Oded Barel-Sabag
Investor at Fresh Fund
Oded Barel-Sabag
Investor at Fresh Fund
Israel
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2020 - Current
fresh.fund is a leading Israeli pre-seed venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups across segments and verticals but specializes in startups whose founders include students, academics, or recent graduates. We're built to partner with early-stage founders from day one, often as the company's first institutional investors. It's never too early to have a conversation about your startup.
The Matar Venture Lab
2020 - 2024
The Matar Venture Lab is a year-long academic course providing students from The Matar Excellence Program experiential learning of starting a startup from scratch around a 'Technology & Society' related challenge. The course takes the students through the entrepreneurial journey, starting at generating ideas around major problems and opportunities worth pursuing, becoming an expert in the opportunity landscape through conducting extensive market research and ongoing interviews with relevant stakeholders, clarifying the need and the opportunity, ideating for potential solutions with unique value propositions, develop prototypes to test and validate the hypotheses and craft a compelling business case.
Executive Director
2017 - 2020
Jnext is the governmental and municipal project for developing the Jerusalem's tech ecosystem. I work closely with corporates, startups, academic institutions, accelerators and community organizations with a goal of making the city an attractive tech hub for startups, scale-ups and multinational corporations. At Jnext, we assist Jerusalem-based tech companies at all stages and initiating and supporting ecosystem development projects and activities such venture-creation platforms for early-stage companies, academy-industry joint-projects and community initiatives (conferences, meetups, hackathons, etc.).
Co-Founder
2016 - 2020
CreativeMornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community, active in over 200 cities around the world. We started the Jerusalem chapter in April 2016, hosted inspirational events with leading entrepreneurs, researchers, designers, artists, and cultural figures with a goal to promote and engage Jerusalem's creative community. CreativeMornings is a volunteer-led initiative. Check out the lectures' videos: https://creativemornings.com/cities/jlm
Managing Director
2013 - 2017
Siftech is Jerusalem's first startup accelerator. It's a pivotal organization in the growth of Jerusalem's entrepreneurship community in recent years, making the city a globally recognized emerging tech hub.
Co Owner
2012 - 2017
Drinking all the beer and eating all the food.
Co-Founder
2010 - 2012
Israel's largest daily deals aggregator. Co-founded the company and run it, until it was sold to one of its main customers.