Team

Eddy Shalev

Founder & Managing Partner

Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the Israeli business community. Since the beginning of Israel's venture capital industry, Eddy has focused on private-equity investments in the high-tech sector, and has played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including Fundtech, Paradigm Geophysical and Orbot Instruments. Eddy is currently on the board of Aternity, Profitect, Wintegra, and WorkLight.

Eddy has been an active private equity investor in Israel since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies. Beginning in 1985, Eddy led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies traded on NASDAQ. Eddy also co-founded the Mofet Israel Technology Fund, one of Israel's first venture capital firms. Eddy began his career with IBM, where he served as a Large Systems Expert and Account Executive for IBM Israel and as a Large Accounts Strategic Planner for IBM United Kingdom.

Eddy holds an MSc in Information Systems and a BA in Statistics, both from Tel Aviv University.