CEO, Berkeley Payments · Advisor, GrowthMatters · Advisor, Isratech Capital Partners
Lawrence
Tepperman
I build companies that win globally.
CEO of Berkeley Payments — the payments infrastructure that runs quietly behind other companies' branded programs across North America. Founder of GrowthMatters, which helps Israeli B2B companies build a working U.S. go-to-market motion, and of Isratech Capital Partners. Two nine-figure exits, $100M+ raised, 25 years selling into the United States.
Profile
Twenty-five years turning bold companies into global players.
Lawrence Tepperman is, first and foremost, the CEO of Berkeley Payments — a Canadian fintech-as-a-service platform that lets businesses launch and run their own branded payment programs: prepaid and virtual cards, real-time disbursements, and embedded money movement, all under their own brand. Berkeley operates as infrastructure — its clients' brands sit on top, while the banking, compliance and technical machinery stays out of view.
Alongside Berkeley he is the founder of Isratech Capital Partners, which backs and accelerates growth-stage technology companies expanding into North America, and of GrowthMatters, which helps Israeli B2B companies build a U.S. go-to-market motion that actually repeats. The thread across all three is the same: helping ambitious companies scale across borders — built on a 25-year record of founding, transforming and exiting companies in financial services and technology.
What I'm building
A Canadian Fintech-as-a-Service platform for branded payment programs — prepaid and virtual cards, real-time disbursements, and embedded money movement across North America. Where most of my time and focus lives.
Backing and accelerating growth-stage technology companies as they expand into North American markets.
Helping Israeli B2B companies build a U.S. go-to-market motion that repeats — not government, not consumer. Two or three companies at a time.
What I argue about most
America is not one market. That’s why more money didn’t fix it.
Most of what I get asked about now is the same problem from two directions: an Israeli company that raised on a U.S. plan and has not delivered one, and a board that cannot tell whether the failure was the person, the plan or the market.
My view, from twenty-five years of selling into the United States and two exits underwritten by American revenue: Israeli companies do not fail in America because they underfunded it. They fail because they ran an Israeli motion against an American buying process — and more budget applied to an unproven motion buys a more expensive version of the same result.
I write that argument out in full, with the numbers behind the most common version of it — the U.S. VP of Sales hire.
Track record
Background
Education
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Focus
Featured in Forbes (2023) — “The Best-Kept Secret in the $245 Billion Fintech Sector.”
The journey
From Toronto to Tel Aviv.
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Lawrence built his career across North America and the United Kingdom — living and working in New York, Raleigh, Chicago, Boston, and St. Albans — before making Aliyah to Israel in 2022. He now lives in Tel Aviv, leading Berkeley on Toronto hours while building bridges between Israeli innovation and North American markets.
Contact
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