# Eli Ben-Sasson

> Eli Ben-Sasson is a startup investor at StarkWare Industries (Tel Aviv). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [StarkWare Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/starkware-industries-ltd)
- Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-ben-sasson-9b7959/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson
- Website: https://starkware.co/about-us/

Eli Ben-Sasson is a startup investor at StarkWare Industries in Tel Aviv. Eli has been researching cryptographic and zero knowledge proofs of computational integrity ever since he received his Phd in Theoretical Computer Science from the Hebrew University in 2001. Eli is a co-inventor of the STARK, FRI and Zerocash protocols and a Founding Scientist of the Zcash Company. Over the years he held research positions at theInstitute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Harvard and MIT, and, most recently, was a Professor of CS at Technion, which he left to co-found StarkWare.

## About StarkWare Industries

VC Fund · Netanya, Israel

StarkWare Industries uses Stark technology to develop a full proof stack in generating and verifying proofs of computational integrity.

3 contacts available at StarkWare Industries.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ajay Sharma | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-s-494f |
| Eli Ben-Sasson | CEO, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eli-ben-sasson |
| Oren Katz | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oren-katz-2 |

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