Innovation Endeavors
Innovation Endeavors is a venture capital firm founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Funding Unit 8200's cyber foundry
Innovation Endeavors was an investor in the $18 million round of Team8, the Israeli cyber foundry founded by Nadav Zafrir, who commanded Unit 8200 for a decade and established the IOF's Cyber Command.
Unit 8200 developed the AI targeting systems "Lavender", "Gospel", and "Where's Daddy?", which generated automated kill lists of up to 37,000 Palestinians, with operators spending approximately 20 seconds approving each target.
Defending war crimes
On October 13, 2023, the CEO of Web Summit, Europe's largest technology conference, posted on social media criticizing Western leaders for failing to condemn Israel's war crimes in Gaza and the genocide carried out by Israeli Occupation Forces. In response, Innovation Endeavors joined a coalition of Israeli venture capital firms issuing a joint statement announcing their boycott of the conference.
We, members of the Israeli high tech community, have made the decision to cancel sponsorship and will not attend the upcoming Web Summit. We cannot, in good conscience, participate in a conference whose leadership blames Israel for war crimes while Hamas terrorists committed one of the worst terror attacks in modern history,
Despite the CEO of Web Summit's statement presenting factual observations within the context of the atrocities (later confirmed by the UN) Israeli venture capitalists demanded unwavering support for their state, which was already engaged in the mass killing of civilians at the time.
Sources:
- Innovation Endeavors Companies
- Team8 With great fanfare, former Israeli spy chief launches $18M cyber security venture
- TAU Cyber Week Nadav Zafrir
- +972 Magazine 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spree in Gaza
- Calcalist Google Withdraws from Web Summit; Israeli VCs Unite in Joint Conference Boycott
- UN OHCHR UN Commission finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israeli attacks
- X Paddy Cosgrave
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