Galia Beer-Gabel is a Managing Partner at Team8, where she builds and invests in Fintech companies.

She supports founders with the ideation, building, and scaling of their businesses. As well as financial expertise, Galia has experience with B2B sales methodologies and intrapreneurship.

Prior to joining Team8, Galia spent six years at PayPal where she held multiple business development and sales leadership roles across the sub-Saharan African, Israeli, and Eastern European markets. She led product innovation, business development activities, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, and geo-expansion efforts. She led product-driven partnerships with banks, alternative payment methods, and credit card providers in emerging markets; for example, she drove PayPal’s strategic partnership with M-PESA, which democratized access to financial services and global ecommerce for Kenyan businesses and consumers. Galia also worked as a commercial lawyer at Amit, Pollack, Matalon & Co. where she founded and led the firm’s business development and legal marketing department.

Galia has an MBA from Reichman University (formerly IDC Herzliya), and an LLB in Law and Economics from Tel Aviv University. She is also a graduate of the Executive Education Program at the Wharton Business School.