Roy Saar

Roy Saar has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2007. Before joining Mangrove in 2011, Roy had been doing business on 4 different continents and he has now been looking at the world of technology from very different perspectives throughout his career. He has been active in Software, IT Services and the Internet and he has acted alternatively as a business angel, a VC and an entrepreneur, having founded and developed several start-ups himself over the past 15 years. He brings corporate, start-up and investment experience to the table. This helps him to better support their entrepreneurs during the first steps of their ventures and to better protect their interests at later stages. He strongly believes in out of the box thinking and a no bull approach and he introduces investment opportunities to the team only when he has been intrigued by both a business idea and a founding team. He also considers himself a hands-on investor and he currently sits on the boards of 3 of their portfolio companies: WalkMe SohoOS and Wix. After completing a B.A. in Economy & Administration, he started his career as a Marketing Manager for an American Consumer Goods company and only went back to technology at the end of the 90s when he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a company providing automation, provisioning, virtualization and management Saas solutions to hosting companies and Telecoms, which was sold to Parallels in 2007. In 1998, he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a virtual servers technology vendor for SaaS providers. In 2002, Roy co-founded RFcell Technologies Ltd., a wireless product and service provider in Israel.