Raz Mayshar is moving to Qualcomm Ventures from Tel Aviv-based smart mobility innovation hub Drive TLV.
Raz Mayshar is joining Qualcomm Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of semiconductor and software firm Qualcomm, as a senior investment manager.
He is leaving Israel-based smart mobility innovation hub Drive TLV, where he was head of research and scouting for six years.
“In those six years, I met thousands of startups, worked closely with hundreds and invested in a few dozen. [And] spent countless hours with top corporates and visionary founders,” Mayshar said in a LinkedIn post announcing his move.
He also worked at Next Gear Ventures, a tech fund focused on early-stage entrepreneurs in AI, digitisation and automation, where he was a principal.
Qualcomm Ventures has over 150 active portfolio companies and has had more than 20 exits over a billion dollars, including Fitbit, 99 Taxis, Cruise Automation, Invensense, NQ Mobile and Waze.
The unit also backs some of the leading generative AI companies including machine learning collaboration platform Hugging Face and AI model builder Anthropic.
