Ron Palas

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

2023 - Current

Sage Innovation Partners (SIP) is dedicated to providing private equity capital to rapidly scalable climate change solutions that are in the early stages of commercialization. With a team that has overseen the financing of billions in national and public infrastructure climate solutions and boasts a collective experience of 100 years, we bring unparalleled expertise to the table. Through strategic partnerships with buy-side investors and our extensive deal flow, we cultivate lasting commercial relationships throughout the investment process, bridging the gap from first-of-a-kind (FOAK) financing to full commercialization (NOAK). Besides our continued Investments, our approach involves facilitating alternative non-dilutive funding, syndicating revenue generation, ensuring bankability qualification, and effectively managing corporate structures to navigate execution and strategic risks at scale. We are hiring - please apply via the website: www.sageip.co San Fransisco - Tel Aviv - London

EIC Expert

2022

EIC advisory and evaluation of innovative investments, private equity investments, sustainability innovation, grantmaking, debt programs, guarantee programs, investment strategy, and venture capital.

Advisor - Corporate Development and M&A

2023 - 2024

Advisor - corporate development and M&A

Strategic Advisor

2021 - 2023

Mentor and Advisor

2020 - 2022

Mentorship on growth hacking, fundraising, business modeling, strategy, building relationships, financing, and competitive positioning, including 1:1 Office Hours structured time for Labs members to connect based on specific needs and areas of focus. Learning Sessions are events scheduled for a group of members in similar stage(s) to learn from experts on a specific topic.

CEO & Co-founder

2017 - 2020

The economy is evolving. It’s in constant transition from rigid structures to more flexible and adaptive trading systems. It’s moving from ownership to participation, from holding and maintenance to growth and prosperity. In 2017, this group of founders and advisors came together with all their unique skill sets to form Banx.one. They are united by their mission to build the first physical and digital asset-backed global trading platform. Banx.one is building the physical to digital global real estate issuance and trading platform that will help unleash the economic growth potential that is currently held in the tangible real-estate.Banx.one is leading the evolution in this domain by building a fully-regulated holistic solution to enable easier access, transparency, and liquidity to real estate investments and subsequently bridge between the physical and the digital worlds. Banx.one builds the infrastructure to create a new standard of digital identity for each asset. We believe that it will drive real estate valuation, and subsequently, pricing, to change dramatically. Enterprise solution: Private Network Platform, for wealth management institutions, to manage, liquify and trade their internal real-estate portfolio, on a closed network solution. Deployment of multiple private platforms, enrich the abilities to co-invest and trade between asset managers easily, while maintaining security and confidentiality.

CEO & Co-founder

2016 - 2017

Founded in 2016, Gorilla Play is a free-to-play game company based in Tel Aviv. Gorilla's background grow from years of experience of the founders in the social casino space, and combined the most important factors to success: Product, Tech and marketing, join together and resulting success worldwide. All stages of development and design are produced 100% in-house by Gorilla's who come from the gaming, tech, product and marketing worlds. Gorilla Play is pioneering the B2B social casino industry, by giving our partners complete solution for operating a successful tier3 and tier2 gaming brand.

CEO & Co-founder

2013 - 2015

Billngo is an angels-backed industry leader focus on personalize shopping. The next generation of online shopping is combining both legacy browsing of shopping with new innovative ways of socialize wisdom, all to delivering seamless way to research shopping and explore new products and people with same interests around the world. Billngo was recently selected as one of the top 10 startups in Israel by KMPG and Calcalist magazine and also selected as one of the most promising startups of 2015 by JVP VC and E&Y. Beside my job as Chief Executive Officer, I am leading the bizdev with our industry partners (e.g: Amazon, Etsy, ebay), and involved with my partners tasks of marketing and R&D .