Dr. Israel Greenfeld, the co-founder and owner of inVenture, has unique qualifications. He is an engineering leader, able to recognize market needs and technological challenges, and to translate them timely into products, by integrating existing technologies and implementing state-of-the-art methodologies. 

He possesses a broad knowledge of systems engineering, and is an entrepreneur and inventor of broad and bold vision. He has been the inventor and innovator of well-known products in the area of airborne electro-optical pods, namely the Litening airborne targeting pod, and the RecceLite airborne reconnaissance system.

PhD from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, he has done extensive academic research in the field of differential games, particularly games of pursuit and surveillance, as well as in the fields of robotics and manufacturing systems, particularly open-architecture manufacturing and open-system machine controllers. His recent research activities are in nanotechnology at the Technion and the Weizmann Institute of Science, including electrospinning, nanofibers, nanomaterials, and nanocomposites.

He worked for over twenty years in the Israeli defense industry, and was responsible for initiating and managing large-scale projects for domestic and export applications. He spent two years as a research scientist at the Robotics and Manufacturing Research Laboratory of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (NYU), and there he invented and built MOSAIC, a universal open-architecture controller for autonomous machines, and was a consultant to DARPA on autonomous manufacturing. On 1997 he established inVenture and has been developing and managing the company since. 

Israel Greenfeld was born in Israel and lives in Kfar Vradim in the upper Galilee with his wife and children. They own and operate a non-profit art gallery, Tal Gallery, in memory of their son who was an artist. He loves music and piano playing, arts and carpet design, reading, gardening, computer programming and sports.