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Omri Casspi

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Former NBA player Omri Casspi completes $60M raise for Swish Ventures' second Seed fund

The fund plans to invest in around 10 startups, with deals ranging from $5 to $7 million per investment. Among the fund's investors are Sequoia, Israeli and American institutional investors, and serial entrepreneurs. Casspi’s portfolio includes the likes of PointFive, Eon, and Upwind.

"In the NBA, I shared a locker room with LeBron and Steph, in high-tech, I'm like a baby learning to crawl"

06.10.24|Sophie Shulman

Three years after retiring from basketball, Omri Casspi is trying to build a name for himself in the venture capital industry: "I get questions from entrepreneurs like, 'What do you know about high-tech?' In the end, you’re only as good as your last game."

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Basketball Player Omri Casspi Invests in Gut Microbiome Analysis Startup DayTwo

05.06.18|Hagar Ravet

Mr. Casspi worked with the company previously on an individualized nutrition plan

Israeli National Basketball Team to Base Diet Plan on Gut DNA

05.09.17|Ouriel Daskal

Nutrition plans for the national basketball team will be formulated using technology by DayTwo Ltd., an Israeli startup analyzing the DNA of gut microbiomes to provide highly individualized dietary recommendations