# Eddy Shalev

> Eddy Shalev is a seed investor at Genesis Partners backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Genesis Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-partners)
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eddy-shalev-21064b9a

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, ParadigmGeophysical 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$8M |
| Series A | $4M–$7.5M |
| Series B | $5.5M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 17% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 13% |
| Mobile | 3 | 10% |
| Analytics | 3 | 10% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 30% |
| Series B | 6 | 20% |
| Series A | 4 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 10 | 33% |
| United States | 8 | 27% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Atlas Invest | A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk. | $11M |  | Nov 05, 2024 |  |
| Element Security | 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 |  |
| Payouts.com | Global Payouts Automation. Any Method, Anywhere. | $8M | Seed | Sep 04, 2024 |  |
| Atlas Invest | 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 Group NV | 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 Group NV | 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 | 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 |  |
| QEDIT | 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 | 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 |  | Seed | May 27, 2016 |  |
| REACH | REACH reinvents digital customer experience! Its next-generation customer engagement platform allows companies to conduct transactional meetings online in real-time with their clients, eliminating the need for a physical encounter. In a fully digital age, companies are still burdened with face-to-face meetings. REACH changes that by providing anin-browser video-based HTML collaboration session that provides an option to conduct a real-time session between a company agent and a customer as well as a customer self-service mode session, covering all transactional needs. The platform empowers companies to wrap up transactions - paperwork or ID verification processes - instantly and remotely, using any device. Its proprietary solution allows companies to increase closing ratios, reduce process time, Increase customer satisfaction & eliminate the need for a physical encounter.REACH is an award-winning startup that won multiple prizes in the Fin-tech domain and was recently selected by Deloitte as "1 of the 6 most notable Israeli Fin-tech companies". The company is growing rapidly with more than 100 paying customers and numerous pilots with global giants such as RBC, Mercedes Benz & Citi, on its path to make the digital age simpler for companies and their clients. |  | Convertible Note | Jan 15, 2016 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Vertex Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vertex-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Vertex Ventures Israel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vertex-ventures-israel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Fremont Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fremont-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IRIS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iris-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Legziel Family](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lagziel-family) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Millenium Food-Tech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/millenium-food-tech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Genesis Partners

VC Fund · Herzliya, Israel

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 communicationtechnology (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.

5 contacts available at Genesis Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eddy Shalev | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eddy-shalev |
| Gary Gannot | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-gannot |
| Hadar Kiriati | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hadar-kiriati |
| Irit Gold | Account Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irit-gold |
| Jonathan Saacks | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-saacks |

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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 is Eddy Shalev's check size?

Eddy Shalev typically joins rounds of $500k–$8M at Seed, $4M–$7.5M at Series A and $5.5M–$17M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Eddy Shalev participates in.

### 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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