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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.”
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.”
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…”