Mattan Lurie

Mattan Lurie

Senior advisor at Brinc

Mattan is a Senior Advisor at Brinc, a leading accelerator that is investing in food tech. Brinc’s food program aims to solve inefficiencies in the food system to enhance sustainability though investments in plant-based meat substitutes, cellular agriculture, and fermentation-based proteins. At Brinc Mattan serves as a member of the investment committee for the foodtech vertical, and an advisor to portfolio companies, advising founders on strategy and capital formation.

Mattan is also a Venture Partner at Hanaco Ventures, an NYC and Tel Aviv based VC fund that invests in early stage startups and growth-stage technology companies in Israel and the US. Hanaco has invested in leading –agri-food-tech companies such as Redefine Meat, a leading 3D meat printing company, SeeTree, a software company that optimizes fruit tree yields, and Infarm, a breakthrough vertical farming company.

Mattan is a private equity investor with 15 years of experience, primarily in food-tech, healthcare and TMT. Prior, he was a Senior Investment Director at Fosun, China’s largest private company with a $200bn AUM, where he conducted cross-border strategic investments and M&A. Prior, he was an early team member at Hony Capital, one of China’s leading PE firms with $15bn in AUM. He also spent time in investment banking and private equity at Citigroup and CLSA. He holds an MBA from UCLA, and an undergraduate degree with honors from UC Berkeley.