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Michael Eisenberg

Co-Founder and General Partner, Aleph · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michael Eisenberg is an American-Israeli venture capitalist who co-founded early-stage VC firm Aleph in 2013 after serving as a General Partner at Benchmark Capital. He has backed companies including Wix and Lemonade and authored several books including The Tree of Life and Prosperity.

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3 assertions · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · 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 Michael 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
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”
Michael Eisenberg Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 6:15 He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Eisenberg: Nexar covered more road mileage in 9 months than Google Street View
“We've already covered in, you know, like nine months more mileage than Google Street View has in all its existence.”
Michael Eisenberg Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 11:06 He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg

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We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Michael Eisenberg on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Michael Eisenberg said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Eisenberg: Nexar covered more road mileage in 9 months than Google Street View
“We've already covered in, you know, like nine months more mileage than Google Street View has in all its existence.”
Michael Eisenberg Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 11:06 He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg
Disclosure
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.”
Michael Eisenberg Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 5:28 He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg
Assertion Supported
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”
Michael Eisenberg Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 6:15 He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg
Disclosure
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.”
Michael Eisenberg Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 6:54 He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg
Insight
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.”
Michael Eisenberg Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 8:31 He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eisenberg: Nexar captures about 80,000 license plates daily
“We're collecting, I think, about 80,000 license plates a day.”
Michael Eisenberg Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 13:18 He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg
Disclosure
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.”
Michael Eisenberg Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 2:14 He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg
Disclosure
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…”
Michael Eisenberg Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 8:14 He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg Jun 16, 2016 7m
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