Lior

Lior Handelsman is a Managing Partner at Grove Ventures, an Israeli deep tech seed fund with approximately $500M under management. He leads investments in AI, compute infrastructure, physical AI, climate and energy, and defense. Before Grove, Lior co founded SolarEdge Technologies (NASDAQ: SEDG), where he served as VP Marketing and Product Strategy and helped scale the company into a global leader in smart energy. Earlier, he spent 11 years in the IDF's elite Unit 81, leading multidisciplinary R&D. Lior holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) and an MBA, both from the Technion. He serves on multiple boards and advisory roles across Israeli tech and academia.