Menachem Tabanpour, the Managing Director for gener8tor Luxembourg, is credited with launching gener8tor's first European Union venture capital fund and pre-seed investment accelerator in 2022. With a background as the Co-founder of NRU and President/CEO for over 10 years, Menachem brings a wealth of experience to the team related to entrepreneurship and especially sustainability focused startups. NRU was a cleantech, circular economy startup that commercialized a resource recovery technology for the wastewater industry to create commodity grade fertilizers for agriculture. Serving as a board member or advisor in several startups and having worked with over 60 startups as the director of various accelerator programs, Menachem is a seasoned expert in commercializing technologies and building startups from the ground up.