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Juriaan Duizendstraal Bensoussan

Partner at Index Ventures

Tel Aviv District

Overview 

Juriaan Duizendstraal Bensoussan is a Partner at Index Ventures in Tel Aviv, specializing in venture capital investments in sectors like DeepTech, FinTech, and AI. With a background in entrepreneurship and finance, he has successfully navigated roles at Liberty Media and the Israeli Defense Forces, showcasing a diverse skill set in business development and investment strategies.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

    Investments: Linx Security, Empathy, Apex Security, PointFive, Otterize and 3 Stealth Companies

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.

  • Investor, Team8 Capital

    2020 - 2022

    Investments: Setsail (acquired by ZoomInfo), Spiral, Planck (acquired by Applied Systems), Ionix, Fundguard, Classiq, Monogoto, Akeyless, Talon (acquired by PANW), Sayata, IVIX, Dig Security (acquired by PANW) and Finout.

Team8 Capital is a new venture capital vehicle leading investments in early stage enterprise technology and fintech startups.

  • Venture Capital Associate

    2018 - 2020

    Investments: Fireglass (acquired by Symantec), Autotalks, Neura (acquired by Otonomo), CrediFi, TrapX (acquired by Commvault), Jifiti, NSLcomm, Secret Double Octopus, Overwolf, Next Silicon, Indegy (acquired by Tenable) and Octarine (acquired by VMware).

  • Venture Capital Analyst

    2016 - 2018

    Venture Capital investments in areas such as IT Infrastructure and Enterprise Software.

Liberty Media is a media and entertainment conglomerate that operates various media, communications, and entertainment businesses.

Raised $2,400,375,000.00.

  • NCO in department for Procurements and Infrastructure of the Israeli Navy (Officer Role)

    2013 - 2015

    Managed, planned and monitored the procurement budget of the Israel Navy. Performed financial analysis of naval projects in the areas of communications, ship maintenance, infrastructure and logistics. Drafted confidential documents and presentations for high ranking officers; delivered educational/motivation seminars to co-workers.

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2011 - 2015

    ebrain is an online English editing service that provides professional editing and “English consulting” for business documents, presentations, marketing materials, websites, and other types of content (launched during University studies).

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