Kobi Levy

Kobi Levy brings a decade of experience identifying, investing in, and providing operational and business development experience to the firm.
Kobi and David have a longstanding history of business collaboration.
They worked for several years together at a multibillion dollar growth and private equity fund.
In addition to his role at Vision, Kobi is the founder of CoreContacts.com, a cloud-based customer relationship management company.
He designed it from the ground up based on his real-world need for software that would efficiently enable him to prospect for new business and maintain key relationships.
Vision Ventures is a happy CoreContacts.com customer.
Some of Mr. Levy’s accomplishments include: Instrumental role in finding several investments while at Insight Venture Partners, including stock photography marketplace Shutterstock (NASDAQ: SSTK), crowd-sourcing pioneer Threadless.com, and leading online streetwear ecommerce community Karmaloop.com, amongst others.
He currently advises WireX Systems, CodenameOne, Vecoy Nanomedicine, and Reading Rainbow Kidz, the digital book club founded by Lavar Burton, the visionary creator of Reading Rainbow.
As Venture Chair of the 8200 EISP Entrepreneurship Program, a prominent Israel-based incubator, he mentored over 40 companies across mobile, new media, security software, nano-technology, water treatment, and consumer products.
Kobi holds a B.A., Cum Laude and Honors, from the University of Arizona, with a degree in Modern Politics alongside Economics and Media Arts.