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Elie Wurtman is co-founder and partner at PICO Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital fund headquartered in Jerusalem. His investments include Vroom (Nasdaq VRM), Spot.io (acquired by NetApp), Gloat, ChargeAfter, and AutoLeadStar. He brings two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, executive, and investor who has played an active role in several high-profile startups. Prior to PICO, Wurtman was a general partner at Benchmark Capital from 2006 to 2012. Prior to Benchmark, he worked for 3 years with Jerusalem Venture Partners, where he led early-stage media technology and enterprise software investments. Wurtman has been an entrepreneur and company builder throughout his career. He launched his first company in 1993 and took 3 companies from founding to IPO. As co-founder and CEO of Deltathree, Jerusalem's first unicorn, Wurtman led the company to 60 points of presence globally with operations across 35 countries. His other notable startups include IronSource, where he
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 2 investors at PICO Venture Partners are tracked.
- • 18 investors hold the Partner & Founder role in VCSift. Elie Wurtman is one of them.
- • 610 investors are based in Israel.
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