Our Story
Venture capital veterans
Our family office and its closest advisors are venture capital veterans. We have an incredible wealth of experience in this space, amounting to 85+ family office investments in Israel alone, over more than three decades. We feel that Israeli A Round companies and Seed Round valuations are among the cheapest asset classes in the world. Moreover, our formidable, long-standing reputation affords us the opportunity to establish distribution channels for our portfolio through our many international channel partners.
This remarkable combination of both practical experience and an extensive network have allowed our family office to see 40+ successful exits from 150+ angel and very early public investments worldwide, in more than three decades of Israeli and Silicon Valley investing. Comparatively, the VC landscape in Israel is underserved, with vastly fewer VCs in the space compared to California, yet hundreds of new Israeli tech companies are founded every year. This represents a huge demand gap, as promising A Round companies that might go for $20M to $50M pre-money in Silicon Valley gladly take a steep discount to work with outstanding network ecosystems like Silan Ventures and its co-investors, for $2M to 12M pre-money in their earliest stages. In addition, business development can take many forms in Israel. For example, IBM, EY, Citi and Microsoft (among many others) regularly filter through each year’s crop of Israeli tech startups and expose the best of the lot to Silan Ventures, among others. Out of the best, Silan Ventures and its strategic advisors may deeply diligence up to 25 exciting new ventures every year. This fairly extensive due diligence selection process in some cases leads to success-based agency contracts to raise funds and source distribution partners across the U.S., Europe, and Asia for these select handful.
Silan Ventures, its strategic cohort, and its channel partners can transform promising young companies into profitable mature ventures, which, through a portfolio approach, seeks diversification for Silan Ventures. Our goal is to benefit startups with the experience of decades of mistakes we and others made, and share those ‘lessons learned’ without entrepreneurs having to pay the expensive tuition yet again. We seek to bolster startups with our passion to excel, and share our domain expertise with open arms. Mentoring entrepreneurs is what we do.