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Ilja Aizenberg

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Managing Director at Loom Ventures

Germany

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About

Deep-tech investor, founder, and scientist with a PhD in semiconductor physics. Previously at M Ventures, Merck's €1B+ corporate VC arm, with experience across sensing, industrial data, enterprise AI, secure compute, and hardware.

Experience

  1. Loom VenturesManaging Directorcurrent2026 — presentEurope
  2. WiliotBoard Observer2025 — 2026Caesarea, Haifa District, Israel
  3. NovoLINCMember Board of Directors2025 — 2026Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  4. Corvic AIMember Board of Directors2024 — 2026Mountain View, California, United States
  5. Anjuna SecurityMember Board of Directors2024 — 2026Palo Alto, California, United States
  6. M VenturesDirector2022 — 2026Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland
  7. emteriaCo-Founder and Advisor2022 — 2024
  8. emteriaCo-Founder and Managing Director2020 — 2022Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
  9. ElementBoard Observer2020 — 2021San Francisco, California, United States
  10. CodeCheckBoard Observer2019 — 2021Zurich, Switzerland
  11. EvonikDirector Venture Capital2019 — 2021Frankfurt Area, Germany
  12. EvonikManager Strategy & Digital Transformation2016 — 2019Frankfurt Area, Germany
  13. Weizmann Institute of SciencePostdoctoral Research Associate (Nano-Bioelectronics)2015 — 2016Rehovot, Israel
  14. BASFNew Electronics & Business (R&D)2012 — 2015Ludwigshafen, Germany
  15. InnovationLab GmbHLab-to-Product Innovation Lab operations2011 — 2012Heidelberg Area, Germany

Skills & more

Strategy1Design ThinkingManagementNegotiationMentoringblockchainSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Fund ManagementInterimsmanagementGeschäftsführerBusiness Strategy21Innovation Management14
+12 moreTechnological InnovationVenture CapitalDigital StrategyMachine LearningAgile Project ManagementStart-upsChange ManagementNanotechnologySemiconductorsR&DBusiness DevelopmentProduct Development

Languages English · French · German · Hebrew · Italian · Russian

  • Stanford Machine Learning by Andrew Ng — Coursera
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital by Università Bocconi — Coursera

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Who is Ilja Aizenberg?
Deep-tech investor, founder, and scientist with a PhD in semiconductor physics. Previously at M Ventures, Merck's €1B+ corporate VC arm, with experience across sensing, industrial data, enterprise AI, secure compute, and hardware.
Where does Ilja Aizenberg work?
Ilja Aizenberg is Managing Director at Loom Ventures.
Where did Ilja Aizenberg go to school?
Ilja Aizenberg studied at Weizmann Institute of Science (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Bioelectronics); Collège des Ingénieurs (Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management); Technische Universität Braunschweig (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering).

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