Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Israel in July 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Internet startups based in Israel. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Internet companies from Israel. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Israel in July 2025
Investor | Internet Israel investments |
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Gigi Levy Weiss | 7 |
Danny Hadar | 5 |
Rafi Gidron | 4 |
Yossi Vardi | 4 |
Zohar Gilon | 3 |
Marius Nacht | 3 |
Aryeh Mergi | 3 |
Jeremy Yap | 2 |
Avishai Abrahami | 2 |
Nadir Izrael | 2 |
First Name | 2 |
Moshe Lichtman | 2 |
Eyal Waldman | 2 |
Ran Tuttnauer | 2 |
Yevgeny Dibrov | 2 |
Danny Grander | 2 |
First Name | 2 |
Ariel Maislos | 2 |
Aviram Jenik | 2 |
Philippe Lang | 1 |
Kerim Baran | 1 |
Dan Fougere | 1 |
Gilad Shany | 1 |
Shai Deljo | 1 |
Eyal Chomsky | 1 |
Dror Davidoff | 1 |
Ameet Patel | 1 |
Leonardo DiCaprio | 1 |
Leon Recanati | 1 |
Anne Wojcicki | 1 |
Abhinav Asthana | 1 |
Joe Tucci | 1 |
Ronni Zehavi | 1 |
Itai Elizur | 1 |
Ofir Ehrlich | 1 |
Simon Gelfand | 1 |
Sagi Shorrer | 1 |
Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
Dr. Ilan Cohn | 1 |
Shlomo Kramer | 1 |
Nitay Joffe | 1 |
Robledo Ribeiro | 1 |
Ronald Cohen | 1 |
Benny Schnaider | 1 |
Tom McGovern | 1 |
Yaniv Tal | 1 |
Etay Bogner | 1 |
Gilad Shabtai | 1 |
Victor Tsao | 1 |
Giora Yaron | 1 |
Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Faireez — Optimizing tenants' lifestyle and convenience through enabling them with a hotel-like home cleaning service
- BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
- Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
For the last 10 years, I have been active within the Israeli and US startup ecosystems where I completed 20+ seed investments in companies such as Geoforce (acquired by LLR), Bonobo (acquired by Salesforce), Optitex (acquired by Efi), Keeprz (acquired by Como), Drippler (acquired by Soluto), Snyk (Unicorn) and few others. I am passionate for seedinvestments, creative ideas, risk taking and supporting entrepreneurs.Prior to that, I founded 2 companies, Blue Sky (Energy) and Sinusafe (Medical) after working as a software engineer for 7 years.I grew up in Israel, and lived in the US for 5 years while completing my MBA from Duke. I love all kinds of extreme sports, and particularly kite surfing and snowboarding.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Laxis — Learn how UX designers, product managers, market research, consultants, and attorneys use conversation Intelligence to supercharge their business and increase revenue. Learn more.
- Deci AI — Deci enables deep learning to live up to its true potential by using AI to build better AI. With the company’s end-to-end deep learning acceleration platform, AI developers can build, optimize, and deploy faster and more accurate models for any environment, including cloud, edge or mobile. With Deci’s platform, developers can increase deeplearning model inference performance by 3x-15x, on any hardware, while still preserving accuracy. This translates directly into new use cases on limited hardware, substantially shorter development cycles, and reduced compute costs by up to 80%. The platform is powered by Deci’s Automated Neural Architecture Construction (AutoNAC) technology, an algorithmic optimization engine that squeezes maximum utilization out of any hardware. The AutoNAC engine contains a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) component that redesigns a given trained model’s architecture to optimally improve its inference performance (throughput, latency, memory, etc.) for specific target hardware while preserving its baseline accuracy. Deci achieved a record-breaking 11.8x accelerated inference speedup on Intel CPUs at MLPerf Industry Benchmark and has been named to the CBInsights top 100 AI companies. Led by a team of world-class deep learning experts, Deci lets AI developers focus on what they do best - creating innovative AI-based solutions for our world’s most complex problems.
- Velocity — Accelerate the way you build and deliver products. Spin up fully isolated, production-like environments in seconds. Work with your existing dev toolbox.
Rafi Gidron is the Founder and Chairman of Israel Brain Technologies. He previously worked at Lucent as a VP of Optical networks. Rafi Gidron attended Columbia University.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
- Dig — Dig leads the market in Social Video Intelligence, enabling companies to see, understand, and control the life of their brands on Social Video in a Video-First world.
- The Digital Pets Company — pay77 situs gacor yang memberikan akses lengkap dengan fitur apk mobile dapat lebih mudah menemukan dan bermain di situs pay77, ayo install aplikasunya dan manfaatkan semua fitur yang tersedia di kami
One of Israel’s early entrepreneurs, Yossi Vardi co-founded, led, funded and helped build more than 80 high-tech, energy, natural resources, and clean-tech companies. Many of them went public, including Tekem, Alon Energy, Granite Hacarmel, answers.com, scopus, International Lasers Technologies, epals, tocows, brightcove, other were acquired :Gteko (by Microsoft), Tivella (by cisco,) Airlink (by sierra wireless), Foxytunes (by yahoo),starnet (by IAC),Gift project (by ebay).As the founding investor ofMirabilis Ltd, -the creator of iCQ - Vardi co-pioneered instant messaging. ICQ was one of the internet’s earliest successes, later sold to AOL.Vardi was chairman of the board of trustees of Jerusalem Foundation, serves on the board of trustees of the technion and served on those of Weitzman Institute. Hebrew university, open university .he was advisor to the World Bank, United Nations Development Program , CEO’s of Amazon, AOL, Siemens Albis, and Allied–signal. member of the World Economic Forum, and Co-chairman of the EU-Israel business dialogue.Vardi had an extensive government and public career, hewas the director general of Ministry of Development and Ministry of Energy. was chairman of Israel National Oil Company, and Israel Chemicals. participated in the peace talks with Egypt, Palestinians, Jordan and Syria. He received Honorary Doctorates from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and the Ben Gurion university , the Prime Minister Hi-Tech Award for life achievements (twice); Best Internet Personality by TechCrunch Europe; Entrepreneur of the Year by Tel Aviv University , Europe’s 25 top techs by Wall Street Journal; and one of the 200 Greatest Israelis of all times by Ynet. was elected by Israel 21c to the top 10 icons of Israeli high tech - the pioneers, by The Algemeiner for the "jewish 100 - the top 100 people positively influenced jewish life " and by wired magazine (uk) as number 9 of the wired 2014 top 100 influential people in EuropeYossi Vardi sits on the advisory boards of 3i and Amdocs and has served on boards of numerous state and private corporations including Bezeq, Israel Electric, and the Bank of Israel. Yossi has also been an Advisor to the CEOs of AOL, Amazon, and Allied Signal. Yossi Vardi has received many awards, including the Prime Minister of Israel Hi-Tech Award for life achievements on two occasions, the Industry Prize, the Ramniceanu Prize and CEOs Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.
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Investment focus
- Search Engine, Internet, Enterprise Software
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RoomiePics — RoomiePics is a social camera for sharing photos with people nearby. The app is currently in development.
- Similarweb — All in one Website analytics & competitive traffic intelligence platform - Compare website traffic and performance, analyze strategies & grow your market share!
- The Gifts Project — The Gifts Project is a social ecommerce platform for Group Gifting that helps online retailers, marketplaces and gift stores to leverage their social buying experience. This white label solution brings major ecommerce websites a Social Group Gifting Platform with a winning combination of Social Networks and Group Payment straight to theircheckout process. With Group Gifting, customers can share their special occasions with their social graph by letting friends to chip in for each others gifts while shopping at their favorite online store. The Gifts Project is a product of Appchee Applications Ltd., an Israeli startup company that is backed by
Mr. Zohar Gilon is a Managing Partner at Tamar Technology Ventures. He has personally invested in over 45 start-ups and has achieved 13 exits. Mr. Gilon has also served as the Transaction Manager for some of Israel's most highly recognized exits and has managed each deal from inception through completion, including pricing and distributions.He has extensive investment experience including activity as an angel investor and an Investment Advisor to the Gilon Group. Mr. Gilon is a private investor in numerous high-technology companies, including affiliates of Radcom Ltd. in Israel. From 1974 to 1993, Mr. Gilon served as the President of various companies representing major U.S. aerospace and electronics corporations. From November 1993 to August 1995, he served as the President of W.S.P. Capital Holdings Ltd. Previously he served, as the Managing Director of Shaked Technologies Ltd. He serves as a Director of HCL CleanTech Ltd., RIT, AVT Ltd., Oberon Media, Inc., Edge Medical, Exlibris, OrSense Ltd., and WisAir Ltd. He served as a Director of RAD Ventures. Mr. Gilon served as a Director of RiT Technologies Ltd. since 1995, Ceragon Networks Ltd. since June 1999, Radware Ltd. from October 2006 to July 2009 and Radcom Ltd. since June 1995. He served as Member of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) Limited. He served as an Outside Director of Silicom Ltd. since 1994.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CADY — CADY utilizes AI technology to automate the analysis of electrical schematics
- Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
- Annabella — The Electric Breast Pump that mimics a baby's tongue. This technology encourages the release of oxytocin and prolactin hormones, leading to a 50% increase in average milk production.
Marius Nacht, one of Check Point’s founders, has served as Chairman of our board of directors since 2015. Nacht has also served as one of our directors since we were incorporated in 1993. From 1999 through 2005, Nacht held Senior Vice President roles at Check Point.
Nacht earned a B.S. (cum laude) in Physics and Mathematics from the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem in 1983, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems from Tel Aviv University in 1987.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Health Care
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Israel, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
- Wisdo Health — Wisdo is an AI-powered Social Health platform harnessing the power of data and meaningful connections to improve health.
- WaveBL — WAVE BL lets you digitally issue, transfer, sign, endorse and surrender trade documents while cutting costs and eliminating fraud.
Aryeh Mergi is an and entrepreneur and an angel investor. In his background Aryeh was a co-founder of M-Systems, XtremIO and several other companies Aryeh received a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (with honors) from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel in 1988.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- IO River — A unified layer of security, traffic control & serverless compute services on top of Edge platforms to improve the reliability, performance & cost of online services.
- Plannie — Mobile first scheduling platform for small businesses
- FalkorDB — An ultra-low latency Graph Database that perfects the Knowledge Graph for GraphRAG. Effectively overcoming the existing limitations of RAG for Large Language Models (LLM).
Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
- Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
- Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable digital future
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communicationtechnology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company's sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces' elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
- The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.
- Unlimited Robotics — Unlimited Robotics empowers developers to build apps on Gary, the perfect robot for your business or office, and make any robot into a multipurpose one with Ra-Ya.
As co-founder and CTO, Nadir Izrael guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect the new connected or IoT devices in and around the workplace. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, worked at Google as senior software engineer. Before Google, Nadir spent six years in the Israeli army, specifically inunit 8200, where he designed and programmed software projects and systems, serving as team leader and attaining the rank of captain.
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Investment focus
- Software, Security, Cyber Security
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Axiom — Axiom is an IAMOps platform provider that enables seamless, scalable, and secure Cloud and SaaS authorization.
- Backslash Security — 360 application security including code, configuration and deployment, built for AppSec teams.
- Dream Security — Dream Security provides critical infrastructure defensive cyber solutions.
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Investment focus
- Cyber Security, Information Technology, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- GoTab — GoTab's Restaurant & Hospitality Point of Sale platform optimizes experiences and efficiencies to create a better guest experience.
- Cyabra — We break down social media so you can understand narratives, detect authenticity and reach true audiences.
- LoginID — Strong authentication made fast and simple. Improve security, user experience, privacy and compliance in minutes using simple SDKs
Moshe Lichtman is an angel investor. Moshe Lichtman has spent 29 years creating software products for global markets. He's freshly retired from Microsoft where he was Corporate VP responsible for several of its consumer businesses including its MSN business in the late 90s, its TV business in the mid-2000s and most recently its IsraelR&D center, which he built into one of the 3 largest centers outside the U.S. Mr. Lichtman was also one of the leaders of the Windows 95 team and president of Softimage, a leader in media creation software. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Lichtman held software development and management positions in several high-tech startups. He is the co-author of the best-selling book "The complete guide to the C language" and holds a BSc Cum Laude in Computer Engineering from the Technion and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School. Mr. Lichtman is currently an active angel investor in Israeli startups. and is in the process of forming a private equity fund focused on growth and public tech companies in Israel
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Plannie — Mobile first scheduling platform for small businesses
- Data Blanket — Datablanket uses drone swarms and AI-driven software to empower wildfire fighters and improve the effectivity of wildfire fighting assets
- superwise.ai — Superwise gives ML practitioners fully automated, enterprise-grade model observability in a self-service SaaS platform. Start monitoring ML in production in under 5 minutes.
Eyal Waldman is a Chairman Waldo of Holdings also a board member at Speedata. He previously worked in Mellanox Technologies as a CEO. He Attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Semiconductor, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Linguana — Linguana builds and monetizes your fully localized YouTube channels in new languages to reach new audiences across the globe and monetize them.
- Speedata — Speedata develops accelerated processor for big data analytics across industries. Speedata's Analytics Processing Unit (APU) was designed solely to optimize datacenter and cloud-based database and analytic workloads, dramatically improving performance by orders of magnitude while reducing costs, power consumption and space.
- Greeneye Technology — Spray Less, Grow More. Our mission is to dramatically reduce chemicals usage while increasing productivity and profitability for farmers.
Ran Tuttnauer
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Big Data, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Innovopro — Bringing a unique chickpea protein platform to the global food & beverage market, for creating nutritious, tasty, and sustainable food products.
- Solidify — The Marketplayz platform helps you find the perfect creators to promote your products. It utilizes AI-powered technology to enable advertisers and creators to connect through a one-stop, self-service marketplace.
- Geneyx — Geneyx offers a superior NGS data analysis and interpretation platform, Harnessing genetic data to guide digital insights for rare and germline disorders.
Leads the vision and direction for Armis. Previously Head of Global Business Development for cloud security company Adallom (acquired by Microsoft). Graduate Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Backslash Security — 360 application security including code, configuration and deployment, built for AppSec teams.
- Dream Security — Dream Security provides critical infrastructure defensive cyber solutions.
- Talon Cyber Security — Talon is the pioneer in cyber security solutions for the hybrid workforce, providing a secure and isolated browser-based endpoint environment.
Entrepreneur (Snyk), Angel Investor, CTF Player (@pastenctf)
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Firmbase — Firmbase is the modern financial planning and analysis platform for tech companies. Our founders have strong leadership, product and software development experience from Facebook, Stanford and Unit 8200. Our group of top-tier investors include unicorn startup founders and senior executives from Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
- MagicYard — Hangout on the TV, play with friends or strangers
- Permit.io — Easily bake-in access control in minutes regardless of previous experience or expertise. Based on OPA and OPAL. Treat policy as code to make Auth-z easy.
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Investment focus
- Cyber Security, Developer APIs, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- GoTab — GoTab's Restaurant & Hospitality Point of Sale platform optimizes experiences and efficiencies to create a better guest experience.
- Cyabra — We break down social media so you can understand narratives, detect authenticity and reach true audiences.
- LoginID — Strong authentication made fast and simple. Improve security, user experience, privacy and compliance in minutes using simple SDKs
Ariel has been leading technology innovation and entrepreneurship for over 30 years, leading teams, founding companies and mentoring entrepreneurs.
He is an active angel investor in startups, and supports technology education as a philanthropist.
Ariel is a graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program, and holds a BSc from the Hebrew University ofJerusalem in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science (Cum Laude) and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States, Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
- BeWith.io (Superc AI) — Connect residents and foster engagement with a centralized community calendar that brings all city events into one easy-to-access platform
- Monto — Monto introduces the future of B2B payments, where getting paid is a touchless process. Connect with any portal to experience transformation.
Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur.
Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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Investment focus
- Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
- SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
- illustria — Illuminating blind spots and minimizing the exposed surface area to mitigate potential malicious activities
Philippe Lang is the Co-founder and CEO at Mapme.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Communities, Crowdsourcing
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Mapme — Create engaging interactive maps in minutes with our user-friendly mapping software. Easily customize and share your map. Try Mapme for FREE!
Kerim Baran is the Founder of SolarAcademy. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Email, Solar, Energy
- Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- WiseStamp — WiseStamp lets professionals make a beautiful email signature and lets businesses create and manage email signatures for their entire organization
- CivicSolar — With industry-leading service and equipment, Greentech Renewables helps solar contractors install top quality solar PV systems, gain competitive advantage and grow their business.
Dan Fougere
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Investment focus
- Software, Developer Tools, Developer Platform
- Series A
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Velocity — Accelerate the way you build and deliver products. Spin up fully isolated, production-like environments in seconds. Work with your existing dev toolbox.
Prior to ICP, Gilad spent a decade investing in innovative growth companies in public and private markets with Baron Capital (New York) and more recently with Magma Venture Partners (Tel Aviv). Gilad sourced and led investments in 40+ companies that totaled over $1.5bn. Examples include Tesla Inc., Mobileye NV, Iridium Communications Inc., VaronisSystems Inc., and more. Gilad graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tel Aviv University with a B.S. in Physics, Astronomy and Philosophy and with Honors from the Wharton School with an M.B.A.
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Investment focus
- Video, Sports, Content
- Series A, Series D
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Anywell — anywell is a new way to work remotely. Enjoy business amenities in novel and energizing spots right in your neighborhood.
- WSC Sports — WSC Sports is the pioneer in AI-tailored sports content experiences for fans.Connect with your fans through AI-tailored sports content experiences.
Shai Deljo is COO and Co-Founder at VideoSurf.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Internet, Communities
- Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Silo — Silo is a platform for professional helpful communities. Silo allows professionals to connect, share unpublished opportunities and help others with intros, advice and more. On Silo professionals can meet their peers, discover insider opportunities, benefit from trusted networks and help others to help themselves. Silo was launched in 2013 and isbased in San Jose, California.
- Globality — Globality revolutionizes the way your company sources and buys services by utilizing artificial intelligence to unlock cost savings, efficiency gains, and drive remote collaboration from anywhere.
- Social Studios — SocialStudios brings the unparalleled visual impact of television to web content. Videos are the most engaging rich media format, but because video production is expensive and requires talent, publishers face obstacles to producing compelling video content at scale. SocialStudios' proprietary software platform, which combinesalgorithmic strength and crowdsourcing functionality, allows publishers to transform original web content into engaging, promotional videos viewable on all devices. These videos enrich their source web pages and extend the reach and brand of publishers via promotional placement on social and video networks. Social Studios, an edgy media start up which recently closed $3.1M investment, is looking to hire top notch developers. Join their team and be part of the movement to Televise the web. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-mati-kochavi-sets-up-120m-israel-start-up-fund-1000965107
Eyal Chomsky - CEO -Israel @ Grey
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Investment focus
- Internet, Coworking, Real Time
- Series A, Funding Round
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Anywell — anywell is a new way to work remotely. Enjoy business amenities in novel and energizing spots right in your neighborhood.
- BiteHunter — BiteHunter is building the 1st real time meta search engine for dining deals. The company is searching hundreds of restaurant directories, restaurants' newsletters and websites, FaceBook pages, Twitter alerts and more, currently in the US and then all over the world to provide the most comprehensive real time dining platform.That includes forexample finding all relevant dining special offers, daily deals, dining events , food daily specials, users checking in at restaurants etc.
Dror Davidoff is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aqua Security.
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Investment focus
- Security, Software, Cyber Security
- Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Arnica — Arnica is a framework for DevOps supply chain security that is behavior-based.
- Backslash Security — 360 application security including code, configuration and deployment, built for AppSec teams.
CTO//Investor//Whisperer to Leading Enterprise Companies
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Acopia Networks, Mimosa Systems, Integrien, Cyvera, Librato, Caspida, BlueBox Security, Nodeprime, APIGEE, SkyHigh, Solinea, Cask, Zscaler (TPG-IPO), Anaplan (IPO)
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tracebit — Tracebit generates and maintains bespoke decoy resources in your cloud environments, closing gaps beyond stock protection without time- and cost-intensive detection engineering
- Patlytics — Patent discovery, analytics, comparison, and workflow. Simplified via Artificial Intelligence.
- Restate — Restate build workflows, event-driven applications, and distributed services in a fault-tolerant manner with durable async/await.
Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and nine Golden Globe Awards. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004), and has been nominated by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Acommitted environmentalist, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for his activism. At the 2007 Oscar ceremony, DiCaprio and former Vice President Al Gore announced that the Academy Awards had incorporated environmentally intelligent practices throughout the planning and production processes, and on July 7, 2007, DiCaprio presented at the American leg of Live Earth.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, Israel, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
- ID Genève — We make watches that reflect the values and principles of people who are committed to fight climate change and who wish to have a positive social and environmental impact. The materials used are circular and have a lower carbon footprint than the industry average.
- SolarMente — SolarMente is a software platform that provides solar hardware, installation, warranties, financing, insurance, and technical support. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Photo Editing
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Photomyne — Photomyne is a company that specializes in family nostalgia. We leverage our original, unprecedented technology to provide tools for digitizing and managing all types of old (analog) and new media.Our primary app is designed for scanning, managing, and storing old photographs in bulk. In addition, we offer several other utility apps, eachspecializing in the scanning of a specific media type, to offer the best technological accommodation for each type and its characteristics.Explore our apps: https://photomyne.com/get-photomyne
- Treetoscope — The first and only commercial device that senses the internal water flow of a plant and directly measures its water consumption and real-time irrigation needs. without extrapolations based on indirect sensing technologies.Treetoscope offers a SaaS irrigation management platform, based on direct plant sensing technology. We tackle one of the mostcrucial challenges farmers face today: water scarcity and irrigation optimization. Our groundbreaking ag-tech enables the unprecedented measurement of real-time actual water use of trees (based on our patented single probe Sap Flow sensor). Through the Treetoscope solution, growers gain great value as a result of the affordability, scalability, and ease of deployment of our technology.
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
Anne Wojcicki is the Co-Founder and CEO of 23andMe. She previously worked at Passport Capital as a Healthcare Analyst. Anne Wojcicki attended Yale University.
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- Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Calypso AI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
- Eureka Health — Helping people with chronic conditions mitigate their symptoms.
- Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
Joe Tucci is the Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of GTY Technology Holdings, and the Chairman of Bridge Growth Partners.Mr. Tucci was Chairman and CEO of EMC Corporation until September 2016, when Dell Technologies acquired the company. At that time, he became an advisor to the acquiring company’s founder, Michael Dell, and its board of directors. Tucciled EMC’s business model transformation and through a record of successful acquisitions and partnerships he created a federation of businesses that grew to include EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA, VCE and Virtustream. Following the technology sector’s bust in 2001, EMC’s revenues grew from $5.4B in 2002 to $24.7B in 2015. Acknowledging EMC's success under Mr. Tucci's leadership, Barron's named him one of the 30 best CEOs in 2011 and 2012.
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- CRM, Cyber Security, Customer Service
- Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States
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- Vdoo — Manage your software supply chain security and compliance needs in an automated and scalable way with the JFrog Platform, to deliver trusted software with speed
- ASAPP — Elevate human performance using the power of AI. Achieve breakthrough results in customer experience by empowering your agents with integrated automation.
Ronni has over 25 years of experience in multinational, hi-tech companies. Prior to setting up hibob, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Silicon Valley based Bessemer Venture Partners. He's the strategic advisor and co-founder of Team8 Cyber Security, a powerhouse developing disruptive tech in the cyber security space. Ronni was alsothe co-founder and CEO of Cotendo, a content delivery network which in 2012, just four years after it was founded, was acquired by Akamai in a $300m. Ronni has a BA in History and Educational "Management 'from Tel Aviv University, and a MA in Organisational Sociology from Bar-Ilan University. Hes currently living in Tel Aviv with his wife and four children.
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- SaaS, Software, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United Kingdom
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- IO River — A unified layer of security, traffic control & serverless compute services on top of Edge platforms to improve the reliability, performance & cost of online services.
- Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
- Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.
Itai Elizur is the COO at Inbound Junction and MarketAcross, a marketing and media group that helps startups and business increase their online visibility. ... Itai specializes in helping businesses develop and optimize large-scale user acquisition strategies through content, brand messaging and marketing automation.
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- SaaS, Software, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Israel
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Ofir Ehrlich is the VP of Research & Development at CloudEndure. An exceptional technologist, Ofir has a proven record in the software industry, including companies such as Digicash, AcceloWeb, and Limelight Networks. He also served with distinction in an elite unit of the Israeli Intelligence Corps. This is the third company in which Ofir is aCo-Founder.
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- SaaS, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
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- Apono — Apono makes permission management to applications, infrastructure, and data repositories simple, secure and compliant.
- Firmbase — Firmbase is the modern financial planning and analysis platform for tech companies. Our founders have strong leadership, product and software development experience from Facebook, Stanford and Unit 8200. Our group of top-tier investors include unicorn startup founders and senior executives from Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
- Waltz — Waltz Makes Buying Property in the USA as a Foreigner Investing in US Real Estate Simple With Various Financing Options for Non-U.S Citizens. Call Us Today!
Self taught PHP and MySQL web developer. Simon has ten years of experience with web design, programming, SEM and online marketing under his belt.
Current projects include: Bukisa, ArticlesBase, Articuloz, RusArticles, TripsLog, Artigonal, Reader and ForexFace.com
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- Email, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Debt Financing
- Israel, United States
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- IMRSV — IMRSV is a technology company using computer vision for real-world, real-time data analysis. IMRSV's Cara software is a breakthrough in perceptive computing. Cara turns any webcam into an intelligent sensor enabling new methods of interacting with objects and spaces. Using a basic webcam, anyone can anonymously measure audience gender, age,attention time and glances in real world environments. Use cases include adaptive advertising, retail analytics and internet of things applications. Based in New York City with offices in Singapore, the company is privately backed by various investors.
- WiseStamp — WiseStamp lets professionals make a beautiful email signature and lets businesses create and manage email signatures for their entire organization
Sagi Shorrer is an Entrepreneur, advisor and angel investor in the digital media and technology space, with 15 years of strategic and operational experience across large companies and startups (including: Google, BBDO, i-Touch, Brainbow).
Strong focus on mobile apps, monetization and Internationalization.
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- Digital Entertainment, Gaming, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Israel
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- Intellect — Intellect is a global mental health benefits company serving 4 million+ members across 100 countries in 120+ languages. Access coaching, therapy, self-care tools, crisis management, L&D programmes, and more.
- Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
- Treasure Play — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Brazil
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- Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
- OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
- Accumulator — Accumulator is a U.S. private equity firm regulated by the SEC, operating as an index-like fund covering a wide range of privately held, growth-stage tech companies.
Dr. Ilan Cohn - Advisor and Board Member @ Feelter
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- SEO, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Seed
- Israel
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- Feelter — FEELTER is nothing short of an earthquake in the e-commerce market. It is an engine bridging the worlds of social networking world e-commerce in an unprecedented manner At FEELTER, they are focused on improving and maximizing the business potential embedded in traffic on e-commerce websites by providing the information and support needed byinternet surfers - the potential customers - in order to keep them on websites for longer and ultimately lead them to making purchases.
Shlomo is co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo has co-founded Check Point Software, who created the first commercial Firewall, and Imperva, the innovator of the Web Application Firewall. Shlomo has made early investments in successful cybersecurity companies including Palo AltoNetworks, Trusteer, and numerous others. He was named CEO of the Year by SC Magazine in 2008, one of “20 luminaries who changed the network industry” by Network World in 2006, and was inducted into the InfoSec Hall of Fame in April 2013.Shlomo holds a master’s degree in computer science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University.
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- Software, Cyber Security, Security
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel
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- Port — Port allows DevEx teams to build a catalog of assets empowering everyone to perform self-service actions
- Silk Security — Silk Security is a platform that enables businesses to adopt a comprehensive strategy for addressing code, infrastructure, and application risk. It incorporates AI technology to automate prioritizing, combining, and contextualizing data from various detection systems.
- Backslash Security — 360 application security including code, configuration and deployment, built for AppSec teams.
Founder/CTO of ActionIQ.
Partner at Verissimo Ventures
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- Software, Developer Tools, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, Canada
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- Causal — Causal replaces your spreadsheets with a better way to build models, connect to data (accounting, CRM), and share dashboards with your team. Sign up for free.
- dWallet Labs — dWallet Labs Ltd., based in Tel Aviv, Israel, a cybersecurity company specializing in blockchain technology, is building SingleWallet, the first interface to interact with dWallets on the Odsy Network. The mission of dWallet Labs is to build protocols and solutions on top of the Odsy Network.
- Wrangle — Wrangle organizes requests in your Slack team channel. Automatically assign approvals and tasks for your team to follow up and track their status.
Robledo Ribeiro is General Manager of HostGator Brazil, Endurance International Group’s Brazilian subsidiary. Originally from Brazil, Rob found himself working in Florida, laying the groundwork for the HostGator brand. As the fledgling startup grew, Rob proposed that HostGator look deeper into international operations, and more specificallyBrazil.Rob officially began operations in Brazil in 2008, and has since HostGator Brazil into one of the largest hosting companies in Brazil. Rob likes to be seen as the quintessential global citizen. While working for HostGator, Rob has lived in the US, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Brazil. Each one of these experiences enabled him to develop keen insights into the online service needs of small businesses in these countries.
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- Software, Big Data, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Brazil, Israel
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- bud — The world is changing faster than ever, so is work and life. However, management, company practices, and workplaces are falling behind. We believe that people can design and build a better experience and organizations for themselves. They just need space, data, and the right tools. That's why we are putting all our experience and energy totransform the work experience, together.
- Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
Ronald Cohen is Chairman of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group and The Portland Trust. He is a co-founder director of Social Finance UK (2007-11), Social Finance USA, and Social Finance Israel, and of Big Society Capital. He was co-founder Chair of Bridges Ventures (2002-2012).He chaired the Social Impact Investment Taskforceestablished under the UK’s presidency of the G8 (2013-2015), the Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010) and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005-2007). In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Innovation Award for innovation in social finance.He co-founded and was Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP (1972-2005). He was a founder director and Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a founder director of the European Venture Capital Association.He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He is an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School to which he was awarded a Henry Fellowship.He is a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School and Vice-Chairman of Ben Gurion University. He is a former director of the Harvard Management Company and the University of Oxford Investment Committee. He is a former member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers (2007-2013), former Trustee of the British Museum (2005-2012) and a former trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2005-2011).In 2007, Sir Ronald published: “The Second Bounce of the Ball – Turning Risk into Opportunity”.
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- Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Israel, United States, Poland
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- Selina — Selina is one of the world’s fastest growing hospitality brands, combining beautifully-designed accommodation with coworking spaces, wellness, recreational offerings and local experiences for today’s nomadic traveler to live, work and explore anywhere in the world.With a design-centric, technology-first and socially-minded approach to travel,Selina currently operates 24 urban, beach, jungle and mountain-side locations across eight countries and is developing a global infrastructure for nomads who want to make the world their classroom, office, and playground.
- Circles - Online Group Support — Join Circles, the leading support group solution for recovery from narcissistic abuse and toxic relationships. Find support and healing today.
- Masterschool — Masterschool partners with tech industry leaders to help you build your dream career. Learn online, get unlimited career support, and pay no tuition until you find a job.
Benny Schnaider joined salto as Co-Founder in 2018. Benny Schnaider is an angel investor. He is a high-tech serial entrepreneur. Benny was the CEO and co-founder of Qumranet (leading open source virtualization solution) acquired by Red Hat, the CEO and founder of PentaCom Ltd. (network product provider) acquired by Cisco, and the co-founder andboard member of P-Cube (developer of IP service control platforms) acquired by Cisco. Most recently he co-founded Ravello systems in 2011 and serves as its president and board chairman.Benny also invests and serves as a board member in several start-ups. Some examples are: Traffix Systems (acquired by F5 in 2012) and B-Hive (acquired by VMware in 2008), OptiCul Diagnostics and Colabo. Benny has held senior management, engineering and strategic roles at many Silicon-Valley based companies including Cisco Systems, Amdahl/Fujitsu, Hitachi, IDT, Sun Microsystems and 3Com. Benny holds a Masters degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology).
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- Software, Cloud Security, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Israel, United States
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- Raftt — Raftt provides easy-to-use developer environments which run in the cloud, enabling advanced collaboration while using existing local IDEs and other tools and workflows. No more "it works on my machine"!!
- Wing Cloud — Wing Cloud tames cloud complexity through a unified programming and operational model that works across all providers and services.
- Helios — HELIOS is developing technologies to extract and utilize metals and oxygen from martian and lunar soil, providing fuel and construction materials for future space missions.
STARTUPS| ENTREPRENEUR| LATom is a Managing Director of Idealab where he focuses on new company creation and early stage investments. Prior to this role, Tom founded Snap Technologies which was contextual advertising and content distribution (Snap Shots) Company. In 1999, Tom founded a successful e-commerce company with Idealab, which wasacquired by PETsMART, Inc. a leading multi-channel marketer. Tom served as President and CEO of the division of PETsMART managing the Internet and traditional direct marketing businesses. Tom returned to Idealab in 2003 to explore new internet marketing and search opportunities. Prior to his Idealab group endeavors, Tom was a Senior Vice President of Warner Bros. and a management consultant. While at Warner Bros. he co-founded the Internet mall which was one of the earliest online marketplaces. Tom started his career at Price Waterhouse and is a CPA. Tom serves on a number of private company boards and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and earned his B.S. from the University of Colorado.
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- iOS, News, Mobile
- Seed
- Israel, United States
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- ivee — Ivee is a Wi-Fi voice-activated assistant that can answer questions, respond to commands, and connect to many smart home devices.It is designed to function as a tabletop clock with the added benefit of 33 voice-activated functions. It is also capable of controlling many home automation devices such as Nest thermostat, Hue Lights, orWeMo-enabled devices.
- Hitpad — Hitpad is a trends discovery platform that provides the quickest, easiest and most comprehensive way to discover & consume relevant information for trends as they evolve over time within the chaos and noise of the social streams.The company's first product, Hitpad for iPad, provides users with a quick and easy way to see what's upand important today. The company was founded by Jay Meydad (CEO) & Nir Holtzman Ninio (CTO) at the end of 2010. The company is located in Tel Aviv. Prior to moving back to Israel from Los Angeles, Jay spent four years as the Vice President of Products and Operations at Snap.com (backed by Idealab and Mayfield Fund) and three years as the Vice President of Products at Spark Networks (AMEX: LOV, parent company of JDate.com). Prior to Hitpad, Nir spent four years as the Director for Consumer Websites at LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) and two years as SW Development Manager at Kasamba.com (acquired by Liveperson). The company’s investors include Pasadena-based Idealab and Tom McGovern, CEO of Snap.com. Advisors and directors to the company include Bill Gross, Allen Morgan, Marcia Goodstein and Tom McGovern.
Yaniv Tal is a Project Lead at Graph Protocol.
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- Computer, Cyber Security, Internet of Things
- Series A, Series B
- Israel
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- Secret Double Octopus — Provider of industry-leading FIDO-certified, rotation-based passwordless MFA with the fullest support for enterprise complexity. Click here for more!
Etay Bogner - VP and GM, Zero Trust Products @ Proofpoint
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- SaaS, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed
- Israel
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- Capester — Legally admissible citizen reporting
Gilad Shabtai
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- Video, Content, Online Portals
- Series A, Series B
- Israel
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- Minute — Homepage - Minute.ly
Victor Tsao is Linksys' co-founder/CEO, Senior Vice President, Emeritus of Cisco Systems, and currently the Chairman of Miven Holdings. Victor served as the President and CEO of Linksys for 15 years before it was acquired by Cisco in June 2003. As president and CEO, Victor built and led Linksys to become the leading provider of networkinghardware for the home and small business with a revenue market share to date of over 50%.Victor has contributed his efforts in helping start-up companies and projects in the Tsao Family Foundation. A great majority of his time is based in Beijing (Greater China), and he is involved in multiple aspects of Greater China market development projects.Victor has an MBA, MS and BS in computer science from Pepperdine University, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Tamkang University in Taiwan, respectively. Victor was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in January 2004 by Inc. Magazine, and Orange County "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst Young in 1999. Victor also received the 2003 Orange County Business Journal "Excellence in Entrepreneurship" award, as well as the 2003 Southern California Monte Jade Science & Technology Association "Distinguished Business Achievement" award and the 2004 USPAAC (US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce) "Excellence in Business" award. The USPAAC also named Victor as one of the top 10 most influential Asian American business leaders of 2005. Victor was also the recipient of Entrepreneur of the Year award from International Leadership Foundation (ILF) in July 2006. He serves as a member of the 2006-2008 National Judge panel for the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Program."
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- Wireless, Semiconductor, Cyber Security
- Series A, Series C, Series D
- Israel
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- Vdoo — Manage your software supply chain security and compliance needs in an automated and scalable way with the JFrog Platform, to deliver trusted software with speed
- Celeno — Celeno offers advanced Wi-Fi chipsets, edge software and cloud technology to deliver smart, innovative Wi-Fi connectivity and Wi-Fi Doppler Imaging technology into the realm of high-performance home networks, smart buildings, enterprise and industrial solutions.
Giora Yaron - Founding Investor & Chairman of the Board @ Itamar Medical
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- Big Data, Software, Computer
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States
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- Equalum — Equalum's real-time data integration & data streaming platform leverages advanced change data capture (CDC) to move your data to the cloud seamlessly.
- Affogata — Affogata optimizes the digital customer journey by analyzing customer interactions and identifying customer needs in real-time.
- vEyE Security — vEyE provides secure and isolated container execution.
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