Zeevi Michel
Partner at Elaia
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Venture Partner in charge of Israel
2021 - 2023
Elaia is a European top-tier VC firm with a strong tech DNA. We back tech disruptors with global ambition from early stage to growth development. For the past 18 years, our commitment has been to deliver high performance with values. We are proud to have been an active partner in over 100 startups including success stories such as Criteo (Nasdaq), Orchestra Networks (acquired by Tibco), Teads (acquired by Altice), Mirakl (valued $1.5B in Series D) and Shift Technology.
Host
2024
A podcast for startups about the path to mergers and acquisitions - and their aftermath. We go behind the scenes to look at how transactions go terribly wrong or, terrifically right. We aim to give founders new perspectives from the buy-side, sell-side, and investors– so they can better plan for their own endgame.
Board Member
2018
Strategic Advisor
2019
Culception is a precision agtech company moving the Earth towards an era of sustainable cultivation, where people use technology to nurture nature. We develop autonomous greenhouse operating systems used by cultivation networks worldwide to produce high-value crops consistently, sustainably, and at scale.
Seed Investor
2015
Taranis is a crop intelligence and precision agriculture technology that provides digital monitoring, reporting, and verification services.
Raised $99,550,000.00 from iAngels, Vertex Growth Fund, Vertex Ventures Israel, K3 Ventures, La Maison Partners, Viola Ventures, Eyal Gura, Cavallo Ventures, Presidio Ventures and Seraphim Space.
Co-Founder & CEO
2018 - 2021
TravelSuit (acquired by BCD Travel) enables you to Book, Monitor & Manage your company’s business travel needs.
Strategic Advisor
2018 - 2018
Zoomin develops a content publishing platform that delivers information across various customer touchpoints.
Raised $73,000,000.00 from Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Viola Growth and General Atlantic.
Board Of Advisors
2018 - 2018
Managing Vice President - Head of Gartner Innovation Center and AI Lab
2014 - 2018
Zeevi has formed Gartner's first Innovation Center and AI lab in the world. The center grew in just a couple of years to over 50 associates , from Data Scientist to Full Stack Engineers , from Product Managers to Product Design and Marketing. At any given time the group worked on the most crucial business problems, developing 4-6 products in parallel. Successfully managed a P&L of tens of millions of dollars. A member of Gartner's Top Senior Leadership Forum. A member of the M&A team, during his time 4 major deals closed from $30M to $3.5B.
TechStars Ambassador - Tel Aviv
2014 - 2014
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.