Itai Horstock

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Mr. Itai Horstock is the Founding Partner and serves as an Advisor at Excaliber Capital. He serves as a Board Member at Sightec. Mr. Horstock served as an Advisor at Oxen9. He also serves as a Managing Partner at Sherpa Innoventures. He is a Board Member of Beta-O2 Technologies. He is the Chairman of CD-tech and Armadil. He is a Co-founder and serves as Managing Partner of Sherpa InnoVentures, a unique innovation-focused investment fund, based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He has extensive experience in the VC and PE industry; he co-founded and managed The Sherpa Group, a New York-based venture capital platform, which was the main investor in Exalink Ltd., eventually acquired by Comverse Technology for the amount of 550 million US$. Following that, he co-founded The Hawkeye Group, a venture capital investment and advisory firm with offices in New York and Tel-Aviv that continued the operation of The Sherpa Group and adjusted its model to the evolution of the market. He serves as the Executive Director of the Government of Luxembourg Trade and Investment Office in Israel. He is a Founding Partner at Excaliber Capital (the biggest multifamily office in Israel), established and managed its non-liquid activity, as well as its VC Operations. He is a co-founder and partner in Evolution, a venture capital fund for medium and small-sized, revenue-generating, and technology-based Israeli and Israel-related companies. He has served as a board member and Chairman in various technology companies, in Israel and the US, including advising in the fields of M&A transactions, Venture Capital, and strategic planning. He was formerly a lawyer at Shearman & Sterling, a leading US firm, in which he participated in major domestic and international corporate transactions specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions. He holds an LL.B from Tel Aviv University and an LL.M from NYU.