Pitango HealthTech appoints Yael Leventer-Nacker as Principal
Pitango HealthTech has announced the appointment of Yael Leventer-Nacker as Principal. She joins Pitango following 10 years of strategic and venture leadership at Digital Health, tech, and management consulting across Israel and the U.S. Most recently, Leventer-Nacker was a project leader at the Boston Consulting Group in New York focusing on healthcare innovation and healthtech.
“Yael’s unique blend of operating and consulting expertise has been shaped by her experience working for successful Israeli tech companies, and leading U.S. management consulting firms,” said Ittai Harel, Managing Partner at Pitango HealthTech. “She brings deep expertise in market analysis, product-market fit identification, and implementation of commercial strategy. Through her experience at BCG, she has worked with some of the top US digital health companies and entrepreneurs. We are excited to welcome Yael to the Pitango family and have no doubt she will be a tremendous asset to the entrepreneurs we work with, and to the healthtech innovation eco-system as a whole.”
As Principal at Pitango HealthTech, Leventer-Nacker will be responsible for identifying and investing in promising healthtech startups. Her understanding of the American healthcare system and her experience in venture building will be valued by Pitango’s portfolio companies. Before this, Leventer-Nacker served as an engineering manager at Fiverr and, before that, as a Software engineer at Mellanox Technologies.
Pitango has raised more than $3 billion and invests in founding teams “from stealth to unicorn” across three funds: Pitango First, Pitango Growth, and Pitango HealthTech. Since 1993, it has invested in more than 250 companies and seen more than 85 become publicly traded companies or acquired.
