Experience

Innovation Endeavors

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder, Managing Partner

  • Jul 2010 - 13 years 6 months

  San Francisco Bay Area Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in cutting-edge technologies to drive generational change in order to solve problems that matter. The firm’s central investment thesis, the Super Evolution, combines data, computational capacity, and advanced engineering to transform a range of industries including engineering health, climate, computing infrastructure, intelligent software, the physical economy, and more. Its investments include Afresh, AlphaSense, Atom… Show more Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in cutting-edge technologies to drive generational change in order to solve problems that matter. The firm’s central investment thesis, the Super Evolution, combines data, computational capacity, and advanced engineering to transform a range of industries including engineering health, climate, computing infrastructure, intelligent software, the physical economy, and more. Its investments include Afresh, AlphaSense, Atom Computing, Color, Gatik, Eikon Therapeutics, Fabric, Homelight, Kong, Formlabs, Panther, Planet, Replica, SoFi, Uber, Upstart, Vicarious Surgical, and more. For more information, visit www.InnovationEndeavors.com Show less



Eikon Therapeutics

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Investor, Board Member

  • Sep 2019 - 4 years 4 months

  San Francisco Bay Area Eikon Therapeutics is a new biopharmaceutical company employing the revolutionary technology of single molecule imaging at the interface of chemistry, engineering and biology to discover novel treatments for life-threatening diseases. Eikon’s live cell imaging drug discovery platform is built on groundbreaking innovations from its founders who pioneered the field of in vivo single-molecule microscopy (Nobel Prize, 2014)



Fabric

• United States
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Investor, Board Member

  • 2016 - 7 years

  Israel Fabric is building autonomous, in-city micro-fulfillment centers that turn unit economics right side up for on-demand retail supply chains.



Vicarious Surgical Inc.

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Investor, Board Member

  • 2018 - 5 years

  Cambridge, Massachusetts Led by world-class technologists and physicians, Vicarious Surgical is applying the latest innovation in robotics and virtual reality to create a new paradigm in minimally invasive surgeries



Atom Computing

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor, Board Member

  • 2019 - 4 years

  San Francisco Bay Area Atom Computing is building truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms. Our quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more.



Anyword

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Investor, Board Member

  • Jun 2013 - 10 years 7 months

  Greater New York City Area Anyword leverages the latest in generative learning and access to petabytes of proprietary data to build the world-leading content-generating AI. Working with the world’s top publishers and brands, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NBA, Redbull, and others, Anyword trained its models from the world’s best writers and designers. The result: an ability to generate expert-level content from scratch and to rewrite existing content, tailoring it for targeted audiences



Gatik

• United States
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor, Board Member

  • 2018 - 5 years

  San Francisco Bay Area Gatik is developing geofenced Level 4 self-driving solutions for urban logistics. Founders are graduates and former researchers from Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute with a goal to revolutionize city logistics.



GRO Biosciences

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor

  • May 2017 - 6 years 8 months

  Boston, Massachusetts, United States GRObio’s groundbreaking science expands the amino acid alphabet to deliver on the promise of protein-based therapies



Team8

• Israel
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor, Board Member

  • 2014 - 9 years

  Israel Team8 is a company-building venture group based out of Tel Aviv, Israel



Viz.ai

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Investor (Seed round and on)

  • Jul 2016 - 7 years 6 months

  Tel Aviv, Israel Viz.ai uses artificial intelligence to accelerate care coordination, reducing systemic delays that stand between patients and life-saving treatments. It’s an innovative way of using technology to transform clinical workflow and patient care.



Formlabs

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investor (Seed round and on)

  • Dec 2011 - 12 years 1 month

  Boston, Massachusetts, United States Formlabs is a 3D printing technology developer and manufacturer. The company was founded by three MIT Media Lab students. Formlabs develops and manufactures 3D printers and related software and consumables.



SoFi

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investor (Seed round and on)

  • Sep 2011 - 12 years 4 months

  San Francisco Bay Area Social Finance, Inc. is an American online personal finance company. A mobile-first service based in San Francisco, SoFi provides a suite of financial products that includes student loan refinancing, mortgages, personal loans, credit card, investing and banking through both their mobile app and desktop interfaces.



Velo3D

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Investor (Seed round and on)

  • 2014 - 9 years

  San Francisco Bay Area Velo3D is a digital manufacturing company using a Sapphire 3D production printer and flow print preparation software to print 3D metals.



Color

• United States
• Public Health
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Investor (Seed round and on)

  • Dec 2014 - 9 years 1 month

  San Francisco Bay Area Color is a leader in distributed healthcare and clinical testing. We provide the technology and infrastructure to power large-scale health initiatives. We work with health systems, employers, researchers, physicians and national health initiatives worldwide to drive positive health outcomes.



Planet

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investor (Seed round and on)

  • Apr 2012 - 11 years 9 months

  San Francisco Bay Area Planet is an aerospace and data analytics company that builds small satellites and delivers information about the changing planet



Uber

• United States
• Internet Marketplace Platforms
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investor

  • Jan 2012 - 12 years

  San Francisco Bay Area Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request



Astra

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Investor (A round and on)

  • Jun 2016 - 7 years 7 months

  San Francisco Bay Area Astra is a rocket launch startup that provides satellite delivery and launch services



Upstart

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investor (A round and on)

  • 2013 - 10 years

  San Francisco Bay Area Upstart is an AI lending platform that partners with banks to provide personal loans using non-traditional variables, such as education and employment, to predict creditworthiness



Freenome

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Investor (A round and on)

  • Feb 2017 - 6 years 11 months

  San Francisco Bay Area Freenome is on a mission to empower everyone with the tools they need to detect, treat, and ultimately prevent cancer. We have pioneered the most comprehensive multiomics platform for early cancer detection through a routine blood draw



Kong Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Investor (Seed round and on)

  • Jul 2011 - 12 years 6 months

  San Francisco Bay Area Kong is the cloud connectivity company for API & Microservice management. Our platform unifies API gateway, Ingress, and Service Mesh in one developer solution.



Zymergen

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Investor (Seed round and on)

  • 2013 - 10 years

  San Francisco Bay Area Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence



HomeLight

• United States
• Real Estate
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Investor (Seed round and on)

  • Jan 2012 - 12 years

  San Francisco Bay Area HomeLight empowers people to achieve better outcomes during one of life's most important events: buying or selling their home. Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying.



Blue River Technology

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Investor, Board Member

  • Mar 2014 - Sep 2017

  San Francisco Bay Area



NICE

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Leader, R&D

  • Jun 2005 - Jun 2007

  Israel



World

• Traveler

  • Sep 2000 - Sep 2001

  World



Israel Defense Forces

• Israel
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Special Forces

  • Jan 1997 - Mar 2000

  Israel