Eduardo Shoval

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Mr. Eduardo Shoval serves as General Partner at Cognitiv Ventures. He served as Chairman & Advisor at Mpirica. He serves as Board Observer at Taranis. Mr. Shoval has over 25 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and mentor in high-tech management, with a proven track record steering companies through the challenging stages of rapid growth. Born in Argentina, Mr. Shoval co-founded seven Israeli high-tech companies (Optibase, Vcon, Accord, Lasercomm, Big Band, Sirica, accells) with five successful exits, four of them with valuations in excess of $400 million and total revenues of billions of dollars. Optibase was a pioneer in MPEG digital compression and forever changed the way we consume video on the Internet. Successfully taken public on NASDAQ in 1999, valuation peaked at over $400M. Mr. Shoval's six original employees at Optibase went on to create other successful high-tech ventures and Optibase became recognized as a boot camp for entrepreneurial activity in Israel. Accord, a leader in rich media video network products, was acquired by Polycom in 2000 for $400M. Vcon, a video conferencing pioneer that went public in France on the Nouveau Marche and reached a market cap of $400M. Big Band Networks, a leader in cable and satellite video distribution, peaked at a $750M market cap on NASDAQ and was acquired in 2011 by Arris. He co-founded and served as Executive Chairman at Demetria. He served as Executive Chairman at Blink.