Amiram Shachar
InvestorUnicorn founderCo-founder and CEO at Leaders Fund · Co-Founder & CEO at Upwind
United States
FoundedUpwind$1.5B
About
Co-founder and CEO of Upwind, a Leaders Fund portfolio company.
Co-Founder & CEO at Upwind
Intro paths
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Upwind's investors · 11
Artisanal VenturesTiburonBessemer Venture PartnersRedwood City · $5M – $100M checks · since 2026Cerca PartnersRa'anana · $4M – $60M checksCraft VenturesSan Francisco · $50K – $50M checksCyberstartsMikhmoretGreylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checksLeaders FundToronto · $20M checksPicture CapitalWilmington · since 2026Salesforce VenturesSan Francisco · $5M – $50M checks · since 2026Swish VenturesTCVMenlo Park · $10M – $500M checks
Co-founders at Upwind
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Tal ZurCo-Founder & CTO
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Lavi FerdmanCo-Founder, Growth
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Liran PolakCo-Founder & Chief Architect
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Tomer HadassiCOO
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Rinki SethiChief Security Officer (CSO)
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Yarin PinyanVP Product
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Nadav NaorSVP Engineering
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Dan YahavSVP Platforms
Experience
- Upwind SecurityCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2022 — present
- NetAppVice President & General Manager, Spot by NetApp2020 — 2022
- Spot.ioFounder & CEO2015 — 2020
- Ybrant DigitalDirector, Development Operations (DevOps)2012 — 2014
- MamramTeam Leader, Linux Kernel2008 — 2012Israeli Defense Force
Education
- The College of Management Academic StudiesBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science2011 — 2014
Skills & more
High Availability99System Architecture41Storage21Project Management20Cloud Computing90Virtualization18Shell Scripting9OOP14Mainframe7CouchDB5Software Development27Ad Serving1
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Amazon EC2Team LeadershipLinuxUnixOracleVMwarePerlAmazon Web Services (AWS)MySQLDatabasesSQLApacheFrom Amiram's professional profile.
Colleagues at Leaders Fund
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Dara Newton
Community at Leaders Fund
Dave MacDonald
Venture Partner at Leaders Fund
David Kamenetsky
Principal at Leaders Fund
David Priemer
Founder & Chief Sales Scientist, Cerebral Selling at Leaders Fund
David Stein
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Leaders Fund
Dianna Lai Read
Marketing at Leaders Fund
Galina Antova
Co-Founder & Chief BD Officer at Claroty at Leaders Fund
Gideon Hayden
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Leaders Fund
Frequently asked questions
- Where does Amiram Shachar work?
- Amiram Shachar is Co-founder and CEO at Leaders Fund and Co-Founder & CEO at Upwind.
- What companies did Amiram Shachar found?
- Amiram Shachar founded Upwind.
Founder mafias
The College of Management Academic Studies mafia6
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Same school
Also attended The College of Management Academic Studies46
Daniel SimonVenture Partner at FJ LabsBar HevronyDirector Of Programs at TAU VenturesHadar PizantyOperations Manager at TAU VenturesShalom NahumCFO at TAU VenturesEinat NemeshVenture Partner at TAU VenturesAsaf MuallemAI Associate at vgames
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Shared employers
Also worked at Upwind Security12
Houman HaghighiPartner, Business & Corporate Development at Menlo VenturesSaam MotamediInvestor at Greylock PartnersMichael RobinsonInvestor at Craft VenturesKevin GaburaInvestor at Craft VenturesMorgan GerlakPartner at TCVMax StevensSales Advisor at Modern Technical
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Also worked at NetApp37
Job SimonVenture Partner and CTO at Monta Vista CapitalAditya ReddyVice President at Sapphire VenturesKamesh RaghavendraChief Product Officer at The HiveLucy MangasGo-To-Market at Roble VenturesCindy WorthingtonInvestor Relations Advisor at How Women InvestMoe KermaniManaging Partner at Vanedge Capital
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