Build.Transact.Endure.
We commercialise research, take an operating role in the companies we build, advise on the transactions that shape them and invest our own capital alongside.
Four mandates, one firm.
Venture building is the core. The other mandates draw on the same experience, so a venture can lead to a transaction and a transaction to an investment.
Venture Building
We co-found companies from university IP and run them with the founders all the way to market: the licence agreement, the team, the capital, and a listing or sale.
M&A Advisory
We advise founders, boards and corporate principals on acquisitions, mergers, divestitures and reverse takeovers. We take on a mandate only when our judgment and the client's objectives align.
Principal Investment
We invest our own capital alongside founders and operators, and stay involved at board level for the long term.
Family Office
KBS Partners runs the Ben-Shabat single family office. The family's own capital stands behind our ventures and principal investments, and we bring other family offices into selected deals as co-investors.
How we work
We act as operators and principals. "Endure" means we stay involved after the deal is done.
We co-found.
We take an operating role: commercial structure, leadership hires and early capital.
We have done the deal.
Our advice comes from time as acquirer, target and deal architect.
We invest where we build.
In venture builds and principal investments our own capital goes in alongside. On advisory mandates we act as adviser and disclose any interest.
We stay after signing.
We measure ourselves on integration, post-IPO performance and year five.
Selected work
Case studies
Metallium ASX: MTM
2D Generation
Skydive Shomrat
Kobi
Ben‑Shabat
20+ years in deep tech and M&A. Co-founder of seven companies from university IP, six of them listed on the ASX.
Partners and network
An ecosystem of co-investors, advisers and operating partners across Australia, Israel, the US and Europe.
Where we focus
Discuss a venture, transaction or investment.
We take on a small number of engagements at a time. Tell us about yours.
kobi@benshabat.co