The Founder Partners
Our team includes 37 unicorn and public company founders, tech-giant execs, and top-tier VCs. We're all investors in our fund and actively help our portfolio founders reach their highest aspirations by harnessing our vast experience and global networks.
Amir Orad
CEO
Amir Zilberstein
Co-founder and Chairman
Anthony Goldbloom
Co-founder & CEO
Assaf Resnick
Founder & CEO
Daniel Sundheim
Founder & CIO
David Golan
Founder & CTO
Dean Sysman
Founder & CEO
Eilon Reshef
Founder & CPO
Eldad Farkash
Founder & CEO
Eran Gil
Founder & CEO
Eran Shir
Founder & CEO
Eyal Manor
GM, Google Cloud
Gil Zimmermann
Partner
Guy Goldstein
Founder & CEO
Joel Bar-El
Founder & CEO
Lior Ron
CEO, Uber Freight
Lyor Cohen
Global Head of Music
Mark Gerson
Founder
Meirav Oren
Founder & CEO
Merav Bloch
VP & GM, Opendoor Exclusives
Michael Lazerow
Founder & CEO
Mickey Boodaei
Founder & CEO
Nir Erez
Founder & CEO
Noam Bardin
Founder & CEO
Ofer Ben Noon
Founder & CEO
Oren Kaniel
Founder & CEO
Ran Sarig
Founder & CEO
Roger Rosner
VP Applications
Ron Yekutiel
Founder & CEO
Roy Raanani
Founder & CEO
Roy Rubin
Founder & CEO
Saar Yoskovitz
Founder & CEO
Sagie Davidovich
Founder & CEO
Shay Banon
Founder & CEO
Shay David
Founder & CEO
Tomer London
Founder & CPO
Tomer Shiran
Founder & CPO
Tomer Tagrin
Founder & CEO
Tomer Weingarten
Founder & CEO
Udi Mokady
Founder & CEO
Vipul Ved Prakash
Founder & CEO
Yaron Galai
Founder & CEO
Yossi Matias
VP & Head of Google Research
Yaron Samid
Founder & Managing Partner
Michal Tsur
Founder & President
Matan Bar
Founder & CEO
Sarah Tavel
Partner
Slavik Markovich
Founder & CEO
Susan Wojcicki
Former CEO
Adam Fisher
Partner
Eynat Guez
Founder & CEO
Elad Gil
Founder
Ariel Maislos
Founder & Chairman
Brian Singerman
Partner
Assaf Wand
Founder & CEO
Anne Wojcicki
Founder & CEO
Guy Rosen
CISO
Jeff Horing
Managing Director
Kira Radinsky
Founder & CEO
Gokul Rajaram
GM, Caviar
Scott Tobin
Partner
Tamar Yehoshua
President, Products and Technology
Aaron Jacobson
Partner
Manuel Bronstein
CPO
Joe Lonsdale
Partner
Micha Kaufman
Founder & CEO
Ariel Bardin
President of Technology
Gigi Levy
Partner
Ariel Cohen
Founder & CEO
Shai Wininger
Founder & CEO
Adi Tatarko
Founder & CEO
Amir Orad
CEO
Amir Zilberstein
Co-founder and Chairman
Anthony Goldbloom
Co-founder & CEO
Assaf Resnick
Founder & CEO
Daniel Sundheim
Founder & CIO
David Golan
Founder & CTO
Dean Sysman
Founder & CEO
Eilon Reshef
Founder & CPO
Eldad Farkash
Founder & CEO
Eran Gil
Founder & CEO
Eran Shir
Founder & CEO
Eyal Manor
GM, Google Cloud
Gil Zimmermann
Partner
Guy Goldstein
Founder & CEO
Joel Bar-El
Founder & CEO
Lior Ron
CEO, Uber Freight
Lyor Cohen
Global Head of Music
Mark Gerson
Founder
Meirav Oren
Founder & CEO
Merav Bloch
VP & GM, Opendoor Exclusives
Michael Lazerow
Founder & CEO
Mickey Boodaei
Founder & CEO
Nir Erez
Founder & CEO
Noam Bardin
Founder & CEO
Ofer Ben Noon
Founder & CEO
Oren Kaniel
Founder & CEO
Ran Sarig
Founder & CEO
Roger Rosner
VP Applications
Ron Yekutiel
Founder & CEO
Roy Raanani
Founder & CEO
Roy Rubin
Founder & CEO
Saar Yoskovitz
Founder & CEO
Sagie Davidovich
Founder & CEO
Shay Banon
Founder & CEO
Shay David
Founder & CEO
Tomer London
Founder & CPO
Tomer Shiran
Founder & CPO
Tomer Tagrin
Founder & CEO
Tomer Weingarten
Founder & CEO
Udi Mokady
Founder & CEO
Vipul Ved Prakash
Founder & CEO
Yaron Galai
Founder & CEO
Yossi Matias
VP & Head of Google Research
Yaron Samid
Founder & Managing Partner
Michal Tsur
Founder & President
Matan Bar
Founder & CEO
Sarah Tavel
Partner
Slavik Markovich
Founder & CEO
Susan Wojcicki
Former CEO
Adam Fisher
Partner
Eynat Guez
Founder & CEO
Elad Gil
Founder
Ariel Maislos
Founder & Chairman
Brian Singerman
Partner
Assaf Wand
Founder & CEO
Anne Wojcicki
Founder & CEO
Guy Rosen
CISO
Jeff Horing
Managing Director
Kira Radinsky
Founder & CEO
Gokul Rajaram
GM, Caviar
Scott Tobin
Partner
Tamar Yehoshua
President, Products and Technology
Aaron Jacobson
Partner
Manuel Bronstein
CPO
Joe Lonsdale
Partner
Micha Kaufman
Founder & CEO
Ariel Bardin
President of Technology
Gigi Levy
Partner
Ariel Cohen
Founder & CEO
Shai Wininger
Founder & CEO
Adi Tatarko
Founder & CEO
Anthony Goldbloom
Co-founder & CEO
Assaf Resnick
Founder & CEO
Daniel Sundheim
Founder & CIO
David Golan
Founder & CTO
Dean Sysman
Founder & CEO
Eilon Reshef
Founder & CPO
Eldad Farkash
Founder & CEO
Eran Gil
Founder & CEO
Eran Shir
Founder & CEO
Eyal Manor
GM, Google Cloud
Gil Zimmermann
Partner
Guy Goldstein
Founder & CEO
Joel Bar-El
Founder & CEO
Lior Ron
CEO, Uber Freight
Lyor Cohen
Global Head of Music
Mark Gerson
Founder
Meirav Oren
Founder & CEO
Merav Bloch
VP & GM, Opendoor Exclusives
Michael Lazerow
Founder & CEO
Mickey Boodaei
Founder & CEO
Nir Erez
Founder & CEO
Noam Bardin
Founder & CEO
Ofer Ben Noon
Founder & CEO
Oren Kaniel
Founder & CEO
Ran Sarig
Founder & CEO
Roger Rosner
VP Applications
Ron Yekutiel
Founder & CEO
Roy Raanani
Founder & CEO
Roy Rubin
Founder & CEO
Saar Yoskovitz
Founder & CEO
Sagie Davidovich
Founder & CEO
Shay Banon
Founder & CEO
Shay David
Founder & CEO
Tomer London
Founder & CPO
Tomer Shiran
Founder & CPO
Tomer Tagrin
Founder & CEO
Tomer Weingarten
Founder & CEO
Udi Mokady
Founder & CEO
Vipul Ved Prakash
Founder & CEO
Yaron Galai
Founder & CEO
Yossi Matias
VP & Head of Google Research
Yaron Samid
Founder & Managing Partner
Michal Tsur
Founder & President
Matan Bar
Founder & CEO
Sarah Tavel
Partner
Slavik Markovich
Founder & CEO
Susan Wojcicki
Former CEO
Adam Fisher
Partner
Eynat Guez
Founder & CEO
Elad Gil
Founder
Ariel Maislos
Founder & Chairman
Brian Singerman
Partner
Assaf Wand
Founder & CEO
Anne Wojcicki
Founder & CEO
Guy Rosen
CISO
Jeff Horing
Managing Director
Kira Radinsky
Founder & CEO
Gokul Rajaram
GM, Caviar
Scott Tobin
Partner
Tamar Yehoshua
President, Products and Technology
Aaron Jacobson
Partner
Manuel Bronstein
CPO
Joe Lonsdale
Partner
Micha Kaufman
Founder & CEO
Ariel Bardin
President of Technology
Gigi Levy
Partner
Ariel Cohen
Founder & CEO
Shai Wininger
Founder & CEO
Adi Tatarko
Founder & CEO
Anthony Goldbloom
Co-founder & CEO
Assaf Resnick
Founder & CEO
Daniel Sundheim
Founder & CIO
David Golan
Founder & CTO
Dean Sysman
Founder & CEO
Eilon Reshef
Founder & CPO
Eldad Farkash
Founder & CEO
Eran Gil
Founder & CEO
Eran Shir
Founder & CEO
Eyal Manor
GM, Google Cloud
Gil Zimmermann
Partner
Guy Goldstein
Founder & CEO
Joel Bar-El
Founder & CEO
Lior Ron
CEO, Uber Freight
Lyor Cohen
Global Head of Music
Mark Gerson
Founder
Meirav Oren
Founder & CEO
Merav Bloch
VP & GM, Opendoor Exclusives
Michael Lazerow
Founder & CEO
Mickey Boodaei
Founder & CEO
Nir Erez
Founder & CEO
Noam Bardin
Founder & CEO
Ofer Ben Noon
Founder & CEO
Oren Kaniel
Founder & CEO
Ran Sarig
Founder & CEO
Roger Rosner
VP Applications
Ron Yekutiel
Founder & CEO
Roy Raanani
Founder & CEO
Roy Rubin
Founder & CEO
Saar Yoskovitz
Founder & CEO
Sagie Davidovich
Founder & CEO
Shay Banon
Founder & CEO
Shay David
Founder & CEO
Tomer London
Founder & CPO
Tomer Shiran
Founder & CPO
Tomer Tagrin
Founder & CEO
Tomer Weingarten
Founder & CEO
Udi Mokady
Founder & CEO
Vipul Ved Prakash
Founder & CEO
Yaron Galai
Founder & CEO
Yossi Matias
VP & Head of Google Research
Yaron Samid
Founder & Managing Partner
Michal Tsur
Founder & President
Matan Bar
Founder & CEO
Sarah Tavel
Partner
Slavik Markovich
Founder & CEO
Susan Wojcicki
Former CEO
Adam Fisher
Partner
Eynat Guez
Founder & CEO
Elad Gil
Founder
Ariel Maislos
Founder & Chairman
Brian Singerman
Partner
Assaf Wand
Founder & CEO
Anne Wojcicki
Founder & CEO
Guy Rosen
CISO
Jeff Horing
Managing Director
Kira Radinsky
Founder & CEO
Gokul Rajaram
GM, Caviar
Scott Tobin
Partner
Tamar Yehoshua
President, Products and Technology
Aaron Jacobson
Partner
Manuel Bronstein
CPO
Joe Lonsdale
Partner
Micha Kaufman
Founder & CEO
Ariel Bardin
President of Technology
Gigi Levy
Partner
Ariel Cohen
Founder & CEO
Shai Wininger
Founder & CEO
Adi Tatarko
Founder & CEO
David Golan
Founder & CTO
Dean Sysman
Founder & CEO
Eilon Reshef
Founder & CPO
Eldad Farkash
Founder & CEO
Eran Gil
Founder & CEO
Eran Shir
Founder & CEO
Eyal Manor
GM, Google Cloud
Gil Zimmermann
Partner
Guy Goldstein
Founder & CEO
Joel Bar-El
Founder & CEO
Lior Ron
CEO, Uber Freight
Lyor Cohen
Global Head of Music
Mark Gerson
Founder
Meirav Oren
Founder & CEO
Merav Bloch
VP & GM, Opendoor Exclusives
Michael Lazerow
Founder & CEO
Mickey Boodaei
Founder & CEO
Nir Erez
Founder & CEO
Noam Bardin
Founder & CEO
Ofer Ben Noon
Founder & CEO
Oren Kaniel
Founder & CEO
Ran Sarig
Founder & CEO
Roger Rosner
VP Applications
Ron Yekutiel
Founder & CEO
Roy Raanani
Founder & CEO
Roy Rubin
Founder & CEO
Saar Yoskovitz
Founder & CEO
Sagie Davidovich
Founder & CEO
Shay Banon
Founder & CEO
Shay David
Founder & CEO
Tomer London
Founder & CPO
Tomer Shiran
Founder & CPO
Tomer Tagrin
Founder & CEO
Tomer Weingarten
Founder & CEO
Udi Mokady
Founder & CEO
Vipul Ved Prakash
Founder & CEO
Yaron Galai
Founder & CEO
Yossi Matias
VP & Head of Google Research
Yaron Samid
Founder & Managing Partner
Michal Tsur
Founder & President
Matan Bar
Founder & CEO
Sarah Tavel
Partner
Slavik Markovich
Founder & CEO
Susan Wojcicki
Former CEO
Adam Fisher
Partner
Eynat Guez
Founder & CEO
Elad Gil
Founder
Ariel Maislos
Founder & Chairman
Brian Singerman
Partner
Assaf Wand
Founder & CEO
Anne Wojcicki
Founder & CEO
Guy Rosen
CISO
Jeff Horing
Managing Director
Kira Radinsky
Founder & CEO
Gokul Rajaram
GM, Caviar
Scott Tobin
Partner
Tamar Yehoshua
President, Products and Technology
Aaron Jacobson
Partner
Manuel Bronstein
CPO
Joe Lonsdale
Partner
Micha Kaufman
Founder & CEO
Ariel Bardin
President of Technology
Gigi Levy
Partner
Ariel Cohen
Founder & CEO
Shai Wininger
Founder & CEO
Adi Tatarko
Founder & CEO
David Golan
Founder & CTO
Dean Sysman
Founder & CEO
Eilon Reshef
Founder & CPO
Eldad Farkash
Founder & CEO
Eran Gil
Founder & CEO
Eran Shir
Founder & CEO
Eyal Manor
GM, Google Cloud
Gil Zimmermann
Partner
Guy Goldstein
Founder & CEO
Joel Bar-El
Founder & CEO
Lior Ron
CEO, Uber Freight
Lyor Cohen
Global Head of Music
Mark Gerson
Founder
Meirav Oren
Founder & CEO
Merav Bloch
VP & GM, Opendoor Exclusives
Michael Lazerow
Founder & CEO
Mickey Boodaei
Founder & CEO
Nir Erez
Founder & CEO
Noam Bardin
Founder & CEO
Ofer Ben Noon
Founder & CEO
Oren Kaniel
Founder & CEO
Ran Sarig
Founder & CEO
Roger Rosner
VP Applications
Ron Yekutiel
Founder & CEO
Roy Raanani
Founder & CEO
Roy Rubin
Founder & CEO
Saar Yoskovitz
Founder & CEO
Sagie Davidovich
Founder & CEO
Shay Banon
Founder & CEO
Shay David
Founder & CEO
Tomer London
Founder & CPO
Tomer Shiran
Founder & CPO
Tomer Tagrin
Founder & CEO
Tomer Weingarten
Founder & CEO
Udi Mokady
Founder & CEO
Vipul Ved Prakash
Founder & CEO
Yaron Galai
Founder & CEO
Yossi Matias
VP & Head of Google Research
Yaron Samid
Founder & Managing Partner
Michal Tsur
Founder & President
Matan Bar
Founder & CEO
Sarah Tavel
Partner
Slavik Markovich
Founder & CEO
Susan Wojcicki
Former CEO
Adam Fisher
Partner
Eynat Guez
Founder & CEO
Elad Gil
Founder
Ariel Maislos
Founder & Chairman
Brian Singerman
Partner
Assaf Wand
Founder & CEO
Anne Wojcicki
Founder & CEO
Guy Rosen
CISO
Jeff Horing
Managing Director
Kira Radinsky
Founder & CEO
Gokul Rajaram
GM, Caviar
Scott Tobin
Partner
Tamar Yehoshua
President, Products and Technology
Aaron Jacobson
Partner
Manuel Bronstein
CPO
Joe Lonsdale
Partner
Micha Kaufman
Founder & CEO
Ariel Bardin
President of Technology
Gigi Levy
Partner
Ariel Cohen
Founder & CEO
Shai Wininger
Founder & CEO
Adi Tatarko
Founder & CEO
We invest in founders, not companies.
TechAviv's pre-seed fund supports elite Israeli founders at their earliest stages. These are their companies.
Founders helping founders.
All great companies have one thing in common: great founders. The best learn from and help one another.
TechAviv Founder Partners is not a traditional fund. We're a network. From our origins as a founders club in 2007 to our daily work as a fund, serving founders is at the heart of our ethos. It's in our name. We partner with founders and strive to be their most aligned value-add extended team from idea to forever. This is a lifelong brother and sisterhood. We not only provide first checks, we actively work together over the long run to help our founders achieve their highest aspirations. Together means all of us, including our portfolio founders. We are one global team. Every portfolio founder is offered carry (fund profits) for helping scout, vet, and support their fellow portfolio mates.
Our mission is to help Israeli founders build enduring companies that matter by harnessing our collective knowledge and networks. With $75M under management we make pre-seed and seed investments between $500K-$3M.
Leading by example.
Our team of founder partners includes some of the world's most successful and prolific founders. Here are some of their company-building stats:
36
Unicorns
180M+
Value
75
Founders
50K+
Jobs
On the shoulders of giants.
Senior executives from two dozen global tech giants are investors in our fund, helping our portfolio founders scale-up like the pros.
After renting her garage to Google's founders in 1998, Susan went on to run marketing, the Ads business, and YouTube, becoming one of the most powerful women in tech.
Susan Wojcicki
Former CEO
Serial entrepreneur and Google and Twitter vet Elad Gil has become SV's most sought-after angel with investments including AirBnB, Gitlab, Instacart, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe.
Elad Gil
Founder
Chandu is the VP and GM of Google's fastest-growing business, Google Cloud. Prior to Cloud, he led the engineering and product teams that built Google Maps.
Chandu Thota
VP Engineering
Anne pioneered direct-to-consumer genetic testing and today helps millions of people understand their ancestry, genetics, and related health risks.
Anne Wojcicki
Founder & CEO
Guy has the hardest job in tech: protecting the information security and integrity of the largest social network in the world. Zuck got the right Guy.
Guy Rosen
CISO
Gokul is a renowned company helper holding leadership roles at Google, Facebook, and Square and current board positions at Pinterest, Coinbase, and The Trade Desk.
Gokul Rajaram
GM, Caviar
Currently a venture partner at IVP, Tamar led iconic products at Slack, Google, and Amazon and supports unicorn founders on boards such as Snyk, Yext, and ServiceNow.
Tamar Yehoshua
President, Products and Technology
CPO at gaming giant Roblox, Manuel has been a product leader for over 20 years, pioneering consumer AI as VP Product of Google Assistant.
Manuel Bronstein
CPO
The world's best investors, invest in us.
Top-tier global VCs are investors in our fund and often co-invest with us, extending our reach and founder support network exponentially.
Sarah Tavel
Partner
Sarah invests in network effect businesses with a particular focus on AI, marketplaces & social. Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, where she led Greylock's investment in Sonder and Gixo. Before Greylock, Sarah was the product lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest.
Adam Fisher
Partner
Adam Fisher is widely regarded as one of the top investors in Israel with experience investing across the technology stack, from cutting edge hardware to consumer Internet. Always focused on product-oriented companies, among his many areas of interest is SMB focused SaaS, applications, and marketplaces (e.g. Yotpo, Melio, Hibob, Choco).
Brian Singerman
Partner
Brian relentlessly seeks out companies that can deliver massive returns to investors while also providing real value to humankind. Brian is a board director for Solugen, Cloud9, Emerald Therapeutics and The Long-Term Stock Exchange, and a board observer for Anduril, Modern Health and Forward. His previous investments include Affirm, Asana, Oscar Health, Wish, Oculus, and Postmates.
Jeff Horing
Managing Director
Jeff Horing has been a co-founder and managing director at Insight Partners since 1995. Under his leadership, Insight has become a premier venture capital and private equity firm and has raised through a series of funds more than $30 billion in capital commitments. Jeff's areas of focus include data, analytics, mobile, and infrastructure and SaaS software in Europe, North America, and Israel.
Scott Tobin
Partner
Named multiple times to the Forbes Midas List, Scott heads Battery’s Israel office leading investments in Israel, the U.S., and Europe. His investments include 8fig, Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), Array, BigPanda, Champions Oncology (NASDAQ: CSBR), Cheq, HiBob, Higlobe, LinearB, Next Insurance, Vayyar Imaging, Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM); Anobit Technologies (acquired by Apple) and Habana Labs (acquired by Intel).
Aaron Jacobson
Partner
Aaron Jacobson invests in entrepreneurs pioneering the next generation of Cloud Apps, AI, DevOps, Cybersecurity, and Robotics. He serves as a board director or observer for Embrace, Rapid Robotics, Pulumi, Tigera, ForAllSecure, illusive networks, Streamsets, Built Robotics, and Juvo. In 2016 he was named to Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” in Venture Capital and the Silicon Valley Business Journal's "40 Under 40".
Joe Lonsdale
Partner
Joe Lonsdale is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He is the managing partner at 8VC, a US-based venture capital firm that manages several billion dollars in committed capital. He was an early institutional investor in notable technology startups, including Oculus (acq.FB), Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), Oscar (NYSE: OSCR), Illumio, Anduril, Wish (NASDAQ: WISH), JoyTunes, Blend (NASDAQ: BLND), and many others. Joe was the youngest member included in Forbes 100 Midas List in 2016 and 2017.
How We Help
Our global founder partner collective offers our portfolio founders a breadth of differentiated domain knowledge, worldwide customer, talent, and investor reach, and decades of hands-on experience launching and scaling billion-dollar technology companies. We’re in this together. Our portfolio founders receive:
Access to all of us
Access to our customer, talent and investor networks
Strategic and tactical advisory
Active fundraising support
Global PR, brand and social media amplification
Fund profit sharing via carry grants
Founder Partner Program
We win together.
The TechAviv Founder Partners fund belongs to all of us: our general and limited partners, advisors, and portfolio founders. Our unique Founder Partner Program offers carry grants (profit sharing) to portfolio founders for helping source, vet, and support fellow portfolio mates. We are a giver network, a global collective of company builders here to help each other build better companies. All involved are co-owners of the fund and share in its success, including our portfolio founders.
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