Boaz Fachler

Boaz was born in London, UK, and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. 

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Boaz holds an LL.B. in Law and a B.A. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was admitted to a student exchange program at Stanford University and was commended by the Israeli Law and Society Association for empirical research. He earned his MBA from MIT, with a focus on entrepreneurship and finance.

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He served as a Captain in the IDF and graduated from the officer academy with distinction.

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He volunteered at a nonprofit, supporting veterans. He also served as Head of Audit Committee at an NGO promoting technology education for underprivileged youth, overseeing operations of 150 employees and volunteers and 3,000 students.

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Boaz, his wife, and their two children live in the Boston area. He is a two-star certified scuba diver who has dived in famous sites around the world, including El Nido and Sharm El-Sheikh.

Boaz Fachler is a Managing Director at Link Ventures, a Cambridge-based venture firm that backs tight-knit technical teams building AI-first companies primarily out of the MIT, Harvard, and Boston ecosystems. 

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Boaz partners with winners. He led the firm's investments in Blitzy, Aaru, Ornn, Farsight, and many others. 

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Before venture, Boaz served as a Captain and Team Officer in an elite special-forces unit of the IDF, practiced high-tech M&A law in Israel, representing Fortune 100 companies (such as Meta, Salesforce, and Tencent) through M&A and VC transactions. He then held executive and technical roles at companies ranging from a global consumer brand to a unicorn transit platform, and founded an AI fintech startup while at MIT with support from MIT Sandbox and the MIT Media Lab. Prior to joining Link, he worked at a Boston-based growth equity firm, while building an angel portfolio in early-stage startups.

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In addition to his investment work, Boaz is a guest lecturer and mentor across several programs at Harvard and MIT and is active in leading Boston-area accelerators.