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Yoav Tzruya is General Partner at JVP, the leading Israeli venture capital firm. JVP manages over $1.5bn and invests primarily in cyber security, big-data, enterprise IT infrastructure, mobile and IoT verticals.
Yoav brings to JVP over twenty years of experience in cyber security, enterprise software, digital media and telecom value-added services. With his hands on approach to working with the numerous incubated and graduated portfolio companies.
Yoav overseas JVP's early-stage investments in cyber security and big-data.
Yoav led investments in several of JVP’s companies including Pyramid, Quali, Centrical, ThetaRay, Morphisec, Coro.Net, ScadaFence, SourceDefense and SDO. Past Exits include CyActive (acquired by Paypal), Loom (acquired by ServiceNow), Cnvrg.io (acquired by Intel).
Prior to joining JVP, Yoav headed venture capital consulting business, Altus Media, and ahead of that, spent five years as General Manager/COO and CMO of Exent Technologies leading its strategy, business and operations in the space of digital distribution, working with industry leaders such as Verizon, Comcast, Intel, CBS, Time Warner, France Telecom and others. Prior to this, Yoav held executive roles with TeleKnowledge, an innovator in business support systems. Yoav spent several years in the Israeli Air Force, managing mission critical development projects including in the “enterprise” control, command & security space, and is a decorated officer.
Yoav holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, as well as an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management’s international program.
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Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel, Asia
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Coro
Board Member
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Centrical
Board Member
2020 - Current
Akeyless Security
Board Member
2019 - Current
Pyramid Analytics
Board Member
2020 - Current
cnvrg.io
Board Member
2018 - 2020
Appdome
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Rezilion
Board Member
2019 - Current
Uponit
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2016 - Current
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Yoav Tzruya is the General Partner at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), based in Asia. With a background in Venture Capital, Yoav Tzruya has a rich history of leadership and innovation. Yoav Tzruya studied MBA Business Administration @ Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.
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Annouced Date | Organization Name | Funding Round | Investor Name | Money Raised |
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Apr 26, 2022 | Source Defense | Series B - Source Defense | Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) | 27.0M |
May 08, 2022 | Pyramid Analytics | Series E - Pyramid Analytics | Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) | 120.0M |
Nov 16, 2022 | Akeyless Security | Series B - Akeyless Security | Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) | 65.0M |
Sep 05, 2023 | ThetaRay | Series D - ThetaRay | Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) | 57.0M |
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