Founding Partner at Innovation Endeavors · Joined 2010
View Live Interactive Profile →Dror Berman led an R&D team at NICE Systems before earning an MBA from Stanford and co-founding Innovation Endeavors with Eric Schmidt in 2010. Berman developed the firm's core 'Super Evolution' thesis - the idea that converging advances in data, computing, and engineering are letting startups re-architect deeply physical industries like agriculture, space, and manufacturing in years rather than decades - and has personally led the firm's investments in Uber, SoFi, Planet, Zymergen, Freenome, and Blue River Technologies, the last of which was acquired by John Deere. He created Curiosity Camp, an invite-only unconference that strips away titles so participants engage by ideas rather than status, and continues to run Innovation Endeavors as a small, deeply technical team investing at the intersection of science and company-building, having grown the firm to $630 million in its fifth fund alone.