Alon Arvatz

Alon Arvatz was born in 1988 in Tel Aviv

Alon Arvatz was born in 1988 in Tel Aviv, the eldest son of Shmuel and Michal Arvatz. He grew up in Herzliya and Ra'anana. He attended the Kfar Batya religious science high school and in 2006 began studying at the Yeruham hesder yeshiva.

He enlisted in the Egoz unit in 2008 but left the track after half a year due to a hearing injury. He moved to Unit 8200, where he worked in cyber.

After his release in 2011 he studied for about a year at the Otniel hesder yeshiva, then studied law and accounting at Tel Aviv University. During his studies he founded Kanfei Kesef, a public benefit company for financial education for youth, and Cyber School, which taught cyber to teens in Israel and the United States. Cyber School was sold to a private investor in 2015.

In 2015 he left university and founded IntSights with Guy Nizan and Gal Ben David, a cyber startup that built an intelligence system for private companies. The company raised 70 million dollars and was sold in 2021 to the American company Rapid7 for 350 million dollars. He completed his law degree in 2018.

In January 2023 he published a book on the Israeli cyber industry, based on interviews with industry figures and his own story. In 2023 he founded the startup Point Five, which manages cloud costs, and serves as its CEO. He is married to Smadar, has 4 children and lives in Or Akiva.