Yadin Kaufmann

Founding Partner, Veritas Venture Partners and Founder & Chairman, Tmura

Yadin is a long-time venture capitalist and social entrepreneur in Israel.  He co-founded Veritas Venture Partners (1990), Tmura – The Israeli Public Service Venture Fund (2002).

To help create a Palestinian start-up ecosystem, Yadin co-founded Sadara Ventures (2011), The Palestinian Internship Program (PIP) (2014), and The Palestinian Mentorship Program (PMP) (2020). 

He also initiated an effort to help finance partnerships between Palestinian tech companies and companies in the US and Israel, which helped lead the US Congress to pass the Middle East Partnership for Peace Act in 2020. 

Yadin received his B.A. from Princeton, M.A. from Harvard, and J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Anti-Defamation League since 2019.