Genesis Partners

Eddy Shalev and Eyal Kishon, the firm's co-founders, led all investment decisions throughout the firm's active lifecycle. Shalev brought operational and financial discipline, while Kishon contributed deep technical and entrepreneurial networks within Israel's military intelligence diaspora. The firm is no longer raising new blind-pool funds, and current portfolio decisions are handled by the remaining partnership.

The firm's two most significant exits were PrimeSense, the 3D-sensing company acquired by Apple for a reported $345 million in 2013, and ClickSoftware, acquired by Salesforce for $1.35 billion in 2015. Additional exits include Radvision, a videoconferencing pioneer, and AudioCodes, a voice networking company, both of which went public on Nasdaq.

10D is a growth-stage venture fund co-founded by Genesis Partners founder Eddy Shalev after Genesis wound down active fundraising. 10D represents an evolution of Shalev's investment strategy toward later-stage companies, while Genesis Partners remains the legacy vehicle for managing its four earlier funds and their remaining portfolio positions.

No. Genesis Partners raised four funds between 1996 and the mid-2010s, deploying over $600 million, but does not actively raise new blind-pool funds as of the 2020s. The firm manages its remaining portfolio positions, while its founders have moved on to separate investment activities, including Eddy Shalev's growth-stage fund 10D.

The firm concentrated on enterprise software, semiconductor and hardware, internet infrastructure, and cybersecurity. This focus reflected the engineering strengths of Israel's technology sector in the 1990s and 2000s, when ex-military intelligence engineers founded companies in networking, imaging, and data infrastructure — areas where Genesis built its most successful positions.