Jeff Herbst

Founding Managing Partner at GFT Ventures

Speaker

Jeff Herbst is Co-Founding Managing Partner of GFT Ventures, an early stage AI-focused venture capital fund investing primarily in the US and Israel. Prior to launching GFT, Jeff spent 20 years as NVIDIA’s Vice President of Business Development where he built an ecosystem of accelerated computing applications spanning the domains of AI, Data Science, Autonomous Machines, and Graphics and Visualization. During his tenure at the company, among other things he created the Nvidia ventures and acquisitions programs, overseeing more than 40 global investments and 20 acquisitions valued over $8B. He also led the Nvidia Inception global startup accelerator, now comprised of well over 10,000 AI, Data Science and High Performance computing companies.