Sophie Caspi

Sophie Caspi is the Chief Financial Officer of Aviv Venture Capital, an Israeli venture capital firm founded in 2001 that backs early- and mid-stage Israeli technology companies. She joined Aviv in 2008 and runs the fund's finance function, including the preparation of financial reports, Israeli and U.S. tax returns, and reporting to the fund's Limited Partners. She works closely with Aviv's financial, tax, and legal advisors in Israel and abroad on the financing and monitoring of the ventures Aviv backs.

Before joining Aviv, Sophie spent roughly four years as Controller at Walden Israel, a Tel Aviv–based venture capital fund, giving her a decade-plus of experience in VC fund finance. Earlier in her career she was a Senior Auditor at KPMG Somekh Chaikin, one of Israel's leading accounting firms, where she handled a range of clients including companies publicly traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE).

Sophie is a Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.) and holds both an M.B.A. and a B.A. in Economics and Accounting, all from Tel Aviv University. Her role at Aviv is a finance and operations leadership role rather than a deal-sourcing/check-writing investing role; investment decisions at Aviv are driven by the firm's investing partners (Aviv was founded and led by managing partner Amir Guttman).

The following reflects Aviv Venture Capital's firm-level strategy, which Sophie supports as CFO rather than a personal angel thesis:

• Invests primarily at Series A and Series B, and in mid-stage companies transitioning "from an R&D project to a full-scale company."
• Targets companies "with breakthrough technologies that can provide a 'one of a kind' solution to large markets," backed by a strong intellectual-property position and a meaningful time-to-market advantage over competitors.
• Sector preference for high-tech solutions applied to low-tech industries — e.g., security, clean tech, automotive, printing/imaging, semiconductors, and medical devices — alongside enterprise applications and life sciences.
• Focus on Israel and Israel-related high-tech companies; the bulk of investments are in Israel, with a smaller number in the United States.
• Fund scale is modest/boutique — Aviv Ventures Fund II closed at ~$52M (December 2008) — implying selective, concentrated bets rather than high-volume seed investing.