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Ground Up Ventures

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Ground Up Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups in the United States and Israel.

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founded date

01.01.2017

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For Profit

IPO status

Private

Description

With a focus on technology companies, Ground Up Ventures was founded in 2017 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They aim to help the next generation of entrepreneurs build their companies from the ground up, investing in seed and pre-seed companies in the US and Israel.
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Cory Moelis
Cory Moelis

Cory Moelis

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Ground Up Ventures

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Cory Moelis

David Stark
David Stark

David Stark

David is a Co-Founder & General Partner of Ground Up Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund with offices in Jerusalem and New York. Prior to founding Ground Up, David was a founding team member and General Partner at OurCrowd, one of the largest online venture capital firms in the world. David began his career as an investment analyst at Blackstone. He graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School with a B.S. in Economics and was a Jospeh Wharton Scholar.

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Ground Up Ventures

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Jordan Odinsky

Jordan Odinsky

Investor & Head of Platform

Sophie Ishak

Sophie Ishak

Campus Partner

Cory Moelis

Cory Moelis

General Partner

David Stark

David Stark

General Partner

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