Adi Levanon

Founder & Managing Partner, Selah Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Adi Levanon manages Selah Ventures, a solo-GP seed and pre-seed fund investing in Israeli and American startups across fintech, AI-driven financial infrastructure, and compliance. Before launching Selah in 2022, she was an angel and VC investor following operator and legal roles at Conduit and Payoneer.

5statements → 3claims → 2claims resolved → 3.8/5average certainty → 2.2/5average debate potential →

2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 2 opinions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Adi argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Levanon: Israeli tech community created a 400+ volunteer list for startups
“There is a list going on, active list, of 400 plus volunteers. That want to work, that can be helpful to startups. Whatever they need, whatever's possible.”
Adi Levanon Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 14:50 Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
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100% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

251 words/min while actually speaking · 18.2 um and uh per 1k words · 18.6 false starts per 1k · 28.6% of pauses land inside a clause

No argument clarity score for Adi Levanon: only 2 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,071 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Adi Levanon said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Levanon: The conflict in Israel is a broader Jewish issue
“The biggest misconception, which I think is still not resonating, is that this is not a Israel problem, This is not an Israel-Palestinian conflict. This is a Jewish problem.”
Adi Levanon Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 40:47 Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Levanon: Every Israeli knows someone killed, kidnapped, or injured on October 7
“Really, we're in a place right now where every Israeli knows somebody who has either been murdered, kidnapped, or injured.”
Adi Levanon Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 3:34 Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Levanon: Israeli founder resilience reflects the population's unique collective DNA
“When we say, you know, Israeli founders have resilience and tenacity, it's just the Israeli people. The DNA here is like nothing I have ever seen.”
Adi Levanon Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 12:06 Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Levanon: Israeli tech community created a 400+ volunteer list for startups
“There is a list going on, active list, of 400 plus volunteers. That want to work, that can be helpful to startups. Whatever they need, whatever's possible.”
Adi Levanon Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 14:50 Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Levanon: Over 150 global venture funds signed statement supporting Israel
“There is now a wonderful supportive letter being posted, being, you know, signed by, I think now there's a 150 different venture capital funds globally that have signed on from, you know, eight VC to upfront to Bain to all these wonderful, you know, Lightspeed…”
Adi Levanon Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 30:38 Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Oct 12, 2023 13m
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