Yaron Samid

Founder of TechAviv

Tel Aviv District

Overview

Yaron Samid is the Founder & Managing Partner of TechAviv, a community builder and investor. With a track record of founding and leading three successful startups, he has also made significant investments in various sectors, including Robotics, Education, and FinTech, positioning himself as a key player in the tech ecosystem. Samid's career highlights include founding TechAviv, a prominent community for Israeli tech entrepreneurs, and making strategic investments in companies like Nas Academy and Flytrex, contributing to the growth of innovative startups in diverse sectors.

Work Experience

TechAviv

Managing Partner
2020 - Current
TechAviv Founder Partners is a pre-seed venture fund backed and powered by 150 of the world’s most successful company builders, including 37 unicorn founders, public company CEOs, tech-giant execs, and top-tier VCs. We’ve joined forces across 6 continents and 28 sectors of expertise to actively scout and support elite Israeli founders building transformative tech companies globally.
Founder
2007
The TechAviv Founders Club is a private global network of Israeli startup founders that connect on and offline, harnessing our collective energy, knowledge, and networks to help each other build better companies. Since 2007 our members have built over 130 billion-dollar companies.

Together

Seed Investor
2023
The future of AI is open-source. Together AI's decentralized cloud services empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy open-source generative AI models.

Together AI is a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models.

Raised $228,500,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, Soumith Chintala, Lux Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Greycroft, Manu Sharma, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, Factory and Clément Delangue.

together.ai

Torq

Seed Investor
2020
Torq is a no-code automation platform for security and ops teams.

Torq is a AI-first security hyperautomation company that provides a no-code automation platform designed to enhance security operations.

Raised $190,000,000.00 from Strait Capital, Greenfield Partners, Notable Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Evolution Equity Partners.

torq.io

Somite Therapeutics

Seed Investor
2024
Somite.ai is building the OpenAI of stem cell biology. The company develops AI foundation models to produce human tissue for cell therapies at scale for diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and muscular dystrophies.

Somite is leveraging data and AI to introduce novel cell replacement therapies.

Raised $10,295,000.00 from TechAviv, Mark Ventures, Darkmode Ventures, Nachum “Homi” Shamir, Next Coast Ventures, Texas Venture Partners, BC Growth Equity, Astellas Venture Management, Conscience VC and Trust Ventures.

somite.ai

Descope

Seed Investor
2022
Descope is a frictionless, secure, and developer-friendly authentication and user management platform.

Descope enables any developer to create secure, frictionless authentication and user journeys for any application.

Raised $53,000,000.00 from Dell Technologies Capital, George Kurtz, TechAviv, Cerca Partners, Silicon Valley CISO Investments, Bipul Sinha, J Ventures, Anshu Sharma, Assaf Rappaport and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

descope.com