Tel Aviv University Announces Early-Stage Venture Fund to Invest in Student Innovation TEL AVIV, Israel, April 16, 2018-- Tel Aviv University (TAU) has established an early-stage venture capital fund, TAU Ventures, to invest initial pre-seed funding into startups founded by students and alumni within the TAU network and to further boost entrepreneurship on campus. This is the first time this business model is being established in Israel and is similar to venture capital funds at leading universities such as MIT, University of California Berkeley and Stanford. The fund offices are located in a newly renovated work-share space on the TAU campus.