SolarEdge Technologies

Company

Investment-firm

Last deal

$300M

Amount

Post-IPO Debt

Stage

26.06.2024

Date

3

all rounds

$454.83M

Total amount

Financing round

General

About Company
SolarEdge is a company that provides intelligent inverter solutions for solar photovoltaic systems.

Industry

Sector :

Subsector :

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Also Known As

Solaredge

founded date

01.06.2006

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Post-IPO Debt

IPO status

Private

Description

Their system includes inverters, power optimizers, storage solutions, and a cloud-based monitoring platform, allowing for superior power harvesting and module management. SolarEdge's technology enables maximum power production, optimal roof utilization, enhanced maintenance, and accurate troubleshooting. They have shipped their products to over 96 countries and aim to become the leading provider of inverter solutions in the solar PV market.
Contacts
Legal Names

Legal name

SolarEdge Technologies Inc.
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6
Meir Adest
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Meir Adest

Meir Adest founded SolarEdge in 2006 and has served since 2007 as our Vice President, Core Technologies where he is responsible for SolarEdge’s certification and long-term reliability of SolarEdge products and research of future technologies. Prior to co-founding SolarEdge, Adest spent 7 years at the Electronics Research Department (‘‘ERD’’), one of Israel’s national labs, which is tasked with developing innovative and complex systems. where he held a number of positions and managed large-scale techno-operational projects. Adest holds a B.Sc in mathematics, physics, and computer science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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Amir Fishelov
Amir Fishelov

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Tal Dilian
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Lior Handelsman
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Lior Handelsman

Lior Handelsman is a General Partner at Grove Ventures. Prior to joining the VC fund, he was a co-founder of multi-billion dollar company SolarEdge (NASDAQ: SEDG). Handelsman began his career after he served more than a decade in diverse roles in the technological unit of the Israeli Intelligence Corps. He served at the Electronics Research Department (‘‘ERD’’), one of Israel’s national labs, which is tasked with developing innovative and complex systems. At the ERD he held several positions including research and development power electronics engineer, head of the ERD’s power electronics group and manager of several large-scale development projects. Handelsman holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) and an MBA from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology in Haifa.

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Employee Profiles
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Jaron Schaechter

Jaron Schaechter

Vice President Strategy

Amir Fishelov

Amir Fishelov

VP Strategy, Corporate Development, and Co-Founder

Yogev Barak

Chief Marketing Officer

Ezra Mizrahi

Ezra Mizrahi

Product Marketing

Haim Saban

Haim Saban

Back End Developer

Udy Gal-On

Udy Gal-On

VP Strategic Projects

Zvi Lando

Zvi Lando

CEO

Meir Adest

Meir Adest

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