Liad Agmon is leaving his job as associate at US enterprise capital agency Perception Companions with a view to discovered a brand new startup. In line with a press launch this morning, “He’ll change into a senior advisor to the agency and proceed to serve on the boards of administrators of the portfolio firms.”
Agmon has served as a associate at Perception Companions Israel alongside Daniel Aronovitz who arrange the Israel workplace. Agmon led investments in six firms: Qbiq, Datafy, Briya Well being, Visible Layer, Canditech and Wenrix, in addition to inheriting firms that Perception Companions had already invested in.
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Agmon is anticipated to stay on the board of administrators of all of those firms, along with his roles in firms during which he has invested privately, together with coral restoration firm V-Corals. Agmon additionally took over the fund’s long-standing funding in Joonko, which was uncovered as fraudulent and closed shortly afterwards. He was appointed to the place in December 2021, in direction of the tip of the Covid pandemic bubble, and in 2023 was one of many leaders of the fund’s high-profile protests towards the Israeli authorities’s judicial reform.
Agmon instructed Perception Companions of his plans to step down on the finish of 2024, however now “given the rising stability in Israel and the resilience demonstrated by Perception’s portfolio firms, all events really feel that the change may be made,”which can take impact within the second half of 2025.
Agmon, who has spent most of his life as a serial entrepreneur reasonably than an investor, is anticipated to start out one other firm after two firms he based up to now – the veteran cybersecurity firm Onigma and the information firm Dynamic Yield – have been offered at good-looking income. Beforehand Delver, which he based and offered to Sears, was offered at a extra modest revenue.
Perception Companions managing associate and founder Jeff Horing stated, “Liad has all the time had an entrepreneurial hearth burning and we knew from the start that he would most likely return to the world of entrepreneurship in some unspecified time in the future or one other. We tremendously respect his contribution and the influence he has created.”
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