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Our Second Rotation Investment

Genuine VC

Before joining as President & COO, Israel Ganot spent six years at eBay, where he was instrumental in the company’s international expansion. The CEO Rousseau Aurelien is a serial entrepreneur and former eBay PowerSeller. Today’s announcement of a $4.4M

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Our Second Rotation Investment

Genuine VC

Before joining as President & COO, Israel Ganot spent six years at eBay, where he was instrumental in the company’s international expansion. The CEO Rousseau Aurelien is a serial entrepreneur and former eBay PowerSeller. Today’s announcement of a $4.4M

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. The founders have started companies before.

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Kinnernet 2006 – geek camp

BeyondVC

I just got back from a week in Israel having spent some time in Jerusalem for an Answers board meeting and then making my way to the Ohalo Resort on the Sea of Galilee for Kinnernet 2006. Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ).