Elisha Jacobs
Senior Associate
Elisha was one of first 20 employee at Revel and their first business hire. He led their EV Ridehail & Infrastructure pivot, and subsequent $200M+ Series B round led by BlackRock’s Renewable Power Group.
Elisha previously worked as an investment banking analyst at Guggenheim Securities focusing on Power, Energy & Renewables, advising on M&A, IPOs, and other capital markets transactions
Olaf Sakkers
Founder and General Partner
Olaf is led by a sense of curiosity to try to understand the kernel of what makes something unique or interesting. While serving in the Israel Defense Forces, he discovered how the rapidly emerging autonomous vehicle technology could transform transportation and be a unique opportunity for the Israeli tech ecosystem. He met Michael Granoff in 2014 and over the course of six years built Maniv Mobility into a leading global venture capital fund focused on mobility, managing $150 million and backed by leading industry players including Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, Hyundai, BMW, Shell, Aptiv, LG and Valeo.
Born in South Africa, Olaf attended Princeton University where he majored in Anthropology, writing his thesis about frontier medicine and global health policy. The same interest in culture and understanding complex systems are what give him a deep sense of fulfillment from partnering alongside founders to build great companies which solve critical problems.
Olaf founded RedBlue Capital, an early stage mobility-focused venture capital firm in 2021. He's also the author of Mobility Disruption Framework, a book that unpacks the rapid transformation happening in the mobility industry through the lens of microeconomics and colorful comparisons to household pets. He has spoken at numerous conferences such as Web Summit and TechCrunch and has been quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Bloomberg.
In his capacity as a General Partner at Maniv Mobility, Olaf led investments into the following companies, for the majority of which he served as a board member:
- the 3D printing company Seurat
- automotive simulation software startup Cognata
- high resolution 4D radar startup Arbe Robotics
- OTA software update startup Aurora Labs
- teleoperation startup Phantom Auto
- touchless biometric sensing startup Clair Labs
- fleet management software startup Autofleet
- automotive insurance software startup Pact Insurance
- automotive & embedded systems cybersecurity startup C2A
- the Indian e-commerce-focused electric truck OEM EVage