Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

Why Recursive Ventures Managing Partner Itamar Novick focuses on leveraging data and AI

27 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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In this opening segment of the interview, Itamar Novick, Managing Partner at Recursive Ventures, provides a brief personal background, highlighting over 20 years of experience in the startup ecosystem. He describes his deep passion for startups, describing the work as addictive and contagious, and emphasizes his belief that founders should dive in and take action. The conversation sets the stage for discussing his investment focus and philosophy.

Do you mind giving us a brief background on you and what you're investing in?
Yeah, sure. So first of all, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here and would love to talk more about what I'm focused on in the investing side. So I've spent my entire career, which is a little bit over 20 years at this point, just doing startups. Startups is addictive. It's contagious. If you're passionate about startups, I always tell founders you should leap in and just do it. But that's what I've spent my entire career.
I've been on all sides of the table. I'm a serial entrepreneur.
The last company I was involved in, Life360, I took public in 2019. It was such a fun journey. I'm also an investor. So I've been trained on Sand Hill first as an institutional VC at a fund called Moritar Ventures. Later, I was one of the founders of UpWest Labs, which was an incubator that helped connect the dots between Tel Aviv and Palo Alto. As you can probably tell, I've mentioned Tel Aviv. So I'm originally from Israel, moved to the States 14 years ago.