Ori Barzilay

Ori is a Principal Team8 Capital, focusing on cyber and enterprise infrastructure investments.

Before joining Team8, Ori worked as a Senior Associate on the Pitango investment team. There, he led the early-stage investments- from deal sourcing through due diligence, including post investments activities.

Before joining Pitango, Ori worked as a Product Manager at Adaptive Shield- a market leader in the SaaS Cyber Security market, under the SSPM product category. At Adaptive Shield, he led both the inbound product development and strategy, together with the outbound activities of managing strategic partnerships, market positioning, and sales engineering.

Prior to Adaptive Shield, Ori led PDP-Tech’s product as the principal Product Manager, where he specialized in the Energy Tech, IoT, and Industry 4.0 verticals. Ori led PDP through the Product-Market-Fit stage, finding the right business opportunity for a unique patented technology while forming the GTM strategy and acquiring global customers.

Ori began his professional career as part of his service in the Israeli Intelligence Service and its Special Forces Elite Unit. He served as a team leader, became a Product Manager while leading classified product developments, and received the “IDF Intelligence Directorate Award”.