Gadi Porat

About

Tirosh is very familiar with the “significant outcomes” that have produced new record numbers for Israeli entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. He is Managing Partner at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), one of Israel’s leading venture capital firms, established in 1991. The founder, Erel Margalit, is now a member of the Israeli Parliament; the other managing partners currently are Kobi Rozengarten and Raffi Kesten. JVP was the lead investor in computer security startup CyberArk, one of the best-performing IPOs of 2014 and where Tirosh is serving as Chairman. (CyberArk, currently valued around $2 billion, is scheduled to announce its first quarter earnings after market close today). Gadi Tirosh, Jerusalem Venture Partners PROMOTED [...] This article is more than 10 years old. In the first quarter of 2015, 166 Israeli high-tech companies raised $994 million, a 48 percent increase year-over-year, according to research firm IVC. “We are on a positive slope right now,” Gadi Tirosh told me recently, “which is fine, as long as it’s not over-hyped. At the end of the day, what drives the numbers are significant outcomes.” [...] Gadi Tirosh, Jerusalem Venture Partners PROMOTED “Having an outcome like CyberArk,” says Tirosh, “creates a virtuous cycle. It makes people understand that the prize at the end might be very very significant.” This may explain why we have seen in recent years more IPOs by Israeli startups. The general tendency for years has been to sell quickly even bef