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J-Ventures Annual Investor Conference

Our LPs and portfolio companies take the stage

Dec 15th

Virtual Event from

Silicon Valley

Speakers

J-Ventures Portfolio Companies

Cyber, AI, Healthcare IT, Insuretech, Agritech, Cloud, Optimization, Mobility and Fintech

Adi Wallach

Co-Founder and CEO at Dendro Technologies (CalmiGo)

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Agenda

AUG 1

9:00-9:05

Meet & Greet

Track 1- Enabling Technology- Semi Conductors 
Amir Faintuch, SVP Global Foundries, Matt Hershinson, Managing Partner PlayGround, Gideon Intrater, VP Dialogue 

9:10-9:40

Track 2- Industry in Depth- Social Networks
Ilan Frank, VP Product, Slack, Udi Milo, VP Growth, Tinder, Amir Shevt, C...Former VP Partnerships at Twitch 

Track 3

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Networking

16:00

Q & A Session

Confirmed Speakers

J-Ventures LPs/Portfolio

* In order of appearance 

FEATURED INDUSTRY EXPERTS

Laura Lauder

Lauder Partners. Co-founded

the Socrates Program of the

Aspen Institute. Chair of the

Jewish Community Endowment Fund of San Francisco, with over $2 billion in assets. Board of Social Finance, which facilitates impact investing. Past board of the National Public Radio Foundation and Spark Networks parent company of JDate.

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Amir Faintuch

SVP GlobalFoundries, Former SVP

Global R&D Intel, Venture Partner, Pitango. President Qualcomm/Atheros. 

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Gideon Intrater

VP Strategy & Technology at Dialog Semiconductor, former CTO Adesto (Sold to Dialog Semiconductor for $0.5B)

Dr. Aya Jakobovits

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$14B of Biotech exits. Founder,

President & CEO Adicet Bio,

President &Founding CEO at Kite

Pharma (Gilead), SVP, & CSO at

Agensys, (Astellas), Scientific Founder,

Director, Discovery Research and

Principal Scientist at Abgenix (Amgen) 

Amir Shevat

CPO Reshuffle, Former VP Product

at Twitch. Ex Slack, Google

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Founder & Partner at Recursive Ventures / Chief Business Officer at Life360

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Itamar Novick

Gil Frostig

Former VP Qualcomm, Intel. Board member in companies. Investment committee  and CTO @ J-Ventures

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Sigmund Anderman 

Founder of American Home Shield Corporation, Founder, President,

CEO and Chairman of Ellie Mae, ($3.7B exit)

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Alison Wagonfeld

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Vice President, Marketing- CMO, Google Cloud. Past-Operational partner at Emergence Capital and  Co-founded Quicken Loans

Assaf Resnick

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CEO and Co Founder BigPanda, Ex Sequoia Capital

Doron Simon

VP, NICE Satmetrix at NICE Ltd,

VP at Luxera Inc, President and

COO at Corcim Technology Inc. President at Tower Semiconductor USA. Venture Partner, J-Ventures

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Ramesh Panuganty

Founder and CEO of Macheye, SelectQ (Thinkster), Drustin

(Splunk), Cloud360 (Cognizant)

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Merav Weinryb

Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures, Europe & Israel

Andy Cohen 

Senior Vice President of Sales, Bill.com 

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Prof. Udi (Ehud) Peleg

Co-founder of PaceIt and UCLA adjunct professor

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Ophir Zilbiger

Partner, Head of Cybersecurity

Center, BDO, Global network

security leader AT PwC, founded

PwC Israel’s information security

business, founded SECOZ

(sold to BDO), and

Cyber-Hat

Benny Czarny

CEO & Founder OPSWAT, Inc.

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Sharon Rechter

 

CEO and Co founder BabyFirst,

First Media

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Ori Ellman

CEO at Dentsu Aegis Network IL.

Past CEO, Maple, Efect-Tv

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Founder and Managing Director

of Nissim Capital and Co-founder

and Chairman of Grand River

Solutions, Founding CEO and

Managing Director of Workiva

(NYSE: WK), Founder and CEO of Financial Intelligence, Co-founder International Risk Control Inc.

Jerry Behar

Jon Soberg

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Managing Partner at MS&AD

Ventures. Investor in Insurance and
fintech companies like Hippo and
Hourly

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Nathaniel Krasnoff I

Co-Founder & CEO, Reframe

Oded Eran

Co-Founder & CEO,

Connie Health

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Murray Brozinsky

CEO at Conversa Health, Chief strategy officer Health line (Summit Partners), President Netcentives (IPO)

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Jorge Myszne

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Founder & CEO Kameleon, Co-Founder of Wilocity/ $360M exit to Qualcomm

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Gadi Bashvitz

President & CCO at NeuraLegion

Shlomi Kofman

Consul General of Israel to the Pacific North West

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Matt Hershenson

Founding Partner at Playground Global, Former Director of Hardware in Google’s Android group

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Dr. Kathy Fields

Co-creator of two successful billion

dollar skincare brands: Proactiv

Solutions and Rodan + Fields. In 2016 sold the Proactiv royalties to a joint venture

between Guthy Renker and Nestle. Forbes America's Self-Made Women 2020. 

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Ilan Frank

VP Product Enterprise, Slack. Leading Product positions in companies

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Udi Milo

Vice President of Product, Growth at Tinder. Past Lyft, Pinterest, Linkedin

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Dr. Cormac Conroy

Former VP & GM for wireless solutions

at Qualcomm and at Intel

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David Tennenhouse

Chief Research Officer, VMware. Past partner, NVP, Ceo A9, VP, Microsoft, Intel

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Dan Rubin

Managing Partner, Alloy Ventures, Founder of Artisan Components ($1B IPO)

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Alon Girmonsky

Founder/CEO UP9, Blazemeter/ Acq by CA, VP Broadcom

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Dr.  Alon Halevy

Director, Facebook AI, Ex CEO

Megagon Labs, Transformic (Google)

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Igor Taber

SVP CorpDev DataRobot, Ex Intel Capital

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Brett Rochkind 

Former GP, CRV, Head of the Palo Alto office and Co-Head of the Global Internet & Technology sector at General Atlantic. Investor in Box, Ali Baba, AirBnb, Uber

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Jake Seid

Managing Partner, Stone Bridge Ventures, Former Managing Director, Lightspeed, President, Ten-X.Investor in Brix, Bird

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Sergio Fogel

Co founder of the Fintech company Dlocal, the first Unicorn in Uruguay

Slavik Markovich

Founder and CEO of Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $0.5B), Former VP & CTO, database security at McAfee, Former CTO at Sentrigo Ltd.

Jake Flomenberg

Partner at Wing Venture Capital, past- Partner at Accel Partners 

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Michael Rolnick

Midas list, Forbes, Com Ventures, CDO, News Corp, SVP E*Trade

Guy Piekarz

Media services at Apple, Founder of Matcha (acquired by Apple) and Unisfair (acquired by West Corporation)

Jacob Nizri 

Founder & CEO weEndeavor

Dr. Adam de la Zerda

Founder, CEO, Visby Medical

Associate Professors, Structural Biology and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

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Tom Sagi

Co founder, CEO, Hourly 

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Dr. Itay Bengad

Co-Founder & CEO, MDGo

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Dan Y. Rubinstein

CEO at Physera (Omada Healthcare), Singer, Product Management at Google, Facebook, Palantir, Founder and CEO of Reflectivity (TI)

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Erez Kalir

CEO of Stansberry Asses Management, and

founded Sabretooth Capital

(just under $1B). Invests in Bio

tech and Real estate

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Guy Miasnik

Co-Founder & CEO of AtHoc (acquired by BlackBerry), Chief Strategy Officer at BlackBerry, Co-Founder and CEO of Kinetica

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Adi Ruppin

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CEO & Founder, Ananda Networks.

Past- CEO, Exoshpere, CTO Watchdox (Blackberry), CMO, BelnSync (Phoenix),

CEO SofaWare (Checkpoint). 

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Jim Koshland

Co-Founder and Chairman, J-Ventures. Past Partner, DLA Piper, Board: Levi's, Launch Media. LP in Sequoia, August capital, Maven. Past president of the Jewish Federation in SF

Oded Hermoni

Managing General Partner, Co founder of J-Ventures. Past Partner at Rhodium and Coin Ventures, Head of IATI, VP CP, Founder of TopIdea (YellowPages Group. 

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Michael Matias

J-Ventures Senior Associate, Forbes 30/30, 20 min Leaders

Eran Sandhaus

Managing Director, Copia Growth Partners, Venture Partner at J-Ventures, NextGear, Advisor Target Global, EIR at PlugNPlay. Former VP & GM at Aptiv, Cypress, Qualcomm, TI.

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Tal Faintuch

Associate, J-Ventures

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Nilesh Trivedi

Principal Investor, J-Ventures, Founder and Managing Partner at Summation VC

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Agenda

AUG 1

Meet & Greet

Track 1- Enabling Technology- Semi Conductors 
Amir Faintuch, SVP Global Foundries, Matt Hershinson, Managing Partner PlayGround, Gideon Intrater, VP Dialogue 

9:10-9:40

Track 2- Industry in Depth- Social Networks
Ilan Frank, VP Product, Slack, Udi Milo, VP Growth, Tinder, Amir Shevt, C...Former VP Partnerships at Twitch 

Track 3

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Networking

16:00

Q & A Session

Agenda

Agenda

Pacific Time Zone

DEC 14

6:00 - 8:00 Pm

  • Pre-conference LP Virtual Cocktail Party and  J-Ventures traditional Hanukkah candle lighting with
    Gary and Laura Lauder
    Shlomi Kofman, Israel's Consul General to the Pacific Northwest

  • Discussion about the next generation and keynote by Laura Lauder

  • A showcase of LP's NGO's

  • Mingling 

DEC 15

7:00 - 8:00 Am

Virtual Coffee Rooms - Networking

8:00 - 9:00

Closed LP Meeting - updates about the fund with

  • Oded Hermoni, General Founding Partner at J-Ventures

  • Jim Koshland, Chairman and Founding Partner at J-Ventures

9:00 - 9:05

Meet & Greet

Track 1 - Enabling Technology - Semiconductors 

  • Amir Faintuch, SVP Global Foundries

  • Matt Hershenson, Managing Partner Playground Global

  • Gideon Intrater, VP Dialogue 

9:05 - 9:30

Track 2 - Building $B Companies 

  • Fireside chat with Dr. Kathy Fields, Co-creator of 2 Billion Dollar leading Dermatological companies: Proactiv and Rodan + Fields. Forbes list of 20 Successful self madwoman in the USA

  • Fireside chat with Dr. Aya Jacobovits, Founder of 5 bio companies which exited in over $14B: Founder,  President & CEO Adicet Bio, Inc., President & Founding CEO at Kite Pharma (Gilead), SVP, Corporate Development & CSO at Agensys, Inc. (Astellas), Scientific Founder, Director, Discovery Research and Principal Scientist at Abgenix, Inc. (Amgen Inc)

Track 3 - Industry in Depth - Social Networks

  • Ilan Frank, VP Product Enterprise, Slack

  • Amir Shevat, CPO Reshuffle, Former VP Product at Twitch. Ex Slack, Google. 

  • Udi Milo, Vice President of Product, Growth at Tinder.

  • Moderated by Itamar Novick, Founder & Partner at Recursive Ventures / Chief Business Officer at Life360

9:30 - 10:00

Track 1 Part 1- Enabling Technology - 5G

  • Fireside Chat with Dr. Cormac Conroy, Former VP GM for wireless solutions at Qualcomm and at Intel

  • Moderated by Gil Frostig, VP Qualcomm, Intel, J-Ventures IC and CTO

Track 2 Part 2 - ​Enabling Technology - Enterprise Blockchain

  • Fireside Chat with David Tennehouse, Chief Research Officer of VMWare, former CEO of A9 and VP in Microsoft, Intel and A partner at NVP

  • Moderated by Nilesh Trivedi, J-Ventures Principal

Track 3 - Building $B Companies 

  • Fireside chat with Sigmund Anderman, Founder of American Home Shield Corporation, Founder, President, CEO, and Chairman of Ellie Mae, Inc.

  • Fireside chat with Dan Rubin, Managing Partner, Alloy Ventures, Founder of Artisan Components ($1B exit to ARM)

Track 4 - Enabling Technology - AI

  • Prof. Alon Halevy, Director, Facebook AI, Ex CEO Megagon Labs, Transformic (Google)

  • Igor Taber, SVP CorpDev DataRobot, Ex Intel Capital

  • Assaf Resnick, CEO, and Co-Founder BigPanda, Ex Sequoia Capital

  • Ramesh Panuganty, Founder and CEO of Macheye, SelectQ (Thinkster), Drustin (Splunk), Cloud360 ( Cognizant ).

  • Moderated by Doron Simon, VP, NICE Satmetrix at NICE Ltd, VP at Luxera Inc, President and COO at Corcim Technology Inc. President at Tower Semiconductor USA

10:00 - 10:30

Track 1- Enabling Technology - Cloud

  • Fireside Chat with Alison Wagonfeld, Vice President, Marketing -- CMO, Google Cloud

  • Moderated by Alon Girmonsky, Founder/CEO UP9, Blazemeter/ Acq by CA, VP Broadcom

Track 2- Investing in $B Companies. Panel with VCs

  • Brett Rochkind, Former GP, CRV, Head of the Palo Alto office and Co-Head of the Global Internet & Technology sector at General Atlantic - Investing in Ali Baba Group, Airbnb, Box, Line, Uber.

  • Jake Seid, Managing Partner, Stone Bridge Ventures, Former Managing Director, Lightspeed, President, Ten-X. Investor in Brix, Bird, Bolt, Carta

  • Merav Weinryb, Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures, Europe & Israel. Investor in SentinalOne

  • Moderated by Michael Rolnick, Midas list, Forbes, Com Ventures, CDO, News Corp

 

Track 3-  Industry in Depth - Fintech

  • Sergio Fogel ,Co Founder at dLocal, Leading Fintech Latin American Unicorn

  • Andy Cohen, Senior Vice President of Sales, Bill.com

  • Moderated by Prof. Ehud Peleg, Co-founder of PaceIt and UCLA adjunct professor

10:30 - 11:00

Track 1- Enabling Technology - Cyber

  • Slavik Markovich, Founder and CEO of Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $0.5B), Former VP & CTO, database security at McAfee, Former CTO at Sentrigo

  • Ophir Zilbiger, Partner, Head of Cybersecurity Center, BDO, Global network security leader AT PwC, founded PwC Israel’s information security business,  founded SECOZ (sold to BDO), & Cyber-Hat

  • Jack Flumenberg, Partner at Wing Venture Capital, past partner Accel Partners.

  • Moderated by Benny Czarny, CEO & Founder OPSWAT, Inc

 

 

​Track 3- Industry in Depth - Media

  • Jacob Nizri, Founder & CEO weEndeavor

  • Sharon Rechter, CEO and Co founder BabyFirst and First Media

  • Guy Piekarz, Media services at Apple, Founder of Matcha (acquired by Apple) and Unisfair (acquired by West Corporation)

  • Moderator - Ori Ellman, CEO of Dentsu's Japan's 3rd largest advertising agency in Israel 

11:00 - 11:30

Main Stage

  • Fireside Chat with Prof. Adam de la Zerda, Visby Medical's Founder & CEO

  • Moderated by Jerry Behar, Founder and Managing Director of Nissim Capital and Co-founder and Chairman of Grand River Solutions

11:30 - 12:15

J-Ventures Portfolio Company Panels:

Insuretech

  • Tom Sagi, Co-founder and CEO at Hourly

  • Oded Eran, Co-Founder & CEO at Connie Health 

  • Nathaniel Krasnoff, Founder Reframe

  • Itay Bengad, Co-Founder & CEO at MDGo

 

Healthcare IT

  • Y. Dan Rubinstein, CEO at Physera, Inc., (Product Management at Google, Facebook, Palantir)

  • Adi Wallach, Co-Founder and CEO at Dendro Technologies (CalmiGo)

  • Murray Brozinsky, Chief Executive Officer at Conversa Health

  • Moderator - Erez Kalir, CEO of Stansberry and founder of Sabretooth Capital

Cyber

  • Gadi Bashvitz, President & CCO at NeuraLegion

  • Jorge Myszne, Founder & CEO Kameleon (Co-Founder of Wilocity/$360M exit to Qualcomm)

  • Adi Ruppin, Founder & CEO at Ananda Networks (formerly 8e14 Networks).  

  • Moderator - Guy Miasnik, Co-Founder & CEO of AtHoc (acquired by BlackBerry), Chief Strategy Officer at BlackBerry, Co-Founder and CEO of Kinetica


 

12:15

Closing 

12:45 -  6:00 Pm

  • Virtual coffee rooms - networking

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