Eyal Niv

Eyal joined Pitango in 2015 as a Managing Partner.

Eyal serves on the Board of Directors of Graphcore, AI21, Lumigo, Optibus and Iguazio. With Primary focus on Artificial Intelligence Eyal’s investments include LogzIO, CallApp, XtremIO (acquired by EMC), CrossWise (acquired by Oracle), Pebbles (acquired by Facebook), Oplus (acquired by Intel), Cyota (acquired by RSA & later acquired by EMC), Odysii (acquired by Gilbarco Inc.), Altair Semiconductors (acquired by Sony), AdExtent, and Lucid (acquired by Google).

Prior to joining Pitango, Eyal was Managing Partner at Giza VC, where he led the fund operations and focused mainly on IT infrastructure, Semiconductors & Internet.

In addition to his role at Pitango, Eyal is also Co-Founder of The Public Knowledge Workshop – a leading non-profit organization for freedom of information, as well as Take – an innovative, impact-driven delivery service which helps the needy by providing them with food and delivery service on top of an on-demand delivery service .

Eyal holds a BCom in Corporate Finance from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

He’s an avid mountain biker and passionate about photography, basketball, snowboarding and gaming.