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Of those vehicles, the ones that closed a merger.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting.
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1 liquidated — weigh against the wins.
3 vehicles on file, newest listing first
2 people on two or more of them
Gilad Shany is the Founder and Managing Partner of ION Crossover Partners Ltd. (ICP), an Israeli-based crossover fund he co-founded in 2018, and a prominent figure in the SPAC ecosystem as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of multiple ION Acquisition Corp entities. Based in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Shany has established himself as one of the leading investors bridging Israeli technology and global public markets. In his capacity at ICP, he focuses on founders with growth aspirations and businesses with untapped growth potential, having sourced and led investments in over 40 companies totaling more than $1.5 billion. His investment portfolio spans sectors including AI, FinTech, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, SaaS and enterprise software, and consumer and retail, with typical check sizes around $7 million and a focus on late-stage venture and Series D and beyond. Notable investments include Tesla Inc., Mobileye NV, Iridium Communications Inc., Varonis Systems Inc., Fiverr, Monday.com, and SimilarWeb. ION operates across multiple asset classes including a private equity fund, a hedge fund investing in traded stocks, and a SPAC division, having raised $500 million and returned $150 million to investors.
Prior to founding ICP, Shany spent a decade investing in innovative growth companies across public and private markets, beginning at Baron Capital in New York and later at Magma Venture Partners in Tel Aviv. His SPAC track record is particularly distinguished: he served as CEO and Director of ION Acquisition Corp 1 Ltd. (IACA) from August 2020 through 2022, leading the first SPAC focused on Israeli tech and innovation, which raised $258.75 million in its IPO on October 2, 2020, with Cowen as left lead bookrunner. IACA announced its merger with Israeli digital advertising platform Taboola on January 25, 2021, in a deal valued at approximately $2.612 billion, with the transaction closing on June 29, 2021. ION Acquisition Corp 2 Ltd. (IACB) raised $253 million in January 2021 and completed a merger with a deal value of approximately $1.1 billion. ION Acquisition Corp 3 Ltd. (IACC), where Shany served as Co-CEO alongside Avrom Gilbert with Jonathan Kolber as Chairman, priced its IPO of 22 million Class A ordinary shares at $10 per share for $220 million in April 2021, with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs serving as joint book-running managers and Third Point Management, Daniel Loeb's New York-based hedge fund, purchasing 9.9% of the shares on offer. Across his SPAC activities, Shany has been associated with approximately $670 million in total capital deployed across four transactions, with frequent underwriters including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, AmeriVet Securities, and Cowen, and frequent associates including Anthony Reich, Avrom Gilbert, Jonathan Kolber, ION Co-Investment LLC, and ION Asset Management Ltd.
Shany graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tel Aviv University with a B.S. in Physics, Astronomy, and Philosophy, and earned an M.B.A. with Honors from the Wharton School, where he served as a Graduate Admission Fellow, interviewing and selecting MBA candidates and initiating the admissions review and redesign process. His recent investment activity includes a pre-seed investment in AutonomyAI, a New York-based artificial agent automating front-end development, which raised $4 million in April 2025, and a Series A investment in Anywell, a Ramat Hasharon-based Workspace-as-a-Service solution that raised $10 million in March 2022. He frequently co-invests with firms such as Viola Ventures, Wix Capital, Inbound Capital, Pitango VC, and Emerge Ventures, and has collaborated with angels including Eyal Chomsky, Meir Brand, Micha Kaufman, and Eyal Waldman. According to investor tracking platforms, Shany has made at least 14 investments, led 6 rounds, and achieved 5 exits across his portfolio, maintaining an active presence in both the Israeli and United States startup ecosystems.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001826218 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 91 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 43 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.