Batsheva Elran- Director

Batsheva is the Founder & Managing Partner of Opal Ventures, a healthcare dedicated private equity organization, managing investment funds and building healthcare organizations. Opal Ventures is based and focused on the Israeli healthcare market. At Opal Ventures, Batsheva Elran is a Managing Partner of Medica3 Venture Fund, an Israeli focused $120M healthcare dedicated fund.

Batsheva is one of the founders of the healthcare venture industry in Israel, joined the industry in its very early days bringing a multifaceted background in Pharmacy, Business Law, Intellectual Property and International Law. Batsheva was a General Partner in Concord Ventures, founding and managing its healthcare portfolio. She joined the Concord management team with its first venture capital fund Nitzanim in early 1996. Prior to that she served as a legal advisor to the Israeli Anti-Trust Authority, representing the Israeli government in opening up industries for competition.

Before, she was a litigator, focusing on Corporate and Intellectual Property Law with the Law firm Luthi & Associates in Tel Aviv. As a pharmacist in the medical forces, IDF, she managed medical equipment purchases. Batsheva holds a B.Sc. cum laude in Pharmacy from the Pharmacy School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a LL.B. from the University of Tel-Aviv Law School and an Executive MBA from the University of Bradford, UK.