Liat Aaronson

Liat holds a B.A. in political economy of industrial societies (economics and political science, cum laude) from the University of California at Berkeley, an LL.B. and MBA from Tel Aviv University, and an LL.M. in European Law from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands (cum laude). 

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She became a member of the Israel Bar Association in 1999, after completing her internship at Kantor, Elhanani, Tal & Co. She attained practical experience in mergers and acquisitions and new ventures as an associate attorney at Naschitz, Brandes, Amir & Co., a position she held until joining Reichman University in 2005.

Liat Aaronson is a co-founder and managing director at Horizen Labs Ventures. HLV is a Web3/Blockchain advisory working with the leading projects in the industry. She also serves as chairperson of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at Reichman University in Israel, an innovative venture creation program she helped grow and develop over the last 15 years and manages the ZEP Fund investment arm of the program and ZGEN its alumni network. She is a trained mergers and acquisition lawyer, active angel investor and has held executive operations positions at startups and as a partner in a leading US-Israel VC. She is a director at Wristcam, a VC backed start up offering dual camera watch bands for digital watches and the Israel Democracy Institute, a non-affiliated political think-tank.

A member of Class 22, Liat served her fellowship under the mentorship of Sham Sandhu at Marker LLC in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Scott Brady of Innovation Endeavors. She also served as a mentor to Eyal Mayer (Class 21) and Tal Tochner (Class 24).