Gil Zimmermann
Founder and General Partner at Lama Partners
Speaker

Profile

Gil Zimmermann is a repeat enterprise cyber and cloud entrepreneur and investor. He's a founder and Managing Partner of Lama Partners, a Boston/Tel Aviv early-stage fund ($50M Fund I, $80M Fund II closing now) backing Israeli and Israel-related founders accelerating the Enterprise AI Transformation across cybersecurity and IT operations.

• Operator at scale. Co-founded CloudLock (acquired by Cisco); scaled Cisco Cloud Security past $500M ARR and 100M+ users, Cisco's fastest-growing business

• The Lama partners have generated over $1B in exits, including CloudLock (Cisco), Zoomin (Salesforce), Atero (Crusoe), Koi (Palo Alto), and many others

• Sample first checks include Terra Security (Agentic Pentesting), named to NYSE's Top 30 Most Promising Cybersecurity Startups, and Orion Security (Agentic Data Leakage Prevention)

Gil holds a BA in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy from Tel Aviv University, High Tech MBA from Northeastern University, and is a veteran of IDF Mamram & Unit 8200. Gil splits his time between Tel Aviv and Boston