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Team8 a global venture fund that builds and invests in companies across cybersecurity, data, AI, fintech, and digital health, as well as their intersections today announced the appointment of two new partners, Ori Barzilay and Matthew Schoenfeld, who join the fund’s executive teams. These appointments reflect Team8’s growing momentum in cybersecurity and AI, underlining its commitment to increasing investments at the earliest stages, scaling startups into global players, and strengthening Israel’s cyber and AI ecosystems.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · July 8, 2025
Last week, Team8, a global venture fund that builds and invests in companies across cybersecurity, data, AI, fintech, and digital health, as well as at their intersections, hosted its flagship CISO Village Summit 2025. The immersive five-day gathering in Miami and the Florida Keys brought together more than 100 out of the 600-strong CISO village representing the most influential companies in the world
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · June 17, 2025

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Team8’s CISO Village, in partnership with NYSE, AWS, SVB, Meitar, and Goodwin, unveiled the Cyber25: Women of Impact List at an exclusive recognition event last night.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · March 7, 2025

Team8 a global venture fund that builds and invests in companies across cybersecurity, data, AI, fintech, and digital health, as well as their intersections, unveiled today its latest report, Fraud Exposed: An In-Depth Look at AI and Other Disruptive Trends and Technologies Shaping the Fraud Landscape. This comprehensive analysis provides a roadmap for how AI and other disruptive technologies are reshaping the fraud landscape while offering practical insights and innovative frameworks to empower the financial services industry. The publication was written by Team8’s fintech leadership, with guest commentary provided by Mastercard, Moody’s, AWS, Alloy, Ballerine, and Charm Security.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · February 18, 2025

Team8, the global fund investing in cybersecurity, data, AI, fintech, and digital health, along with their intersections, recently hosted a week of impactful events in New York City. The program kicked off with the highly anticipated Rethink series. The series, designed to address critical shifts and challenges across industries, served as the opening event for Team8’s annual LP meeting. The week then culminated with the inaugural Team8 Fintech Village event, hosted at the New York Stock Exchange.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024

Team8 today released its 2024 CISO Village Survey Report. The report is based on a survey taken at Team8’s annual CISO Summit, which was attended by cybersecurity executives from some of the world's leading companies, including Oracle, Barclays, SolarWinds, SentinelOne and Anthropic. Its findings shed light on the emerging cybersecurity landscape, which is increasingly influenced by AI, as well as on the state of chief information security officers (CISOs), who are now facing unprecedented pressures due to increased governmental and corporate scrutiny.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · September 24, 2024

Team8, a leading global fund that builds and invests in companies playing a crucial role in the digital transformation of major sectors, released a new report on the future of fintech, titled “2030 and Beyond: An Unconventional Look at the Future of Fintech.”
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · April 17, 2024

Team8, a leading global fund that builds and invests in companies playing a crucial role in the digital transformation of major sectors, today announced the closing of new funds totaling $500 million, bringing its total assets under management (AUM) to well over the 1 billion dollars mark.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · March 5, 2024

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By Team8 · Via Business Wire · February 6, 2024

Team8 today released its 2023 CISO Village Survey, aggregating insights and responses from 130 CISOs representing global prominent enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · September 7, 2023

Team8 Group’s Annual CISO Summit, the flagship event of their CISO Village, will be held this week in Tel Aviv. Over 130 senior cyber executives from leading enterprises are meeting in Israel, including representatives from Oracle, Walmart, Microsoft, BNY Mellon, General Motors, Danone, Schneider Electric, Repsol, and Unilever, among others.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · June 20, 2023

Team8, a unique global venture group that creates and invests in early-stage companies with deep expertise in cyber, data, fintech, and digital health, is proud to announce that Jerry Geisler, Walmart’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has joined the company's Enterprise Board.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · June 14, 2023

The quick adoption of Generative AI and ChatGPT remains a concern for CISOs and security professionals, who feel pressure to broadly enable the technology within their organizations.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · April 19, 2023

The Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations, in cooperation with Israel's National Cyber Directorate (INCD) and Team8, hosted a cyber-security event yesterday at the United Nations (UN) to discuss the ways in which countries, governments and the private sector can collaborate to create a cyber-safer world.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · January 18, 2023

Team8, a company-building venture group focused on fintech, cyber and digital health, is hosting a senior delegation of global VCs to shine the spotlight on Israel’s budding fintech scene between 6th-8th November. The delegation will be in Israel for the global fintech show, Money20/20’s debut visit to Tel Aviv.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · November 3, 2022

Team8, a leading company-building venture group backed by partners including Microsoft, Walmart, Cisco, Temasek, and Moody’s, today announced that Demetrios L. Kouzoukas, a former Medicare and United Healthcare executive, will join Team8 Health, a new digital health foundry focused on building and scaling transformative digital health companies. He joins former National Security Agency (NSA) Director and Team8 Operating Partner Adm. Michael Rogers, who joined Team8 in 2018.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · October 19, 2022

Finout, the FinOps (a portmanteau of “Finance” and “DevOps”) Certified Platform and a member of the FinOps Foundation, today announced the company has secured $18.5 million to date, closing a $14 million Series A led by Team8 Capital. The company’s previously unannounced $4.5M seed round was led by Pitango First.
By Team8 · Via Business Wire · June 16, 2022