Ayal Yogev, CEO and Co-Founder of Anjuna: $42 Million to Build The Future of Confidential Computing

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Ayal Yogev, CEO and Co-founder of Anjuna, a confidential computing platform that has raised $42 Million in funding.

Topics Discussed:

• Ayal’s 25 years of experience in enterprise security and product management and number one life lesson from his time in the Israeli military: everything is possible.


• His admiration for Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, despite Mark’s controversial persona.


• The story of how he built Anjuna and met Yan Michalevsky, his Co-founder who also served in Israeli intelligence then did Ph.D. in Stanford before they both decided to develop Anjuna together.


• Security is an enabler. Ayal believes that 80% of security problems are due to access to infrastructure and confidential computing could be a solution to this issue.


• Why massive enterprise’s transition to the cloud put Anjuna’s software in high demand