 include Talon (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) and Dig Security (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), and the firm has made over 96 investments across its foundry and investment vehicles.