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Chemi Peres

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236 total appearances

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

of creativity, superheroes, this world of imagination and creation of stories and figures is not well accepted in Israel as it is in Japan or in the US, Europe. It's not yet developed and he wanted to develop it. So we started to work on a project which was called Yucca Monsters. And the idea was to start with a concept store in Tel Aviv that we showcased the most exciting product.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

of creativity, superheroes, this world of imagination and creation of stories and figures is not well accepted in Israel as it is in Japan or in the US, Europe. It's not yet developed and he wanted to develop it. So we started to work on a project which was called Yucca Monsters. And the idea was to start with a concept store in Tel Aviv that we showcased the most exciting product.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

and then do it also online. And then, as we continue to scale, we'll set up a publishing house, very unique, the first of its kind in Israel, to publish comics and graphic novels, and then start a studio that will foster and support young artists and ideas to tell stories. We can grow them into the global markets. We found a place in Tel Aviv. We started to design it.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

and then do it also online. And then, as we continue to scale, we'll set up a publishing house, very unique, the first of its kind in Israel, to publish comics and graphic novels, and then start a studio that will foster and support young artists and ideas to tell stories. We can grow them into the global markets. We found a place in Tel Aviv. We started to design it.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

Guy started to create lists of products that we want to bring. And then we were in New York for a few days. He stayed in his apartment with his dog and we left our dog with him. We communicated he wanted to buy some stuff in the US and he sent us stuff to the hotel to pick it up.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

Guy started to create lists of products that we want to bring. And then we were in New York for a few days. He stayed in his apartment with his dog and we left our dog with him. We communicated he wanted to buy some stuff in the US and he sent us stuff to the hotel to pick it up.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

And then all of a sudden we didn't hear from him and we got very worried because it was not something that we would accept or expect. And we called him and he didn't answer. So we sent our daughter to see if everything is okay. Unfortunately, he was 33 years old. He got a cardiac failure that killed him. in seconds.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

And then all of a sudden we didn't hear from him and we got very worried because it was not something that we would accept or expect. And we called him and he didn't answer. So we sent our daughter to see if everything is okay. Unfortunately, he was 33 years old. He got a cardiac failure that killed him. in seconds.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

And only later on, when we did the autopsy, we discovered that he had myocarditis in his heart, the beginning of heart disease. But its first appearance was cardiac heart failure. It was devastating, painful, unimaginable. Nothing that people that did not go through this can understand. There is a wall between the room that people that lost their kids are in to those who did not.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

And only later on, when we did the autopsy, we discovered that he had myocarditis in his heart, the beginning of heart disease. But its first appearance was cardiac heart failure. It was devastating, painful, unimaginable. Nothing that people that did not go through this can understand. There is a wall between the room that people that lost their kids are in to those who did not.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

There is no bridge, so nobody can understand it. What I decided to do together with my family is to carry on with his legacy, to build the Yuko Monsters without him, to realize his dream. and to make his life meaningful, because they were very short. They were very meaningful, but very short. And he realized his dream.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

There is no bridge, so nobody can understand it. What I decided to do together with my family is to carry on with his legacy, to build the Yuko Monsters without him, to realize his dream. and to make his life meaningful, because they were very short. They were very meaningful, but very short. And he realized his dream.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

And at the same time, we formed the cathedral in Shankar, which is a visual school. And in this cathedral, we are doing also some amazing stuff for others. We pay scholarships for people from the periphery. We give awards to students that excel.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

And at the same time, we formed the cathedral in Shankar, which is a visual school. And in this cathedral, we are doing also some amazing stuff for others. We pay scholarships for people from the periphery. We give awards to students that excel.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

We started a master's degree in game design, and we launched an AI research center, which is called Parameter, which is doing AI for visual communication, which is quite fascinating. So there is no comfort. There is no cure. It's an ever-ending story. Time doesn't do any good. But you have to live with it. There's nothing we can do about it. It's irreversible.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

We started a master's degree in game design, and we launched an AI research center, which is called Parameter, which is doing AI for visual communication, which is quite fascinating. So there is no comfort. There is no cure. It's an ever-ending story. Time doesn't do any good. But you have to live with it. There's nothing we can do about it. It's irreversible.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

We tried to think about the fact that he had a beautiful life. At that point, he did everything that he wanted. He was very gifted. He traveled the world. He studied. He had amazing friends that loved him. He had everything besides luck to keep on living.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

We tried to think about the fact that he had a beautiful life. At that point, he did everything that he wanted. He was very gifted. He traveled the world. He studied. He had amazing friends that loved him. He had everything besides luck to keep on living.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

Of course, I'm aware of it. It was important for me to keep him with us. The fact that he's not alive anymore doesn't mean that he will be faded away. So he's part of the family. His dog now is with us. So every day we walk into a morning and yeah, morning and evening, his car is with us.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Chemi Peres: Overcoming Personal Challenges to Build Pitango, Israel’s Largest Venture Fund | E98

Of course, I'm aware of it. It was important for me to keep him with us. The fact that he's not alive anymore doesn't mean that he will be faded away. So he's part of the family. His dog now is with us. So every day we walk into a morning and yeah, morning and evening, his car is with us.