Have you seen the list of names of fantastic people we interviewed during AgriWeek? These included:
- Rebecca “Becky” Strapp, the Director of Educational Initiatives of AIPAC
- Jonathan Pulitzer of GE Ventures
- William Carbone and Miriam Berger of IBM
- Cosimo Calciano of Revotree
- Kevin Baxpehler of Remagine Ventures
- Alhaji Alpha Fofana of ASOIL
- Ilana Devillers of Food4All
- VoIP Pioneer and Serial Investor Jeff Pulver
- Itamar Weisbrod of Yahoo
- Eze Vidra of Remagine Ventures
- Marc Schulman, a columnist for Newsweek
The interviews above were all from DLD TLV. We are now pleased to share with you the first interview we conducted at the Food Tech show, and it was with none other than Jack Levy from ICV!
About Jack Levy
Jack is a co-founder and partner at ICV where he leads the fund’s activities in water related technologies, agritech, foodtech and sustainable materials. Jack sits on the boards of portfolio companies, Groundwork BioAg and FRX Polymers and as an observer to Aqwise and Scodix.
Prior to co-founding ICV, Jack was Vice President and General Counsel of Register.com, where he guided the firm through its Nasdaq IPO and as it expanded operations into five countries and multiple business lines, completed three acquisitions and rapidly grew to be a leader in its market. Previously, Jack served as a corporate attorney for Tulchinsky Stern in Tel Aviv and with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Jack serves on the board of Itim and the Meitarim school in Ra’anana and has coached little league in Israel for over ten years. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a Stone Scholar and a B.A from Harvard College.
About ICV
Israel Cleantech Ventures is an Israeli specialized venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Glen Schwaber, Jack Levy, and Meir Ukeles. It was the first Israel focused clean technology venture capital fund intent on providing growth capital to Israel’s energy, water and environmental technology sectors.
Their portfolio companies include:
- Aqwise — Working on increased treatment capacity and nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment plants.
- BrightView Systems — founded in 2007 to develop and bring to market process and production optimization technologies for the thin-film photovoltaic industry to enable solar-cell manufacturers to maximize panel efficiency and reliability as well as attain high-volume productivity.
- CellEra — Working on disruptive low-temperature fuel cell technology.
- CRE (Citrine Renewable Energy) — Developing systems converting biogas into high value biomethane.
- Emefcy — Utilizing microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology to produce electricity from the treatment of wastewater.
- FRX Polymers — has developed and is commercializing a family of novel non-halogenated (and therefore environmentally friendlier), transparent, high melt flowing, fire resistant plastics. FRX’s products are suitable as polymeric flame retardant additives and as “stand-alone” inherently flame retardant engineering plastics.
- Gro Intelligence — Gro Intelligence deciphers data through computational and visualization tools that enable global food security.
- Metrolight — Based in Netanya with an office in Franklin, Tennessee; the company has established products on electronic ballast solutions for HID lighting systems. It was 2008 Israeli Company of the Year at the Eagle Star Awards Gala by the American-Israeli Chamber of Commerce.
- Pythagoras Solar — Founded by Gonen Fink, Dr. Itay Baruchi, and Precede Technologies. Based in Hakfar Hayarok with an office in San Mateo, California, the start-up works with photovoltaic technology and builds “Medium” concentration solar cells using silicon.
- Scodix — leading provider of Digital Enhancement Presses for the printing industry.
- Tigo Energy — hardware and software that brings new levels of power output efficiency, management and control to photovoltaic solar installations.
- Vayyar — a semiconductor company that develops intelligent radar sensors for 3D imaging.
