# Top 25 Medical Angel Investors in Israel in June 2026 ## Shimon Eckhouse - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Biotechnology, Fitness Shimon Eckhouse ## Prof. Rafael Beyar - Type: Angel - Location: Haifa, Hefa, Israel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Medical, Medical Device, Machine Learning Prof. Rafael Beyar ## Marius Nacht - Type: Angel - Location: Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Machine Learning 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. ## Zohar Gilon - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care 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. ## Menachem Winfield - Type: Angel - Location: Sai Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Consumer Goods, Personal Health Menachem Winfield is the founder and Managing Director of Starry Group. He previously worked at Seebo as an Advisor. ## Avi Kornreich - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care Avi Kornreich is a former CEO of Agentek. ## Yasmin Lukatz - Type: Angel - Location: Atherton, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Finance, Medical, Consumer Yasmin Lukatz is based out of Palo Alto, California, and is the ICON - Israel Collaboration Network of Founder and Executive Director Yasmin previously worked at Evoz as a COO. Yasmin Lukatz attended Tel Aviv University. ## Brock Weatherup - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Medical, mHealth Brock Weatherup is the CEO/Founder of Metamorphosis Partners driving enterprise value through innovation in the $80B pet industry focused on the consumer. Brock was most recently the EVP of Strategic Innovation & Digital Experience at Petco. Previously he was CEO & CoFounder of PetCoach (acquired by Petco) - revolutionizing the PetHealth Care experience. Brock is a CEO, entrepreneur, angel investor, builder of enterprise value and passionate advocate about the consumer and their interactions with digital media & Ecommerce. Brock is also managing partner of Atai Ventures angel investments, co-founder of ICONYC (www.iconyclabs.com) an early stage NYC based Israeli accelerator, investor/advisor/board member for 7+ startups - VeryApt, SideCar, Social Ladder, Ethology and an industry advisor for VC firms EQT Partners, MissionOG & SafeGuard. Previously Brock was SVP/Chief Digital Officer of Petsmart after selling Pet360 where he was CEO the prior 5 years. Brock was also CEO of Fathead and held several leadership positions with InterActiveCorp (Ticketmaster, Match.com, CitySearch, ReserveAmerica). A graduate of University of Colorado Boulder, sits as a board member of the Nature Conservancy – Adirondacks, father of two amazing girls and pet owner to my 4yr old retriever named...Boulder. ## Jacques R. Seguin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Medical Device, Health Care Jacques Seguin is the Chairman Of The Board at Emanate Biomedical. He Attended Paris-Sud University (Paris XI) during 1975-1985. ## Rafi Gidron - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Software 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. ## Steve Barsh - Type: Angel - Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical Steve Barsh is a managing partner at Dreamit Ventures. He attended the University of Michigan from 1983 to 1987. ## Raoul Stein - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Therapeutics Raoul joined Kreos in 1999 and over the last 12 years has built a highly active presence as the leading senior credit provider to high-growth companies in Israel, as well as supporting a wide range of transactions across Europe. Mr. Stein also plays a key role in the management and execution of Kreos's overall strategy.Before joining Kreos,Raoul was an associate with Apax Partners in Israel where he invested in services and high-growth technology businesses and corporate spin-offs. He also assisted the general partners in fund-related activities such as divestment of their funds' successes traded on NASDAQ, and in general fund-raising activities such as portfolio analysis, reporting and due diligence for the purpose of raising new funds.Prior to joining Apax Partners, Raoul was an associate with Friedman , Turbidy & Co, a New York-based financial advisory firm. Raoul assisted the managing partner in several refinancing and acquisition transactions. He was involved in a refinancing of asset-backed loans with a large glass maker in the US, representing the company in its efforts to refinance its debt with banking institutions. In addition he was involved in fund-raising for a US based cosmetics company in its expansion.Raoul studied law at Bar-Ilan University. He clerked at the firm of M. Porath & Co in Tel-Aviv and passed the Bar exams in Israel in 1993. After that he graduated in 1995 from Columbia Business School with an MBA. ## Moshe Yanai - Type: Angel - Location: Brookline, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series D - Focus: Data Storage, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Moshe Yanai has been instrumental in the development of some of the most advanced and successful storage technologies in the history of the industry. Mr. Yanai began his career in the 1970s, building IBM-compatible mainframe storage based on minicomputer disks. He went on to develop high-end storage systems for Nixdorf, and in the late 1980s,joined EMC, leading the team that developed Symmetrix (today’s “DMX series”). As Vice President of EMC’s Symmetrix group, Mr. Yanai was responsible for design and development of all hardware and software products for EMC’s industry-leading enterprise storage systems. Based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, EMC’s Symmetrix group grew from only one employee in 1987 to more than 3500 under his leadership. Mr. Yanai graduated in 1975 from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology with a Bsc in Electrical Engineering. He holds over 40 patents for various innovative storage hardware and software-related technologies. ## Oren Dobronsky - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Payments, Software Entrepreneur at heart. Angel investor in past two decades. I had the privilege to invest in the following startups, mostly at seed level: Houzz(Unicorn), TripActions(Unicorn), Hippo(Unicorn), HomeLight, Domestika, Loop Commerce, RedKix, Duda, YouNow, OwnerListens... But mostly, I am known as Oren from Oren's Hummus :) ## Shmuel Cabilly - Type: Angel - Location: Rehovot, HaMerkaz, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Artificial Intelligence Dr. Cabilly is a highly regarded scientist, an investor and an experienced Board Member of several companies. He is currently a Board Member of Medasense Biometrics Ltd. He previously worked for several companies including as the Co-Founder and a Chief Scientist of Ethrog Biotechnology which was sold to Invitrogen. Dr. Cabilly graduated fromthe Hebrew University (Ph.D., Immunology), and was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the City of Hope Research Institute heading a joint City of Hope/Genentech project where he developed a new technology for recombinant antibody production. This invention was patented in world patents “The old Cabilly” and “The New Cabilly patent”. Today there are already 20 drugs in the market based on this technology among which are Herceptin, Rituxan, Traceba, Raptiva, Xolair and more. ## Dov Moran - Type: Angel - Location: Kfar Saba, HaMerkaz, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Hardware, Health Care, Semiconductor Dov Moran is the Managing Partner of Grove Ventures. He attended Technion. ## Yehuda Zisapel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Medical Device, Medical, Health Care Mr. Yehuda Zisapel (EE,MSc, MBA, DHC) is the founder and president of the RAD-Bynet Group, a leading pioneering association of Israeli companies active in the development, production and marketing of innovative solutions for the data communications industry, and Chairman of RAD. The RAD-Bynet Group grew out of Bynet Data Communications, whichMr. Zisapel founded in 1975 as a small private company that marketed data communications products. Bynet represented major international vendors and was the first to introduce cutting-edge technologies into the Israeli market. Today, the Bynet Group is comprised of eight companies active in both the Israeli and Eastern European markets in such fields as systems integration, cabling, testing, outsourcing, and software development. Following the arrival of Mr. Zisapel’s brother, Zohar, who joined him in 1981, a wide range of industrial activity was spawned from within the newly established RAD, the first of the RAD Group companies. In the years following its successful launch, twenty-four additional independent hi-tech companies were opened to develop, produce and market a wide variety of advanced data communications products. ## Benny Levin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care Benny Levin is a founder and former CEO of NICE. ## Jim Elkind - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care Jim Elkind is a private healthcare investor. ## Arie Abecassis - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Events Arie Abecassis is the Co-Founder at ICONYC labs. ## Moshe Shoham - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence Moshe Shoham ## Itsik Danziger - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care Itsik Danziger - Chairman of the Board @ The Center for Educational Technology (CET) ## Shai Rephaeli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, EdTech, Medical Shai Rephaeli - Co-Founder and CEO @ Tutoria Digital ## Rafi Benary - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Medical Device, Health Diagnostics Rafi Benary is the Co-founder at Innoventric and he holds a Masters’ degree from the New York University in Material Science and a Mechanical Engineering. He is an entrepreneur of 4 start-up companies, bringing them from inception to clinical stage through effective planning and execution. ## Mori Arkin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Men's, Medical, Health Care Mori Arkin is based out of Israel and is the Founder and Chairman of Arkin Capital. Mori Arkin attended Tel Aviv University. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co