Draft:Alan Feld

Alan Feld
Born	(1961-12-05) December 5, 1961 Toronto, Canada
Nationality	Canadian and Israeli
Education	BA in Commerce and Finance, University of Toronto LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and an MBA in Strategy and Finance, York University
Occupations	Businessman nonprofit leader
Known for	Founder and Managing Partner of Vintage Investment Partners
Parents	Ronald Feld (father) Judy Feld Carr (mother)
Website	Vintage-ip.com/Alan_Feld

Alan Feld (Hebrew: אלן פלד) is a Jewish Canadian-Israeli venture capitalist investor and a nonprofit leader. Alan is the founder and managing partner of Vintage Investment Partners, the founder of Power in Diversity initiative and a Member of the Board of Governors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Alan is considered one of the founding fathers of the Israeli Venture Capital industry.

Biography

Alan was born (5th of December 1961) and grew up in Toronto at a middle-class conservative Jewish family. His father - Ronald, was a medical doctor and his mother – Judy, was a musicologist. During Alan's childhood, his parents secretly acted to smuggle the remaining Jews from Syria to Israel through New York, Turkey and other countries. Alan's mother was awarded the Order of Canada, the Presidential Award of Distinction of the State of Israel, as well as honorary doctorates in Canada and the United States, for her actions over almost three decades rescuing over 3,228 Syrian Jews.

In 1973 Alan’s father died, leaving his wife with 3 children and the responsibility to take care of Alan's grandmother and aunt. After his death, his business partner emptied their mutual bank accounts, leaving the Feld's family with no money. A successful legal struggle led by Alan’s mother helped restore some of the money back.

In 1974 Alan and his brother came to Israel for a visit for the first time, and they stayed in Jerusalem.

In 1983 At the age of 21 Alan graduated a BA degree in Commerce and Finance from the University of Toronto. Alan later graduated a degree in law (LLB) from Osgoode Hall Law School and an MBA in Strategy and Finance, both from York University.

In 1986 Alan started working as a young capital market lawyer in New-York, working with Canadian companies looking to go public in the U.S. stock market. In October of 1987 the capital markets crashed and Canadian companies cancelled there IPO's plans."

In 1990 Alan joined Goodmans LLP, a large corporate law firm located in Toronto, as an associate.

Business career

In February 1994 Alan left Goodmans LLP, Made Aliyah and in July of that year joined Evergreen Capital Markets as a managing director. 2 years later, in September of 1996 and as Yoram Oron founded Vertex Ventures, Alan joined the VC as a general partner. In 2000 Alan joined Israel Seed Partners. After leaving Israel Seed Partners, Alan stayed for a couple of month in his colleagues offices from Carmel Ventures, forming his new venture.

Vintage Investment Partners

In February 2002 Alan decided to start Vintage Investment Partners as a secondary fund, after the Dot-com bubble burst, seeing a great opportunity in buying the holdings of disappointed tech investors. Vintage first fund was raised in 2003 and since then raised 15 more funds, including: secondary funds, fund of funds, VC funds and growth funds, managing a total capital of $ 4 billion (as of November 2024).

After The Abraham Accords in 2020, Alan was part of several delegations promoting cooperation between Vintage and Emirates organizations. He also took part and spoke at mutual conferences in the UAE.

At the beginning of 2024 and after researching successfully generation transition in the VC industry, Alan and Vintage decided that general partners who reach the age of 62 will not join new funds. As of that, it was decided that Alan will no longer invest in new funds Vintage will raise, but will continue his involvement with his current funds and investments.

Alan also holds the position of a senior advisor at Grovestreet, which manages over $10 billion of commitments by 14 investors from across the globe through 46 separate accounts.

Non-profit organizations

During his academic studies Alan was very involved with Jewish-related activities, as President of the North American Jewish Students Network and in 1985 as Associate Chairman of the Canadian Jewish Congress.

In September 2006 Alan started acting as a Member of Board of Directors and Chairman of Strategic Planning Committee at the Israel Democracy Institute.

In 2015 Alan completed his role as the chairman of the steering committee of the Be’eri project, which promotes pluralistic identity among Jewish-Israelis and operates in one-third of Israeli schools.

In January 2019 Alan became a Board Member of BIRAD, the Research & Development company of Bar-Ilan University’s intellectual property assets for the public good. A position he held for about 5 years.

In mid 2021, during the Jewish-Arab riots in Israel, Alan was one of the tech industry leaders who called to solve the conflict by integrating Arabs and other diverse groups into the tech industry. Alan used to speak about the importance of diversity in the tech industry in his lectures and interviews.

In January 2022 Alan joined the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a member of the Board of Governors.

Alan was also the founding chairman of StartUp Jerusalem, a non-profit organization run by Israeli and Palestinian businesspeople helping to foster job growth in Jerusalem. Alan is also on the advisory commity of Kama tech Accelerator, which promote Haredim startups.

Power in Diversity initiative

In January 2016 and after nearly 10 years Alan spent in different organizations, promoting the integration of underrepresented groups (Haredim, Women, Arabs, Ethiopians and etc.) in the local tech industry, he decided to found the initiative - Power in Diversity. The initiative builds partnerships between venture funds, startups and non-profits, promoting more gender, ethnic, racial, religious and other forms of diversity in the management and non-management teams of Israel-related startups. The initiative joined together over 60 VC firms and 170 startups from Israel, coming together to promote diversity and inclusion in the Israeli tech industry.

In its first years, Alan was the Chairman of Power in Diversity.

Personal life

Alan is married to Dr. LeeOna, they have 5 children and live in caesarea.

Alan is a keynote speaker at tech and tech-related local and international events.