Yair Snir

I'm a Managing Director at DTC (Dell Technologies Capital), leading Michael Dell's early-stage VC investments in Europe and Israel. Current investments: - VAST Data - Lightbits Labs - Pecan - TOKA - floLIVE - Treeverse - Swish.ai - Sightfull Previous investments: - Elastifile (Acq. by Google) - Twistlock (Acq. by Palo Alto Networks) - CloudEndure (Acq. by Amazon) - Reshuffle (Acq. by Twitter) - Otonomo (IPO, OTMO) - VDOO (Acq. by JFrog) - Guardicore (Acq. by Akamai) - Iguazio (Acq. by McKinsey) - Lightspin (Acq. by Cisco) Prior to joining DTC, I was Microsoft’s Corporate Director of Business Development & M&A for Europe and Israel, where some of the acquisitions that I led include Aorato, Adallom, Secure Islands, Equivio, N-trig and Wunderlist. Before Microsoft, I worked for ECI Telecom as Chief Strategy Officer, heading the Corporate Strategy and Business Development. Prior to that, I was a senior strategy consultant at Rotem Strategy (Acq.by KPMG) one of Israel’s leading consulting firms. Earlier in my career, I worked in various bio-tech and hi-tech roles where I established and managed R&D groups, authored patents and published scientific papers. In addition to my venture capital investment activities, I have lectured at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel. I hold a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Computational Biology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel and an MBA from the Reichman University (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel.