Yahal Zilka
Managing Partner
Yahal is a 20+ year veteran of the VC industry, recognized for his expertise and hands-on work with entrepreneurs creating new industry categories. Yahal brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as an entrepreneur, mentor, and executive. Yahal provides strong financial, operational and hands-on management experience and fosters strategic relationships with industry leaders vital to 10D’s portfolio companies.
Yahal was Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Magma Venture Partners, a leading Israeli VC Fund with numerous success stories. He served as Board Member and advisor of Waze, Argus, Replay Technologies, Magisto, Indegy, Optimal Plus, DesignArt Network, Phonetic Systems, Hola and others during their acquisitions by Google, Continental, Facebook, Intel, IAC, Tennable, NI, Qualcomm, Nuance.
Yahal served as the CFO of VocalTec Communications from 1995 to 1999, where he was part of the team that pioneered VoIP. Yahal led the company from seed to its public offering on Nasdaq (NASDAQ:CALL) and developed important strategic relations with vendors and carriers, including VocalTec’s noteworthy deal with Deutsche Telekom which ultimately accelerated the global recognition and adoption of VOIP.
Yahal is also a long time Board member of the Israeli Advanced Technology Industries (IATI), the umbrella association of the Israeli hi-tech industry.