Our team

Mark Kavelaars
Founding Partner
Managing Partner and Co-founder of Swanlaab. Part of the Investment Comittee
Mark has +25 years managerial experience in tech, marketing and investments. He is the owner of IVC and Venture Partner of Crescendo VP.
Board Member of Sales Layer, Smart Protection, Coowry, Predictiva and Mysphera

Yuval Avni
Partner
Yuval is General Partner and part of the Investment Comittee at Swanlaab
Yuval has +15-year experience in Venture Capital with roles in Giza Venture Capital, Crescendo VP and GPV. He is a Medical Doctor with 4-year clinical experience and has served in the Israel Defense Forces as an officer in an elite intelligence unit

Verónica Trapa
Partner
Verónica is Managing Director and part of the Investent Comittee at Swanlaab
Verónica has +10 years of experience as an entrepreneur as founder of Life&Colors and Tu Chef. Se has as +8 years experience in Venture capital and is Professor of Negotiation at ICADE.
Board Member of Unnax, Predictiva and Mysphera

Zeev Holtzman
Founding Partner
Zeev is General Partner and Co-founder of Swanlaab
Zeev co-founded the Giza Group in 1985 and Giza Venture Capital in 1992. He was also a representative of Credit Suisse First Boston and Alex Brown in Israel; held top positions in the largest Israeli financial institutions and in Technion.

Juan Orbea
Analyst
Juan is an Analyst at Swanlaab Venture Factory.
While he obtained his Dual Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Business Administration (E-3) from ICADE, Juan worked as an Analyst at multiple alternative asset managers in Spain and Israel, the last two of them being VC firms.
As a side project, he is a Content Curator on Sublime Internet Inc. (formerly known as Startupy), a human-curated search engine for meaningful intellectual insights. Juan spun-off a Substack (Infopunk) from his contributions to Startupy.

Roger Salameh
Partner
Roger is Partner and part of the Investment Committee of the Agri-Food Tech Fund.
Roger has+ 30-year experience in the agricultural technology sector. He has been COO of a publicly traded company and Board Member in multiple technology ventures. He proves balanced experience on the needs of growth-oriented companies.Â

Verónica Trapa
General Partner
Verónica is General Partner and part of the Investment Committee of the Agri-Food Tech Fund.
Verónica has +10 years of experience as an entrepreneur as founder of Life&Colors and Tu Chef. Se has as +8 years experience in Venture capital and is Professor of Negotiation at ICADE.
Board Member of Unnax, Predictiva and Mysphera

Mark Kavelaars
General Partner
Mark is General Partner and part of the Investment Committee of the Agri-Food Tech Fund.
Mark has +25 years managerial experience in tech, marketing and investments. He is the owner of IVC and Venture Partner of Crescendo VP.
Board Member of Sales Layer, Smart Protection, Coowry, Predictiva and Mysphera

Dr. Nora Alonso
Partner
Nora is Partner and Chief Investment Officer of the Agri-Food Tech Fund.
Nora has +15-year experience in the biotech and Agri-Food sector. She has been CEO & Co-founder of an Agri Tech company during different stages of growth. Vast experience in strategic, funding and day-to-day operations with cross-functional teams.