Dov Moran

Dov Moran (born July 29, 1955) is an Israeli businessman, electrical engineer, inventor, investor, and writer. He is best known as the inventor of the USB memory stick, and one of the most prominent Israeli hi-tech leaders.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Dov Moran was born in Ramat Gan, Israel, to a family of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Israel from Poland. His father, Baruch Mintz, came from a well-off family from Krosno. The only Mintz family members who managed to survive the Holocaust were Dov's father and grandfather who began a new life in Israel. Dov's mother, Bina Gever, immigrated to Israel with her family who escaped Blonie.[5]

Investments

In January 2015, after several years of angel investing,[18] Moran established Grove Ventures, an Israeli venture capital firm which operates with a funding of worth $US100 million. The venture capital fund mainly specializes in providing seed capital investments in early-stage startups with a focus on advanced groundbreaking technologies such as semiconductors, sensors, artificial intelligence, and digital health. In October 2017, Grove Ventures raised $110 million in commitments.[19] In February 2020, Grove Ventures closed a second fund with $120 million in commitments.[20]

Companies he invested in or launched include:

According to Moran, he views education as the fundamental crucial basis in promoting scientific advancement and cultivating technological innovation. In his role as an active angel investor and engaged venture capitalist seeking to take advantage of harnessing the potential of the most promising emerging Israeli high-technology start-ups, Moran provides guidance and mentorship to up-and-coming Israeli high-technology entrepreneurs, offering valuable assistance in transforming their research and innovative ideas into tangible goods and services suitable for commercial business endeavors. As such, he lectures extensively in universities and schools and sits on the advisory board of Tel Aviv University Momentum Fund.[27]

In addition to several investments made by the fund.[28] Moran has also invested in Learni, a technology company which aims to provide efficient educational solutions for interactive material, live teaching resources, that work in real-time, and student evaluations while also enabling rich digital textbooks in a managed interactive classroom environment.[29]

Consumer Physics, A thumb-sized spectrometer which acts as "digital materials analyzer", enabling a user to identify products' source, freshness, ingredients, the mix of materials and nutrition value.[21]

Sensible Medical Innovation Ltd., Absolute lung fluid monitor based on sensing and monitoring technology providing data for the management and treatment of several chronic medical conditions.[22]

GlucoMe, develops a blood glucose meter that provides an interface to the cloud through a phone or tablet to allow data gathering and analysis, alerts and patient monitoring.[23]

Geneformics, focused on computing for genomics (DNA sequencing).[24] Geneformics aims to provide savings in the storage, communications and cloud processing of DNA sequencing.[25]

native name	דב מורן
birth date	July 29, 1955
birth place	Ramat Gan, Israel
education	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (BSc.)
occupation	Businessman, electrical engineer, inventor, investor, writer
known for	Inventor of the USB flash drive
awards	Edward Award IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award

Biography

Business career

Inventions

Community activism and public sector career

Awards and recognition

Personal life

See also

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Investments