Jeremie Berrebi (born 4 June 1978) is a French-Israeli
entrepreneur
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and businessman.
Biography
Jeremie Berrebi was the
editor for ZDNet French in 1996 a French
technology news agency.
In 1997 he co-founded Google news ancestor Net2one one of the first French internet news provider, later in 2004 Net2one sold to TNS Group (UK).
In March 2010 Berrebi co-founded with
Xavier Niel
Xavier Niel (born 25 August 1967) is a French billionaire businessman involved in the telecommunications and technology industry. He is best known as founder and majority shareholder of the French Internet service provider and mobile operator I ...
Kima Ventures, a fund dedicated organization to
invest
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In finance, the purpose of investing is ...
in 50 to 100 startups a year everywhere in the world.
Jeremie is now co-founder and Advisory Board Member of the Israeli-based coding bootcamp Developers.Institute.
Berrebi is active in the investment,
private equity
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& technology industries with more than 360 investments.
In May 2015, Berrebi announced his departure from Kima Ventures, the launch of Magical Capital, advising
family offices
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and corporates on their investments, acquisitions and
digital transformation
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and joined the
LetterOne
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Technology advisory board that he left in April 2017.
Awards and recognition
Jeremie won the Europas Prize of Best European Angel Investor in 2014.
Public positions
*Developers Institute Tel Aviv Coding Bootcamp – Ranked as 2nd best coding bootcamp in English – Co-Founder and Strategic Advisory Board Member
*Magical Capital Founder & CEO
* Former
LetterOne
LetterOne Holdings S.A. (LetterOne) is an international investment business based in Luxembourg. Its investments are focused on the telecoms, technology and energy sectors through its two main business units, L1 Energy and L1 Technology. Busine ...
Technology Advisory Board member
* Former co-founder at Kima Ventures.
* Founder of KoolAgency, A team of passionate
Mobile
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Places
* Mobile, Alabama, a U.S. port city
* Mobile County, Alabama
* Mobile, Arizona, a small town near Phoenix, U.S.
* Mobile, Newfoundland and Labrador
Arts, entertainment, and media Music Groups and labels
* Mobile ( ...
and
Web experts.
* Former
chairman of Zlio
* Business advisor and co-founder of Teliswitch, an Automated optical distribution frame (AODF) family
* Business advisor and co-founder of Leetchi, a group gifts and events, online money pots (sold to
Credit Mutuel Arkea)
* Business advisor and co-founder of FreshPlanet, a social, casual gaming company developing online games for the iPad and Facebook.
* Business advisor and co-founder of iAdvize, Real-time online customer service: live chat.
* Business advisor and co-founderof EverContact, an online Contact Management system
* Co-founder of OneTask
* Co-founder of Kwaga
* Co-founder of 8-Sec
* Co-founder of Producteev, a Task Management Software (sold to
Jive Software
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Jive was headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2001, Jive maintains additional offices in Portland, OR; San Francisco, ...
).
* Former
CEO of Net2one (Sold to TNS in 2004)
* Former
editor of ZDNet.fr
* Former
CompuServe SysOp
* Co-founder and advisory board member of the Israeli-based coding bootcamp Developers.Institute.
References
Further reading
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External links
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1978 births
Living people
Israeli businesspeople