Yigal Erlich is founder and chairman of The Yozma Group, a leading startup venture capital investment group in Israel. One of the most prominent investors in Israel’s high-tech arena in the past 15 years, Erlich is widely credited as the founding father of its venture capital industry. He helped to foster a professionally managed venture capital industry to fund the country’s fast-growing high-tech ventures. The Yozma Group formally opened its first Asian startup campus in Pangyo, South Korea, this year as a base camp for expansion in the region.