Eden Shochat

Eden is an entrepreneur-turned-early-stage investor in Aleph, a venture capital fund with $850 million under management. Aleph is focused on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in more than 60 companies (not all of which have been announced), including Lemonade, Melio, Windward, Simply (formerly JoyTunes), NextSilicon, Honeybook, and Bringg.

Prior to Aleph, Eden was a general partner at Genesis Partners, where he became the youngest partner of a venture capital firm in Israel and led its investments in Riskified, Monday.com and JoyTunes. A serial entrepreneur, Eden also co-founded face.com, a global leader in massive web-scale facial recognition on social media, which was acquired by Facebook in 2012. He was also the co-founder and CTO of Aternity, later acquired by Riverbed (Nasdaq: RVBD), where he led the development of its dominant user experience monitoring platform.

Passionate about giving back, Eden founded The Junction, Israel’s leading pre-seed program for startups, co-founded the annual Geekcon conference to foster creativity and innovation, and teaches entrepreneurship at IDC’s (Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center) Zell Entrepreneurship Program. Eden is also a board member of Ramot, Tel Aviv University’s Center for Business Engagement.