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Benchmark focusing on Silicon Valley led Michael Eisenberg to launch Aleph
“Benchmark really wanted to focus on Silicon Valley in the United States, but primarily Silicon Valley. And I really wanted to stay in Israel and focus on Israel. So I launched olive to do that industry out of Israel. That was 2013.”
Eisenberg: Aleph is the first equal partnership VC in Israel
“We set up basically the first equal partnership in Israel, modeled after Benchmark, which is one of the greatest venture firms of all time”
Aleph brings on all new partners as equal partners on day one
“Every partner we add going forward, it comes in as an equal partner on day one.”
Eisenberg: VCs should invest steadily instead of chasing financial cycles
“Financial cycles are cyclical, but innovation is pretty steady, so you want to invest at a steady pace year after year, and you know, not kind of chase the financial markets in this business.”
Eisenberg: Nexar captures about 80,000 license plates daily
“We're collecting, I think, about 80,000 license plates a day.”
Aleph invested in an AI and synthetic biology rocket fuel startup
“We just backed a AI to synthetic biology and chemistry rocket fuel company”
Eisenberg: Aleph Took Lemonade Public at $60M Revenue
“We took lemonade public with sixty million of revenue.”
Eisenberg: Israeli couple held wedding on Gaza border during reserve mobilization
“There was a couple that was meant to get married yesterday, and the future husband, the fiance was called to reserve duty on the Gaza border. They decided not to cancel the wedding. The wedding was held on the Gaza border.”
Eisenberg: Israeli reserve soldier attended son's bris via Zoom from Gaza border
“In the Jewish tradition, we circumcised newborn males at eight days. His son's circumcision, called a bris was supposed to be Sunday. He wasn't gonna make it. He joined by Zoom from the border of Gaza to celebrate”
Benchmark's Bruce Dunleavy is the biggest gentleman in venture capital
“The guy is the biggest gentleman and mensch in this business by a long shot, and has unbelievable wisdom.”
Aleph's last seven investments were all made in stealth mode
“The last seven investments I've made are all in stealth.”
Eisenberg: Aleph raised $150M for Israeli software and data startups
“We raised a hundred and fifty million dollars, and we've got a fair amount of investing around themes we care a lot about, which is disrupting old industries using big data, machine learning, machine vision and software generally.”
Aleph exclusively does Series A, with WeWork Series C as sole exception
“Well, we do series A. The only time we've strayed from that is we invested in a series C round in WeWork, where I had been a series A investor in my benchmark cap previously. Other than that, we've invested, you know, Center of the Fairway Series A Investments…”