Shmuel Harlap
$2.5B
Born
Nov 13, 1944
Age
81
Source of Wealth
Automotive
Residence
Tel Aviv,
Citizenship
Israel
Marital Status
Children
0
Education
- Israeli investor Shmuel Harlap invested $10,000 in automotive tech startup Mobileye in 2001 and eventually acquired a 7.2% stake.
- In 2017, Intel purchased Mobileye for $15.3 billion in cash. Harlap netted $750 million from the deal, pushing him into the billionaire ranks.
- He is also chairman and part owner of Colmobil, Israel's largest car importer, which his father acquired in 1962.
- Harlap continues to invest in Israeli startups, particularly in the cybersecurity, nanotechnology and life sciences industries.
- While Harlap was fighting in the Six-Day War, his father was persuading Mercedes-Benz to deliver 1,625 trucks to Israel to move supplies.
- Harlap has a Ph.D from Harvard in political philosophy.
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