Eddy Shalev
Founding Partner @ Genesis Partners
Israel
Eddy Shalev is an angel investor. Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the Israeli business community. Since the beginning of Israel's venture capital industry, Eddy has focused on private-equity investments in the high-tech sector, and has played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including Fundtech, Paradigm Geophysical and Orbot Instruments. Eddy is currently on the board of Aternity, Profitect and Sensible Medical. Eddy has been an active private equity investor in Israel since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies. Beginning in 1985, Eddy led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies traded on NASDAQ.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Eddy Shalev invests in
Stages Eddy Shalev invests in
Countries Eddy Shalev invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$8M
- Series A
- $4M–$7.5M
- Series B
- $5.5M–$17M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (17%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (13%)
- Information Technology 4 (13%)
- Mobile 3 (10%)
- Analytics 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (30%)
- Series B 6 (20%)
- Series A 4 (13%)
- Funding Round 3 (10%)
- Series C 2 (7%)
Country
- Israel 10 (33%)
- United States 8 (27%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk. | $11M / Nov 05, 2024 | ||
| Element Security is a cybersecurity landscape that is evolving rapidly, with external attack surfaces expanding and threats becoming increasingly sophisticated. | $5M / Seed / Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| Global Payouts Automation. Any Method, Anywhere. | $8M / Seed / Sep 04, 2024 | ||
| A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk. | $2.5M / Seed / Jan 29, 2024 | ||
| TripleW developed and commercializes an industrial process for the production of lactic acid and Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) bioplastic from organic waste.TripleW R&D developed a simple and profitable proprietary bioprocess that converts renewable carbon from waste and turns it into lactic acid, used in everyday products, including homecare,cosmetics, and production of bioplastic for food packaging. A new era for our environment with goods made from renewable carbon-based lactic acid, preventing the release of greenhouse gases. | $16.5M / Series B / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| TripleW developed and commercializes an industrial process for the production of lactic acid and Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) bioplastic from organic waste.TripleW R&D developed a simple and profitable proprietary bioprocess that converts renewable carbon from waste and turns it into lactic acid, used in everyday products, including homecare,cosmetics, and production of bioplastic for food packaging. A new era for our environment with goods made from renewable carbon-based lactic acid, preventing the release of greenhouse gases. | $5M / Convertible Note / Apr 28, 2021 | ||
| Worthy is an online marketplace for selling pre-owned luxury goods. The company accepts high-value goods ranging from jewelry to watches. | $30.4M / Series C / Sep 01, 2020 | ||
| QED-it helps businesses accelerate trust with Zero-Knowledge Blockchains. It also developed Zero-Knowledge Blockchain, a protocol which combines Enterprise Blockchain with Zero-Knowledge Proof cryptography. Mentored by Prof. Shafi Goldwasser (Turing Award 2012) who co-invented Zero-Knowledge Proofs, this team of world-renowned experts incryptography, security and blockchain tackles several use-cases. The company provides an enterprise solution for preserving privacy on the Blockchain.QED-it allows clients to can keep their data private and at the same time share proofs about these data with partners, and even with competitors in their ecosystem. They also solve the confidentiality tradeoff using scalable Zero-Knowledge Proof technology. It also enables running audit queries such as credit and risk scoring without revealing the underlying private data used to calculate the scoreQED-it was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $2.4M / Seed / Mar 30, 2017 | ||
| Photomyne is a company that specializes in family nostalgia. We leverage our original, unprecedented technology to provide tools for digitizing and managing all types of old (analog) and new media.Our primary app is designed for scanning, managing, and storing old photographs in bulk. In addition, we offer several other utility apps, eachspecializing in the scanning of a specific media type, to offer the best technological accommodation for each type and its characteristics.Explore our apps: https://photomyne.com/get-photomyne | $2.6M / Seed / May 27, 2016 | ||
| Kaymera was founded by veterans in the cyber industry with in depth knowledge and expertise in mobile security and cyber attack methods to assess and breach stringent security measures. Kaymera delivers the most sophisticated defense system to protect organizations, governments and individuals from all mobile security threats, while supportingfreedom of use on popular smartphone models. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 01, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Genesis Partners
Genesis Partners has one of the strongest track records in the Israeli venture capital industry. Their investment team is comprised of venture professionals with extensive experience in venture capital, technology, operational management, and entrepreneurship. They focus on seed and early stage investments in the information and communication technology (ICT) sectors. Genesis Partners was founded in 1996 by Eddy Shalev and Dr. Eyal Kishon, who were instrumental in establishing the Israeli venture capital community. Since its inception, Genesis Partners has established itself as one of Israel's leading venture capital funds with strong ties to the Israeli entrepreneurial community and the global technology industry.
Genesis Partners Contacts
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Eddy Shalev
Founding Partner
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Gary Gannot
General Partner
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Hadar Kiriati
CFO
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Irit Gold
Account Manager
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Jonathan Saacks
Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Eddy Shalev invest in?
Eddy Shalev invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Eddy Shalev invest in?
Eddy Shalev typically joins rounds of $500k–$8M at Seed, $4M–$7.5M at Series A and $5.5M–$17M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Eddy Shalev's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Eddy Shalev took part in.
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When did Eddy Shalev last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Eddy Shalev closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 30 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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