Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Eddy Shalev is an angel investor. Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the Israeli business community.

Since the beginning of Israel's venture capital industry, Eddy has focused on private-equity investments in the high-tech sector, and has played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including Fundtech, Paradigm Geophysical and Orbot Instruments. Eddy is currently on the board of Aternity, Profitect and Sensible Medical.

Eddy has been an active private equity investor in Israel since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies.

Beginning in 1985, Eddy led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies traded on NASDAQ.