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Tomer started programming at the age of 9. Before co-founding Soluto, Tomer was
CTO at MDG Medical, where he led the software and hardware development of medication
dispensing products for hospitals. Before that he co-founded InetB, a web applications
software provider.
Tomer’s better half, Ayala, is an actress. He's also an amateur drummer and prefers
cats over dogs.
Roee started programming at the age of 11. After leading a software group in a security organization's elite R&D unit, he worked as a device driver developer for Envara, acquired by Intel in 2004. Since then, Roee has managed product design and development in several industries, including: water technology (Miya), location-based services (AeroScout), and music (Neocraft, where Roee was co-founder). Roee is married to Avital, a brain scientist and is a big fan of judo, soccer, and classic movies.
Ishay started programming at the age of 10. Before co-founding Soluto, Ishay co-founded
Onigma, a software security start-up in the field of data loss prevention (DLP),
acquired by McAfee in 2006. Ishay is Soluto’s lead software architect and developer.
Ishay is married to Dafna, a theatre director. When he doesn't surf, he writes poetry
and films his life for an upcoming documentary series on Israeli television.
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm, founded in 1996, that partners with entrepreneurs in the technology, biotech and clean tech industries. The team is based in Geneva, London, and Jersey and will open a Silicon Valley office in the Fall of 2011. Index works closely with companies at all stages to build disruptive technologies and emerge as market defining global leaders. The firm is currently investing from the Index Ventures Seed Fund (2010), Index Ventures fund V (€350 million, 2009) and the Index Ventures Growth I fund (€400 million, 2008). Successful exits from the technology portfolio include Lovefilm (acquired by Amazon), Betfair (LSE : BET.L), Playfish (acquired by Electronic Arts), MySQL (acquired by Sun), Last.fm (acquired by CBS) and Skype (acquired by eBay). Index’s current investments include Adconion, AlertMe, ASOS, Criteo, Boku, Etsy, Factual, Flipboard, GroupSpaces, Mimecast, MOO, Moshi Monsters, Ozon.ru, Rightscale, Sonos, Privalia, Rightscale, Trialpay and viagogo. The partner involved in Soluto: Saul Klein (board member).
Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP)– Founded in New York in 1911, BVP has funded over 100 start-ups that went on to become independent public companies, among them Skype, Hotjobs, Yelp, Versant (now Symantec), and Staples. From offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Boston, Mumbai and Herzliya, BVP today manages more than US$2 billion of venture capital, invested in more than 130 start-ups around the world. The partners involved in Soluto: Adam Fisher (board member) and David Cowan.
Giza Venture Capital established in 1992, is a pioneer investor in seed and early-stage technology companies. Giza currently manages five funds totaling about $600 million. Giza investment professionals bring wealth of expertise and experience in Communications, Semiconductors, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Life Sciences, CleanTech, Media, Internet & Entertainment. Giza has invested in 93 companies in the sectors of Communications, Information Technology, Enterprise Software and Life Sciences, with 31 exits. All the fund's partners have previously held key executive positions at leading technology companies or financial institutions. Their combined expertise empowers the team's effective decision-making and problem solving capabilities and accounts for the fund's hands-on approach in working closely with its portfolio companies. The Fund brings significant added value to its portfolio companies post-investment, through involvement at board level as well as providing active support in strategy, marketing, financial and personnel-related decisions. The partners involved in Soluto: Shmuel Chafets (board member) and Zvi Schechter.
Proxima Investments – Tel Aviv-based Proxima invests primarily in seed and early-stage companies. In addition to capital, they offer entrepreneurs venture assistance and strategic advice. Since it was established in 2003, Proxima has invested in Biotech, Information Technology and Internet companies including Collarity, EnzySurge Ltd., Glycominds, SundaySky, and Onigma Ltd., which was bought by McAfee, Inc. in 2006. The partners involved in Soluto: Uri Raanan and Chaim Venezia.
Soluto has several angel investors involved in the operations of the company – all of whom serve as active advisors to the company’s management. Below is a partial list of our angel investors:
Nadav Zohar – Founder of Impact Equity, a financial advisory and investment house. Formerly, an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers. Nadav serves as Soluto’s non-executive chairman.
Chris Dixon – Co-founder of Hunch.com, he formerly co-founded and served as CEO of SiteAdvisor through its acquisition by McAfee, Inc. Chris has personally invested in several early-stage technology companies including TrialPay, DocVerse, Knewton, and Oddcast.
Yuval Neeman – Spent 16 years at Microsoft, most recently as Corporate Vice President of Storage and Platform Solutions. Previously, he was responsible for the Developer Division, which included Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies. Yuval was on the board of M-Systems until it was acquired by SanDisk.
Saar Gillai – VP of Advanced Technology Group & CTO of HP Networking, he formerly served as Senior VP of Worldwide Products and Solutions for 3Com Corporation. Saar also spent seven years at Cisco in a variety of leadership positions, including VP of Engineering for the Wireless Networking business unit.
Ayla Matalon – Executive Director of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Israel, she has more than 15 years of experience in the high-tech and venture capital industries. Ayla is a renowned lecturer on high-tech entrepreneurship and business development in various business and engineering schools.
Lior Golan - Co-Founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of Cyota, which was acquired by RSA Security in 2005. Lior has extensive experience in large-scale software engineering projects, cryptography and operating system design.
