Founder & Managing Partner
TLV & NYC

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Vine Ventures is an inseparable part of who I am. It is the embodiment of what I hope to accomplish with the “work” part of my time on this incredible planet. It is a family of like-minded individuals, looking to make money for incredible individuals and institutions, by backing some of the most heroic, brave, and determined creators in the world.

We started Vine in 2020, receiving our first Limited Partner commitments days before COVID-19 broke out. Vine is a resilient founding team just like the ones we back; dedicated to innovating and developing the best user experience for founders beginning their process of creation.

Before forming the team and capital behind Vine, I was with Insight Venture Partners, where I spent my days relentlessly searching for founders of growth-stage companies, and made investments in several including Xamarin (acquired by MSFT) and 1stdibs (DIBS – NASDAQ). Following Insight, I joined my friend Liad Agmon at Dynamic Yield to help build out the US presence of the Israeli software company that would ultimately get acquired by McDonald’s for a reported $300m.

Immediately before Vine, I co-founded a venture capital firm called Sinai Ventures, backed by a single family office of one of the founders of SAP, where I was fortunate to lead early investments in companies like Carta, Hippo, Ro, Unqork, FrontApp, Ramp, Dutchie, and others. 

Vine is the outcome of a career and dream to combine our team’s experience and track record to build a new generation of venture capital firms. We are your peers, not your parents, and our LP base and operator network of some of the most powerful people in industry and finance can fundamentally impact the trajectory of your company. 

I am a grateful husband to Arianne and father to Sophie and Salo. I enjoy playing racquet sports and am uniquely available as a wedding DJ, Photographer, and Rabbi. I am a board member of United Hatzalah.

Cofounder & Partner
NYC & TLV

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Vine Ventures is the closest it gets to partnering with a VC that understands the founder mentality. We did not inherit a portfolio, an office, or investors; rather, we built our firm from the ground-up to deliver a world-class experience to founders, employees, and limited partners. Today, we are one of the largest seed-focused firms in NYC with a differentiated footprint in Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

With the goal of being the go-to funding source for early-stage entrepreneurs in our target markets, I’ve relocated to each as we set up our operations on the West Coast and in Israel. I happily go where our team needs me most and am involved across significant parts of our portfolio, supporting founders in strategy, hiring, fundraising, and most importantly: balancing listening and speaking, always with a solutions-oriented approach. 

I started my career at Credit Suisse (in 2013, when the TMT group took Alibaba public) and TA Associates (investing and running global M&A for a portfolio roll-up). With an entrepreneurial itch, in 2018, I was fortunate to find in Eric Reiner a partner I aligned with morally, ethically, and in our mutual pursuit of becoming the best at our craft. Through a single family office-backed fund, we invested early in a handful of companies that became standouts of their vintage: Carta, Hippo, Roman, Unqork, and Front. That track-record and the support of founders and mentors allowed us to go institutional and launch Vine. Today, we support a diverse portfolio of entrepreneurs as their lead investors; and I’m proud to say we have helped them achieve a range of personal and professional milestones, including one of the highest graduation rates (from Seed to Series A and B) in the industry. 

I’m a big believer in focusing on your power-skill, embracing what makes you different, and developing your unique advantage to win. Test-taking not being my strength, as a teenager I focused on cross country and track to improve my chances in college admissions. Hard work (and coaches’ belief) became my ticket to the University of Chicago where I was lucky to earn enduring friendships, a couple conference titles, and a degree in Economics. To this day, I get the most enjoyment from team accomplishments and am grateful to work with founders and LPs alongside one of the best early stage investing teams in venture. 

When not working, I devote time to family and close friends, with whom I hope to be more often hiking, skiing, and adventuring.  

Head of West Coast & LatAm
SF

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The first sentence of a VC bio is supposed to be inspiring. Thankfully, I prefer to focus on second impressions. 

I grew up in Los Angeles and received my undergraduate degree from Harvard, where I was determined to study subjects that had no application to the real world. I majored in theoretical math because I obsess over logic riddles and minored in English because I obsess over Vladimir Nabokov. Little did I know these passions would manifest in surprising ways as a VC – whether in reading research papers, writing yet another blog post, or connecting on a deeper level with founders. 

After graduating, I moved to New York City and spent over three years at Blackstone Private Equity. Focusing on technology and business services sectors, I was privileged to partner with companies like Ultimate Software, Kronos, Vivint, Cloverleaf, and Gates. Having exposure early in my career to mature, public technology businesses – as an investor, operator, and BOD observer – has made me a profoundly better (and more empathetic) early-stage investor.

I joined Vine as the first hire and now lead our efforts on the West Coast and LatAm. I’m a generalist but tend to index towards industries utilizing cutting edge technologies such as machine learning, data, security, and developer tools. 

Second impressions matter most because venture investing isn’t about the sales pitch on day one. It’s about showing up on day two – fielding your late night calls, finding your next 10x engineer, introducing you to a pipeline of eager enterprise customers. That’s the kind of partner I aspire to be at Vine. Anyone can write a check, but not everyone can invest. 

Backing the next cohort of generational technology companies is busy work. But in my limited free time, you can find me at the nearest cinema or taking extremely high risk bets on my skis.

Chief of Staff
TLV

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I first became passionate about operations and community building during my time in various non-profit organizations. At Nefesh B’Nefesh, I supported immigrants arriving in Israel by building a coworking space in Tel Aviv, connecting them to employers, and facilitating dozens of inclusion programs and initiatives across the country.

I started my career as an Analyst at MunichRe’s corporate VC arm and continued in Investor Relations at the Israel-based investment firm, OurCrowd. There, I organized the firm’s annual Global Investor Summit, one of the Middle East’s premier tech conferences. My excitement about the Israeli tech ecosystem, as well as my attention to the ways in which the venture ecosystem could be improved within it, led me to seek out a firm with similar characteristics.

At Vine, I supercharge the investment team by creating processes and managing programming that bring our community together — for example: our team offsites, annual meeting, and events across TLV, NYC, and SF. I help achieve the partnership’s strategic goals by ensuring clear communication across the team and distilling vision into executable objectives. 

I am a mother of two and lead my town’s governing council, which oversees essential infrastructure development and liaises with local and national governments.

VP Finance & Operations
Chicago

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I joined Vine after nearly a decade at GCM Grosvenor, a multi-billion dollar institutional investment allocator. At GCM, I spent time in roles ranging from business analyst to accountant to a member of the deal team. Most recently, I was a Principal in Operational Due Diligence, where I was responsible for detailed evaluation of fund managers, including emerging managers and venture capital funds. It was my time on the ODD team where I was exposed to VC managers’ internal operations; and where I developed my interest in how to design these operations to mitigate non-investment risk. In other words, what it takes to build an institutional-quality firm. 

Building and understanding how things work is my inner compass. I studied Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, where friends and I designed and built CAD models, robots, and even a capacitance-sensing musical instrument. Today, I spend less time on building physical things and more time on building Vine with the team. While Vine’s investors take a detailed and diligent approach to backing founders, I mirror that mindset in managing Vine’s operations. By marrying process with reality, I reduce any friction to delivering on our objectives for our founders, employees, and limited partners.

I live in Chicago with my wife and son, who was born on Open Championship Sunday in 2022 and has already visited the Vine offices in Tel Aviv! I love golf, am a diehard Denver Broncos fan, and am looking forward to rebuilding one of my old sets of golf clubs to fit my son when the time arrives.

Operating Partner
NYC & TLV

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I founded Rebel, an interactive e-mail API company in NYC. By 2018, our customers included brands like Dollar Shave Club, L’Oreal and HelloFresh, and we were acquired by Salesforce to become an extension of their Marketing and Commerce Cloud. 

I have been at Salesforce since the acquisition, most recently as SVP of Salesforce Labs. I am responsible for product strategy, including AI initiatives and directing strategic acquisitions across our cloud offering. 

I also co-founded GoodToday.org, a non-profit platform with the mission of making charity a habit for thousands. I enjoy investing in and working with empathetic founders. I spend my evenings as a volunteer EMT in NYC.

Operating Partner
NYC & TLV

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I started my career cold-calling founders, “selling money”, on the investment team at Insight Partners with Eric Reiner. I subsequently left to start my own company, Intello (“SaaS to manage SaaS”). I made a ton of mistakes yet listened enough to find the need customers had with SaaS security, culminating in a successful exit to SailPoint in 2021. 

After the acquisition, I took some time to recharge while vesting & resting at SailPoint, incubating two health tech businesses on the side and running a few founder communities, including one for post-exit founders. I’m also an active angel investor. 

Most of my time is spent helping founders at the pre-idea and idea stage. Specifically, with post-exit founders who are navigating the “what’s next” questions. I love the 0 to 1 stage and plan to partner with epic founders building missionary companies for the rest of my career.