8th December 2023
20VC: Israeli Resilience From Tech and Beyond with Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon
Michael Eisenberg spent 15 years as a General Partner @ Benchmark working alongside Bill and the Benchmark partnership. Following Benchmark, Michael co-founded Aleph, one of the leading Israeli venture funds of the last decade with a portfolio including Lemonade, Melio and HoneyBook, just to name a couple of Aleph’s unicorns.
Adi Levanon is the Founder & Managing Partner @ Selah Ventures, a solo-GP-founded venture fund investing $500k checks into AI-based solutions that enhance financial services, healthcare organizations, fintechs, and SMBs, with a focus on founders in the US and Israelis globally.
In Today’s Episode on Israeli Resilience We Discuss:
- Where are we at today? What is it like on the ground, today?
- Have the international community reacted as expected? What more can be done?
- What does it mean to be called up for “reserve”?
- How are companies dealing with 25% of their teams being called into the armed forces?
- Are VCs investing still? Does work carry on?
- Whose reactions are exemplary and we should look to follow?
- Whose have been woeful and should be called out?
- What are the single biggest misconceptions of the situation?
- What can people do to help? What can be done?
