Yair Schindel, MD

Dr. Yair Schindel is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of aMoon Ventures. As a healthcare entrepreneur, investor and physician with vast experience in the field, Schindel co-founded aMoon in 2016.

Born into a family of physicians, Schindel’s parents and grandparents are doctors. His grandparents were also Schindler’s List Holocaust survivors who escaped Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps and rebuilt their lives in the state of Israel. Driven towards a life in medicine and motivated by a desire to save lives and give back to the world, he began his career as a physician, but soon pivoted to a life in innovation. Establishing aMoon is the culmination of his life’s work in the fields of healthcare, technology and digital transformation.

Before launching aMoon, Schindel served as the founding CEO of Digital Israel, the State’s National Digital Bureau established within the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office with the mission of accelerating digital transformation and stimulating economic growth on a national level.

Prior to Digital Israel, he was the CEO of Startup Nation Central, a nonprofit organization that connects major international businesses, governments and NGO’s to Israeli innovation.

In 2010, Schindel co-founded MAOZ, an NGO that trains and connects Israel’s most promising future leaders, creating an active network of more than 800 alumni promoting social change initiatives to strengthen Israel’s socio-economic resilience. Between 2011 to 2013, he served as the organization’s founding CEO, and until 2016, as a board member.

In the private sector, Schindel has served as an executive, investor, board member or advisory board member in several healthcare startups, including OmniGuide, MDClone, Medisafe, Zebra (acquired by Nanox), Adicet (Nasdaq:ACET), Cartiheal (acquired by BioVentus), Igentify, DayTwo and a $3.5B stealth unicorn in the field of genomic sequencing.

When Schindel co-founded aMoon, he also established a parallel nonprofit organization - The 8400 Health Network. With Schindel as the Co-founder and Chairman, 8400 is building a coalition of public, private and nonprofit sector leaders to build a national health tech growth engine.

Schindel earned his BSc and MD degrees at Ben-Gurion University’s Goldman Medical School and his MBA at the Harvard Business School (HBS). He currently serves on the Health Care Advisory Board at HBS. Prior to business school, Schindel served for five years as a physician with IDF Special Forces. In his last position he was the Chief Medical Officer for the Israeli Navy Seals, also known as “Shayetet 13."