Elie Wurtman is a partner in Benchmark Israel. He is venture investor, technology-company executive and serial entrepreneur, who has founded six companies over the last decade. Previously, he served as chief executive officer of JVP Studio, an Israel-based venture capital firm, where he focused on early-stage consumer and media investments. He also served as interim CEO at several of the firm’s portfolio companies. Prior to joining the venture capital community, he co-founded and took public deltathree.com, a leader in IP telephony, Ambient, a data communications company, and TTR Technologies, a software security company. He also co-founded and sold NomadIQ, a leader in wireless data applications, to Omnisky, and co-founded Drive Diagnostics, an innovator in real time drivers’ safety monitoring.
