Nechemia ("Chemi") Jacob Peres Hebrew: חמי פרס (born July 17, 1958) is a venture capital and high-tech entrepreneur.

Many of Peres' classmates were children of major figures of the Israeli society, including his father, who was already the Minister of Defense.

During his air force service, Peres received a certificate of excellence,[1] along with co-pilot Noam Nachmani, for rescuing a Cobra helicopter crew flying with them at night, who crashed on the northern shore the Sea of Galilee.

In 1986 Peres joined Israel Aerospace Industries as an adviser, working on the IAI Lavi project, in the engineering division preliminary design, using his background as an Air Force pilot and a technologist.

In 1992, together with DSIT and others, Peres co-founded "MOFET Israel Technology Fund" (MOFET is Hebrew acronym for "Industrial R&D"), one of the first venture capital funds listed on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, operating according to the guidelines for early stage investments, issued by Inbal, the Israel Government Insurance firm.

MOFET invested in several high-tech companies, among them are Netro Corporation, Precise Software, Paradigm Geophysical and Orckit Communications (later named Orckit-Corrigent).

[2] In 1996 Peres left MOFET, and along with Rami Kalish, they co-founded Polaris Fund II, in partnership with the Dovrat-Shrem Group.

Since 1996, he is the co-founder and managing general partner of the firm, which invested in a portfolio of some 230 global high tech companies, including Graphcore, eToro, Riskified, Taboola and Via, with over $2.3 billion in committed capital.

Peres is on the board of directors of Pitango portfolio companies, such as Via Transportation, Taboola, Venn.city,[6] Radwin, Duda and Totango.

He is active as a board member at Social Finance Israel, and serves on the Geox Ethics & Sustainability Committee since March 2020.