# Aviram Jenik **Venture Capitalist, active angel investor and former entrepreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x50+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for building scalable B2B companies** — Las Vegas, NV, United States > Venture Capitalist and Angel Investor with a passion for helping startups. About me: Co-founded a company with no external funding and managed it to profitability and to a position as one of the leading vendors in the Vulnerability Assessment and Management space. Previously co-founded 2 companies that resulted in successful M&A's and 2 other companies that are still profitable and growing. I am always happy to help startup founders reach their potential and become a global success via funding and mentoring. I've been there, done that, and want to help founders do what I have done. Many others have helped me get to where I am today; I'm grateful for their help and want to pass it forward. I'm open to business connections: aviram@gmail.com Specialties: bootstrapping, technical evangelism, cyber security, marketing, sales, capital management, technical team leadership ## Links - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aviramjenik ## Experience ### Investor, BizCrush (2025-09 – present) ### Investor, Ray Security (2025-07 – present) ### Investor, Spotlite (2025-06 – present) ### Investor, Miraflow AI (2025-05 – present) ### Investor, NURIE AI (2025-04 – present) ### Investor, SPLX, a Zscaler Company (2025-03 – present) ### Founding Principal, Apona Security (2024-12 – present) Henderson, Nevada, United States · As the CEO of Apona Security, I lead a team dedicated to redefining application security by enabling seamless, automated security controls throughout the development lifecycle. We provide: Penzzer - a high-performance fuzzing and penetration testing platform designed to identify exploitable flaws in complex software environments. Labrador - an SCA and SBOM platform that analyzes software dependencies to detect vulnerabilities, license risks, and supply chain exposures. ### Investor, Tribe Money (2024-10 – present) ### Investor, SecuXR (2024-07 – present) ### Investor, Sociable AI (2024-04 – present) ### Investor, Teiren-테이렌 (2024-04 – present) ### Investor, PhyxUp Health (2024-04 – present) ### Investor, SortieLab (2023-08 – present) ### Investor, JIGO (2023-08 – present) ### Investor, WorkOnward (WOW) Your Job, on the Map 📍 (2023-08 – present) ### General Partner, Rabbit VC (2023-05 – present) South Korea ### Strategic Advisor, GENIANS USA (2023-04 – present) ### Investor, Wordbricks (2023-04 – present) ### Investor, MyPart (2023-01 – present) ### Investor, (주)지란지교소프트 - JiranSoft (2022-11 – present) ### Founding Partner, We-Bridge (2022-09 – 2024-12) Sacramento, California, United States ### Sr. Director, Strategic Initiatives, Fortra (2021-05 – 2022-09) California, United States · Joined Fortra / HelpSystems as part of the Beyond Security acquisition ### Investor, Metadata (2020-01 – present) ### Venture Partner, Primer Sazze Partners (2019-02 – 2022-08) Silicon Valley, California, United States ### Investor, Eclypsium, Inc. (2017-06 – present) ### Executive Chairman, PromoRepublic (2017-01 – present) ### Investor, KSP Batch #3 (2016-01 – 2016-01) Seoul, Korea · Joined as investor in the following companies: Transbox Ulalalabs Tourbrat ### Investor, KSP Batch #2 (2015-01 – 2015-01) Seoul, Korea · Joined as investor in the following companies: Unreal Park Imperfect (Fondof) Buk.io VisualCamp Nomits Persona ### Investor and advisor, various (2014-01 – present) Investor, advisor and board member in various early stage startups, in including: Eclypsium Cybellum (exited) metadata.io Vicarius Reposify (exited) Ray Security Starseer SPLX FROGED Archidraw Labrador Labs StealthMole Kooply Jiransoft MyPart Hourly.io Apolyta Adversa AI illustria.io Yes Security Penfield.AI Promorepublic Claro My Drives Colango WAY Wearable OnHealthNet Unreal Park Hypercloud Buk.io (exited) VisualCamp Nomits Persona (exited) Transbox Ulalalabs Tourbrat WePlanet (exited) AllthatSoft Co. (exited) Seerslab Inc. SeatID Fixel (exited) Appvance.ai MixerBox Inc. VisualCamp Chartmetric DeviceTotal Sunbisoft Juice Labs FYLTech ZeroAvia ### Investor, KSP Batch #1 (2014-01 – 2014-01) Seoul, Korea · Joined as investor in the following companies: My Drives Colango WAY Wearable Archidraw OnHealthNet ### Managing Partner, KOISRA Seed Partners (2012-11 – 2019-01) Seoul, Korea · KSP is a Korean-Israeli Seed fund, investing and assisting Korean startups with the assistance of Israeli mentors (aka "the startup nation"). ### Advisory board member, Efi Arazi School of Computer Science (2007-01 – 2009-01) Herzeliya, Israel ### CEO, Beyond Security (Acq. by Fortra) (1999-10 – 2021-05) Co-founded Beyond Security at 1999 and brought it to a market leading position, recognized by Gartner as one of the leaders in the space. Acquired by Help Systems in 2021. ### Officer, IDF (1995-01 – 1999-01) Period included 5 years of technology leadership positions. ### Technology Strategist, Gteko (now owned by Microsoft) (1992-01 – 1999-01) Led the company's product strategy and created and executed the vision of its first Internet products (back when "Internet" was just entering its first commercial uses). Led and actively participated in several development projects in the company. ## Education ### MBA in Entrepreneurship, Tel Aviv University (2000-01 – 2003-01) ### BSC in Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (1993-01 – 1997-01) ## Skills Open Source, SaaS, Linux, Enterprise Software, Leadership, Management, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Cloud Computing, Security, Technology Evangelist, Network Security, Bootstrapping, Business Development, Channel, Lead Generation, Solution Selling, Web Applications, Business Strategy, Direct Sales, Start-ups, Angel Investing, Software Engineering, Mobile Applications, Product Management, TCP/IP, Mobile Devices, Computer Security, System Architecture, Entrepreneurship, Mergers & Acquisitions, Information Security, Information Technology, Product Marketing, Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing, Channel Partners, Professional Services, Strategic Partnerships, Virtualization ## Credentials - **Bypassing SMTP Content Protection with a Flick of a Button** - **DSA-1014-1 firebird2 -- buffer overflow (CVE-2004-2043)** - **Free Peers BearShare Directory Traversal Vulnerability (CVE-2001-0368)** - **Multiple Vendor Email Message Fragmentation SMTP Filter Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2002-1121)** - **TFTPD32 2.50 - Long Filename Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2002-2226)** - **Titan FTP Server Aborted LIST DoS** --- Source: https://saywise.com/aviram5650 (last modified 2026-07-29T20:32:34.808Z)