Partners and leadership.
GATE Partners was founded by a team that spent over a decade investing together at Greenfield Growth, where they led investments in technology companies that went on to define their categories.
The partners.
Before joining Greenfield, Itay was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. In his role, Itay worked with management teams across sectors on IPOs, M&A, and other private and public capital raises.
Itay is a Major (Res.) in the Intelligence Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces. During his service, Itay was awarded numerous excellence awards having led innovative research projects.
Itay holds a Bachelor’s Degree, Double Major in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University.
Shay is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Greenfield Partners, focusing on SaaS, healthcare and AI. He leads Greenfield’s investments in BigPanda, Avanan, Coralogix, Capitolis, Mixtiles, and Quali. Prior to Founding Greenfield, Shay was a senior advisor to TPG Growth.
Originally from Tel Aviv and for the last 25 years in NYC, Shay spent the early years of his career operating and maturing early growth technology companies. He then joined Thylacine Capital to lead the alternative investing activity.
Shay has an undergraduate degree from Fairleigh Dickenson University and an EMBA from Columbia Business School.