Shmuel Harlap

$2.32B
as of 07/05/24

About Shmuel Harlap

Israeli investor Shmuel Harlap invested $10,000 in automotive tech startup Mobileye in 2001 and eventually acquired a 7.2% stake.

In 2017, Intel purchased Mobileye for $15.3 billion in cash. Harlap netted $750 million from the deal, pushing him into the billionaire ranks.

He is also chairman and part owner of Colmobil, Israel's largest car importer, which his father acquired in 1962.

Harlap continues to invest in Israeli startups, particularly in the cybersecurity, nanotechnology and life sciences industries.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Israel

Source of wealth

Automotive

Residence

Tel Aviv, Israel

Birth date

11/13/44 (age 79)

Self-made

inherited and growing

Shmuel Harlap’s fortune is worth

39K

troy ounces of gold

36K

median U.S. household

23K

median U.S. income

0.046%

U.S. credit card volume

0.009%

GDP of the United States

0.007%

United States debt

Net worth history

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Did you know?

Harlap has a Ph.D from Harvard in political philosophy.

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