Investors backing Israeli tech.

Investor at Fin Capital. Fin is an asset management firm investing full lifecycle in FinTech and adjacent verticals in principally B2B enterprise SaaS companies principally in the US and UK-EU, and selectively in LatAm, Israel, and Canada.

Investor at Next47. Next47 is a global venture firm built for enterprise founders. Based in Silicon Valley, and with offices in the US, Europe, and Israel, we lead investments in early and expansion stage companies, with focus on SaaS, AI/ML and Dev Tools, Enterprise IT and Cybersecurity, and Deep Tech.

Investor at Ground Up Ventures. Ground Up Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed/seed stage startups in the US & Israel.

Investor at Mindset Ventures. Mindset Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in São Paulo, San Francisco, and Tel-Aviv. The firm invests in B2B software startups based in the U.S. and Israel.

Investor at Fin Capital. Fin is an asset management firm investing full lifecycle in FinTech and adjacent verticals in principally B2B enterprise SaaS companies principally in the US and UK-EU, and selectively in LatAm, Israel, and Canada.

Investor at Fin Capital. Fin is an asset management firm investing full lifecycle in FinTech and adjacent verticals in principally B2B enterprise SaaS companies principally in the US and UK-EU, and selectively in LatAm, Israel, and Canada.

Investor at Next47. Next47 is a global venture firm built for enterprise founders. Based in Silicon Valley, and with offices in the US, Europe, and Israel, we lead investments in early and expansion stage companies, with focus on SaaS, AI/ML and Dev Tools, Enterprise IT and Cybersecurity, and Deep Tech.

Aaron is a General Partner at Aleph, an early stage venture capital fund with $850M under management. Aleph focuses on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in over 50 companies (not all announced) including Lemonade (NYSE:LMND), Luminate (acq: SYMC), Melio, Placer, JoyTunes, Coralogix, Fabric, Honeybook and Bringg. Aaron began his career at Insight Partners, where he sourced deals including HelloFresh (Xetra: HFG), WalkMe (WKME), Moat (acquired Oracle), and Gainsight (acq. Vista). He graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Adi Sharabani is the CEO and co-founder of Skycure. A world-renowned security expert with years of experience in enterprise software, Adi was formerly the leader of security for IBM software products. He came to IBM through the acquisition of Watchfire, a market leader in the field of application security, where Adi built and led its security and research group. Adi holds more than 25 patents in the security space, and his works, presentations and keynotes are regularly given the highest accolades at prestigious conferences. Adi earned a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from Tel Aviv University, and is a fellow in Professor Yuval’s workshop for science, technology and security. Committed to cyber security education, Adi has been a teacher and education advisor, playing a key role in the vision and implementation of the cyber defense curriculum for high school students in Israel majoring in cyber security. After compiling decades of leadership in cyber security, Adi co-founded Skycure with the central idea of improving mobile security with a more proactive and predictive Mobile Threat Defense solution. In an interview for the RSA Conference blog, Adi notes, “Organizations [need] the ability to evolve to address the changing nature of [mobile security] attacks… for the most part, devices are simply running naked.” Adi embraces cyber security research and development, realizing that only through targeted research and continuous innovation can mobile security evolve into intelligent and highly active security for organizations.

Alex Lazovsky is an American-Israeli entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He is Managing Partner & Co-founder of Scale-Up, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. He is also a Managing Partner & Co-founder of West Coast Equity Partners, a private equity firm based in San Francisco. Scale-Up and West Coast Equity Partners are focused on investing in growth-stage companies in Fintech, InsurTech, AI, Online Education, Online Media, PropTech, Cybersecurity, SpaceTech, Digital Transformation, and other areas. Alex and his experienced team of managing and venture partners have invested in nearly 100 technology companies from seed to growth stage, a number of which have since become unicorns and decacorns. At Scale-Up VC and West Coast Equity Partners, Alex has led investments in SpaceX, Trax Technologies, OpenWeb, Verbit.ai, Upgrade, Outschool, PSI Quantum, Cybereason, eToro, SiSense, Silk.us, and other. West Coast Equity Partners made also investments in already renowned unicorns including Robinhood, DataRobot, Coursera, Dataminr, Rubrik, Scopely, Side, Cerebras Systems and many other great companies. Alex holds B.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, which consistently keeps 8th spot in a world ranking of top universities producing entrepreneurs and startup founders. His MBA is from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University consistently ranked in the top 5 business schools in the US https://profiles.forbes.com/members/business/profile/Alex-Lazovsky-Managing-Partner-Co-founder-West-Coast-Equity-Parners-Scale-Up-Unicorn-Fund/2748d6eb-21ff-4a15-bafc-58a4db87cdde

Alexander Turkot is Founder and Managing Partner of Maxfield Capital Partners, venture fund with focus on early stage IT and interenet projects. In 2010-2012 Alexander Turkot served as Executive Director of the Strategic Computer Technologies and Software Cluster and is responsible for the initiation all information technology (IT) projects at Skolkovo Foundation. Previously, Mr Turkot had a varied career in international business, leading IT projects in the US, Japan, Switzerland, South Africa, Israel and France. He also founded start-up companies in Israel, the US and Europe. He has over 10 years of experience in consulting at various venture funds and private investors in both IT and telecommunications. He has worked at IBM, and most recently in 2007 he set up a partnership with News Corporation to create Fox Interactive Media - MySpace Russia, where he was CEO and managing partner. Born in 1961, Mr Turkot graduated from the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute where he specialised in electrical systems. He also has a PhD in Economics.

Alon Arabov is CEO of Arabov Group, an international retail and wholesale diamond distributor that caters to the luxury jewelry market. Started by his father David Arabov in the 1950s in Israel, “Arabov” quickly became a name known all around the world for expertise in cutting diamonds. Wholesale diamond offices were opened in the USA, Hong Kong, Shanghai, South Africa, and Russia, in addition to Israel and the company traded in loose diamonds, as well as diamond jewelry. Arabov picked up from the strong foundation laid by his father, and has taken the company to the next level of global expansion and worldwide reputation. Alon Arabov was born in Israel. After a visit to New York City, he decided to remain in America and pursue a degree in business administration at NYU. With some time on his hands before the fall semester began, Arabov took a job in New York City’s action-packed diamond district and he never left. Slowly, Arabov began to establish himself as a diamond trader, ultimately leading to the founding of his own diamond dealership. After several years, Arabov left New York to explore the diamond market in other parts of America, settling finally in Charlotte, North Carolina. Initially, Arabov continued with the wholesale focus of his business, but observing that there was a shortage of quality diamond retail outlets, he expanded his business and initiated Diamonds Direct, which grew into an enormously successful jewelry and diamond retail establishment that reaches across America. Capitalizing on the age-old tradition of diamond engagement rings and wedding bands, Diamonds Direct captured millions in sales revenue from this perennial rite of passage by specializing in customer service and high-quality product. Expert sales staff carefully walk the couple through the entire process, from providing an overview of the diamond market, to selecting their diamonds, to helping them design a one-of-a-kind classic that will provide decades of joy and loving memories. In the meantime, Arabov did not drop the wholesale aspect of the business, setting up successful wholesale outlets in New York City, Arizona, Maryland and other locations in America, plus in Tel Aviv. Following this success, Arabov returned to his homeland, Israel, and continued to expand the business, including entering into diamond cutting and polishing (operating factories in Russia, South Africa, Botswana and Israel) and joint-venture agreements with the largest diamond mining companies in the world. Arabov Group thereby became one of a select group of companies who sell diamonds to their customers straight from the mines. Arabov’s business has grown to join the ranks of the world’s foremost diamond companies. Alon Arabov is a generous donor to many charities and non-profit organizations, and serves on several boards of directors. He and his family donated funds to assist with the costs of constructing a new floor for the Sheba Hospital Diabetes Center. Another major recipient of Arabov’s philanthropic work is the Diamond Empowerment Fund which is assisting impoverished communities in South Africa. The Fund empowers South African youth by providing opportunities for educational, social and economic improvement. Alon Arabov is married and lives with his wife and six children in Herzliya, Israel.

Amos Meiri is the Co-Founder and CEO of Colu. He previously worked at Algorand Foundation as a Strategic Advisor. Amos Meiri attended College of Management Israel.

Andy Britnell is a senior level technology sales executive and sales leader based in Reading, UK. He has extensive experience in the industry. In addition to being VP of Sales (UK) Identity Methods Limited, he is highly experienced in working for and advising for US & Israeli technology start ups. Andy is also a Business Mentor for Virgin StartUp and a Prince's Trust business advisor.

Aviad Harell currently works as an Investor for Syndicate. He previously worked at Sisense as a Founder, COO and GM Israel. Aviad Harell attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

Avichay Nissenbaum has over 25 years of experience in the software industry and is Co-founder and General Partner at lool ventures, an early stage venture fund focused on Internet/Mobile/Media in Israel. Prior to lool ventures Avichay served as the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Yedda.com, (Acquired by AOL), and a vice president at AOL and AOL Israel Country manager. Prior to Yedda.com, Mr. Nissenbaum co-founded SmarTeam, a market leader in the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) domain. SmarTeam was subsequently acquired by Dassault Systems (NASDAQ: DASTY). Avichay serves on several boards including Perion (NASDAQ:PERI), Tipa Corp., Mabaya, Zooz, Medisafe, MyPermissions, EasySocialShop, Mabaya, Sensibo and several additional startup companies and advises various startups and entrepreneurs.

Bob Rosenschein is an American-Israeli internet entrepreneur. His latest startup is Curiyo. He is the founder and was Chairman and CEO of Answers.com, formerly GuruNet, until May 2011, when it was bought by Summit Partner's AFCV Holdings for $127 million. Rosenschein was born to Jewish parents and grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. In his early career, Mr. Rosenschein worked for Data General, American Management Systems, the World Bank, and Ashton-Tate. He moved to Israel in 1983, where he worked as a software consultant. In 1988, together with his brother, Prof. Jeffrey Rosenschein, he founded Kivun, later Accent Software. Its initial product was Dagesh, the first Hebrew/English word processor for Windows. From 1991-1992, the company consulted to Microsoft, helping design and develop Hebrew and Arabic versions of Windows 3.1. The company went on to develop multi-lingual software tools under the brand Accent. For the Hebrew Windows and Dagesh projects, Mr. Rosenschein was awarded the Prime Minister of Israel's Award for Software Achievement in 1997. In 1999, Rosenschein founded GuruNet with Mort Meyerson and Mark Tebbe, which created a 1-click popup Internet-based information utility. The product later became Answers.com, incorporating both editorial reference and user-generated Q&A information. The company was listed on NASDAQ as Answers Corporation from 13 October 2004 until 14 April 2011, when it was purchased and taken private by AFCV Holdings. In 2009, Rosenschein was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Award Finalist in the Metropolitan New York region.

Catherine is an investor, board director and executive coach. She is based in London and works globally. She is an experienced international C-suite executive with a strong track record in the People, DE&I and ESG fields. Together with Jonathan Lenson. she invests in exceptional early-stage tech companies across the UK, US and Israel, and brings in-depth previous board experience as both an executive and non-executive director. She writes and speaks on topics including the future of work, corporate culture and purpose, diversity and inclusion, and work/life integration. As part of her coaching practice, she is the first UK-based facilitator to be certified in the Fair Play method. Catherine was the first female Managing Partner appointed at SoftBank Investment Advisers, the world’s largest technology investment firm with $175 billion under management in the two SoftBank Vision Funds and SoftBank Latin America Funds. As the founding Chief People Officer for five years (2017-2022), she led the HR, ESG and Real Estate teams globally. An experienced and trusted executive coach at C-suite level, she worked with companies within the Vision Fund portfolio on leadership, talent, DE&I, ESG, and operating challenges, including as a Board Director. Catherine built SBIA’s ESG practice and designed its strategy for Social Impact. She led SoftBank’s early stage venture funds focused on diverse founders, including the $100m+ SB Opportunity Fund (US) and Emerge (EMEA), including as an Investment Committee member. Catherine is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (Class of 2021) and a founding member of Sustainability30 (which brings together Chief Sustainability Officers from 30 of the world’s leading companies). She spent the formative years of her career at UBS AG, Switzerland’s leading financial services firm, and is proud to have progressed from intern to Managing Director in the same firm. In her final role there, she led Reward for UBS across the UK and EMEA region.

Dmitry is a Canadian-Israeli entrepreneur and cybersecurity professional who has been around the technology ecosystem for over two decades. Dmitry’s specialty is in application security, cloud architecture, DevOps, DevSecOps, and automation of cyber-defense mechanisms. Dmitry co-founded Cybeats in 2016. In late 2018 Dmitry joined the NTIA group that worked to shape the SBOM standard. In 2020 Dmitry invented the SBOM Studio solution to help Enterprises consume and manage SBOMs. To give back to the cybersecurity community, Dmitry co-founded the Security Architecture Podcast during COVID19 pandemic in 2020. Today Dmitry is leading the innovation, technology, and product in Cybeats as CTO and participates in various working groups to define the future of SBOM, VEX, CSAF.

George Haber is the Founder and Managing Partner at CrestaFund and the Chairman of the Board of Skillhop and Tailent. He is also a Growth Partner at AnD Ventures. Prior to that, he was the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of CrestaTech. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Gil Rabbi is an engagement guru and one of Israel's digital pioneers. Founder & CEO of Storycards, The no-code platform for engagement products, and Founder of Rabbi Interactive. One of the global experts in creating digital products that improve engagement. Over the past decade, Rabbi developed products that engaged over 10 million people every month. Rabbi was named in the 40 under Forty list of the most influential people in Israel and one of the 100 most influential people in the Israeli digital world. He led major innovations in the digital world, including products for Eurovision and the Rising Star TV format that enabled millions of viewers to participate in real-time.

Gil Zimmermann is the Founder and CEO of CloudLock, Inc. Gil founded CloudLock in 2008 along with two co-founders, Tsahy Shapsa, and Ron Zalkind. CloudLock provides enterprises class Cloud Data Security for organizations of any size that are looking to leverage the cloud (such as Google Apps) as their Cloud File Server, to gain all the benefits the cloud has to offer, without sacrificing on control and visibility for security and compliance. Prior to founding CloudLock, Gil was an Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) with Cedar Fund in Waltham, MA, and has had real jobs with companies such as EMC, Sun Microsystems, Backweb Technologies, Bezeq. Gil started his career in the software world as a MAMRAM graduate and software lead in the MI branch of the IDF. In his spare time Gil runs the Boston branch of TechAviv, the world's largest organization of Israeli related entrepreneurs and startups that meet once a month to promote israeli startups and innovation.

Gili Raanan is a leading cybersecurity-focused venture capitalist and the founder of Cyberstarts, an premier early-stage VC firm investing in leading cybersecurity innovators. Since founding Cyberstarts in 2018, Gili has been instrumental in the early success of category-defining companies such as Wiz, Armis, Island, Fireblocks, Cyera, Transmit Security, and Upwind. Gili Raanan’s expertise in cybersecurity stems from his service in Israel’s elite Unit 8200 intelligence unit, where he was honored with the Israel Defense Forces Presidential Medal and the Innovation Award. As a technologist and entrepreneur, Gili is recognized as the inventor of CAPTCHA and played a foundational role in the creation of the web application firewall. His name appears on more than 10 U.S. patents across cybersecurity and application management. Before founding Cyberstarts, Gili launched two successful startups, Sanctum and nLayers, which were acquired by IBM and EMC, respectively. He later served as VP of Strategy at EMC and in 2009 joined Sequoia Capital as a General Partner, where he led investments in Israel’s emerging tech landscape with a focus on security and infrastructure. Under Gili Raanan’s leadership, Cyberstarts has raised over $720 million across five funds, with a portfolio now valued at more than $55 billion. The fund has backed multiple companies through significant exits, including Noname Security, Axis, Bionic, and Avalor. Gili currently sits on the Board of Directors for more than 10 Cyberstarts portfolio companies. In recognition of his ongoing impact in venture capital and cybersecurity, Gili was named #24 on the 2025 Forbes Midas List and ranked #3 on the Seed List. Gili Raanan lives in Mikhmoret, Israel, and is also a minority owner of Hapoel Tel Aviv’s professional basketball team.

Growth equity investor at AXA Venture Partners focused on €2-40m equity cheques into technology businesses across Europe, North America and Israel. Proven investor in marketplaces (Auto1, Zenjob, Florence), fintech (Remitly), software (Cognism and Sendcloud) and consumer businesses (Innogames, Treatwell). Imran co-founded AXA Venture Partners in 2016 after a prior decade of technology investment experience. He graduated First Class from Christ Church, Oxford with a Masters in Engineering, Economics and Management and worked in banking and consulting before realising how much he enjoyed investing.

Israel is a pragmatic and forward-thinking software engineer with a background in Marine Engineering from Rivers State University, Port Harcourt. After transitioning from engineering ships to engineering software, he has built a career across startups and tech teams where he specialized in scalable backend systems, real-time infrastructure, and intuitive mobile experiences. With a strong focus on solving problems that matter, Israel applies a CEO & CTO-level mindset to every product he touches, balancing speed, security, and sustainability. He is currently a Co-founder at Blupo, a peer-to-peer delivery platform using community mobility and intelligent routing to rethink logistics in Africa.

Partner at Aviv Growth Partners (AGP), Advisor at FloorSight & Member at YPO.

Kim Moore is the Operating Partner at Glynn Capital Management. She is dedicated to supporting and adding value to the Firm's private portfolio companies through business development and corporate development initiatives. Additionally, Kim is responsible for managing and growing the Firm’s relationships with Fortune 1000 C-level executives. From 2013-2017, Kim was at Innovation Endeavors, an early-stage venture capital firm solely backed by Eric Schmidt. At Innovation Endeavors, Kim focused on business development and corporate initiatives in the U.S. and Israel. She supported over 100 private companies with an emphasis product/market fit, customer growth and talent. Previously, Kim worked at Asana and Olive Grove Consulting. Kim is the founder of REACH and on the Board for foster care focused organizations including: California CASA, Together We Rise, HEAR and Advanced Studies Scholarship Fund. Kim received her undergraduate degree with honors in Social Science from University of California, Irvine and her Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education with a focus Prevention Science and Practice.

Lawrence Bender, producer and political activist, has a career that spans two decades of producing highly successful films. His films to date, including such hits as Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting, have been honored with 29 Academy Award nominations, including three for Best Picture, and have won six. His film An Inconvenient Truth, which raised unprecedented awareness about climate change, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His documentary, Countdown To Zero, which features Tony Blair, Presidents Musharraf, Gorbachev, de Klerk, and Carter among others details the urgent risk posed by proliferation, terrorism, and accidental use of nuclear weapons. Other films include: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), Anna and the King (1999), The Mexican (2001), Innocent Voices (2004), and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (2004). Lawrence has also produced Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing 2; Knockaround Guys; A Price Above Rubies; White Man’s Burden; Killing Zoe and Fresh and Safe, starring Jason Statham. Bender is also a passionate social and political activist. In 2003 he co-founded the Detroit Project - targeting the gas-guzzling SUV. He also traveled to the Middle East with the Israeli Policy Forum. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council. He is a recipient of the Torch of Liberty Award from the ACLU and is honored as a Wildlife Hero from the National Wildlife Federation. Bender spends much of his time throwing fundraisers for political and social causes in Los Angeles, where he calls home. Source: [AI Film](http://www.ai-film.com/member/lawrence-bender/)

Seasoned entrepreneur with solid experience in global alliances, business development, executive management, channel development and organizational leadership. Business expertise across the worldwide marketplace including US, France, Israel, and Japan. Prior to founding Ifeelgoods, Michael founded and successfully sold DAOODA, a thriving ad network in the EU, and AGORAD, which was the number one independent French media company at the time he sold it in 2007. As CEO of Ifeelgoods, a U.S company he started in 2010, Michael is leveraging his leadership, experience and insights in e-commerce and online advertising to disrupt the promotion, advertising and loyalty industries. Michael is an Operating Partner at Cathay Innovation, a VC fund based in China, US and Europe, a Board Member of StationF - the largest incubator in the world - and Ambassador for La French Tech in San Francisco. Michael is a graduate of Institut Superieur de Gestion business school. Michael lives with his family in Palo Alto, California.

Michelle Dipp, MD PhD is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Biospring Partners, a life sciences technology growth equity firm. Michelle serves on the Board of Directors for Abzena. Michelle was a Managing Director at General Atlantic, a New York based global growth equity firm. Michelle Dipp launched their life sciences investment platform and was a member of the life sciences investment committee. Michelle Dipp served as a Board Observer for Ginkgo BioWorks and also served as a board member for PathAI and Immunocore. Michelle was a Co-Founder and former General Partner of a leading Boston-based healthcare investment firm, Longwood Fund. As a General Partner in Longwood Funds I, II, III, and IV, Michelle co-founded several portfolio companies for Longwood Fund, where she held senior management positions. In addition to her management positions, Michelle worked on the board of these portfolio companies including as Chairman of Axial Biotherapeutics. Michelle served on the board of Colorescience and also served as a board observer of both Bicycle Therapeutics and Pulmocide Ltd. Before joining Longwood, Michelle Dipp was GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Senior Vice President of the Centre of Excellence for External Drug Discovery (CEEDD). During Michelle Dipp's time she also served in GSK’s global business development group as Vice President of Corporate Development at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRT was ultimately acquired by GlaxoSmithKline in 2008). Michelle began her investment career at the Wellcome Trust after completing her medical training. Michelle Dipp, MDPhD holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Oxford Medical School and a Doctor of Philosophy in Human Physiology from the University of Oxford, Brasenose College. Michelle currently serves on the Trustee Advisory Board for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Advisory Board for the Women’s Foundation of Boston; Board of Directors for Life Science Cares; Rockefeller University Council; Advisory Council for the American Museum of Natural History; Co-Founding Member of the Bowman Fund, Brasenose College Boat Club, Oxford University; and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders.