Yuval Cohen, Managing Partner
Yuval brings more than 15 years of experience in the venture capital market. Prior to founding StageOne ventures, he was a General Partner in Israel Infinity Fund, a $100 million Information Technology fund, where he was in charge of the Communications Sector.
Since 1995, Yuval has been involved, as an early stage investor and a director, in many young startups, some of which have already gone public or have been acquired by leading multinational companies.
He has played an integral role in helping management teams recruit, develop strategies, and establish partnership agreements in many of his investees' companies.
Prior to this, Yuval served as Vice-President for ISAL, an investment company traded on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
Yuval currently sits on the Boards of cVidya Networks, Traffix Communications and Oversi Networks. He was formerly a Director of Radwiz (acquired by Terayon), Guardium (Acquired by IBM), Oridion Medical (ZHR:ORIDN), Trivent (Acquired by Gemalto) and Lab-One Innovations (Chairman).
Yuval earned his LLB and MBA degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Tal Jacobi, Chief Financial Officer
Tal is responsible for the Fund's financial operations and financial reporting .Tal uses her expertise in providing guidance and assistance to the fund's portfolio companies.
Tal brings to StageOne extensive financial experience after spending 6 years at Clal Industries and Investments (a subsidiary of the IDB, the largest conglomerate in Israel), where she was responsible, among other things, for financial control of several of its venture capital funds.
Tal is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) with a BA in Accounting and Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Nimrod Schwartz, Venture Partner
Nimrod Schwartz has been involved as an early stage investor and a director, in many young startups, some of which have already gone public or have been acquired by leading multinational companies. Nimrod helps management teams develop strategies, identify target markets, validate technologies and establish partnership as well as recruit many high profile employees.
Since July 2009 Nimrod is a Venture Partner of StageOne. From 1998 to 2008 Nimrod served as a Partner in Cedar Funds I,II& III. Nimrod has managed over 8 investments in seed and early stage companies, and was involved in many other investments as a partner in previous and current funds. He was formerly a Board member in Onaro (Acquired by NetApp), Guardium (Acquired by IBM), PeerApp, Iamba (Acquired by Marvell), Profitect, Pegasus (Acquired by Ifang), NewACT (Acquired by Amdocs) and MediaLayers.
Prior to that (1994- 1998) he was co-founder, CTO and VP B&D of NetVision the first and largest ISP in Israel. Prior to NetVision Nimrod worked at Digital Equipment (1981 to 1994) for 12 years in Israel and in the Engineering Headquarter in ValbonneFrance.
Prof. Meir Feder - Advisory Board Member
Prof. Feder is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering Systems, Tel-Aviv University. He is an internationally recognized authority in the field of information theory and video compression. In 1998 he co-founded Peach Networks, acquired in March 2000 by Microsoft. Professor Feder holds an Sc.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jack Cavelier - Advisory Board Member
Jack Cavelier is an accomplished technology and business expert, bringing over 30 years of experience in managing activities in the fields of system integration, networking and telecommunications (products and services). Most recently, he served as Business Development and Strategic Planning manager for NEC Computers' European activities. Jack graduated from Telecom Paris (ENST) and earned his MBA from Paris Chamber of Commerce. He resides in Paris, France.
Paul Weissbach - Advisory Board Member
Paul has been active in the Telecommunications sector for the past 30 years. He served until recently as the Deputy CEO & VP Engineering & Planning at Bezeq, the Israeli Telecom Corporation. He was also a Director at Bezeq International and Adanet. Prior to his position in Bezeq, Paul was the VP of Operations in Pelephone, Israel's first cellular carrier. Paul brings morte than 30 years of experience in the Telecom sector, being reposible for all major services offered in the Israeli markets over this period of time.
Michal Braun- Executive Assistant
Michal joined StageOne in 2008. She has acquried her MBA in the Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem majoring Marketing and Finance.
Michal earned her BSc degree in Nutrition from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Through her army service she was the head of the clinic in her unit and supervise the training of the medical team.
