Appointment
Entrée Capital appoints Eyal Azoulay as Partner
Azoulay, the fifth partner in Entrée, will be responsible for a number of existing portfolio companies and involvement in Entrée’s value creation platform for startups, including making new investments.
Entrée Capital has announced that Eyal Azoulay has joined the firm in a Partner role. Azoulay is an entrepreneur with a proven track record in building and scaling startups globally. His last fintech startup, Rumble, was acquired by BNY Mellon in 2017. With the sale of Rumble, Azoulay joined BNY Mellon to head the 'Data as a Business' line. Azoulay has filled a number of CEO roles, and has significant expertise given his startup exits, and as an independent board member of startups.
Azoulay will be responsible for a number of existing portfolio companies and involvement in Entrée’s value creation platform for startups, including making new investments.
Eyal holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Master of Engineering in Micro Mechanical Systems from Israel’s Technion - Institute of Technology.
“I am fortunate and glad to be joining Entrée Capital. I have found, at Entrée Capital, a deeply technological and dedicated team that complements my own curiosity and skills. Coupled with my angel investing experience having invested and mentored a number of teams, I believe that this combination will continue to bring Entrée successful investments and exit,” said Azoulay.
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Entrée Capital, founded in 2010, manages $1.25 billion across nine funds. The firm's extensive portfolio of 180 high-profile companies includes monday.com, Riskified, Rapyd, Talon Cyber, Coupang, HiBob, Gusto, Breezometer, Glovo, BlueWhite Robotics, Stripe, NVision, Stash, Mesh Payments, Perimeter81 and PillPack.
Entrée Capital has exited or IPO’d over 33 companies, with significant IPO’s and exits including Deliveroo, Coupang, Riskified, monday.com, Talon Cyber and Perimeter 81.
“The team at Entrée Capital have worked together with Eyal Azoulay over the past nine months on a number of projects. During this time we found Eyal’s hard-driving work rate, curiosity, passion for product innovation and experience with global customer and market needs. This has led to a natural next step of having him join as a Partner in the firm. We wish him the best of success in this new role,” said Avi Eyal, co-founder and Managing Partner at Entrée Capital.
