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Eden Shochat

Equal Partner at Aleph

Israel

Overview

Work Experience

  • Equal Partner

    2013 - Current

    Some of my investments and board memberships include: • Simply (https://hellosimply.com/): Making the pursuit of creative hobbies simple and fun • Unit (https://www.unit.co/): Unit is the leading financial infrastructure platform that helps tech companies, store, move, and lend money. • NextSilicon (https://nextsilicon.com): Software defined next generation CPU for HPC and beyond. • Sightful (https://sightful.com): Creators of Spacetop: the world’s first AR laptop. • Fabric (https://getfabric.com): Get closer to customers with micro-fulfillment. • Panorays (https://panorays.com): Third-Party Cybersecurity, Shaped for Your Risk DNA • Superlegal (https://www.superlegal.ai/): Superlegal is a contract solution that helps you speed up your contracts, cheaper and faster than any lawyer. • Anodot (https://anodot.com): Monitoring that understands business Exits: • TinyTap (https://tinytap.com, acquired by Animoca): Building the largest learning platform with thousands of educational games developed by educators worldwide. • Windward (https://windward.ai, IPOed on London AIM): Predictive intelligence fusing AI, big data, and maritime expertise to enable future forward decisions. • Approve.com (https://approve.com, acquired by Tipalti): Simple, Customizable Procurement Processes For Your Organization. • Houseparty (http://www.houseparty.com, acquired by Epic Games): Bringing empathy to online communication

  • Lecturer at the Zell Entrepreneurship Program

    2010

    Had the opportunity to develop a semester-long syllabus for a new course focused on New Media Entrepreneurship. Couldn't resist. Jury is still out whether I'm good at it.

  • General Partner

    2010 - 2013

    I invested into 6 companies and had had two IPOs: • Monday.com (https://monday.com, NASDAQ: MNDY): The Work OS that gives everyone the power to build and improve the way their organization runs. I led the first round of the company after its spinoff from Wix. • Riskified (https://riskified.com, NYSE:RSKD): empowers businesses to unleash ecommerce growth by taking risk off the table. IPOed on NYSE, raising $330M at $3.3B valuation. Genesis held >20% at IPO.

  • Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board

    2007 - 2012

    Face.com is helping people find photos, using our home grown best-in-breed facial recognition technologies. The first deployment of our tech is our Photo Finder application for Facebook, today’s largest photo sharing site, which scans public photos in your social network and suggests tags for untagged faces. Face.com was acquired by Facebook, which was selected by Europas (http://www.theeuropas.com/shortlists) as winner in "Exit of 2012" category.

  • Co-Founder, Limited Partner

    2004 - 2011

    Algorithm-based trading company. Keywords: FIX, Bloomberg, Sivron, RealTick, Automatic Trading

  • Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

    2004 - 2010

    We invented End-User Experience Monitoring (EUEM) and Digital Experience Management (DEX) before these had a name. Aternity was acquired by Riverbed, 2016, and then turned into an independent division 2019 after growing >100% in 2018.

  • Director, Software Engineering

    2001 - 2004

    Database virtualization done way before anyone knew what virtualization meant.

  • Founder, Chief Technology Officer

    1995 - 2001

    The world's first interactive 3D authoring tool and runtime platform, deployed on top of Macromedia Director & Shockwave.

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