Top 35 Mobile Apps Angel Investors in Israel in January 2026
A list of 35 angel investors that invest in Mobile apps startups based in Israel. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile apps companies from Israel. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Mobile Apps Angel Investors in Israel in January 2026
| Investor | Mobile Apps Israel investments |
|---|---|
| Moshe Lichtman | 3 |
| Elad Kushnir | 3 |
| Omri Casspi | 2 |
| Rami Lipman | 2 |
| Yaron Samid | 2 |
| Eilon Tirosh | 2 |
| Marius Nacht | 2 |
| Tal Shoham | 2 |
| Saar Wilf | 2 |
| Gigi Levy Weiss | 2 |
| Alex Zubillaga | 2 |
| Yanki Margalit | 1 |
| Ronald Cohen | 1 |
| Eyal Ofer | 1 |
| Nir Greenberg | 1 |
| Jorg Mohaupt | 1 |
| Avishai Abrahami | 1 |
| Danny Hadar | 1 |
| Aryeh Mergi | 1 |
| Ameet Patel | 1 |
| Robert Nelsen | 1 |
| Adi Orzel | 1 |
| Zohar Gilon | 1 |
| Emmanuel Costa | 1 |
| Yossi Matias | 1 |
| Oliver Slipper | 1 |
| Dana Messina | 1 |
| Nicolas Julia | 1 |
| Paul Maritz | 1 |
| Eran Shir | 1 |
| Eli Elroy | 1 |
| Anne Wojcicki | 1 |
| Cristóbal Conde | 1 |
| Hadar Goldman | 1 |
| Chris Burch | 1 |
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.
Elad Kushnir
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Israel, United States, Germany
Omri Moshe Casspi is the founder of Swish Ventures. He is a former NBA athlete who last played for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. He plays the small forward position but can play also at the power forward position.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Software, Wellness
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Eon — Meet Eon, the next-generation cloud backup solution with the first-ever backup autopilot for cloud infrastructure. We empower organizations with cloud backup posture management (CBPM), making complex backups simple and turning them into valuable, easily accessible assets.
- Upwind Security — Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform.
- Faye — Whole-trip travel insurance that goes the distance to cover you at every step of your journey with incredible coverage, 24/7 travel care, instant claims processing and more.
Rami Lipman is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Matics Manufacturing Analytics Ltd. — Matics real-time manufacturing analytics provides a digital toolbox for factories' production floor management and dramatically increases the production efficiency.
- Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
- NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
Yaron Samid is an Israeli-American technology entrepreneur, investor, and startup community builder. Yaron is the founder of TechAviv, the 3K-member global Israeli startup founders club, and is the managing partner of TechAviv Founder Partners, a pre-seed venture fund, backed and powered by over 100 of the world’s most successful company builders.Previously, Yaron was the founder and CEO at BillGuard (Acq. by Prosper), founder & CPO at Pando (Acq. by Microsoft), and a founding board director at CloudLock (Acq. by Cisco) and Pond5.Yaron lives in Tel Aviv with his family and is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford and Columbia Business School. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- bxblue — bxblue is a marketplace for personal loans in Brazil explicitly targeting pensioners and Government workers because they can they take loans secured by their guaranteed income. Because of that banks can deduct the payment directly from the paycheck, leading to an apr 10x lower than credit cards. Payroll secured loans are the most affordablepersonal loan in Brazil, and they represent 60% of the personal loans in the country. It is a 40bn dollar/year marke, completely offline. We are taking this entire market online.
- Emedgene — Applying machine learning to genomics. Accelerate NGS data analysis and automate variant classification with evidence curated from the literature. From sample to report.
- Lumen — Lumen is a device and app that measures your metabolism in a single breath and provides daily personalized nutrition based on your metabolic data. Through the device and app, you can achieve your fitness goals whether they be weight loss, performance optimization, or simply improving your metabolic health.As a company, we are a team ofscientists, researchers, engineers, and designers, aimed at improving the way people understand their metabolism. We believe that a healthy metabolism is a key to better health and that everyone can attain it with a little help from Lumen.At Lumen, we are all about teamwork, friendship, and family. Curious about joining? We are always looking for creative people who share our passion for health and fitness to join our team.
Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- zooz — Manage and optimize multiple payment providers through a single platform.
- Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
- Thumzap — Thumzap reconnects people in the digital world by making the process of paying for someone else's purchases simple, fun and safe.Sometimes we need or just want someone else to pay for our purchases, either because we don't have a credit card or enough money, or because we're just not that tech-savvy and need some help.Thumzapmakes it easy to send friends and family a request to pay for us. All they have to do is approve the payment and they can pay with their own credit card or paypal account, in just one click. Not only does that make it completely safe and secure, but also familiar. No one has to share a password, set up a digital wallet, or input their credit card information, it’s a simple way to help fulfill a digital request.
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.
Angel investor | Games Industry and Ad-tech Executive | Board Member | Tedooo Co-Founder I PeerPlay Co-Founder
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Gaming
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PARANA — Game development studio PARANA makes skill-based mobile games that offer cash prizes and leverage competitiveness. The company is currently in the production of two games and hosts cash-enabled live tournaments for mobile.
- PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
- Supersonic Studios — SuperSonic designs a mobile advertising technology platform that grows business by building a platform powered by advanced technology. Its mobile advertising technology platform optimizes user acquisition strategy by combining data from other tracking platforms, enabling developers to increase their revenue and find the users for theirapplications.
Saar Wilf is a serial entrepreneur and investor.Over his career, he has founded several technology ventures, his first back in 1997.
Most notably, he founded Fraud Sciences (acquired by PayPal/eBay for $169m), where he served as CEO and Chief Scientist.
He also co-founded ClarityRay (acquired by Yahoo), Trivnet (acquired by Gemalto),Pointgrab, Deep Optics, Creditstacks, Bzigo, Rootclaim, Immersix, Initiative Q, and wikiwand.com, which serves over 10M users monthly.
He was the first investor in Moon Active, Supersonic (merged with Iron Source), Crosswise (acquired by Oracle), Redhill Biopharma, and CallApp.Mr. Wilf also funded the Brain Preservation Prize, which sparked the first technique that can completely preserve an entire human brain for long-term storage.
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Advertising, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Deep Optics — DEEPOPTICS proprietary technology dynamically corrects vision impairment using pixelated liquid crystal (LC) adaptive lenses. The lenses perform like the human eye, allowing the wearer to see what they want when they want.
- Black Label — Jasper, formerly CreditStacks, is a financial service company that offers a credit card designed for professionals. Jasper uses technology to assess applicants holistically, so applicants may qualify for a premium Jasper Mastercard, issued by WebBank, even if they are just starting their credit journey.The company was founded in 2015 and isheadquartered in New York City, New York.
- PointGrab — PointGrab Ltd. develops machine learning technology installed in optical IoT sensors for commercial Real Estate. The sensors enables Companies to better manage their real estate, increase efficiency and cut Real Estate costs, while keeping Employees' privacy and welfare.PointGrab is considered marker leader in providing occupancy and smartbuilding features in commercial Real Estate.
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.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Apps, Music
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
- Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
- Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!
Yanki Margalit is an Israeli entrepreneur, investor, and speaker best known for starting the Internet security company Aladdin Knowledge Systems, which was sold in 2009. He is a partner in the seed investment fund Innodo Ventures and a chairman of several technology startup companies, including SpaceIL. SpaceIL is a non-profit space technologyorganization that plans to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon by 2015 and is currently competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.Yanki is also engaged with several non-profit organizations, including Idealist.org, Latet, College4all.org, Meet.mit.edu, Adama.org.il, and SpaceIL.com He has appeared as a professional speaker on technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and human evolution, while studying and working in his more recent interests of biotechnology, clean energy, and space exploration.Described as the Israeli Singularity prophet, Yanki took a key role in introducing Singularity University in Israel. He lectures on such topics as Israel as a startup nation, the future of silicon and carbon, the maker movement, entrepreneurship and innovation, and SpaceIL’s goal to land a spaceship on the moon.
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Investment focus
- B2B, iOS, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- iAngels — Invest in groundbreaking startups with iAngels. Discovercutting-edge technology and join a community of forward-thinking investors shapingthe future of entrepreneurship.
- Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology
- Digital Layers Inc. —
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Israel, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Circles is a revolutionary emotional support platform that ensures no one has to overcome life’s challenges alone. Circles enables people to be heard, understood and supported by others who are going through the same issues in their lives, such as the loss of a loved one, parenting issues or divorce. By connecting users in safe, intimate andprivate groups led by professional facilitators, Circles helps people heal. Circles groups meet live for 60-minute video meetings and also have the ability to message via online chat at any time. Circles users can also access personalized content, including self-help exercises, blogs and webinars, all at no extra cost. To learn more about Circles or to sign up for a free trial, visit circlesup.com.
- 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.
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.
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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 block storage for infrastructure modernization, service providers, and private clouds. Learn more.
Founder and CEO at Natural Intelligence.
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Investment focus
- Advice, Medical, Software
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Pery — Pery empowers primary care providers to deliver better mental health care, boost revenue, and reduce administrative burdens. Learn more.
- Superfy — Superfy gets you an answer to any question from a relevant person, using superior AI for matching people.With Superfy getting answers is simple. You ask a question, and Superfy connects you in chat with another user who already knows the answer. If you want to know the weather or exchange rates - go to Google; if you want to know what’s it liketo work at Google - ask Superfy!Superfy’s Machine Learning algorithms (US utility patent-pending) replace traditional NLP methods to crack the challenge of analyzing unstructured User Generated Content across all verticals.We launched our public iOS beta last December, and the stats are promising: 87% of our users are asking questions, 46% of our users are answering questions - over 10x the industry standard! Our users love Superfy, spending 9 minutes a day on the app, and calling it “cool”, “addictive”, “super-friendly” and “helpful” (rated 4.4 on the US Appstore).Download (iOS): https://apple.co/2CZ3HjI Or search Superfy on the App Store.Superfy was founded by Gil Schoenberg and Michal Tamir, a married couple with years of startup experience in Business, Marketing and mostly Product, both for B2C and B2B. Among our advisors is Avishai Abrahami, Wix Founder & CEO, who paved the way for Israeli B2C startups.
Jörg was appointed to the Board when Access Industries acquired the Company in 2007. Jörg is responsible for the media/online and telecom businesses at Access Industries, which he joined in May 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Jörg has been active in the media and communications space since 1992. Hehas, as an investor, been involved with several businesses dealing with sports rights (RGE Group, Digiturk), internet services (Bibit NV, Adyen, Speedera Networks) and content delivery (Casema NV, Comhem AB). Jörg’s current board positions include Tory Burch LLC, Rebate Networks GmbH, AINMT Holdings AB, RGE Group Limited, Icon UK Distribution Holdings Limited and Mendeley Research Networks. Prior board positions include Digiturk, Casema NV, Comhem AB, Bibit BV, VersaTel Telecom NV and Speedera Networks Inc.
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Investment focus
- Music, Mobile Apps, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Penfold — Our flexible, simple and powerful pension is designed to get you to your saving goals and stay with you for life, whichever direction it takes you.
- Tracklib — Tracklib is the only service where anyone can legally clear samples from real music. From Isaac Hayes to Mozart, we got it.
- Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
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
- Era — An AI-based fertility copilot that optimizes time, cost, and the overall experience for both fertility providers and parents on their path to parenthood
- 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.
- CustoMED — CustoMed transforms surgical planning and execution. It does this by converting medical imaging into 3D visualizations, planning procedures, and producing customized 3D-printed surgical solutions at scale in a matter of minutes, all while streamlining the process and providing surgical excellence.
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.
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.
- Datawizz.ai — A cutting-edge platform that empowers users to effortlessly define, generate, augment, enrich, and evaluate synthetic data. We make overcoming data privacy concerns, cold starts, and sharing issues a breeze. It’s the turnkey solution for any data challenge!
- 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).
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 is a lightweight runtime that lets developers build innately resilient distributed apps without the complexity tax.
Robert Nelsen is a co-founder and a Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners. He joined ARCH at its founding and played a significant role in the early sourcing, financing and development of more than 100 companies, including nineteen which have reached valuations exceeding $1 billion. His seed and early-stage investments include Illumina (ILMN);Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY); Juno Therapeutics (JUNO); Unity Biotechnology (UBX); Sienna Biopharmaceuticals (SNNA); Vir Biotechnology, Agios Pharmaceuticals (AGIO); Sage Therapeutics (SAGE); GRAIL, Ikaria; Kythera Biopharmaceuticals (KYTH), Receptos (RCPT); Aviron (AVIR); Denali Therapeutics (DNLI); Rubius Therapeutics, KSQ Therapeutics, Beam Therapeutics, NetBot; Bluebird Bio (BLUE); R2 Technology; XenoPort (XNPT); Caliper Life Sciences (CALP); Trubion Pharmaceuticals (TRBN); Adolor (ADLR); deCODE Genetics; Array BioPharma (ARRY); Editas (EDIT), IDUN Pharmaceuticals; Classmates.com; Hua Medicine; Fate Therapeutics (FATE); WuxiNextCODE; and Everyday Learning Corporation.Mr. Nelsen is a director of Vir Bio, GRAIL, Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Beam Therapeutics, Unity Biotechnology, Denali Therapeutics, Arivale, Syros Pharmaceuticals, and serves as Chairman of Hua Medicine, among others. He previously served as a Trustee of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, the Institute for Systems Biology, and was a director of the National Venture Capital Association. Mr. Nelsen holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.S. from the University of Puget Sound with majors in Economics and Biology.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, China, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Gameto — Gameto is a new breed of biotechnology company in female reproductive longevity
- Katalyst — With one strength training session, you'll get a full-body workout in 20 minutes, with no external loads or joint impact. The Katalyst Training System uses low frequency impulses to stimulate and contract up to 90% of the muscle fibers in your body, for an intense workout equivalent to spending 2+ hours in the gym.
- Colossal Biosciences — Colossal is a ground-breaking bioscience and gene engineering firm that develops cutting-edge genomics technology.
Adi Orzel
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Investment focus
- Internet, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Plannie — Mobile first scheduling platform for small businesses
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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- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States
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- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- 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.
Emmanuel Costa is the Founder & Project Manager at Bankin.
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- Gaming, Mobile Apps, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
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.
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- Music, Social, Content
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel
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- Anyword — The AI writing platform that knows what works. Trusted by over 1 million marketers, Anyword is built to help you scale on-brand content that drives marketing results
- Tonara — We believe in using technology to move music education forward. Tonara's products empower music teachers and their students, worldwide.
- enso — Build AI agents and automations with just a prompt. No code, no workflows, no setup. Designed for everyone.
Building Sports & Tech Companies
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- Art, B2B, B2C
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Split — Split will let you know each time someone you’re avoiding is around & suggest an escape route. Split will display ‘hot zone’ map pointers on any location that the people you avoid tend to frequent. Know who the people you avoid are hanging out with (the ‘two birds, one stone’ feature).
- PickGuru — At PickGuru we help betting companies, rights holders and publishers enhance the sports fan customer lifecycle of acquisition, engagement, retention, referrals and revenues. Our dynamic sports prediction games and community building tools supercharge the fan relationship and boost trust and loyalty with our client brands.
- Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
Dana Messina
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- Music, EdTech, Software
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Simply — Feel the joy of playing piano and guitar, or discovering your singing voice, with Simply. The best apps for learning musical instruments.
Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods
enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Israel, Sweden
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- cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
- Altertable — We're building an AI-driven, proactive, unified platform that redefines how modern companies leverage their data.
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Paul Maritz is Chief Strategist of EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMCaccelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.As Chief Strategist, Maritz drives EMC's technology strategy with a particular focus on Big Data and the next generation of cloud-oriented applications. He is also responsible for M&A, strategic investments and emerging technologies.Maritz joined EMC in 2012 from VMware, where he was CEO. During his four year tenure as CEO, VMware transformed from a technology leader in virtualization to a category leader in cloud computing. Maritz remains a member of VMware’s board of directors.Prior to joining VMware, Maritz was President of the Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division at EMC after the company’s February 2008 acquisition of Pi, where he was the Founder and CEO. Before founding Pi, Maritz spent 14 years working at Microsoft, where he served as a member of the five-person Executive Committee that managed the overall company, with his responsibility being the product development and marketing of the Windows Client and Server product lines. Prior to Microsoft, he spent five years working at Intel.Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and educated in South Africa.He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town. Maritz also serves on the Board of the Grameen Foundation, and has an interest in the use of technology in the developing world.
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- Software, Big Data, PaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Israel
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- Tignis — Tignis is an information technology company that enables hardware and software vendors to continually monitor performance data while their products are in use. Using real-time edge computing, machine learning, and customer-specific controls, vendors can quickly identify and proactively remedy performance issues and predict problems before theyoccur.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, United States.
- True — True is a social app designed for private group conversations. It is free, private and easier to share engaging content than messaging.
- QuEra Computing — QuEra Computing is the leading provider of quantum computers based on neutral-atoms. Our mission is to build the most scalable quantum computers to date to tackle useful but classically intractable problems.
Eran is the CEO and co-founder of Nexar. Prior to Nexar, he was an entrepreneur in residence at Tel Aviv venture fund, Aleph and ran the global Creative Innovation Center for Yahoo!. Eran received his bachelor’s and master’s in physics from Technion-Machon Technlogi Le’ Israel and his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from TelAviv University.
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- Music, EdTech, Software
- Seed
- Israel
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- Simply — Feel the joy of playing piano and guitar, or discovering your singing voice, with Simply. The best apps for learning musical instruments.
Eli Elroy
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- Gaming, Software, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Convertible Note
- Israel, United States
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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- World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
- Solace — Connect with expert patient advocates who can help you navigate the healthcare system and solve any medical problem, no matter what you need.
- Endo Health — Reverse Your Diabetes With a Game
Cristobal is an active investor in early-stage companies, and a senior member of the Partnership for NYC’s FinTech incubator for software companies. His current investments include True Office, where he serves as executive chairman, Calastone, where he serves as chairman, Centripetal Networks, where he is a board member, and Digital Reasoning,where he is a board member.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Lab 1 — Lab 1 gathers hacked and exposed data from the dark web, messaging services, and secret groups to give the best perspective of risk throughout the supply chain.
- Venari Security — Venari is an encrypted traffic analysis (ETA) platform that detects threats hidden within encrypted traffic and helps deliver cryptographic and regulatory compliance for enterprise organisations without the need for decryption. Acting as an automated early warning system for security teams, Venari's ETA platform detects threats hidden withinencrypted traffic reducing the overall response time.Headquartered in London with a Development Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Tunis, Venari fundamentally changes the way encrypted traffic is analysed using a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and behavioural analytics. To date, Venari has been recognised by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) cyber accelerator programme and Barclays TechStars accelerator program. The organisation has won various industry awards in 2019 and 2020.
- Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.
Hadar Goldman - Co-founder @ Minteye
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- iOS, Mobile Apps, Location Based Services
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Split — Split will let you know each time someone you’re avoiding is around & suggest an escape route. Split will display ‘hot zone’ map pointers on any location that the people you avoid tend to frequent. Know who the people you avoid are hanging out with (the ‘two birds, one stone’ feature).
Christopher Burch is Founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital. Mr. Burch is an active investor in a variety of businesses spanning a wide range of industries and is the co-founder of the luxury fashion brand, Tory Burch. Mr. Burch has always been devoted to the power of branding, and currently applies his keen sense of marketing and sales tobusiness interests spanning apparel, financial services, hospitality, technology and consumer products.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, Colombia
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- Cerebral — Cerebral is a mental health telemedicine company that provides clients with long-term, comprehensive access to medication management, therapy, and counseling for anxiety, depression, insomnia, ADHD, and more. It offers affordable, convenient, and evidence-based care that drives significant improvement in outcomes for clients.
- Iris Nova — Iris Nova powers the SMS payment technology (conversational commerce), customer service, email marketing, fulfillment, and delivery infrastructure for a portfolio of the world's best CPG brands.This strategy was first executed with functional beverage brand DIRTY LEMON, which popularized text-messaging based direct-to-consumer sales when itlaunched in 2015. The brand has since scaled to over 200,000 customers, leveraging the data to provide a personalized experience and on-demand deliveries to customers nationwide.Iris Nova was formally launched as an evolution of this success, following a minority investment from The Coca-Cola Company in 2018. The Iris Nova platform enables a seamless, end-to-end solution for beverage brands prioritizing the direct to home channel as a core component of their distribution strategy. This includes same-day deliveries in major markets as well average national shipping speeds faster than Amazon Prime. As the space continues to evolve with new entrants and innovation, we believe this is the future of CPG distribution.
- Crush Capital — Crush Capital is a fintech company democratizing access to investment opportunities. It empowers retail investors by providing access to IPOs and other financial products that were previously reserved for the wealthy and connected. Crush Capital's groundbreaking series "Going Public" allows anyone globally over 18 years old toinvest in featured companies. In 2020, Darren Marble and Todd Goldberg co-founded Crush Capital in Beverly Hills, California.
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