A Seasoned and Proven Investment Team

Erel is the Founder and Executive Chairman of JVP and Margalit StartUp City. Erel founded JVP over 30 years ago and is one of the chief architects of the Start-Up Nation, bringing innovation and entrepreneurial leadership to Israel’s most pressing economic and social challenges.

Forbes Midas List – Chosen for the Forbes Midas list and by Israel’s prestigious business paper “The Marker” as the first venture capitalist with the golden touch, Erel has supported numerous managers to lead their companies to international leadership positions. Erel developed JVP’s strategy to guide management teams as they build their own strategy, define their category leadership and scaling their respective companies to become an international category leaders.

Orchestrating 42 IPOs and M&As – Erel has orchestrated numerous international exits, among them CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), from an Israeli small cyber startup, to a $10 billion NASDAQ global leader; QlikTech (NASDAQ:QLIK) from a Swedish company to a BI international leader, with an exit valuation of $2.5 billion; Cogent Communications (NASDAQ: CCOI) which was currently valued at $3.8 billion; the exit of Netro at a $5.5 billion company valuation; and the $4.8 billion sale of Chromatis to Lucent Technologies. Today, Erel and the JVP Partners are leading similar journeys with its scaling portfolio companies building them to international leadership and multi-billion dollar valuations. Erel is the Chairman of the Board of Earnix, ThetaRay, Centrical, and serves on the Board of ControlUp, Nanit, Inshur and more.

Member of the Israeli Knesset – During 2013-2017 Erel served as Member of the Israeli Knesset, and was a member of the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, a ranking member on the National Finance committee, and led the Cybersecurity Taskforce. He was responsible for the Knesset’s economic development taskforce for Israel’s North and South, creating seven new regions of economic excellence, each dedicated to thematic field of innovation. Erel led the Mediterranean Innovation Forum that encouraged collaborations among leading EU countries, Arab states, and Mediterranean basin countries, forging new connections around the topics of innovation and economic cooperation.

Creating Economic Development and Social change – Erel’s initiatives are driven by his visionary economic leadership. He founded Margalit Start Up City Community (previously known as Israel Initiative 2020). Margalit Start Up City Community created a plan to build 7 regions of excellence throughout Israel that combine technology and education, creating tens of thousands of high-quality jobs in a wide variety of outstanding companies, and diverse communities of entrepreneurs, women and youth. The Margalit Start Up City Community model holds The AI Center in Jerusalem, the Cyber Center in Beer Sheva, the FinTech Center in Tel Aviv, the ClimaTech Center in the Galilee and the Digital Health Center in Haifa.

Margalit StartUp City Community – “BaKehila” – Erel, along with his wife Debbie, founded Margalit Start Up City Bakehila, empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs, young people who thirst for opportunities. This social impact program is a nationally renowned educational non-profit that raises academic achievements and promotes personal and social growth among elementary and high school students throughout Israel. More than 55,000 students nationwide have graduated from Margalit Start Up City Community programs. All Margalit Start Up City locations combine technology and education for under-privileged youth, encouraging them to take part in an economic development story that transforms and redefines their region, uproots poverty, instils a sense of community, and ignites opportunity around innovation.

Erel holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University for his thesis “Entrepreneurs of History: The Outstanding Leader in the Historical Enterprise,” and a BA in Philosophy & Logic and English literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Gadi Porat has 30 years of operational experience in the hi-tech industry, where he has held several senior management positions. He is an expert in enterprise management software, having worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies globally. Additionally, he has extensive knowledge in developing go-to-market strategies and managing delivery life cycles.
Gadi has been an esteemed member of JVP for seven years. During his tenure, he has spearheaded JVP’s Cyber Lab in Beer Sheva, in addition to facilitating the establishment of start-up deployment from fundraising to later growth stages. Gadi also holds a position on the board of thirteen companies and closely collaborates with the CEOs of Earnix, AnyClip, Teridion, Vicarius, Upsolver, Datricks, Compira Labs, CoPilot.cx, Hyperspace, Medmo, Sencrop, and GreenEye.
Gadi worked as a senior leader at Interwise starting in 1998. Interwise was a communication company that was acquired by AT&T in late 2007. After the acquisition, Gadi had a senior management position at AT&T Israel and led Israel’s AT&T Foundry, an accelerator and innovation center program that identifies emerging companies in the communications and media industries. Gadi holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics with a Major in Business Administration from Ruppin College, Israel.

Rinat Remler is a Partner at JVP and serves as an indispensable senior executive with responsibility for the financial affairs of the firm’s numerous ventures. Rinat has broad experience in financial management, including strategic and business planning, growth acceleration, global expansion, capital raising, investor relations and more. Her expertise extends to both U.S. and Israeli public and private sectors and markets. Currently Rinat led a complicated transaction with HighCon that led to the restructuring of our shareholder position in the company, and that subsequently allowed it to complete the IPO process. Rinat began her career at an affiliate member of Ernst&Young, served as the CFO of Elron Electronic Industries, a pioneer in Israel’s high-tech investment scene, in which she facilitated IPO’s of portfolio companies as well as mergers and acquisitions, and as the CFO of SCR, a company at the forefront of agriculture technology which was bought by Antelliq and later on Merck for $3.4B, in which she had a major role in the company’s international expansion both organically and inorganically. Before becoming JVP’s CFO Rinat has worked with Erel for several years on non-profit activities and played a crucial role in ii2020, providing an economic development platform to expand Israel’s StartUp Nation and attract investments to all of the country’s regions. Rinat holds a B.A. (cum laude) in Economics from Haifa University and MBA from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Eyal brings over 15 years of extensive experience in senior roles within the technology sector to JVP, highlighted by an impressive 8-year tenure as Chief Financial Officer in several startups. During this period, he successfully led multiple M&A processes, showcasing his strategic acumen and financial expertise. Eyal’s extensive CFO experience includes roles at Dataloop AI, DuskRise, IntSights (acquired by Rapid7, Nasdaq: RPD), Logz.io, and Infinidat. Throughout his career, Eyal has consistently demonstrated exceptional leadership in managing finances and legal matters, improving operations, driving business growth, and maximizing profits. Eyal holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Accounting and Finance from Tel Aviv University. He also obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Accounting, Business/Management, and Economics from the same institution.

Lihi is an entrepreneurial and driven executive, holding Independent Board, CEO, COO and CFO positions over the last 20 years in the tech, healthcare and the Food & Agtech industries. In these positions, Lihi demonstrated expertise in management of large operations with a growth mindset that drives growth and returns for customers and investors. Prior to joining JVP, Lihi was the founder and CEO of DayTwo, a precision nutrition company based on the gut-microbiome, focused on metabolic disease and based on the groundbreaking science of the Weizmann Institute. Lihi set the strategic direction of the business and oversaw the day-to-day operations, leading the company to a proven, outcomes-based, at-risk model retaining Israel’s largest HMOs, as well as large US Self Insured Employers and two of the top three Health Insurance players in the US. Lihi is an active public speaker across hundreds of tech events, podcasts and TV appearances on a wide variety of subjects related to health, food as medicine and microbiome, as well as empowering women, advocating for gender equality, and fostering women’s leadership. Lihi is a certified lawyer and has an MBA from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management.

Professor Shoseyov is a Professor of Protein Engineering and Nanobiotechnology at the Robert
H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem is one of the leading academic institutes in Israel and top-ranked
worldwide. His research is focused on plant molecular biology protein engineering and
nanobiotechnology. A prolific entrepreneur in his own right, Prof. Shoseyov has founded or cofounded twenty companies based on technology originating from his Hebrew University lab. Professor Shoseyov  is the author/co-author of more than 350 scientific publications and inventor/co-inventor of more than 100 patents. An accomplished speaker, Prof. Shoseyov’s TED talk has been translated to 22 languages with more than 1.8 million views. His many accolades include the Outstanding Scientist Polak Award for 2002, the 1999 and 2010 Kay Award for Innovative and Applied Research, the 2012 Israel Prime Minister Citation for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the 2018 Presidential Award for contribution to the Economy and Society of Israel and the 2024 Landau prize for Biotechnogy. Professor Shoseyov holds a Postdoc. in Molecular Biology of Cellulases from the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at University of California Davis, a Ph.D. (magna cum laude) in biochemistry of wine flavor from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a M.Sc. in Viticulture from the Faculty of Agriculture the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a B.Sc. (magna cum laude) from the Faculty of Agriculture the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Alexandre Dahan is the Director of Investments at JVP. Alexandre is an integral member of the investment team, working closely on the flow of deals and investment opportunities of the funds. Alexandre works on early-stage, mid-stage and late-stage investments, sharing boards with the General Partners in Enterprise Software, Insurtech, Health and Agtech. Previously, he has worked in international VC funds in Paris, London and Sao Paolo. Alexandre holds a master’s degree from Sciences-Po Paris, one of the leading universities in France.

Jean joined JVP to advise the partnership on capital solutions. Jean believes that great companies are forged during tumultuous times. Private equity professional with over 20 years of international investment, and business development experience, with particular expertise in private equity, credit and venture fund formation and capitalization in the US, Europe, emerging and frontier markets.
Demonstrated track record of success as both an investor, fund entrepreneur and business development professional with integral role in over 24 fund commitments.
Previously Jean was special advisor to the chairman of the real assets group at CDPQ, a partner at TVM Life-Sciences Capital and a partner at Rho Fund Investors.

Devora is the director and manager of the Investor Relations Department at the JVP offices in Jerusalem. Before joining JVP, Devora was head of Compliance and Operations at Frontegg, a startup in Tel Aviv revolutionizing the SaaS development industry. Devora comes with over a decade of experience working with multinationals and startups in strategic roles across a wide range of industries in Israel, the US and Europe. Devora served as the founding director of the TOD AR/VR Innovation Lab in partnership with the Jerusalem Development Authority creating global strategic partnerships and investments within the Israeli ecosystem through international collaboration. She later went on to develop her work in as a tech consultant and scout for multiple enterprise and growth stage companies with raising capital and expansion into the global markets.

With over two decades at JVP, Yehoshua Ennis is a key figure in managing the financial operations and structuring of the firm’s funds. As Senior Director of Finance & Partnerships, he specializes in the strategic oversight of JVP’s fund structures, ensuring alignment with investor needs and regulatory frameworks. Yehoshua’s role encompasses financial reporting, capital management, investor relations, and working with tax authorities to optimize fund performance. His deep expertise and comprehensive approach contribute significantly to the growth and success of JVP’s financial framework. Yehoshua holds a CPA qualification and a BS in Accounting from Yeshiva University.

Sagi Kedem is the COO of Margalit Startup City (MSC)
bringing years of experience in developing and managing real estate assets.
Sagi is responsible for the ongoing management and development of MSC’s assets.
He holds an M.A in NGO Management and Leadership and Financial Management from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a B.A. in History from the Hebrew University.

Michal brings 25 years of comprehensive expertise in the finance industry and project management.
In the past decade, she served as a Finance manager and owner’s representative for five of the leading hotels in Tel Aviv. Simultaneously, she oversaw a family office, primarily focusing on managing real estate assets.
As a financial manager, she brings substantial experience in project management, budgeting, legal aspects, and the management of real estate assets.
Michal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Business Administration, as well as an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Noam Josef is the CEO of the Galilee Climate Innovation Center, with over 15 years of experience in research and entrepreneurship. He has been instrumental in fostering innovation, guiding startups, securing investments, and facilitating collaborations between investors and research institutions. Noam played a key role in the growth of 14 companies through a northern incubator in partnership with the Israel Innovation Authority.

Noam holds a PhD in Marine Biotechnology from Ben-Gurion University and completed his post-doctoral research at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Florida. He has a strong academic background, including degrees in Physics and Marine Biology, and has published 15 research papers. Additionally, he co-founded two successful startups—one acquired by Israel’s Directorate of Defense Research & Development (MAFAT) and the other focusing on oceanic oil spill detection and management.

Noam’s expertise includes business development, startup mentorship, and technology commercialization. As Vice President at the GO Innovation Incubator, he led innovation in areas such as foodtech, life sciences, and medical devices. He also played a key role in raising capital, forming strategic partnerships with international companies, and launching innovation initiatives in the northern periphery, including Afula Hospital.
Today, Noam continues to drive innovation across northern Israel, leveraging his deep understanding of the local ecosystem to create impactful partnerships among startups, investors, and key stakeholders.