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My primary focus. A permanent home for exceptional businesses. 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. Technology for defense installations, remote power, and industrial decarbonization. Member of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Compensation Committee.
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 millions of dollars of transactions.
Three IPOs
Three U.S. IPOs as a principal — once as founder and CEO, twice as a board director through IPO. 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. Member of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Compensation Committee.
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
Billions in capital formation across debt, equity, and real estate. 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 commercial and capital-markets perspective to defense conversations on artificial intelligence — helping practitioners think about AI 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. Engaged in great-power competition discussions.
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. No venture capital, no safety net, no institutional permission. Bootstrap, crowdfund, figure it out, take it public. Built companies with employees, offices, and infrastructure across continents. That's not a philosophy — it's what I've actually done.
The things I work on now — defense, nuclear energy, capital allocation, Israel tech and entrepreneurship, public company governance, and AI governance — share a common thread: they're hard problems, often where the gap between policy talk and actual execution is enormous. Operators who've built companies, taken them public, and sat in the boardroom during real capital formation decisions bring something different to those conversations. That perspective remains underrepresented in the rooms where these decisions get made. Strategic thinking starts with cognitive diversity and intellectual honesty — these things can't exist in echo chambers.
Delray Beach, Florida. Father of two. Loves America. Loves Israel.