Principal investment & operating platform
Sagie Ventures puts its own capital and hands-on operating experience into established, cash-generating businesses and real assets. We also build the technology that helps them run better.
How we work
Control or significant-influence positions in established companies with real customers and positive economics today, in any industry where our operating, technology and strategy experience gives us a clear way to add value.
What we look forA sound business with a clear gap in operations, technology, pricing, distribution or strategy that we can close
We work alongside owners, boards and sponsors when strategy, operations, technology, capital allocation or M&A can materially change where a company goes. We take executive and board-level roles where the fit is right.
EngagementsExecutive leadership, board and advisory, transformation and M&A
We found and back companies where software meets physical infrastructure: buildings, energy and the systems that run them. Envoy came from here.
CurrentBuilding intelligence, AI operating software and a connected consumer concept
Development and income property where the downside is protected and there's more than one way to create value. We partner with institutional capital and keep a principal's stake.
CurrentGround-up student housing next to a major Texas university, with an institutional partner. Manufactured housing communities in Florida.
Criteria
Approach
Current cash flow, customer relationships and downside protection come first. Growth is upside, never the thesis.
Usually a handful of operating, commercial and technology changes drive most of the value. We find them early and commit to them.
We stay close to the business as owners and operators, and we bring in partners and capital as the platform grows.
Track record
See the opportunity early. Assemble the pieces. Bring in strategic and institutional capital. Carry it to a larger outcome.
Founding team of an enterprise messaging company. Ran operations, business development and go-to-market through its combination with Nasdaq-listed Smart Online.
Co-founded and led Fountain Equity Partners: acquisition strategy, fund formation, joint ventures and operating restructurings.
Co-founded and led, as CEO and Executive Chairman, a nationwide EV and mobility platform for multifamily and commercial real estate. Raised capital from Shell, GM, Goodyear, DENSO and Macquarie, plus debt facilities, to fund national expansion. Acquired by Blink Charging (Nasdaq: BLNK) in 2023.
Founder and managing partner of a principal investment and company-creation platform, active on two fronts.
Platforms
Building intelligence for the AI era: verification and evidence tools for AI-run building systems and energy compliance.
An AI operating system that tracks every relationship, deal and commitment and tells a principal what to do next. Sagie Ventures runs on it, and it's being shaped for other operators and dealmakers.
A premium food brand designed for flagship stores and connected smart-retail points inside office and residential buildings. It draws on the commercial real estate relationships behind Envoy.
Hands-on strategy, capital and go-to-market work with early-stage AI and proptech companies.
Principal
Ori is a founder, operator and investor with more than 25 years of experience turning early ideas into operating businesses and institutional-scale assets across technology, energy, mobility and real estate.
He co-founded Envoy Technologies and led it as CEO and Executive Chairman through its sale to Blink Charging. Before that he co-founded a real estate private equity firm and helped build an enterprise software company. Today he leads Sagie Ventures and serves as board advisor for proptech and innovation at RedRock Equities. He has sat on the operating side of the table as often as the capital side.
Contact
You own a business and are thinking about a transition, a partner or new capital.
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