Ep796: Liron Azrielant | Managing Partner, Meron Capital
20MinuteLeaders26 Apr 2022

Ep796: Liron Azrielant | Managing Partner, Meron Capital

Liron is a General Partner at Meron Capital and has over 10 years of experience in the venture capital, private equity and tech industries. Liron also manages the Young Venture Capital Forum in Israel - a professional organization connecting over 250 young partners, principals and associates from all VC firms in Israel.

Prior to joining Meron Capital, Liron was a Principal at Blumberg Capital and led Cyber, SaaS, Marketing-tech and Infrastructure IT deals. Prior to that, she was a Strategy and M&A consultant at Bain Capital and PwC's PE group in New York, where she leads commercial and operational due-diligence projects for the largest private equity firms in the US. Before moving to the US, Liron was a technical Applications Engineer at Agilent Technologies, where she worked with blue-chip clients in Europe, Asia and the US.

Liron holds an MBA from MIT-Sloan, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from MIT and a B.Sc. in Math and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At 25, she was the youngest student ever to graduate MIT's dual MBA / M.Sc. degree program. She started her bachelor’s degree at Talpiot, the elite Israeli Defense Forces program, and completed it while serving full-time as a technology analyst and researcher at the Israeli intelligence unit 8200.

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