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 important, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in more than 60 companies (not all publicly announced), including Lemonade, Melio, Windward, Simply, NextSilicon, Honeybook, and Bringg.

Prior to joining Aleph, Eden was a general partner at Genesis Partners, where he became the youngest partner at a venture capital firm in Israel, and led investments in companies such as Riskified (NYSE: RSKD), Monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY), and Simply. As a serial entrepreneur, he also co-founded face.com, a global leader in large-scale facial recognition on social media, acquired by Facebook in 2012. He was also 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 returning value to the ecosystem, Eden founded The Junction, Israel’s leading pre-seed program for startups; co-founded the annual Geekcon conference, which fosters creativity and innovation; and teaches entrepreneurship in the Zell Entrepreneurship program of the IDC (Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center). Eden is also a member of the board of directors of Ramot, Tel Aviv University’s technology transfer office.