Gigi Levy Weiss

Gigi Levy Weiss

General Partner

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NFX

Gigi is a general partner in NFX (www.nfx.com), the $450m leading pre seed and seed venture firm in Silicon Valley and Israel. 

He is a founder and investor in many technology startups such as Playtika, Kenshoo, Plarium, MyHeritage, Optimove, Houseparty, R2Net, SimilarWeb, NanoRep, Replay Technology, SpaceApe, inceptionVR and others. Gigi serves on the Supervisory Board of Bertelsmann as well as on the EMEA client advisory council of Facebook. 


Prior to NFX Gigi served as the CEO of 888 Holdings (LSE: 888.L), a leading online gaming entertainment company. Earlier Gigi served as a division president in Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) as well as other senior roles. Before entering the business world, Gigi served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force. Gigi holds an MBA from the Kellogg school of management in the Northwestern University.


Gigi sits on the board of MEET (Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow), the prominent Israeli-Palestinian educational organization (http://meet.mit.edu/) and is a member of the advisory board of the Technology Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship MBA in the Tel Aviv University. Gigi is married to Daphi Levy-Weiss and is the father of Alex, Michael and Itamar, his 3 most important start-ups. They live in Rishpon, Israel. 

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