Title Managing General Partner Company Canaan Partners Israel Bio Izhar Shay is a Managing General Partner with Canaan Partners Israel. He is a board member at Start A Fire, Drupe, Rollout.io, Algomizer (TASE: Algomizer), Viewbix and LiveU, and until recently he was a board member at Prime Sense (acquired by Apple), and N-trig (acquired by Microsoft). With more than 25 years of operational experience as a successful entrepreneur, Izhar was previously Chairman and CEO of V-Secure Technologies, and CEO and co-founder of Business Layers. Both companies have reached a successful exit under Izhar’s management. Izhar is a member of the board of directors of Ort Israel Sci-Tech, the largest network of science and technology schools in Israel. He writes a weekly column in Globes, Israel’s leading financial newspaper, and is a frequent speaker on Israeli TV and Radio and in various industry conferences. Izhar is the founder of “Start-Up Stadium”, the largest on-line community for high-tech entrepreneurs in Israel, with more than 35,000 members. He was selected by Geektime as one of the top 100 influencers in the Israeli high-tech.