Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israelli inventor who is one of the inventors of captcha”. Today it says “israeli venture capitalist and former founder of multiple software companies”.
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Gili Raanan (born 1969) is an Israeli venture capitalist and one of the inventors of CAPTCHA (US patent application with 1997 priority date ), the WAF ( web application firewall ) and many other inventions in the fields of application security and discovery.1Raanan started Sanctum in 1997, and invented the first Web application firewall AppShield and the first Web application penetration testing software AppScan . He later started NLayers which was acquired by EMC Corporation pioneering the science of Application discovery and understanding .2He is an investor and a General Partner at Sequoia Capital , the Founder of Cyberstarts, and was a board member at Adallom , Armis Security , Onavo , Moovit, Innovid (NYSE:CTV) and Snaptu . "Method and system for extracting application protocol characteristics" . 1999-07-01. : Cite journal requires |journal= ( help ) "Method and system for dynamic refinement of security policies" . 2002-12-31. : Cite journal requires |journal= ( help ) "Method and system for discriminating a human action from a computerized action" . 2004-03-01. : Cite journal requires |journal= ( help ) Weinberg, Neal (23 September 2003).3 "Quick Takes: AppScan release secures Web applications" . 10 February 2016 . "CMDBs: An IT Goldmine?" . 2007-01-19 . "Insight buys IoT security co Armis at $1.1b valuation" . en.globes.co.il (in Hebrew). 2020-01-07 .4
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Gili Raanan (born 1969) is an Israelli inventor who is one of the inventors of CAPTCHA (US patent application with 1997 priority date ), the WAF ( web application firewall ) and many other inventions in the fields of application security and discovery. Raanan started Sanctum in 1997, and invented the first Web application firewall AppShield and the first Web application penetration testing software AppScan . He later started NLayers which was acquired by EMC Corporation pioneering the science of Application discovery and understanding . He is an investor and a General Partner at Sequoia Capital , the Founder of Cyberstarts , and was a board member at Adallom , Armis Security , Onavo and Snaptu . "CMDBs: An IT Goldmine?" . 2007-01-19 . "Insight buys IoT security co Armis at $1.1b valuation" . en.globes.co.il (in Hebrew). 2020-01-07 .
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Israeli inventor Gili Raanan ( Hebrew : גילי רענן ; born 1969) is an Israeli venture capitalist and former founder of multiple software companies.Raanan started Sanctum in 1997, the company that created the Web application firewall AppShield and the web application penetration testing software AppScan . He later started NLayers which was acquired by EMC Corporation . He was a general partner at Sequoia Capital , the founder of Cyberstarts, and board member at Wiz , Adallom , Onavo , and Moovit , Snaptu . "Quick Takes: AppScan release secures Web applications" . 10 February 2016 .
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israeli venture capitalist and former founder of multiple software companies
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