Dovi Ollech

Director & Managing Partner at Emerge Ventures

Speaker

Dovi Ollech is the founding partner of Emerge, one of Israel’sleading early-stage venture funds with approximately $300million AUM. Emerge has shown top 5% performance in its fundson global benchmarks. Some of the investments that Dovi ledinclude Crosswise (acquired by Oracle), Dynamic Yield (acquired by McDonald’s), Intello (acquired by SailPoint), Axonius andAidoc.Prior to founding Emerge in 2015, Dovi served as chief of staff andsenior advisor to Israel's Chief Scientist and chairman of Israel’s Innovation Authority, Overseeing an annual investments of~$500 million in over 2000 Israeli tech companies. He served as akey player in the international interface of the Israeli Government’s tech related initiatives including, serving as an active member of the China-Israel task force and a board memberof BIRD Energy (US-Israel fund).

Before joining government, he was a commercial lawyer at EBNone of Israel’s leading law firms, focused on high-tech M&A’s,investments and venture capital fund activities.

Dovi received an MBA from IDC in Herzelia, and a L.L.B. and B.A in International Relations from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.