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Oded Barel-sabag

Investor at Fresh Fund

Israel

Overview 

Oded Barel-Sabag is an Investor at fresh.fund in Israel, specializing in pre-seed investments focused on climate and health sectors. With a background in UX, interaction design, and business development, Oded has held executive roles in various programs and organizations, including serving as the Executive Director of Jnext - JDA High-Tech and Entrepreneurship Program in Jerusalem.

Work Experience 

FF

Fresh Fund

  • Investor

    2020 - Current

    fresh.fund is a leading Israeli pre-seed venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups across segments and verticals but specializes in startups whose founders include students, academics, or recent graduates. We're built to partner with early-stage founders from day one, often as the company's first institutional investors. It's never too early to have a conversation about your startup.

EC

Ezra Climate

  • Investor

    2024

GH

Guardoc Health

  • Investor

    2023

R

Remepy

  • Investor

    2022

G

Gigablue

  • Investor

    2022

C

CarbonBlue

  • Investor

    2022

O

OurRitual

  • Investor

    2022

TM

The Matar Excellence Program

  • The Matar Venture Lab

    2020 - 2024

    The Matar Venture Lab is a year-long academic course providing students from The Matar Excellence Program experiential learning of starting a startup from scratch around a 'Technology & Society' related challenge. The course takes the students through the entrepreneurial journey, starting at generating ideas around major problems and opportunities worth pursuing, becoming an expert in the opportunity landscape through conducting extensive market research and ongoing interviews with relevant stakeholders, clarifying the need and the opportunity, ideating for potential solutions with unique value propositions, develop prototypes to test and validate the hypotheses and craft a compelling business case.

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Jnext - JDA, High-Tech and Entrepreneurship Program, Jerusalem

  • Executive Director

    2017 - 2020

    Jnext is the governmental and municipal project for developing the Jerusalem's tech ecosystem. I work closely with corporates, startups, academic institutions, accelerators and community organizations with a goal of making the city an attractive tech hub for startups, scale-ups and multinational corporations. At Jnext, we assist Jerusalem-based tech companies at all stages and initiating and supporting ecosystem development projects and activities such venture-creation platforms for early-stage companies, academy-industry joint-projects and community initiatives (conferences, meetups, hackathons, etc.).

CreativeMornings / Jerusalem

  • Co-Founder

    2016 - 2020

    CreativeMornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community, active in over 200 cities around the world. We started the Jerusalem chapter in April 2016, hosted inspirational events with leading entrepreneurs, researchers, designers, artists, and cultural figures with a goal to promote and engage Jerusalem's creative community. CreativeMornings is a volunteer-led initiative. Check out the lectures' videos: https://creativemornings.com/cities/jlm

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