Aviad Harell

Aviad Harell, Managing Partner at Team8, is an angel investor and adviser to many startup companies, venture capital firms and executives.

Before joining Team8, Aviad founded Sisense, a leading business intelligence startup, and led it as its core tech developer, executive, and operational leader for more than 15 years. Under his leadership, Sisense grew to become a leading BI vendor with $150 million in annual revenue and more than 800 employees. During the company’s growth, Aviad launched and led various departments such as Product Management, Sales Engineering, Post-sales, Professional Services and Customer Success, among others.

Aviad moved to the United States in 2013 to create Sisense US, which rapidly emerged as the company’s headquarters. During this time, Aviad launched additional growth engines for Sisense, including cloud-based services, SaaS products and OEM services. Over time, these growth engines proved to be the biggest source of revenue for the company, accounting for more than 80% of its overall revenue.

Over the past few years, Aviad has been serving as Sisense’s COO and GM, in addition to cultivating, advising and investing in extraordinary entrepreneurs and establishing new ventures. Among these are: Approve.com (acquired by Tipalti) and Finaloop, for both of which, Aviad is an angel investor; and Preql, Pragma, Blink Ops and 1MRobotics, in which he is an investor and limited partner via Int3, an elite investment fund with more than 50 founders. Aviad holds a BSc in Computer Science from Reichman University (formerly IDC Herzliya).