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Itschak Friedman

Venture Partner at LionBird

United States

Overview 

Itschak Friedman is currently a Venture Partner at LionBird, with previous experience as the Founder and CEO of Starlims Corporation and Division Vice President at Abbott. He specializes in entrepreneurship, enterprise software, product development, and strategic partnerships, with a focus on investing in health and hospital services, digital health, and health IT companies in Israel.

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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/

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Abbott

  • 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.

The Clara Abbott Foundation is a non-profit firm aimed to assist families, in gaining financial security for the rest of their lives.

clara.abbott.com

Starlims Corporation

  • 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.

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