Yanki Margalit

Yanki Margalit (Hebrew: ינקי מרגלית) is an Israeli entrepreneur and speaker best known for starting Aladdin Knowledge Systems.

He was the Chairman SpaceIL, a non-profit space technology organization competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.

In March 2009, with close to $150M in sales, Vector Capital acquired Aladdin and officially merged it with SafeNet.

[10] Margalit has appeared as a professional speaker about technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and human evolution, while studying and working in more recent interests of biotechnology, clean energy and space exploration.

[11] Some of his lectures include: When they were still a startup, CheckPoint Software Technologies offered Margalit half of the company for $200,000.