Prime Highlights
- Omri Greenberg has been promoted to Principal at Red Dot Capital Partners, a major promotion in one of Israel’s leading growth-stage venture funds.
- Greenberg will lead new investments and provide strategic counsel to the firm’s portfolio companies.
Key Facts
- Red Dot Capital Partners has $750 million of assets under management across a series of funds, including an Opportunity Fund.
- The company has invested in some of the best companies including Global-e, Armis, Granulate, and Quantum Machines.
Key Background
Red Dot Capital Partners, founded by Yaniv Stern and Yoram Oron in 2016, has become one of Israel’s most prominent venture capital groups specializing in early growth-stage firms. With a $750 million commitment to assets in three flagship funds and an Opportunity Fund to invest in follow-on, Red Dot invests. Its international investors are Southeast Asian, Japanese, European, and United States institutions, which reflects its international character and strategic partnership.
Red Dot’s glamorous portfolio is filled with some big-name investments. Cross-border e-commerce platform Global-e went public on NASDAQ in 2021 with a market capitalization of $6.5 billion. Red Dot’s another portfolio gem Armis was purchased by Google’s venture arm and Insight Partners for about $1.1 billion and is currently worth more than $4 billion. Red Dot also backed Granulate, which was acquired by Intel for $650 million. Other thrilling names are Coralogix, Travelier, Quantum Machines, Finout, Oligo, and Anecdotes.
Red Dot veteran of two years Omri Greenberg was recently promoted to Principal. He has overseen the firm’s investments in Stigg and Oligo. Greenberg co-founded OneView, which created synthetic data generation platforms used to train AI models for remote sensing applications, prior to Red Dot. OneView assets were acquired in 2022 by a strategic US buyer, offering an exit to the startup.
Greenberg’s prior professional experience included a series of engineering roles at Mellanox and SolarEdge. He is a Tel Aviv University Electrical Engineering graduate and a Unit 81 alumnus, the top Israeli Intelligence Corps tech unit. He will be responsible for investment operations and further contact with portfolio companies in his new role, leveraging his entrepreneurial background and investment history.