The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Nimrod Cohen, managing partner, TAU Ventures
When Tel Aviv University launched TAU Ventures with approximately $20m in initial commitments earlier this year, it made history as the first such vehicle to be created in Israel.
Nimrod Cohen was hired as managing partner of the fund, having made a name for himself as venture partner of multi-vehicle early-stage investment firm Plus Ventures between 2014 and 2017, with a career as both an entrepreneur and an investor stretching back more than a decade.
TAU Ventures focuses on student and alumni startups and the wider Tel Aviv ecosystem, though it will avoid the highly-specialised pharmaceutical and cleantech sectors. Portfolio companies will receive access to the university’s resources, such as labs and network of partners.
Within a month of launching, TAU Ventures partnered intelligence agency Israel Security Authority to create the Xcelerator accelerator, underlining Cohen’s drive to make the fund a success set to appear on everyone’s radar.
