Amit Karp
Partner / Seed/Early
Tel Aviv, Israel
About Amit
Amit Karp is a partner in Bessemer’s Israel office where he focuses on investments in the region and throughout Europe. Amit led Bessemer’s Seed or Series A rounds in cybersecurity leaders Axonius, Torq, Legit , Astrix, and Sentra. He also led Bessemer's investments in developer-focsed companies Port, Appwrite, Firebolt, and Netdata. As well as Bessemer's seed investments in Zoomin (acquired by Salesforce), Qogita, and Otonomo. He was also closely involved with Bessemer’s investments in Yotpo, Hibob, Cloudlock, Cloudinary, and Habana Labs.
Prior to venture capital, Amit was a senior associate in McKinsey & Company, advising companies on projects related to technology strategy. Earlier in his career, Amit was a developer and then Product Manager at an e-commerce search and merchandising solutions startup Mercado, now part of Adobe Software.
Amit holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology.
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