Yitz Applbaum

Co-Founder and Partner, MizMaa Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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After founding Concorde Solutions and serving as a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Yitz Applbaum co-founded MizMaa Ventures to invest in Israeli deep-tech startups. An ordained rabbi and cross-border advisor, he focuses on Israel–Saudi business and technological ties.

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5 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 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 Yitz 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
Dubai plans $7.8T investment to become a top-three global economic hub
“There was an article in the paper just yesterday that the Dubai government is going to spend 7.8 trillion dollars over the next 10 or 15 years to become the number three leading economic center in the world.”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 19:22 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Israel's Unit 8200 encourages departing soldiers to commercialize non-classified military tech
“If you're at 8200, of course, which is the most famous of the Israeli military units in tech and in cyber, although there are many when you leave the military, believe it or not, you're actually encouraged to take that technology with you. Now, I don't mean if…”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 8:26 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale

How they sound: not measured why? →

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Everything Yitz Applbaum said on American Optimist that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Israel's Unit 8200 encourages departing soldiers to commercialize non-classified military tech
“If you're at 8200, of course, which is the most famous of the Israeli military units in tech and in cyber, although there are many when you leave the military, believe it or not, you're actually encouraged to take that technology with you. Now, I don't mean if…”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 8:26 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Abraham Accords succeeded by prioritizing defense and economics over the Palestinian conflict
“Economic prosperity is what drives so many people today, especially in the region, especially where we've come from and they've come from. And this was approached really from the perspective of defense. There was a lot of stuff that went on behind the scenes a…”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 14:58 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Dubai plans $7.8T investment to become a top-three global economic hub
“There was an article in the paper just yesterday that the Dubai government is going to spend 7.8 trillion dollars over the next 10 or 15 years to become the number three leading economic center in the world.”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 19:22 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Saudi Arabia sets the strategic direction for the broader Arab world
“Saudi really is the leader in the region from that perspective, and as Saudi goes, the rest of the Arab world goes”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 20:13 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
Disclosure
MizMaa Ventures refuses Israeli startups lacking design partners or early customers
“Today, we don't invest in an Israeli company that doesn't have a design partner, that doesn't have a beta or an alpha customer, because how do you know what you're supposed to build?”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 4:16 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Israel quietly shared intelligence and medical care with Arab states for 25 years
“Also hosting families and hospitals in Israel. You cannot imagine how many stories I hear of people who come to Sheba Hospital from the Arab states, not in the last 24 months, in the last 25 years. That made a very big difference. And also, sharing of intellig…”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 13:35 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Not checkable as stated
UAE grants Israeli founder visas in months while the US takes years
“If you're an Israeli and you want to go move to the U.S. With your family, it could take you a year, two years to get all the visa. If you want to come work or start a company from Tel Aviv in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, you can bring your whole family and all your frie…”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 18:58 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Contradicted
Applbaum: Israel is one of the world's largest net water exporters
“Today, Israel is one of the net largest exporters of water in the world.”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 5:41 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
Disclosure
Applbaum: I am involved with nine companies in Saudi Arabia
“I'm in Saudi all the time. I've got nine companies there that I'm involved with. I'm chairman of a genome sequencing company.”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 21:23 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
Disclosure
Applbaum: MizMaa Ventures is on Fund II with $250M raised
“We're on our second fund. We've raised about two hundred fifty million dollars, and we focus on the things that are strongest in Israel.”
Yitz Applbaum Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 3:43 Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale Apr 5, 2023 22m
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