Top 10 Automotive Angel Investors in Israel in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Automotive startups based in Israel. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Israel. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Automotive Angel Investors in Israel in November 2024

Investor	Automotive Israel investments
Zohar Zisapel	3
Eyal Ofer	3
Uri Levine	3
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	2
Peter Mertens	1
Fernando Rivera	1
Gonzalo Martinez de Azagra	1
Christer Andersson	1
Yigal Jacoby	1
Rami Lipman	1

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Zohar Zisapel

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Information Technology, Security
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
Nucleix — OUR TESTS AIM TO DETECT CANCER EARLIER - WHEN TREATMENT CAN BE MOST EFFECTIVE FOR PATIENTS OUR PRODUCTS
Hailo — Hailo have developed the best performing AI processors for edge devices. Our AI accelerator chips are used for Smart City & Homes, machine learning, automotive AI, retail AI and smart factory Industry 4.0 solutions.

Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating hislong-standing support for tech entrepreneurs.In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay. Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating his long-standing support for tech entrepreneurs. In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay.

Investment focus

Financial Services, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Home365 — Home365, Is a Property Management Company. Our Goal Is Making Renting Out More Profitable, Predictable And Hassle Free. Click Here For More Information.
Connecteam — Communicate, operate and train your non-desk employees with Connecteam's all-in-one employee app. Easy to use, customizable and affordable like no other!
Lightbits Labs — Discover Lightbits disaggregated software-defined storage for IO-intensive workloads in OpenStack, Kubernetes, and VMware environments.

Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Travel
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Engie — Buy Twitch Followers and Buy Twitch Viewers from EngieApp to grow an organic following. Our Twitch followers, viewers are immensely real and authentic. Try Now!
SeeTree — SeeTree offers you complete transparency into the health and production of each of your trees by leveraging the most powerful innovations available.
WeSki — Visit WeSki, compare endless ski holiday combinations, find the best ski deals and build your perfect ski package holiday, in just few clicks.

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.

Peter Mertens

Investment focus

Software, Automotive, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Certivity — Certivity offers software to model digital regulatory twins of their products. This will ensure that current regulatory requirements are integrated in the right place in the engineering process. Product compliance will be smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and significantly cheaper.
DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
Moonblock — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and VC. Ex-CTO for ETF.com. Interest in LatAm startups and Fintech.

Investment focus

Apps, Recruiting, Vending and Concessions
Seed, Angel
United States, Brazil, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
Pimes — Mission-Driven, For-Profit, Online Lender to Small Businesses in Developing MarketsPimes is focused on accelerating the success of profitable small businesses led by motivated, capable and ethical entrepreneurs in select developing markets by providing access to innovative and comprehensive debt financing. At the same time, we aim to offer ourinvestors market returns and access to a new asset class.Starting in Colombia, we will offer a hand up to growing companies who need capital to maximize their impact, create employment and open pathways for upward mobility.Learning, and adapting, from recent experiences in developed markets, we are reinventing small business lending in developing markets.Our target customer has 3 to 50 employees and requires a loan of $5,000 to $100,000. This is typically too large for the microfinance model, but too small for traditional banking approaches to be profitable.We will measure our social impact in terms of absolute employment creation, loans to women-owned and impact-focused enterprises, and loans to rural and underserved regions.
VisIC Technologies — VisIC Technologies Ltd. is a GaN power semiconductor device leader in the fast-developing markets of Automotive, Data Centers and Industrial.

Investor/global strategist with a deep business/financial training and the ability to understand technology at the engineering level.Related investments:* Replay Technologies* Celeno* AudioBurst* Corephotonics* Rounds* ScyllaDB* EarlySense* Cortica* Aveni* Pitango VI, VII, VC fund (Israel) * Triventures III*StoreDot (Israel) '12 * NextIO: Datacenter IO Virtualization company (US), '12* Undisclosed Flash based storage company (US) '12* Yume, Digital Ad Network, (US,Operational DD) '11Specialties: Areas of investment focus: 1) Mobile: Comp. Vision, Imaging, Wireless Comms 2) Cloud : IAAS, PAAS, Ent. Storage, Servers, Virtualization, Big data processing/management3) Semicon: Equipment/Process Technology/MetrologyOther: Media, Digital Advertising, Online Gaming/GamblingGeographic Coverage:1) Israel2) Europe3) USSManaged Portfolio:Replay TechnologiesGirafficStoreDot (Board Member)Pitango VI LP representativePurestorage (past)FusionIO (past)PrimeSense (Past)EXPERIENCEPrincipalSamsung VenturesDecember 2011 – Present (1 year 3 months)San Francisco Bay AreaDeal sourcing, due diligence, term sheet negotiation and execution, portfolio management and exitManager - Global StrategistSamsung ElectronicsAugust 2010 – December 2011 (1 year 5 months)Founded in 1997 by Group Chairman Kun-Hee Lee the Global Strategy group is an internal strategy consulting team created to help Samsung face its globalization challenges.Project Lead and UC Berkeley School Recruiting Champion:http://gsg.samsung.com/popup/popup_Berkeley.asp(Open)1 honor or awardSenior ConsultantPwC ConsultingJuly 2005 – August 2008 (3 years 2 months)Promoted from Analyst to Senior Consultant within 7 months. Strategic plans, process re-engineering, proforma modeling and investment appraisal for multiple industries.Systems Design EngineerAEA Technology (Former Atomic Energy Authority)July 2003 – July 2005 (2 years 1 month)London, United KingdomEMI studies (C++, Matlab). High Voltage Power Supply desig. Relevant projects: West Coast Route Modernization, CTRL, etc.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

illumex — Illumex is a mapping solution platform that empowers businesses to create a unified and accurate data language for everyone.
StoreDot — The extreme-fast charging battery pioneers StoreDot is a battery developer and materials innovation leader, developing ground-breaking battery technologies based on the design and synthesis of both organic and inorganic compounds. Replacing known materials and technologies with enhanced electro-chemical properties, StoreDot's proprietarycompounds, combined with nano-materials, are optimized for Extreme Fast Charging - XFC of electric vehicles. Designed to replace known technologies by means of enhanced physical, chemical, electrical and optical properties, StoreDot’s technology, inspired by nature, can be optimized for multiple industries, including fast-charging batteries for mobile devices and electric vehicles. With a strong technological team of noted scientists and device engineering experts, StoreDot is positioned to reinvent the world of materials and devices as they know it.
NeuReality — NeuReality is the first complete, system-level solution designed to address the challenges of optimizing, deploying, managing, and scaling AI workflows.

Christer K. Andersson is an investor in early stage angel and venture rounds. Christer's main focus is in software tech start-ups that have a certain level of disruption in their idea. The current portfolio includes start-ups based in USA, Sweden, India , Israel, and Germany and cover technologies in Crypto / BlockChain, ArtificialIntelligence, BioTech, Enterprise SaaS, MusicTech, Mobility, and Futureofwork.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Sweden, India

Portfolio highlights

Minicircle — Minicircle develops a human genetic enhancement platform to facilitate life extension capabilities. Its platform uses expressive DNA mini circles to add genes to the human body without altering its pre-existing genome that lets healthcare practitioners to relieve suffering and enrich the condition through means of developing and delivering safe,accessible gene therapy.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Karbon — Karbon Card is a financial platform for Indian entrepreneurs.
Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.

Yigal Yacoby is an angel investor.Yigal Jacoby co-founded Allot Communications in 1996 and served as both the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors until 2006, when he retired as CEO.Jacoby continued as Chariman of the Board until November 2008.In 1992, Jacoby founded Armon Networking, a manufacturer ofRMON-based network management solutions, which was sold to Bay Networks in 1996. Following this acquisition, Jacoby continued on as General Manager of Bay Network’s Network Management Division from 1996-1997.Prior to this, he held a variety of engineering and marketing management positions at Tekelec, a manufacturer of telecommunication monitoring and diagnostic equipment. Throughout his career, Jacoby has founded several start-ups in the communications field, serving on their board of directors and taking an active role in guiding the companies.Jacoby has a B.A. cum laude in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Southern California.