NetMe Ventures is the holding & investments company of the Marmarelli family.
After working many years in the Israeli Hitech arena (being a senior executive in two NASDAQ listed companies and the chairman of the Israeli Hitech Organisation) Tuvia Marmarelli started NetMe as a Venture Capital company, to seed, scout technologies, mentor and raise funds for Israeli startups; mostly in the software , internet & communications arenas (his personal expertize).
Capitalizing on his vast network of contacts, the operation evolved from raising equity for start-ups to raising equity and debt for real estate investments which became more and more essential for the company’s growth and lead the company to its current position. Today, apart of being the private holding company of the family, NetMe became more of a launchpad for new business activities. Whenever these activities can “fly alone”, they go out of NetMe and form a “Lean & Mean” execution company with its own team and partners, directed by the holding’s people and values.
It is interesting to see how Hi-Tech investors become Real Estate investors and vice versa. Thus, forming a vibrant investors community (over 600 active investors) who share similar values: good ideas & values, business networking, personal trust and effective execution.
Netme’s companies larger eco system and teams are actively dealing with Hitech ventures and with Real estate since 2002. Since 2009 our teams and partners focused on American real estate – specifically in high demand areas. Over 100 development projects in New York & Brooklyn, and over 50 other projects all over the USA, had been led by the teams. The real estate teams specialize in sourcing high yield projects with minimal risk and exposure for its investors by taking advantage of its leaders’ and developing partners’ vast experience.
In the last year we are in a process of diversifying our real estate activities into new areas in Europe.
Our investors are taking part in various investments structures and activities (equity, new developments, secured and preferred loans, ad hock partnerships and special purpose funds) with secure and high yield potential, initially capitalizing on the tremendous opportunity created after the sub-prime crisis phenomena.
Although real estate become more and more significant for the holding, we love dealing with new ideas. So we cook, seed and nurture them at our NetMelabs, lead by the younger and smarter generation of the family.
Wish to partner and raise equity or debt with us? Contact us
People and companies are often charcterized and judged by their values. Values are like a lighthouse. Its light guides our way in the sea in the darkness of the night. When we set up NetMe, we defined first our lighthouse. Our values. From than on, every action we take, and every statement we make is according to these values. And we are very proud to succeed in following them precisely. Here are some of the main ones.
PEOPLE FIRST. We know that behind every dollar invested with us – there is a human being. That person spent lots of work, efforts and time to make that dollar. Its needed usualy for very special purposes. To marry your children, to save for your elder time, to handle old parents, to buy a new appartment etc. We know how pecious that money is, and therefore we will take always actions that minimize risks, explain them, and see the whole picture for the sake of our investors. We think like a family and act like one. Because we will only let one invest if we would let our children invest in the same opportunity. Actually that’s how we will chose our investments.
LISTEN. ATTENTION. Listening carefully to investors and partners needs and targets is crucial to our success. In fact we vow to always listen. We open our ears not only to our investors and partners. But also to market analysts and trends. We actively listen. By listening we gather information which lets us decide better and execute our plans better, and have always plan B.
VIEWPOINT. Whenever we are in front of an important decision, we vow to take it after considering what would our investor do by himself in such a situation, and we strive to do our best that fits investors interest. As we usuaully know what’s on our investors agenda, as we do listen, we’ll always put ourselves in our investors shoes. That’s the right viewpoint to our opinion, and that’s how we act.
KNOW. PREPARE. STRATEGIZE. PROFESSIONAL EXECUTION. As the famous Chinese general, Sun Tsu, once said : “Every battle is won before it is fought”. We adopt specifically that, and we always try to “win” before we actually enter a new project. We buy properties “under the radar”. We do it by being prepared with the right connections, with a planned strategy, based on thourough knowledge of the specific area, taking into account all hurdles, and usually buy properties well bellow market price. And than we plan in a way, that if the rain suddenly drops, our investors will get out dry…
INTEGRITY. “Live so that when your children think of Fairness, Caring & Integrity, they think of you”. Integrity is chosing your thoughts and actions based on your values rather than personal gain. We chose that this sentence will guide any action we take as it says so much about what it means to be a trusted human.
TRUST. and CARE. Trust takes years to build, seconds to break and forever to repair. For us, trust is also a business engine. The more trust we have from our investors & partners, the more successful our business will be. So building trust is at the core of all our activities. And we care to cultivate it by taking care of our community, their investments and their needs, with full integrity. As they trust us, they’ll tell their friends, that we are their trusted partners. We do not know of any better way to grow the business. So we always act to be trusted. We care. And we take it personally.
Innovate. Build. Execute. With Care. So we all can sleep better….
As mentioned all ventures start as an activity within NetMe and whenever they can “fly alone” they go out and form a specialized company dealing specifically with its activity. We chose a concept of an eco system, of several companies acting jointly, each specializes in its own expertize, guided by the group’s management. Decisons and interests are alligned to the same values and goals without conflicts. In our lean structure we have actually defined a scaleable active management of the group, investors mentorship section and financial advisory – all provided by our eco system. This structure allows for each partner to scale, without impacting the other parties – while all decisions, actions and strategies are decided together, guided by the group’s management, enabeling economies of scale and investors centric approach. Hereunder we outline our current companies and activities:
The group raises equity and debt from Israeli investors for American Real Estate development projects
Recheck is the Israeli Center for Real Estate investments analysis; it developed and is using the “Nadlanometer” method
The company raisd equity from Israeli investors for development projects mostly in Brooklyn, USA and exits from projects now on a monthly basis
The company specializes in unique real estate investments models for Care Homes, Loans and other unique properties
A document management system, including scanning , and auto arranging into folders via OCR – accessible and utilizing our mobile phones camera abilities
A media place for investors of all types to gather and get a glance on new investments opportuinties in various sectors
Make last wills online and than save them electronically for easy modifications and later search
A market place in which investors from all arround the world looking to fund Israeli start ups
A market place in which one can be introduced for a fee to a person / customer he may wish by specialized introducers and door openers
A special multi purpose lamp device which helps in our digital life. Works in conjunction with our phondocs software
As our strategy, values and structure require, holding team is very lean. We realy on our knowhow, connections and the wide eco system established during the years, with many win / win partners. We consider our financial and legal counsels as part of our close and lean team.
We are constantly looking to team up with good partners. Be it developers in need for equity, debt or need investors for its properties sale, be it a start up in need for additional investors, and be it channels who wish team with us and take part of the profits. You are all welcome. Either approach us directly, or via our specialized companies as mentioned above. We believe in long term and sustainable partnership with a win / win spirit. Do not hesitate call us today or drop us an email. Partnering is in our way of life..
