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Industry Leaders Program
Speaker: Erel N. Margalit - Founder & Managing Partner, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
Erel is the founder and managing partner of JVP (Jerusalem Venture Partners), a leading Israeli venture capital firm focusing on investments in early stage companies in the enterprise software & networking, semiconductors & components and communications & mobile infrastructure sectors. Founded in 1993, JVP currently has $680 million under management and offices in Jerusalem, New York, London and Asia. With the JVP funds, Erel set out to create a new model for global venture investing that would combine a hands-on management approach with the international market creation strategies necessary to build and sustain solid technology companies, all based on core activity in Israel.
Erel is also founder of JVP Community, a not-for-profit organization established in 2002, dedicated to building Jerusalem into a strong and vital city based on a foundation of creativity and social justice. JVP Community partners with other third sector groups and social entrepreneurs to develop and operate social, educational and performing arts projects in Jerusalem and beyond.
Prior to founding JVP, Erel was the Director of Business Development for the City of Jerusalem under its former Mayor, Teddy Kollek. There he helped bring more than 70 technology firms to the city, including Intel, Digital, IBM and many others that gave rise to the burgeoning technology community that drives the Israeli economy today. Erel holds a Masters in Philosophy from Columbia University and an MBA from Hebrew University.
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Erel Margalit, Founder & Managing Partner, Jerusalem Venture Partners talks about JVP history and current investment activities.
