Mr Doron Ben-Meir

Doron Ben-Meir Doron is a founding partner and Chief Executive of Prescient Venture Capital, a Melbourne based venture capital firm focused on investments in early to expansion stage technology based opportunities. Prior to founding Prescient, Doron was a principal with Jagen Pty Ltd, a family office with substantial private equity and venture capital investments. Doron has personally founded five technology based businesses and has helped build and manage several others as either Chief Executive or through non-executive board participation.

Thursday, 23 October 2008 | by Doron Ben-Meir

The global credit crisis has highlighted an interesting psychological difference between financial and strategic investors.
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Doron Ben-Meir has been an active venture capital manager for the last eight years. He founded Prescient Venture Capital and prior to that was a consulting investment director of Momentum Funds Management. He was a serial entrepreneur over a 12 year period, co-founding five new technology based businesses. SOURCE: Smart Company., 23rd October, 2008. Article used by permission., Doron Ben-Meir of Prescient Venture Capital.

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Doron Ben-Meir has been an active venture capital manager for the last eight years.He founded Prescient Venture Capital and prior to that was a consulting investment director of Momentum Funds Management.He was a serial entrepreneur over a 12 year period, co-founding five new technology based businesses.
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DORON BEN-MEIR View > A divorce made in heaven Thursday, 4 September 2008 Aligning shareholder expectations with your funding source's plans need not cause any problems, if you plan the process now.DORON BEN-MEIR View > ‘Best' is a relative concept Thursday, 28 August 2008 Are you the best person to run your company?It depends on who is asking the question.DORON BEN-MEIR View > Valuation: Return of the ratchet Thursday, 14 August 2008 The bottom line is that the job of the entrepreneur is to deliver a financial gain for the VC - it is not the job of the VC to give the entrepreneur a ‘fair go'.DORON BEN-MEIR View > Scalable business models Thursday, 7 August 2008 These models have always been around, but the challenge for entrepreneurs is to find new ways to achieve scalability.DORON BEN-MEIR

Doron Ben-Meir

Doron has a great entrepreneur spirit and vision and a lovely personality which is reflected by his many achievements since graduatio. Through the 90's and early 2000's, Doron founded five companies covering a diversity of industry sectors including:- ID Technologies; Point of sale loyalty systems; Specialised off-set printing systems; Smart cards and card systems; Mobile Banking and on-line payments. Since 1999 Doron has been an active venture capitalist with three different funds:- Momentum Funds Management; ES Group ventures Pty Ltd; and Jagen Pty Ltd; From 2003-2007, Doron was a Private Equity & Venture Capital Principal with Jagen Pty Ltd - focused on the management of a number of portfolio companies and the qualification and structurig of new and follow-on investments. In addition to serving in a number of non-executive Director positions, Doron took on senior executive positions with portfolio companies to help guide the companies through points of inflexion in their development. Examples of such roles include:- CEO of Centricom Pty Ltd, an internet startup which was commercialising a novel internet based payment system. CEO of CVT Holdings (Trading as Redback Marine) a design and development company focused on marine propulsion and control technology. In June 2007, together with two partners, Doron won an IIF Licence from the Federal Government to establish a new venture fund. Doron Specialties include: Early to expansion stage venture capital investing and business architecture principally in the technology sector. Particular expertise in deal evaluation, commercial and market due diligence, value proposition development, deal construction, senior operational management and mergers & acquisitions.

Doron Ben-Meir

Doron Ben-Meir, Managing Partner, Prescient Venture Capital

Doron Ben-Meir
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Since 1991, Doron Ben-Meir has founded and managed five technology based businesses across a variety of industry sectors including: Gaming & Wagering, Loyalty Marketing, Access Control, Specialised Off-Set Printing, Smart Card Manufacture and Payment Systems.Geographically these businesses have been active in Australia, U.K, Germany, Singapore and the U.S.

An active venture capital manager since late 1999, Doron has led a number of early/expansion stage investments and assisted in the portfolio management of many more.

In partnership with Jagen Pty Ltd (a substantial Melbourne based private equity investor) Doron is currently an investment principal with direct Board level responsibility for 6 Jagen portfolio companies as well as being a member of Jagen's Management Committee which determines investment recommendations for the group.

Doron holds a Science Degree in Physics & Mathematics and a First Class Honours Degree in Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering, from Monash University.He is a graduate of the 28th Annual Venture Capital Institute (sponsored by the National Venture Capital Association in the US) and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Doron Ben-Meir
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Lead bloggist Doron Ben-Meir has been an active venture capital manager for the last eight years.He founded Prescient Venture Capital and was principal with Jagen (Liberman family office) where he was responsible for the management of a number of Jagen's private equity and venture capital portfolio assets as well as the qualification and structuring of new investments.Previously, he held a general management position at ES Group Ventures, a venture capital business established by ESCOR, the family office of the Jack and Robert Smorgon families.Prior to that, he was a consulting investment director of Momentum Funds Management, one of the five licence recipients of the Australian Government's first IIF program.Before focusing on the venture capital industry, Doron was a serial entrepreneur over a 12 year period, co-founding five new technology based businesses.

Mr. Ben-Meir brings to the Fund extensive experience in both venture capital investing and entrepreneurial success.

Over the past 8 years, Mr. Ben-Meir has been an active venture capital manager. He founded the Fund and assembled the General Partner as part of his previous role as a Principal with Jagen (Liberman Family Office), where over the last 5 years, he was responsible for the management of a number of Jagen’s private equity and venture capital portfolio assets as well as the qualification and structuring of new investments. Read More

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