Zeev Holtzman

Zeev Holtzman was born in 1941 in Herzliya

Zeev Holtzman was born on May 15, 1941, and grew up in Herzliya. He studied at Tichon Hadash in Tel Aviv and later at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, and graduated from the military boarding school.

He joined the paratroopers and served as a company commander in Unit 299 in the south. In December 1960 he led a force against infiltrators from Sinai and received a citation from the Southern Command chief. In 1961 he received the President's Award for soldiers from President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.

He earned a BA in economics and Middle East studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MBA in finance at Columbia University. From 1968 he worked as an analyst at Lehman Brothers in New York. Back in Israel he worked at the Israel Investment Corporation and then at Leumi & Co.

In 1985 he founded Giza financial consulting, and in 1993 Giza Venture Capital, which raised 700 million dollars in 6 funds. In 1997 he started the IVC Research Center and chaired it until 2021. He also helped found the Israel Venture Association.

He wrote weekly columns for TheMarker from 2000 to 2008. From 2006 to 2016 he chaired the Technion investment committee, and he joined the TV show The Sharks. In 2016 he founded Swanlaab Venture Factory in Spain.