Liad Agmon is leaving his job as accomplice at US enterprise capital agency Perception Companions with the intention to discovered a brand new startup. Based on a press launch this morning, “He’ll turn out to be a senior advisor to the agency and proceed to serve on the boards of administrators of the portfolio corporations.”
Agmon has served as a accomplice at Perception Companions Israel alongside Daniel Aronovitz who arrange the Israel workplace. Agmon led investments in six corporations: Qbiq, Datafy, Briya Well being, Visible Layer, Canditech and Wenrix, in addition to inheriting corporations that Perception Companions had already invested in.
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Agmon is predicted to stay on the board of administrators of all of those corporations, along with his roles in corporations 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 the direction of the top of the Covid pandemic bubble, and in 2023 was one of many leaders of the fund’s high-profile protests in opposition to the Israeli authorities’s judicial reform.
Agmon advised 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 corporations, all events really feel that the change might be made,”which is able to take impact within the second half of 2025.
Agmon, who has spent most of his life as a serial entrepreneur relatively than an investor, is predicted to start out one other firm after two corporations he based up to now – the veteran cybersecurity firm Onigma and the info firm Dynamic Yield – had been offered at good-looking earnings. Beforehand Delver, which he based and offered to Sears, was offered at a extra modest revenue.
Perception Companions managing accomplice and founder Jeff Horing mentioned, “Liad has all the time had an entrepreneurial hearth burning and we knew from the start that he would in all probability return to the world of entrepreneurship sooner or later or one other. We drastically recognize his contribution and the influence he has created.”
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on April 9, 2025.
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