Nimrod Lehavi

Nimrod Lehavi is a General Partner at PICO Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Before transitioning to venture capital, he co-founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of CTERA Networks, an enterprise file services company that raised over $100 million in total funding. He also co-founded the data storage startup Storwize, which was acquired by IBM for $180 million in 2012, and previously worked at XIV, another storage firm purchased by IBM. At PICO Venture Partners, an investment firm managing more than $300 million across its five funds, Lehavi holds active board positions at several portfolio companies, including BigID and Sentra. Equipped with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Lehavi currently focuses his investments on scaling early-stage cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and artificial intelligence startups.