Judah Taub is co-founder and managing partner of Hetz Ventures, bringing an unusually technical background as former Head of Data at $20B hedge fund Lansdowne Partners where he applied algorithmic thinking to investing, plus five years as an IDF intelligence officer where he engineered a new intelligence collection method that won the IDF's 2014 top Creativity Award. He's known for importing concrete AI and algorithm techniques into business decision-making, authoring "How to Move Up When the Only Way Is Down" which uses AI optimization concepts like avoiding "local maximums" to teach founders better decision-making, and for his distinctive "backward-planning" framework that advises entrepreneurs to start their pitch from ambitious future milestones and work back to today.
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Hetz Ventures
Hetz Ventures is a seed-stage VC where the entire investment team consists of ex-engineers with deep infrastructure backgrounds, deliberately built so partners resemble the highly technical founders they back rather than generalist financiers, and they operate with an unusually startup-like internal culture where everyone sits in the same open room and decisions are made transparently in group brainstorms. They specialize narrowly in infrastructure software and have built a proprietary network of roughly 120-150 senior data, AI, and infrastructure executives who behave like an extended team for product validation and early sales, while running a highly structured, data-instrumented deal funnel that they treat as an optimization problem rather than an informal craft.
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