Jerusalem Venture Partners

Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) is an internationally recognized venture capital fund with offices in Jerusalem, Israel, and in New York City, US. Established in 1993 by Dr. Erel Margalit, JVP has raised over $1.4 billion and is ranked by Preqin as one of the top-ten consistently performing VC firms worldwide. Over the years, JVP has built over 140 companies in Israel, US, Europe, Asia and continues to leverage its market expertise, as well as a substantial capital base to build companies that disrupt global markets. JVP has also partnered with the City of New York to launch the International Cyber Center in the heart of SoHo, NYC. JVP partnered with NYCEDC, the city’s leading academic institutions and with Fortune 500 corporations to provide start-up companies with strategic guidance, business development, and company building resources. With a view of building category leaders, JVP invests in early through growth-stage companies in the spaces of Cybersecurity, Big Data, Fintech, Foodtech, Agtech, Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Storage, Mobile, Media, and IoT. As a pioneering firm in the Israeli venture capital industry, JVP has contributed significantly to multiple successful portfolio company exits through industry sales and NASDAQ IPO's. To date, JVP has helped orchestrate 35 prominent portfolio companies exits, 12 of which are Initial Public Offerings on NASDAQ. In 2014, JVP concluded the IPO of Cyber-Ark Software (NASDAQ: CYBER), Israel's then most prominent private cyber company. Over the years JVP has forged deep strategic partnerships with global corporations working together to identify and build some of the largest and leading companies emerge from Israel today. In recent years JVP has also integrated these partners into the funds, creating a closer collaboration between the fund, its partners, its portfolio and these major global players.