Lior Susan

Lior Susan is the Founder and Partner at Eclipse Ventures, a venture capital firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area.2 Here are some key details about his background and career:

Professional Experience

Eclipse Ventures:

• Founded Eclipse Ventures in January 2015 and has been serving as Founder & Partner since then2
• The firm manages about $3 billion and has partnered with around 90 companies4

Other Current Roles:

• Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Bright Machines (since January 2018)
• Chairman of the Board at Owlet Baby Care (since March 2015)
• Board Member at Cerebras Systems (since January 2023)
• Board Member at Augury (since October 2015)
• Co-Founder and Board Member at Datorios (since December 2020)2

Previous Experience

• Founder and General Partner at LabIX, the hardware investment platform of Flextronics
• Co-founded Farm 2050, an AgTech Collective, with Innovation Endeavors
• Part of the founding team of Elementum, a SaaS platform
• Serial entrepreneur in Tel Aviv, where he helped build Intucell (sold to Cisco in 2012)13

Background

• Grew up in a kibbutz community in Israel
• Worked on a banana farm during his childhood
• Served as an officer in an elite Special Forces unit of the Israel Defense Force13

Investment Focus

Lior Susan and Eclipse Ventures focus on investing in companies that are disrupting old-line industries and digitizing physical industries. They see this as a major opportunity to transform critical sectors that impact everyday life, such as manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation.34

Lior Susan's unique background, combining experiences in agriculture, military service, and entrepreneurship, has shaped his approach to venture capital and his focus on transforming physical industries through technology.4