Startup Grind Tel Aviv Hosts Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures)

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Jim Scheinman, Maven Ventures

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Jim Scheinman is one of the leading experts in Silicon Valley consumer startups having had the good fortune of achieving 3 'Unicorn' ($1B+) exits/valuations over the past 20 years as a founder, executive and VC: Bebo, Tango and NBCi.
In January 2013, Jim launched Maven Ventures Growth Labs and Venture Fund in Palo Alto to scale his successful angel investing business that he founded in late 2008.
Four of his ten investments since 2008 have achieved successful exits including two Google acquisitions, and four others are doing extremely well, like Tango which has over 250M members & recently announced at $225M round with Alibaba.
In 2005, Jim left Friendster to join co-founders Michael & Xochi Birch to launch Bebo as the first employee and Board member.
At Bebo, he was integral in launching the site, raising the venture round, leading the strategy and its eventual sale to AOL for $850M in 2008.
Jim's first startup he joined, snap.com, was acquired by NBC/GE and became a $6B public company called NBCi in 2000.
Jim has a BSc in Neuropsychology from Duke University and earned a JD at the University of California Davis School of Law.
Jim gave a TED talk in Long Beach in 2012 and serves as a speaker and startup judge at many startup conferences.

Agenda

6:00 Networking and Food
7:00 Fireside Chat
8:00 Networking

Hosted By Shahar Matorin, Tel Aviv Chapter Director

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Shahar Matorin has been involved in Israeli High-Tech, Internet and Digital industry since 1999 and has led lthe business development in InteGreat established 5 years ago. With a group of professional experts, Shahar can lead entrepreneurs from an idea to Worldwide Product Marketing. Shahar chooses to advise, accompany and assist entrepreneurs and mature companies in their way to the digital world since that is what he does best.
Email: Shahar@startupgrind.com | Twitter: @StartupGrindTEL (http://twitter.com/StartupGrindTEL)

Hosted By Ram Yonish, Co-Director StartUp Grind TLV

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Results driven person with a passionate of helping others. Today serves as VP sales and marketing of a large software services company (1300 employees) and a proud member of StartUp Grind. formerly owner of SureTest LTD and a partner of a startup called ProductionMap. A dreamer but yet with two solid legs in the ground. positive thinker and a believer. Most of all a proud father of 3 kids. I’m here to help any Israeli entrepreneur with my networks globally and vice versa for any entrepreneurs/ investor looking for Israeli startup’s and technology. “Believe you can and you are halfway there” (Theodore Roosevelt)
Email: Ryonish@startupgrind.com | Twitter: @r_yonish (http://twitter.com/r_yonish)

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