Ranan has been an active investor in Israeli high-tech companies since 1999.

He has served as a general partner of Jerusalem Global Ventures (JGV) since 2008 and has held different capacities of investment management and investment banking with Jerusalem Global since 1999. Some of these activities include: heading investment banking activities in Jerusalem Global’s spin-off, Yazam.com, management positions in portfolio companies such as Certagon, leading investments and sitting on boards of several of its portfolio companies. Ranan started his career as one of the first employees software trading platform vendor Tradeum (sold to VerticalNet), and founded free space optics company, Roqiya Networks.