Shir Efron
Israel Tech Hub Manager at McKinsey & Company
Tel Aviv District
Overview
Work Experience
Israel Tech Hub Manager
2022 - Current
EEMA Digital Tech Hub Lead & Practice Manager
2019 - 2022
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Co Founder and Partner
2006 - 2019
Skywalker Ventures is a private venture capital investment firm. Co-founded the firm and led multi-million dollar investments in over a dozen startups, serving as board member and advisor, with successful exits.
VP, Head of North America
2016 - 2017
Madlan is a real-estate tech startup leveraging data to help consumers find their homes. Founded and led Madlan's US subsidiary, Localize, recruited the team, and managed the day-to-day activity.
LocalizeOS is a real estate operating system that enables agents to connect, track, and co-manage all of their leads in one place.
Raised $40,000,000.00 from Pitango VC, Avigdor Willenz, Celesta Capital and Zvi Limon.
Investor
2008 - 2016
Non-invasive brain monitoring, co-investors include Orbimed and GE.
Board Observer
2007 - 2016
Ginger Software provides language enhancement solutions. Its Peresonal Assistant Division was acquired by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). Served as Board Observer and contributed to Ginger’s business development.
Ginger develops mobile keyboards and writing enhancement apps that make it easy to quickly write high-quality text.
Raised $11,700,000.00 from Horizons Ventures and Harbor Pacific Capital.
Investor
2006 - 2016
Brain mapping technology, World Economic Forum 'technology pioneer' (2015)
Board Member
2010 - 2014
RayV is a Video streaming platform, acquired by Yahoo [NASDAQ: YHOO]. Served as Board Member, contributed to strategy, business development, and acquisition process by Yahoo.
Board Observer
2010 - 2012
Media management and sharing platform.
Board Observer
2009 - 2012
Solution provider to mobile operators
Investment Committee Member
2008 - 2011