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Prescott Watson

Prescott Watson

Prescott Watson

Principal, Maniv Mobility

Prescott has invested in, advised, and served in senior product roles for numerous high-growth tech companies in the US and Israel. Prescott became fintech startup OurCrowd’s first employee in 2012, leading product for its online wealth management platform. OurCrowd is today a 200+ employee firm with $1B AUM and was recognized by KPMG as a “top 10” global fintech startup. In 2014, he joined OurCrowd’s investment team, leading the seed round into AR startup Edgybees. He later actively advised Edgybees on their US product strategy and entrance into the defense market. He also participated in OurCrowd’s investments in Zoomcar (where he served as a board observer), Innoviz, NooBaa (acquired by RedHat), Argus Cyber Security (acquired by Continental), Scopio Labs, Kenna Security, Celeno, Airobotics, Zebra Medical, Hyperloop One, and CyberX.

Testimonials

It was great to present at SVOD and meet world-class entrepreneurs and investors. Our venture was off to a fast start in the funding round after the conference, we had an early closing to the round, and I look forward to being part of SVOD in the future!

Alexei Dunayev

CEO &CoFounder, TranscribeMe & Stanford MBA

Excellent! Great conference! Lots of People! Lot of energy! Enthusiastic! Everything is just going so good.

Vish Mishra

Venture Director, Clearstone Venture Partners ($600M under management)

The founders of the conference are very authentic and these are people that want to change the world and make things better for entrepreneurs and help people and I think that’s a great thing.

George Zachary

Partner, Charles River Ventures, (Midas List, 1st investor in twitter & Yammer, $1.4B under management)

I love coming to the Silicon Valley Open Doors! I discover entrepreneurs here every single year, and I think I’ve been to all of them.

Carol Sands

Founder, The Angels’ Forum

Thank you for the opportunity to present Driveway at SVOD. It gave us much needed exposure to the wide investor community. Combining the pitch preparation classes with the presentation content guidance, we came out strong and confident from the podium. During the conference we had a chance to speak to many investors and industry leaders resulting in a very valuable feedback.

Jake Diner

Driveway Software

The organizers here are doing an amazing job with selecting the people who attend, selecting the speakers, coming up with ideas for panels and discussions. The truly amazing side is that the audience gets bigger, more involved, active and more thoughtful. It’s just a fun place to be!

Daniil Stolyarov

Investment Director, Almaz Capital Partners (102M under management)

The quality of entrepreneurs and the international flavor: it’s always fun to see where innovation is happening around the world. It was fun for us to see not only the quality of thought but also pace of execution and the teams here are becoming ready to play.

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners ($4B under management)

Great conference, interesting presentations and most important, relevant participants with concrete ideas and tremendous willingness to mentor and help startups.

Adi Bittan

Founder & CEO, OwnerListens & Stanford MBA