Coral Team

Yuval Almog
Senior Managing Director

Focus
Yuval Almog is the founder of Coral Capital Management and leads investments in media, communications, Internet infrastructure, software, and systems.

Experience
Yuval has spent 16 years in private equity/venture capital and over 14 years as an entrepreneur and operating manager. Yuval has been instrumental in affecting strategic and management changes, as well as orchestrating venture capital financing, for his portfolio companies. His experience encompasses every aspect of building a successful company - strategy, operations, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings. Yuval’s history of developing market leaders includes being the lead investor in, among others, Advanced Fibre Communications (Nasdaq "AFCI"), Cerus (Nasdaq "CERS"), Macromedia (Nasdaq "MACR"), Magnet Communications, Optical Solutions, RichFX, and [vizrt] (Gruppe Deutsche Boerse "VIZ RT").

Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Yuval co-founded Zoran Corporation (Nasdaq "ZRAN"), a digital signal processor company in Silicon Valley. From 1979 through 1982, Yuval was with Raychem Corporation in both staff and line positions.

For nine years prior to his arrival in the U.S., Yuval was a fighter pilot, systems officer, and instructor with the Israeli Air Force.

Education
Yuval earned a B.A. and B.S. in Mathematics, Computer Science and Economics from the University of Alabama and an M.S. in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact
Yuval@coralcm.com