Tomer Niv
Investor at Entrée Capital
Tel Aviv District
Overview
Work Experience
Crypto & Web3 Investor
2022 - Current
Israeli/Global VC, $1.25B across 8 funds, 180 portco's, pre-seed to series C. I work directly with the GP on web3 deals end-to-end, screened 300+ and invested in: 🤝🏼 Gen 🤝🏼 Lightblocks / eOracle 🤝🏼 Sodot 🤝🏼 Breez 🤝🏼 Lynx 🤝🏼 Freename
Web3 Startups Mentor
2022
I'm mentoring startups for various Base Camp Accelerator Programs of crypto, DeFi & NFT.
Board Member & Seed Investor (Entrée Capital)
2023
Sodot provides self-hosted MPC key management infra designed for building custodial and self-custodial Web3 products, with a unique model that retains full operational control and eliminates vendor risks and dependencies.
Board Observer & Seed Investor (Entrée Capital)
2022
Breez develops a Lightning Network infrastructure for liquidity and an SDK for non-custodial payments.
Seed Investor (Entrée Capital)
2022
eOracle is an open infrastructure platform that empowers developers to build secure blockchain oracles backed by Ethereum's battle-tested security model.
Digital Assets Contributor
2023
Forbes Digital Assets is an investment insights platform that provides comprehensive market research, proprietary data and analytics, as well as news and analysis to investors and market participants looking to navigate digital assets markets. I'm writing about crypto, blockchain, NFTs and Web3.
Forbes Magazine is a business magazine that is focused on business news and financial information.
Raised $200,000,000.00 from Binance.
Board Observer & Seed Investor (Entrée Capital)
2022 - 2024
Hexagate detects and mitigates exploits and threats on on-chain assets, before they can cause any loss of funds. Acquired by Chainalysis in December 2024.
Editor in Chief
2023 - 2023
LinkedIn newsletter Web3 Start-Up Nation provided insights and opinions on Israel's thriving web3 start-up scene. I mentored a team of nine volunteers who assisted with content and operations. I eventually had to stop publishing new editions because it was hard to maintain as a side gig.
Director of Global Crypto Solutions
2021 - 2022
I was responsible for all things crypto at eToro - including long-term strategy, business development and product roadmap. Major milestones were creating a new listing process, restructuring the custody unit, creating crypto regulation strategy, interacting with liquidity providers, banks, financial institutions and market data vendors, exploring new business lines such as DeFi and loans and borrows, drafting the metaverse strategy and curating the NFT collection of eToro Art.
Business Development Manager, Crypto
2019 - 2021
I decided to join eToro with one purpose - to be part of the company’s vision of connecting the blockchain world with the traditional financial world, and I can say it was a professional leap for me in every way. I start my role at the company as the the business owner of eToroX, eToro’s professional crypto exchange, and business development manager for eToro’s Crypto offering.
Chief Growth Officer
2017 - 2019
While we exponentially grew from 6 people to the largest financial services provider of Crypto in Israel during the Bitcoin bull run of 2017, I had the privilege to build from scratch and manage the business development, marketing and sales departments of the company.
Education
Master of Laws (LL.M.)
2017 - 2019
Introduction to Art and Finance
2022 - 2022
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)
2011 - 2015
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)
2011 - 2015