Renana Ashkenazi

Renana holds a MSc from Northwestern University in Chicago in Engineering and a BSc from Tel Aviv University in Biomedical Engineering.

Renana comes from a strong technical background with extensive product and managerial experience in the areas of Technology, Global Innovation and strategy. Today, she manages the investment team at Grove Ventures, a leading Israeli early stage, deep technology fund established by Dov Moran. 

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Prior to joining Grove Ventures, she worked at Applied Materials, a global technology leader, in various product and technical management positions and her position prior to that was an engineering fellow at the Center for Innovation in Global Health Technologies at Northwestern University, developing diagnostic devices for poor resourced countries. 

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She is a captain (res.) in the IDF and served as a technology officer in the military's elite intelligence unit 8200.

As a member of Class 25, Renana is serving her fellowship at Grove Ventures under the mentorship of Adam Goulburn, Julie Yoo, and Laurel Bowden.