Our Network.
Your team.

Imagine what you could build with a global dream team of the world's most successful founders, executives, and investors in your corner. Meet the TechAviv founder partners.

The Founder Partners

We are 150 seasoned company builders, including 37 unicorn founders, tech-giant execs, and top-tier VCs spanning 6 continents and 28 sectors of expertise. We're all investors and co-owners of the TechAviv fund and collectively help our portfolio founders succeed. Our global founder partner network, which also includes our portfolio founders, who receive carry for helping fellow portfolio mates, is led by Yaron Samid.

Ariel Szklanny

Ariel Szklanny

Arun Poojari

Arun Poojari

Venture Partner

Asi Shefer

Asi Shefer

Assaf Wand

Assaf Wand

Founder & Director

Pattern Insurance

Avi Simon

Avi Simon

Aviad Lichtenstadt

Aviad Lichtenstadt

Founder & VP R&D

Aviram Shmueli

Aviram Shmueli

Founder & Chief Research & Innovation Officer

Aviv Ben-Yosef

Aviv Ben-Yosef

Aviv Dror

Aviv Dror

Brett Rochkind

Brett Rochkind

Softbank Vision Fund

Caroline Hodge

Caroline Hodge

Charlie Federman

Charlie Federman

SilverTech Ventures

Chip Heath

Chip Heath

Cliff Tabin Ph.D.

Cliff Tabin Ph.D.

Scientific Co-Founder

Dan Lines

Dan Lines

Dan Sarel

Dan Sarel

Founder & VP Product

Daniel Mendelow

Daniel Mendelow

Senior Managing Director

Daniel Ramot

Daniel Ramot

David Melamed, PhD

David Melamed, PhD

David Politis

David Politis

Dennis Troper

Dennis Troper

Director of Product Management

Dhaval Patel

Dhaval Patel

Dhruv Singh

Dhruv Singh

Doron Sharon

Doron Sharon

Founder & Chief Architect

Dror Feldheim

Dror Feldheim

Founder & President

Efi Cohen

Efi Cohen

Elad Shoushan

Elad Shoushan

Eldad Giladi

Eldad Giladi

Eldad Livni

Eldad Livni

Eli Barkat

Eli Barkat

Founding Partner

Eran Etam

Eran Etam

Eran Gorev

Eran Gorev

President Israel

Francisco Partners

Erez Dagan

Erez Dagan

EVP Product & Strategy

Eyal Gluska

Eyal Gluska

Pattern Insurance

Fei Dingan

Fei Dingan

Gidon Coussin

Gidon Coussin

Gilad Shany

Gilad Shany

ION Crossover Partners

Gilad Shriki

Gilad Shriki

Founder & VP Customer Success

Giovanni Canetta

Giovanni Canetta

Managing Partner

Gopi Vaddi

Gopi Vaddi

General Partner

Guy Rinat

Guy Rinat

Hadar Avtalion

Hadar Avtalion

Haleli Barath

Haleli Barath

Founding Partner

Hesky Kutscher

Hesky Kutscher

Hila Elimelech

Hila Elimelech

Itamar Falcon

Itamar Falcon

Jay Shendure, Ph.D.

Jay Shendure, Ph.D.

Scientific Co-Founder

Jeff Bussgang

Jeff Bussgang

Jesse Hertzberg

Jesse Hertzberg

Great Hill Partners

Joel Greenberg

Joel Greenberg

Philadelphia, PA

John Amaral

John Amaral

Jonathan Levav

Jonathan Levav

Jonathan Miller

Jonathan Miller

Founder & Chairman

Jonathan Rosenfeld, Ph.D.

Jonathan Rosenfeld, Ph.D.

Jonathan Seelig

Jonathan Seelig

Kyle Quest

Kyle Quest

Leonid Belkind

Leonid Belkind

Liad Meidar

Liad Meidar

Founder & Managing Partner

Maor Farid

Maor Farid

Marcio Lempert

Marcio Lempert

Venture Partner

Managing Partner

Yaron Samid

Founder & Managing Partner

The driving force behind our founders club and fund is serial entrepreneur and TechAviv founder, Yaron Samid. Yaron founded TechAviv in 2007 to harness the collective knowledge and networks of Israeli founders globally to help each other build better companies. Since then he's built and sold three of his own.