The company most people have never heard of is quietly running the app, the bill and the payment page behind millions of power and water accounts. VertexOne sells utilities the one thing they rarely build well themselves: a modern customer experience.
Yoav Samet is a General Partner at Almaz Capital, a Palo Alto-based venture firm backing disruptive deep tech and B2B software companies with a unique focus on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Before joining Almaz, he spent 13 years at Cisco as VP of Corporate Development, where he led roughly 20 acquisitions totaling over $7 billion and managed a $1 billion investment portfolio. An Israeli native and veteran of IDF Unit 8200, Samet holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and MS/BS degrees in Computer Science from Hebrew University, and has built a career as a rare bridge between Silicon Valley, Israel, and the CEE/CIS technology ecosystem.