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Yaron Samid

Founder & Managing Partner, TechAviv. 3X founder & CEO, investor, and community builder.

Tel Aviv District

Work Experience

2007

  • Managing Partner

    2020

    TechAviv Founder Partners is a pre-seed venture fund backed and powered by 150 of the world’s most successful company builders, including 37 unicorn founders, public company CEOs, tech-giant execs, and top-tier VCs. We’ve joined forces across 6 continents and 28 sectors of expertise to actively scout and support elite Israeli founders building transformative tech companies globally.

  • Founder

    2007

    The TechAviv Founders Club is a private global network of Israeli startup founders that connect on and offline, harnessing our collective energy, knowledge, and networks to help each other build better companies. Since 2007 our members have built over 130 billion-dollar companies.

2023

  • Seed Investor

    2023

    The future of AI is open-source. Together AI's decentralized cloud services empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy open-source generative AI models.

2020

  • Seed Investor

    2020

    Torq is a no-code automation platform for security and ops teams.

  • Seed Investor

    2024

    Somite.ai is building the OpenAI of stem cell biology. The company develops AI foundation models to produce human tissue for cell therapies at scale for diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and muscular dystrophies.

2022

  • Seed Investor

    2022

    Descope is a frictionless, secure, and developer-friendly authentication and user management platform.

2023

  • Pre-Seed Investor & Board Member

    2023

    The world’s first engineering design copilot.

  • Pre-Seed Investor & Board Member

    2024

    Fixing the multi-billion dollar transitional care gap.

2022

  • Pre-Seed Investor

    2022

    The Hybrid Drug Company

2025

  • Seed Investor

    2025

    Numenos is saving lives through AI-driven Foundation Models, custom-built to reshape drug discovery and development.

  • Seed Investor & Board Observer

    2021

    The Agentic AppSec Platform That Gets Work Done