# Alon Shavit

> Alon Shavit is the co-founder and CEO of Upright Ventures and a co-founder of Celo Camp. His work connects early-stage technology founders with mentors, technical guidance, business support and ecosystem partners. He studied computer engineering at Bar-Ilan University and previously co-founded Libracamp as CTO.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Upright Ventures
- **Organizations:** Upright Ventures, Celo Camp, Libracamp, Jango Labs
- **Education:** B.Sc. Computer Engineering, Bar-Ilan University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Upright Ventures and Celo Camp., Co-founded Libracamp as CTO., Dahlia co-founder Robert Leifke credited input from Shavit and Rachel Jakob with helping the team’s second-place Celo Camp finish and fundraising.

## Career timeline

- **2006-2010** — Studied at Bar-Ilan University; final project involved a humanoid robot, RFID and a C# interface controlling a mechanical gate.
- **2019** — Named co-founder and CTO of Libracamp, an independent virtual bootcamp for Libra developers.
- **2019-05** — Crunchbase dates his co-founder and CTO role at Jango Labs to May 2019.
- **2019-07** — Crunchbase dates his Upright co-founder role to July 2019.
- **2020** — Represented Upright as Celo Camp launched its first eight-week virtual program.
- **2024-05** — Joined a Celo Gather panel in Berlin with Maria Alegre and Pedro Oliveira, led by Camila Rioja.
- **2024-07** — Listed with Matt Kenny as a host of the Celo Camp Batch 9 Demo Day.
- **2025-11** — Gave the talk New Rails for Global Finance at Funding the Commons in Buenos Aires.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Upright Ventures and Celo Camp.
- Co-founded Libracamp as CTO.
- Dahlia co-founder Robert Leifke credited input from Shavit and Rachel Jakob with helping the team’s second-place Celo Camp finish and fundraising.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Upright published its Batch 10 retrospective, identifying Shavit’s November 2025 Funding the Commons talk and reporting 11 graduating teams.
- **2026-02** — Upright reported investments of $33,334 each in Coinstancy and iExchange, with another team under review.

## Links

- Website: https://www.upright.gg/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alon-shavit-73254039
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/alonshavit_
- GitHub: https://github.com/alonshavit

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Last updated: 2026-10-21