Target Global

Investment decisions are led by Co-Founders and General Partners Yaron Valler and Shmuel Chafets, who sit on the investment committee alongside other senior partners. The firm operates a distributed authority model where local partners in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and London can lead deals in their geographies, but all final investment committee approvals are centralized. This structure is designed to combine local sourcing advantages with portfolio-level risk discipline.

Target Global primarily executes direct equity investments in operating companies from seed through growth stage. The firm does not market itself as a fund-of-funds and its known activities are overwhelmingly direct. It has, however, co-invested alongside other major European venture firms and some US-based crossover funds in later-stage rounds, particularly for portfolio companies approaching IPO.

Target Global is a multi-stage venture investor but concentrates heavily on late-seed and Series A — the point at which a startup has validated product-market fit in its home market and needs capital plus operational support to expand across European and Middle Eastern markets. The firm also makes selective growth-stage investments, often through dedicated growth vehicles, and occasionally writes smaller seed checks to back repeat founders from its network early.

Target Global is a multi-hub investment firm with offices in London, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi. The partnership is split across these cities rather than concentrated in a single headquarters. This structure is central to its investment thesis of sourcing from both European and Israeli ecosystems. Governance is distributed: local partners have meaningful deal-sourcing and portfolio-management authority, but the investment committee operates at the firm level.