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Walnut founder and angel investor whose bet on Talon returned a $625M Palo Alto exit
Credibility
Experience · 76th percentile
- Has been actively investing since at least 2021, representing approximately 4 years of investing experience.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Walnut.io raised $56M in total funding across multiple rounds including a $15M Series A and a $35M Series B.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current founder and CEO of Walnut.io, an interactive demo platform founded in 2020.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)walnut.io ranks #371,214 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Walnut.io was co-founded with Danni Friedland.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Past founder of Israel's first startup marketing company, which he ran as CEO for 7 years with offices in Manhattan and London.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Founding CMO of an anti-bullying startup prior to launching Walnut, indicating serial founder activity across at least three ventures.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Identified Stack Overflow account for Yoav Vilner.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, including a seed investment in Talon Cyber Security (acquired for $625M by Palo Alto Networks).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio company Talon Cyber Security was acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $625M.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Has been actively investing since at least 2021, representing approximately 4 years of investing experience.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Limited Partner at Team8 VC, supporting cyber and enterprise founders.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Angel investor and advisory board member at enso, an AI marketplace startup.
What you likely need
You'd get the most value from small, high-trust rooms where M&A conversations can start organically — think sales-tech operators and corp dev leads from Salesforce, HubSpot, and Outreach who can move a Walnut acquisition conversation forward without a banker in the room. You're also at an inflection point in your investor identity, so dinners that help you formalize your angel track record into a syndicate or micro-fund — with the right LP introductions — are high-leverage right now. Finally, events that put you on stage or at the table as a GTM authority will compound your inbound deal flow as both a founder and emerging fund manager.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA closed dinner for founders and corp dev leads from Salesforce, HubSpot, and Outreach exploring strategic acquisitions in the sales-tech and interactive demo space — where Walnut's $56M-backed product and distribution story can surface naturally
- fundraisingA roundtable for operator-angels with notable seed exits — anchored around the $625M Talon Cyber Security outcome — to compare notes on formalizing deal flow into a syndicate or micro-fund and attracting LP capital from institutional backers
- introsA dinner for founders advising Israeli-ecosystem VCs like Glilot Capital, StageOne Ventures, and Team8 to share how they've negotiated carry, co-investment rights, and formal LP tracks out of advisory relationships
- positioningA curated dinner for Forbes-recognized B2B marketers and Webby Awards judges building public authority in GTM and sales strategy — to trade playbooks on converting media recognition into inbound angel deal flow
- tacticalA tactical roundtable for founders of Series B sales-tech companies navigating the path from sub-$10M ARR to profitability — focused on account expansion, churn reduction, and capital efficiency ratios when raised capital far outpaces revenue
- fundraisingA small workshop for operator-angels with 5+ deals and at least one notable exit looking to raise their first LP capital — with GPs from funds like Team8 and StageOne in the room who can validate the track record and make warm introductions
- hiringA candid dinner for Series B+ founders who've recently right-sized headcount — to distinguish intentional efficiency from retention risk and share frameworks for culture and compensation audits before they become a recruiting liability