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Shlomo Kramer

Israel 60 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Software, investments
Industry
Technology
Residence
Tel Aviv

Biography

Shlomo Kramer is cofounder and CEO of Cato Networks, a cloud security startup last valued by investors in 2021 at $2.5 billion.

He cofounded Check Point Software, a firewall security pioneer, with fellow Israelis Gil Shwed and Marius Nacht in 1993. Check Point went public in 1996.

Kramer cofounded data security company Imperva in 2002; it went public in 2011 and was acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2019 for about $2.1 billion.

Kramer was an early investor and board member at cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks, founded by former Check Point employee Nir Zuk.

He has also invested in sales software maker Gong, cybersecurity company Exabeam and cloud data company Sumo Logic.