Royi Benyossef

Royi Benyossef is an Investment Director at Samsung NEXT Ventures based in Tel Aviv, Israel. In this role, he evaluates early-stage technology startups across artificial intelligence, blockchain, financial technology, and infrastructure sectors for the corporate venture capital arm of Samsung Electronics. His recent investment activity includes participating in a $3.3 million seed funding round for the cloud security platform Paladin Cloud alongside Okapi Venture Capital. Prior to his current position, Benyossef served as an ecosystem relations manager at the Samsung NEXT TLV office and led developer community engagement strategies. He has also published landscape mapping research on synthetic media and engaged with open-source initiatives connected to enterprise entities like T-Mobile and VMware. His current focus remains on identifying early-stage enterprise software investments and supporting portfolio companies in cloud-native security and quantum computing.