Itschak Friedman

Venture Partner at LionBird

Venture Partner
2013 - Current
LionBird provides early-stage financing and support to promising teams- bringing together crowds, clouds and innovative business models, to meaningfully improve healthcare, retail and enterprise. For recent investments see http://lionbird.com/investments/

Division Vice President
2010 - 2013
Created and currently leading Abbott Informatics Solutions (AIS), an umbrella organization with P&L responsibility for different Abbott informatics brands as well as STARLIMS. AIS is also developing Abbott’s long range informatics strategy.

Founder Chief Executive Officer
1989 - 2012
STARLIMS develops and deploys enterprise laboratory informatics solutions. The systems manage the collection, processing, storage, retrieval and analysis of information generated in laboratories. The company’s software is used by hundreds of science based organizations in over 40 countries worldwide. Since its founding, Itschak acted as the CEO and CTO and along with brother Chaim lead the company's 2007 Nasdaq IPO and subsequent $120 million acquisition by Abbott in 2010.