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As a General Partner at Gemini, Adi draws on his start-up, VC and scientific background to make seed investments. Since joining Gemini in 1999, he has specialized in seed investments in the areas of enterprise IT software and systems, and financial software.
He was the first VC in Itemfield, sold to Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA), Diligent sold to IBM, and Traiana sold to ICAP. Some of the world’s leading VCs joined Adi in investments including Sequoia, Accel, Foundation, Matrix, Battery and Lightspeed.
Adi was also CEO of Sphera, sold to Parallels.
Adi sits on the boards of a number of Gemini portfolio companies including dbMotion, IT Structures, Neocleus, Metrolight, and OpTier.
Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Adi held business development and marketing positions with Nexus Telecommunications (NASDAQ:NSUSF), joining as one of the company's first employees. Nexus develops wireless technologies for messaging and location services.
Prior to Nexus, he was an engineer at ECI Telecom (NASDAQ:ECIL), a Global provider of networking infrastructure solutions, in the early days of the company’s SDH (a standard for communicating digital information over fiber-optic cables) business unit. His team developed the first SDH system. Earlier in his career, Adi served in the Israeli Navy as a project engineer for Naval Underwater Systems.
Adi is a graduate of the INSEAD MBA program. He holds two degrees from Ohio State University, a BSc with honors in Electrical Engineering and a BA with distinction in Mathematics. He studied for over two years towards a M.Sc. in vision-computer science at the Weizmann Institute but ultimately decided that business, not academia, was his true calling. Adi is a frequent speaker in Israel and Europe on VC and high tech topics. Adi was chosen by Yale University as a Yale World Fellow. |
