Jeremie Berrebi
French-Israeli entrepreneur (born 1978)
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Jeremie Berrebi (Hebrew: ג'רמי ברבי; born 4 June 1978) is a French-Israeli technology entrepreneur and investor.
Jeremie Berrebi | |
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ג'רמי ברבי | |
| Born | June 4, 1978 |
| Occupations | Investor, Business Startup Advisor |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Spouse | Rebecca |
| Website | www |
Biography
Jeremie Berrebi was the editor for ZDNet French in 1996, a technology news agency. In 1997 he co-founded Google news ancestor Net2one one of the first French internet news provider, later in 2004 Net2one sold to TNS Group (UK).
In March 2010 Berrebi co-founded with Xavier Niel Kima Ventures,[1][2] a fund dedicated organization to invest in 50 to 100 startups a year everywhere in the world.[3]
Berrebi is active in the investment, private equity and technology industries with more than 360 investments.[4]
In May 2015, Berrebi announced his departure from Kima Ventures, the launch of Magical Capital, advising family offices and corporates on their investments, acquisitions and digital transformation[5] and joined the LetterOne Technology advisory board that he left in April 2017.[6][7]
Awards and recognition
Berrebi won the Europas Prize of Best European Angel Investor in 2014.[8]
Public positions
- Developers Institute Tel Aviv Coding Bootcamp – Ranked as 2nd best coding bootcamp in English – Co-Founder and Strategic Advisory Board Member
- Magical Capital Founder and CEO
- Former LetterOne Technology Advisory Board member
- Co-founder at Kima Ventures.[9]
- Founder of KoolAgency, a mobile and web development team.[10]
- Former chairman of Zlio[11]
- Business advisor and co-founder of Teliswitch, an Automated optical distribution frame (AODF) family
- Business advisor and co-founder of Leetchi, a group gifts and events, online money pots[12] (sold to Credit Mutuel Arkea)
- Business advisor and co-founder of FreshPlanet, a social, casual gaming company developing online games for the iPad and Facebook (sold to Gameloft).
- Business advisor and co-founder of iAdvize, Real-time online customer service: live chat.
- Co-founder of 8-Sec
- Co-founder of Producteev, a Task Management Software (sold to Jive Software).
- Former CEO of Net2one (Sold to TNS in 2004)[13]
- Former editor of ZDNet.fr[14]
- Former CompuServe sysop