Eran Davidson is President and CEO of Hasso Plattner Ventures. It all started with a phone call from Shai Agassi in 2005, asking Eran to meet Prof. Plattner, the co-founder and chairman of SAP, with the vision of boosting entrepreneurship in Germany. It took him a minute to agree, and to call his family, preparing them for relocation…

Hasso Plattner Ventures was founded and a few months later made its first investment. Two years on and HPV’s portfolio consists of 10 highly innovative IT companies which together employ over 300 people and generate tens of millions in revenues. Today HPV manages over 150m. Its team consists of 5 investment professionals who provide “hands on” support to all HPV’s companies, with great passion, enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit. Eran brings with him years of experience from the VC industry of Israel, where he was VP of one of the first Israeli VC funds, managing partner of the German Israeli VC Eurofund, CEO of Proseed, chairman of the Technion Incubator and of many successful start up companies.