Invested by Aleph

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Sam Lessin, a General Partner at Slow Ventures. Sam is currently an intern at The Information and has co-founded two companies, Fin and drop.io (acquired by Facebook in 2010).  Between 2010 and 2014 he was a VP of product management at Facebook, where he managed the People, Places, and Things product group and the Identity product group. Sam started his c...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Alon Arvatz, the CEO & Co-founder of PointFive. PointFive is a leader in cloud cost management. Prior to that he co-founded IntSights, a cybersecurity and threat intelligence startup, and led it to a successful acquisition for $350M to Rapid7. He authored the book “The Battle for Your Computer” that depicts the success story of the Israeli cybersecurity i...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Yoav Shoham, Co-founder and Co-CEO at AI21 Labs. Yoav is professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University. He is Fellow of AAAI, ACM and the Game Theory Society, and among his awards are the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the AAAI/ACM Allen Newell Award, and the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. Prof. Shoham has co-founded several...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Barak Herscowitz, formerly advisor to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, political campaigner and strategic advisor, entrepreneur, and a former employee of TikTok. Herscowitz became the “Tiktok Jewish Whistleblower” as he resigned due to what he identified as a severe bias against Israel and Jewish organizations, in favor of external influences serving Hamas...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Lior Eshkol, General Manager of Wolt Israel. Lior (37) is currently from Tel Aviv, born and raised in Ramat Hasharon.  Served in the IDF Intelligence research as an officer. B.A in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University and MBA from Harvard University.  Worked at Procter & Gamble, Amazon, WeWork and healthy.io. General Manager of Wolt Israel sinc...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Matan Bar, co-founder and CEO of Melio.  Before founding Melio in 2018, Matan Bar was the GM of the PayPal Consumer R&D center in Tel Aviv and led PayPal’s Consumer Peer to Peer Payments Group globally, responsible for over $50B in payment volume annually. Matan joined PayPal through the acquisition of his first company (The Gifts Project) by eBay Inc in...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Jacob Helberg, Commissioner of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission.  Jacob also serves as a Senior Policy Advisor to the CEO of Palantir Technologies, where he leads efforts to explore national security trends, changes in the global security landscape and emerging tech policy issues. Jacob is the founder of the Hill & Valley Fo...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Beezer Clarkson, a partner at Sapphire Partners. Beezer leads Sapphire Partners‘ investments in venture funds domestically and internationally. Beezer began her career in financial services over 20 years ago at Morgan Stanley in its global infrastructure group. Since, she has held various direct and indirect venture investment roles, as well as operationa...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Marc Rowan, Co-Founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management, Inc.  Mr. Rowan currently serves on the boards of directors of Apollo Global Management, Inc. and Athene Holding Ltd. Currently, Mr. Rowan is Chair of the Board of Advisors of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he is involved in public policy and is an...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Ben Lang, an early employee at Notion and serial builder.  Ben is an angel investor, former founder and operator at high-growth startups. He served in IDF Intelligence and went on to co-found Mapme. Later, he joined Spoke, which was acquired by Okta. In 2019, he joined Notion, where he saw the team grow from 15 to 600+. He helped scale the team, build out...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Antonio Garcia-Martinez, CEO and founder of Spindl, and author of the book “Chaos Monkeys”.  Garcia-Martinez started his career when he dropped out of a PhD in physics at Berkeley, cut off his ponytail, and became a pricing quant on the Goldman Sachs credit trading desk just in time for the 2008 credit crisis. Fleeing back to the Bay Area for an ad tech s...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Eyal Waldman, the chairman of Waldo Holdings and co-founder of Mellanox. This is Eyal's second time on the podcast - if you’d like to hear the first episode, please go to https://content.aleph.vc/podcast-episodes/eyal-waldman-episode-10  Waldo Holdings is a family office that focuses on diversified investments in private and public companies, various fund...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Yasmin Lukatz,  Founder & Executive Director at ICON. Yasmin Lukatz is the executive director of the Israel Collaboration Network (ICON), a non-profit organization that aims to create a Silicon Valley-based community to harness and support Israeli startup technology and innovation. With a background in economics and law from Tel Aviv University and an MBA...

On part two of this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Yonatan Adiri, the founder and president of Healthy.io.  Yonatan Adiri is the Founder, former CEO, and current President of Healthy.io. Born to refugee parents from Iran and Iraq, Adiri concluded his undergraduate studies at the age of 17 and spent the first 15 years of his career in Israel's public service. In his last role, Adiri was entrust...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Yonatan Adiri, the founder and president of Healthy.io.  Yonatan Adiri is the Founder, former CEO, and current President of Healthy.io. Born to refugee parents from Iran and Iraq, Adiri concluded his undergraduate studies at the age of 17 and spent the first 15 years of his career in Israel's public service. In his last role, Adiri was entrusted by one of...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Stefan Tompson, founder of Visegrad24 on X. Tompson is a London-born Polish-South African PR specialist, the founder of the Visegrad24 account (the largest news aggregator from Central and Eastern Europe, with an average billion views per month across social media), the host and presenter of the historical-documentary program "Polish Heritage" on TVP, a Y...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Bradley Tusk, Co-founder of Tusk Venture Partners. Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist, and writer. He is the co-founder of Tusk Ventures, the world’s first venture capital fund that invests solely in early stage startups in highly regulated industries, and the founder of political consulting firm Tusk Strategies. Bradley’s...

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Alex Konrad, senior editor at Forbes covering venture capital, startups and tech out of New York. Alex is the editor of the Midas List and 30 Under 30 List for VC, and the creator of the Midas List Europe and the Cloud 100 List. He has written numerous cover stories on business leaders including Patrick Collison, Satya Nadella and Melanie Perkins, among o...

On this special episode of Invested, Michael hosts Izhar Shay, former Israeli Minister of Science and Technology, high-tech and social entrepreneur, and venture capitalist.  Izhar is a Venture Partner with Disruptive AI, an early stage deep-tech VC focused on AI investments. Shay is actively involved with a number of innovative companies as an advisor, board member and mentor for CEOs and entrepre...

On this special episode of Invested, Michael hosts Ami Daniel, the CEO and co-founder of Windward.  In his capacity as CEO, Ami has been featured extensively as an expert in shipping and AI at multiple conferences, events, op-eds and interviews including by The Economist, The FT, WSJ, Bloomberg and many others. He was recognised as one of the 40 most promising entrepreneurs in Israel twice by Isra...

On the 10th episode of Invested, Michael hosts Eyal Waldman, the chairman of Waldo Holdings and Co-founder of Mellanox. Waldo Holdings is a family office that focuses on diversified investments in private and public companies, various funds, real estate and other financial platforms and vehicles. Mr. Waldman has been the Co-founder, President, CEO and Board member of Mellanox Technologies since Ma...

On the 9th episode of Invested, Michael hosts Harry Stebbings, founder of 20VC, the largest media asset in venture with over $300M AUM and 13 unicorn portfolio companies in the last 5 years. 20VC’s portfolio includes Pachama, Tripledot, Linear, BeReal, Sorare, Roam Research, Merge and Nex Health to name a few. Harry is also a passionate supporter of MS UK and male eating disorder charities. ‍ You...

On the 8th episode of Invested, Michael hosts Jon Pelson, the author of “Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We're Fighting Back," which tells the story of how China seized global leadership in mobile communications and describes the threat this presents to the free world. Mr. Pelson spent nearly twenty-five years working as an executive at some of the world’s largest telecom...

On the 7th episode of Invested, Michael hosts Ron Gura, co-founder & CEO at Empathy, which helps families deal with loss.  Ron is a tech entrepreneur who has brought his love for developing empowering products to startups and major international corporations alike. As Senior Vice President at WeWork, Ron started and oversaw a global R&D center of 250 team members, responsible for the tools and sys...

On the 6th episode of Invested, Michael hosts Kathryn Mayne – “the mother of Aleph.” Kathryn is a managing director at Horsley Bridge. She joined the firm in 2003 and manages their London office. Prior to HBP, Kathryn was Senior Vice President of Investments with Claridge Inc., where she was involved with investments in media, technology, consumer, and industrial companies as well as private equit...