BizCamp 2012 - The Mentors

Eden Shochat
Early Stage Investor

Eden Shochat is a General Partner focused on seed stage investing at Genesis Partners, one of Israel most active VCs. Eden has over 15 years of experience as the founder and Chief Technology Officer of a variety of software companies, and is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur and technology specialist. Most recently Eden started & supported The Junction, a shared workspace & community in Tel Aviv that's focused on taking entrepreneurs to the next level through a pay-it-forward collaboration model.

Prior to joining Genesis, Shochat co-founded and was the chairman of face.com, the world leader in massive, web-scale face recognition in social networks with over 52 billion indexed images and 130 million uniquely recognized people. Face.com was recently sold to facebook. Previously, Shochat co-founded and was the Chief Technology Officer of Aternity, where he led  the strategic product direction for its user-experience monitoring platform and Delavenne Enterprises, an analytics-based hedge fund.

Eden is one of the organizers of the annual Geekcon geeks conference , a mentor at the Startupseeds high-schol students program and teaches new media entrepreneurship at the IDC (Herzeliya interdisciplinary center). Eden Shochat is a General Partner focused on seed stage investing at Genesis Partners,one of Israel most active VCs. Eden has over 15 years of experience as the founder andChief Technology Officer of a variety of software companies, and is an angel investor,serial entrepreneur and technology specialist. Most recently Eden co founded TheJunction, a shared workspace & community that's focused on taking entrepreneurs to thenext level.