Now
My primary focus. We buy full or majority stakes in profitable companies and let management continue to do their magic. No fund clock, no impatient LPs. B2B tech and vertical SaaS, specialty manufacturing, tech-enabled services, financial services, all welcome — U.S. and Israel.
Built something great? I may want to buy it — j2labs.co →
Founded the predecessor company (Janover Inc., Nasdaq: JNVR). Took it public. Co-architected the transition transaction that pivoted the company into a digital asset treasury strategy. One of the top-performing Nasdaq-listed stocks of 2025.
Advanced small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) company selected for the U.S. Department of Energy Reactor Pilot Program. Director through the company’s June 2026 Nasdaq IPO. Chair of the Compensation Committee; member of the Audit and Nominating & Corporate Governance Committees.
Commercial real estate capital markets. Built and led the team behind billions in originations across multifamily, industrial, office, and mixed-use — and personally advised on hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions.
Three IPOs
Three U.S. IPOs as a principal — once as founder, chairman & CEO, twice as a board director. Currently seated on two Nasdaq-listed public company boards.
Advanced small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) company. Served as a director through the company’s IPO onto the Nasdaq Global Market. Chair of the Compensation Committee; member of the Audit and Nominating & Corporate Governance Committees.
Founding board director. $250 million IPO underwritten by Cantor Fitzgerald. Navigated the vehicle from listing to a definitive business combination agreement with a pro forma value of approximately $8.5 billion. Member of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee. Board term completed April 2026.
Founded in 2018. Bootstrapped and crowdfunded through a traditional S-1 IPO onto the Nasdaq — no institutional or venture capital. Later co-architected a transaction that transitioned the company into DeFi Development Corp (Nasdaq: DFDV), resulting in one of the top-performing Nasdaq-listed stocks of 2025.
Capital Markets
Approximately $10 billion in transactions across two decades. More than $9 billion of it since 2025. Direct principal experience across public equity, PIPEs, convertible notes, registered directs, real estate debt, real estate GP and LP equity, Reg CF, SPACs, and digital asset treasury structures.
National Security & Policy
Bringing a private-sector perspective to defense. Helping practitioners and students think about artificial intelligence from new directions. Active in U.S.-Israel strategic partnership work, informed by generations of family history in the region and deep engagement with Israel's technology and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Focus areas: practical applications of artificial intelligence, U.S.-Israel strategic partnership, great-power competition, capital formation for critical technologies.
Affiliations
Owner/President Management Program — the HBS executive program for principals of founder-led and owner-operated companies.
Member of YPO. Board Director of the YPO Palm Beach chapter.
Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel.
Perspective
I've spent my career building from zero. Bootstrap, crowdfund, figure it out, take it public. Built companies with employees, offices, and infrastructure across continents. Failed, succeeded, bought companies, sold them, IPO'd them.
Things I work on now — J2 is the center of the work; the nucleus is Anna and the kids. Besides that: frontier technologies, Israel, capital allocation and formation, public company governance. It all shares a common thread — hard problems where the gap between conversation and execution is wide.
Delray Beach, Florida. Father of two. Loves America. Loves Israel.