Michael Eisenberg

Extracted Attributes

• Family

  Married to Yaffa with 8 children

• Education

  Yeshiva University (Class of 1993)

• Residence

  Jerusalem, Israel

• Citizenship

  Israel

• Current Role

  General Partner and Co-founder at Aleph

• Date of Birth

  1971-05-18

• Place of Birth

  Manhattan, New York, USA

• Assets Under Management

  $850 million (Aleph)

Timeline

• Born in Manhattan, New York. (Source: Wikidata)

  1971-05-18

• Graduated from Yeshiva University and immigrated to Israel with his wife, Yaffa. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1993-01-01

• Appointed Montgomery Securities Investment Bank representative in Israel and joined Jerusalem Global Investment Bank. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1995-01-01

• Began writing the blog 'Six Kids and a Full Time Job'. (Source: Web Search (Amazon))

  2006-01-01

• Co-founded the venture capital firm Aleph with Eden Shochat. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2013-01-01

• Portfolio company Lemonade listed on the NYSE. (Source: Web Search (Forbes))

  2020-07-01

• Aleph raised its fourth fund, totaling $300 million. (Source: Web Search (Forbes))

  2021-12-01

• Invested $33 million in the Israeli AI cybersecurity startup Dream Security. (Source: Web Search (Forbes))

  2023-11-01

• Portfolio company Empathy.com raised $47 million in Series B funding. (Source: Web Search (Forbes))

  2024-03-01

Michael Eisenberg

Michael Eisenberg (Hebrew: מייקל אייזנברג; born May 18, 1971) is an American-born Israeli businessman, venture capitalist, and author.

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• Executive Profile: Michael Eisenberg, Partner at Aleph VC and ...

  path is that it was unpredictable and involved much siyata dishmaya [“help of heaven”]. [...] Share on LinkedIn Share Michael Eisenberg, an alumnus of Yeshiva College Class of ‘93, is currently an Equal Partner at Aleph, an Israeli venture fund with over $300 million AUM. Prior to Aleph, Michael was a General Partner at Benchmark Capital. He currently presides on the Board of Directors as a member or observer at WeWork, Lemonade, Honeybook, Nexar, Freightos, Clarizen, Gigya, and Seeking Alpha. Michael was the Editor-in-Chief at The Commentator when he was a student at Yeshiva University. He is a major advocate for Aliyah and with Aleph has helped organize job listings for potential Olim at hundreds of startups across Israel. Evan Axelrod: Can you tell us about the path you took to currently managing the Aleph fund? [...] on The Commentator, the camaraderie of the team, the very angry administration and the sometimes piqued small handful of rabbanim. Their rebukes and critiques, sometimes right and sometimes not, taught me not to take myself or others too seriously and to pursue truth. It caused me to question myself and my decision making in what I hope and pray is an honest manner. At the same time, it gave me a healthy way to question and challenge the status quo and deeply ingrained beliefs parading as truths. I think that is really important in life. We cannot stay stagnant.

• Michael Eisenberg: books, biography, latest update - Amazon.com

  Michael Eisenberg is Co-Founder and General Partner at Aleph, an early stage venture capital fund with $850 million under management. He has been a venture capitalist for 25 years. Aleph focuses on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in more than 50 companies, including Melio, Lemonade (NYSE: LMND), Bringg, JoyTunes, Healthy.io. Since 2006, Eisenberg has been writing the blog Six Kids and a Full Time Job, on topics ranging from politics to technology to Judaism to macroeconomics. He is a contributor to Calcalist and TheMarker, Israel’s Hebrew-language daily business newspapers, and is the author of the “The Hummus Manifesto,” the seminal piece on Israel’s innovation [...] Hummus Manifesto,” the seminal piece on Israel’s innovation scene. Eisenberg has also published five books in Hebrew. He lectures frequently on venture capital, Israel, and entrepreneurship. He serves on the board of the nonprofit organization Yeshivat Har Etzion and is the chairman of The Shomer Hachadash. Eisenberg lives in Jerusalem with his wife and eight children.

• Michael Eisenberg, MD - Stanford Profiles

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• Michael Eisenberg - Wikipedia

  In 1993, Eisenberg and his wife Yaffa immigrated to Israel. He is a resident of Jerusalem and has eight children. ## Career [edit] Eisenberg is the co-founder and general partner of Aleph, a Tel-Aviv-based venture capital firm. Eisenberg began his career as a consultant for Marttila and Kiley, Inc. a political consulting firm. In 1995, Eisenberg was appointed Montgomery Securities Investment Bank representative in Israel. That year, he also began working as VP Investment Banking at Jerusalem Global Investment Bank in partnership with Shlomo Kalish. Eisenberg's first investment was in PictureVision, a photo-sharing company, which was acquired by Kodak in the late 1990s. [...] Analyzing the Israeli start-up industry and the phenomenon of early exits, Eisenberg offers a psychological hypothesis: "This is a country where people want to be their own boss ... There is less of an appreciation of the impact of the size of the overall pie versus my piece of the pie". He believes that Israeli companies need to aim for bigger outcomes, such as attempting initial public offerings and SPACs, while keeping their headquarters in Israel. [...] In 2013, he co-founded Aleph, a venture capital fund based in Tel Aviv, together with Eden Shochat. Aleph is an early-stage fund with $850M under management focused on partnering with Israeli entrepreneurs to build large and impactful global brands. Since its founding, Aleph has invested in over 50 companies, including Melio, Lemonade "Lemonade (insurance)") Frank (acquired in 2021 by JP Morgan, and as of July 2023, embroiled in a lawsuit over falsified company performance data), Freightos, Bringg, JoyTunes, Healthy.io, Fabric, Windward, HoneyBook and Nexar.

• Michael Eisenberg - Forbes

  In 2013, Michael Eisenberg cofounded early-stage firm Aleph, which invests in the Israeli tech ecosystem. Aleph raised a $300 million fund, its fourth, in December 2021. His biggest hits include payments startup Melio, acquired by Xero for $2.5 billion in June 2025, insurer Lemonade, which listed in 2020 for $1.6 billion and now has a $5.6 billion market cap, and Honeybook, a fintech for freelancers last valued at $2.4 billion. While a general partner at Benchmark, Eisenberg invested in WeWork early alongside his former colleagues. After going public via SPAC in October 2021 at a $9 billion valuation, WeWork delisted from NYSE and filed for bankruptcy in November 2023; it was bought in April 2023 by software company Yardi. [...] In November 2023, Eisenberg invested $33 million in Israeli startup Dream Security. The AI cybersecurity company was co-founded by Shalev Hulio, former CEO of NSO Group, infamous for its Pegasus spyware. Empathy.com, where Eisenberg holds a board seat, raised $47 million in a Series B funding round led by Index Ventures in March. The Israeli startup offers digital tools to help with bereavement.

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• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  Yeshiva University

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  businessperson

• Citizenship

  Israel

• Date Of Birth

  5/18/1971

• Place Of Birth

  Manhattan