As an associate at YL Ventures, she worked closely with founders in the cybersecurity community. A former commander in the elite Israeli Army Unit 8200, Yonit brings experience as both an operator and an investor. * Yonit Wiseman is the newest partner in our Tel-Aviv office.
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In addition to Mike, we are excited to welcome two new full time investment partners to the enterprise team. Thompson, former CEO of Symantec and lead independent board director at Microsoft, as well as Mark Anderson, CEO of Alteryx and former President at Palo Alto Networks, in supporting our companies in their journeys to scale. We are thrilled to have Mike join our other Venture Partners and Advisors, John W. Look for more updates on this new venture soon! In addition to working with us and our portfolio companies at Lightspeed, Mike is also launching a new company that will introduce a unique go-to-market platform that will flip annual operating plans on their head. He brings an incredible wealth of knowledge, experience and network to the table. As a Venture Advisor, Mike is committed to helping our scaling enterprise portfolio company teams learn, understand and implement best practices around process, playbooks and analytics to scale their organizations repeatedly. He’s a seasoned executive who understands the motions for enterprise selling across all sectors. Prior to Crowdstrike, Mike honed his craft at Tanium and also at Mcafee, where he led North America Sales. He built a winning, analytical culture, in which go-to-market teams collaborate to understand how, when and where to invest, in order to capture market share. He crafted the playbooks, analytics, and processes that led to rapid, scalable growth and repeatable consistency in forecasts and achievement. Most recently, Mike was President of Global Sales and Field Operations at Crowdstrike, which is now one of the world’s largest and most valuable enterprise security companies.Īt Crowdstrike, he scaled the organization and revenues from startup scale to over $1B. Sampling of Lightspeed-backed security companiesĪn entrepreneur at heart, Mike has built and led some of the strongest and most successful enterprise go-to-market teams to success over the past 20 years. It’s a sector where Lightspeed has deep roots and expertise, having partnered with over 30 companies and investing over $1Billion to date. Mike is one of the most legendary go-to-market leaders in enterprise security. We are very excited to announce that Mike Carpenter will be joining us as a Venture Advisor. Today we are pleased to announce we’ve added three new members to our team who we are confident will extend our ability to partner with the strongest and most ambitious enterprise founders.
And just as every founder is unique, so is each one of our partners. Over the past 20 years, we’ve cultivated a team of partners who have mastered both the art and science of helping founders from various verticals build time-tested companies. Underlying the Lightspeed platform is our unmatched talent–our investors, our founder success team, our community of past and present founders, as well as our advisors and venture partners. As investors who can support founders from the very earliest stages of inception through their growth and hyper growth stages, we take a hands-on approach to partnering with founders to help scale their companies. Over the past two decades, we have backed entrepreneurs globally and have been fortunate to have partnered with the founders of many iconic companies, including Appdynamics, Zscaler, Nutanix, and Mulesoft. Lightspeed has a long history of investing in category leading enterprise startups. By Arif Janmohamed, Ravi Mhatre, and Tal Morgenstern Security industry vet Mike Carpenter and new partners Lisa Han and Yonit Wiseman join the enterprise team
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