# Top 20 Digital Media Angel Investors in Israel in June 2026 ## Rami Lipman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Social, Software Rami Lipman is an angel investor. ## Eilon Tirosh - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Payments Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University. ## Shalom Meckenzie - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Art, SaaS, Video Shalom Meckenzie is the Founder of SBTech. ## Oren Zeev - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, FinTech Oren Zeev is the Founder of and one of the two main early backers respectively, a former board member of Zeev lives in San Francisco, California, United States. ## Gigi Levy Weiss - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management. ## Ron Zuckerman - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Internet, Video, Apps Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time. ## Yariv Gilat - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Photography, Apps Yariv Gilat is a Tectona ## Justin Lubliner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Content, Software, Digital Media Justin Lubliner is a CEO of the Darkroom. ## Moshe Gaon - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Advertising, SaaS, Music Business entrepreneur and investor in startups. For the past 20 years developer of new initiatives and ideas. CEO, Chairman of companies, political strategist and advertising expert. Lead public opinion campaigns for people and issues from breast cancer, to national elections to the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Founding Partner atmybulb.vcOwner of the Gaon Holding Group; Executive Director in the group's companies, focusing on development and marketing products and services for the global Water Smart Grid. Member of the AquaAgro Fund Investment committee, a 50 Million dollar Israeli Venture Capital Fund, focused only on developing innovative water and agriculture technologies, as well as other innovative clean technologies. ## Yossi Matias - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Music, Social, Content Yossi Matias is Vice President, Engineering, at Google and the Head of Google's R&D Center in Israel which he established. He leads global efforts in Search, AI, and Crisis Response (some highlights here), and is the founding executive lead of Google’s Campus Tel Aviv, the birthplace of Launchpad and other global entrepreneurship programs.In addition to his executive and entrepreneurial experience, Yossi has been on the Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University, and previously a Research Scientist at Bell Labs and visiting professor at Stanford. He published extensively, has dozens of patents on his name, and pioneered some of the early technologies for the effective analysis of big data, internet privacy, and contextual search. He is a recipient of the Godel Prize and is an ACM Fellow.Yossi was on the board of IATI - Israel Advanced Technology industries - and is co-chair of IATI’s Multi National Companies Forum. ## Eric Elalouf - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: SaaS, Security, Software Eric Elalouf ## Jimmy Iovine - Type: Angel - Location: Malibu, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Beauty, Gaming Jimmy Iovine is a figure in the music industry and a forward-thinking visionary, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy, the Iovine and Young Center, Interscope Records, and Beats Electronics (Beats by Dre).Jimmy’s influential career began in the 1970s at Record Plant in New YorkCity. Early on, Jimmy was a recording engineer for the likes of John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen before becoming a recording producer for Patti Smith, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Stevie Nicks, Dire Straits, The Pretenders, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, and U2.Jimmy co-founded Interscope Records in 1990 with Ted Field and others, launching rap, pop, and rock artists such as future business partner Andre “Dr. Dre” Young, Nine Inch Nails, No Doubt, The Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, and Lady Gaga into international stardom. At Interscope Records, Jimmy put artists and their ideas first and empowered those artists to take their careers into their own hands.In 2006, Jimmy and hip-hop producer and trailblazer Dr. Dre co-founded Beats by Dre, a leading, high-performance headphone, earbud, and speaker company. Thanks to the stylish and sleekly designed headphones, and its expansion into smartphones and car audio systems, Beats by Dre secured the No. 1 spot in the billion-dollar-plus premium headphones industry. In early 2014, Jimmy and Dr. Dre expanded the Beats brand into the digital music space with Beats Music — the first streaming music service delivering contextually and culturally relevant playlists personalized for each user. Apple, Inc. acquired Beats by Dre and Beats Music in late 2014.During their time at Beats, Jimmy and Dr. Dre gained important insight into an educational divide that existed between the arts and technology. Witnessing this divide inspired them to provide the resources to launch a school offering an interdisciplinary curriculum where technology meets creativity rather than the two being siloed. With a $70 million donation in 2013, Jimmy and Dr. Dre endowed the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.The Academy — which opened its doors in 2014 — spearheads the careers of aspiring technologists, entrepreneurs, designers, and innovators hoping to drive societal change. The Academy provides an integrated learning framework, with undergraduate and graduate degrees focused on technology, communication, entrepreneurship, the liberal arts, and human-centered design. Looking to extend the Academy’s curriculum to high school students across the U.S., Jimmy and Dr. Dre co-founded the Iovine and Young Center (IYC), which is built on an interdisciplinary secondary education model that focuses on critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and real-world, project-based opportunities. Students learn skills centered around entrepreneurship, technology, and design, which are critical to the 21st-century collegiate landscape and workforce. The first IYC opened its doors in Los Angeles in 2022. Another location — at Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta — opened in August 2024. A second California location, this one in Inglewood, is set to open in the fall of 2025.Jimmy is a board member for several companies and organizations, including Live Nation Entertainment, XQ Institute, Complex (or Complex NTWRK), Bizaar Studios, and Rosewood Creative. He received a Wall Street Journal Innovator Award in 2014 and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Ahmet Ertegun Award in 2022.Jimmy is an investor in Bizaar Studios and Gin & Juice By Dre and Snoop, a canned cocktail and ultra-premium spirits brand.Follow Jimmy Iovine on Instagram (@jimmyiovine) and X (@jimmyiovine_), and subscribe to his YouTube (@jimmyiovine_). ## Alex Zubillaga - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Music Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media.Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadbandoperator where he served as CEO and Chairman. ## Nimrod Cohen - Type: Angel - Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS Nimrod Cohen is the Managing Partner of TAU Ventures. He previously worked at Hapoel Ramat-Gan as a Chairman. Nimrod Cohen attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya). ## James Packer - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: iOS, Music, Android James Packer ## Philippe Guez - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Software, Photography, Digital Media Philippe Guez ## Leon Recanati - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, AgTech Leon Y. Recanati is currently the Chairman and CEO of GlenRock Israel Ltd., a private investment company whose main field of activity is venture capital investments in startup companies engaged in life sciences, biotechnology, medical devices, and in advanced technologies. Until May 2003, and prior to founding GlenRock, he served as Chairman& CEO of IDB Holding Corporation Ltd., Chairman of Clal Industries and Investments Ltd., and Chairman of Azorim Investment Development and Construction Ltd., in addition to several other positions in a variety of operating companies in Israel. Mr. Recanati initiated in 1998 Clal Biotechnologies Ltd. (CBL). Clal Industries invested $100 million in CBL. Clal Biotechnologies is considered the largest biotechnology investment company operating in Israel. ## Igal Weinstein - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage Igal Weinstein ## Eddy Shalev - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology Eddy Shalev is an angel investor. Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the Israeli business community. Since the beginning of Israel's venture capital industry, Eddy has focused on private-equity investments in the high-tech sector, and has played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including Fundtech, ParadigmGeophysical and Orbot Instruments. Eddy is currently on the board of Aternity, Profitect and Sensible Medical.Eddy has been an active private equity investor in Israel since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies. Beginning in 1985, Eddy led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies traded on NASDAQ. ## Maverick Carter - Type: Angel - Location: Burbank, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Fantasy Sports, News, Sports Maverick Carter is the Founder and CEO of SpringHill Entertainment and it's premier digital media company UNINTERRUPTED, oversees the expanding entertainment companies’ overall strategic direction, spearheads their new business and content development partnerships, and guides their growing multi-platform global distribution efforts. Inaddition, Carter plays a vital role in all project, partner, and talent developments, leveraging key relationships and providing unique insight to create original, exclusive, and authentic content across a variety of mediums. With a steadily expanding portfolio of innovative projects, Carter has quickly become an influential figure in the media and entertainment industry. One of SpringHill Entertainment’s fastest-growing ventures is UNINTERRUPTED, the multimedia content network created by Carter and James in 2015 that provides unique personalities in sports and entertainment the platform to develop and amplify their stories. Since its debut, UNINTERRUPTED has forged partnerships with a growing list of industry-leading companies including Warner Bros. Entertainment, Facebook, and Verizon to create and distribute its unique, creative and captivating content globally across multiple platforms with a particular focus on mobile, web, and social distribution streams.