Jason Wolf joins Haggai Klorman Eraqi for a rare, behind-the-scenes conversation about building (and investing) when the world is literally shaking. Jason helped scale TopTier to a $400M cash acquisition by SAP, lived through the Better Place era, and today co-leads Iron Nation—a VC fund created three days after Oct 7 to keep Israeli startups alive when term sheets were getting pulled overnight.
Iron Nation backed 24 startups in its first year—and already celebrated a first exit: illumex → NVIDIA. Jason breaks down what global investors often miss about Israeli resilience, how a wartime fund actually makes decisions, and what “good founders” look like when pressure isn’t theoretical.
Jason Wolf’s Wild Startup-to-VC Journey: From…
Jason Wolf joins Haggai Klorman Eraqi for a rare, behind-the-scenes conversation about building (and investing) when the world is literally shaking. Jason helped scale TopTier to a $400M cash acquisition by SAP, lived through the Better Place era, and today co-leads Iron Nation—a VC fund created three days after Oct 7 to keep Israeli startups alive when term sheets were getting pulled overnight. Iron Nation backed 24 startups in its first year—and already celebrated a first exit: illumex → NVIDIA. Jason breaks down what global investors often miss about Israeli resilience, how a wartime fund actually makes decisions, and what “good founders” look like when pressure isn’t theoretical.