Moshe Bar (; born in

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in June 1971 ) is an Israeli and American author, investor and entrepreneur.

Biography

He is currently CEO of Codenotary Inc., a provider of solutions to record business data immutably, using and initiator of the open source project immudb.io. He was previously a general partner of Texas Atlantic Capital LP, a venture capital company. Prior to that, he was a co-founder of Qumranet. Qumranet was sold to

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in 2008 for US$107 million. He previously co-founded the company behind the Xen software, XenSource, which was sold to Citrix for US$500 million in 2007. Before that he founded Qlusters Inc, and was the founder, main developer and project manager of

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. Furthermore, he frequently acts as an

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in high-tech start-up companies such as Hyper9, Neebula, Delivery Hero SE, and Qlayer, which was sold to Sun Microsystems in January 2009. The author of several books on

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, file systems and

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development, he was also a senior editor at '' Byte Magazine'' for over eight years. He also taught at

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