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Michael Yamnitsky

Hiring founding engineers

United States

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $350,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Work Experience

2025

  • Founder

    2025

  • Senior Advisor

    2025

  • Managing Director

    2022 - 2024

    Deno (Series A), Tailscale (Series B), Evinced (Series B and C), Stackblitz (Bolt.new) (Series A), AtomicJar (acquired by Docker Dec. '23), Fermyon (Series A) and more in stealth.

  • Board Member

    2022

    Building a community and products around WebAssembly.

2022

  • Board Member

    2022

    Ensures software is accessible to the hearing and visually impaired.

2019

  • Private Investor

    2019

    I angel invest in stealth/early-stage startups, with a particular focus on developer tools, cybersecurity, enterprise software, digital health, and the food & agriculture supply chain.

2022 - 2024

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2024

    A simplified VPN built on Wireguard.

2022 - 2024

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2024

    Simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that uses V8 and is built in Rust.

2022 - 2023

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2023

    Acquired by Docker in December of 2023. With over 100M downloads of #testcontainers open source, AtomicJar is building a cloud platform to streamline shift-left integration testing.

2018 - 2021

  • Director of Product Strategy

    2018 - 2021

    Ran a team of product managers building cloud security products.

2015 - 2019

  • Venture Partner

    2015 - 2019

    Work-Bench is an enterprise-focused venture capital fund supporting early stage software companies. I focused on sourcing/managing investments and developing the firm's network of F500 CIOs. Select investments I have worked on: CoreOS (application container management software) [acquired by Red Hat January 2018] Cockroach Labs (distributed SQL database) Portfolio companies I was actively involved with: DialPad (cloud-based unified communications, $1.2B valuation), vArmour (datacenter and cloud security), Tamr (data governance software) Positions held: Venture Partner (2016-Present) Associate (2015-2016)