# Aryeh Mergi

> Aryeh Mergi is a seed investor at Pliops (Tel Aviv) backing Software and SaaS. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pliops](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pliops)
- Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aryehm
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/aryehm
- Website: https://x.com/aryehm

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$13M |
| Series A | $1.2M–$9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 40% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 20% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 80% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 6 | 60% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| Spain | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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! | $12.5M | Seed | Sep 28, 2025 |  |
| 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). | $3M | Seed | Jun 09, 2024 |  |
| IO River | IO River provides a uniform layer of security, traffic control, and serverless computing capabilities to improve the reliability, performance, and cost of online services. | $5.4M | Seed | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| Plannie | Mobile first scheduling platform for small businesses | $1.3M | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Rapid | RapidAPI is an API Hub that enables over 3 million developers to find, manage, and connect to APIs. RapidAPI lets developers manage all API integrations from one place and gives real-time performance metrics. RapidAPI was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $9M | Series A | Mar 12, 2018 |  |
| Torii | Torii is an automated SaaS Management Platform (SMP) designed for today's distributed and decentralized businesses. Torii, unlike traditional tools, enables an organization's entire business to unite around its cloud apps and stay in perfect sync as its tech stack evolves. This speeds up innovation while saving millions of dollars inunused licenses, hundreds of hours spent on manual operations, and safeguarding sensitive data flowing through known and Shadow IT apps. Carrier Corporation, Instacart, Bumble, Athletic Greens, Palo Alto Networks, and Payoneer are among Torii's clients. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 01, 2017 |  |
| Jeeng | Jeeng is an AI-powered autonomous marketing platform that enables businesses to communicate with their users on a personalized level. Our AI engine analyses every message and piece of content in real-time and matches it to relevant users based on their interests and online behavior. Jeeng was established by Shlomi Haybi & Roma Bronstein in 2016 | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 01, 2016 |  |
| Perk (formerly TravelPerk) | TravelPerk is a next-generation business travel booking and management platform for companies of any size. It is an all-in-one platform for booking business travel. TravelPerk is backed by investors such as Spark Capital, investors in Slack, Trello, and Twitter. The company is co-founded and funded by a team of entrepreneurial executives with deepmarket expertise, including leadership-level experience, as one of the successful players in the online travel industry. One of the co-founders recently started and sold a travel technology company to one of the players in the market.TravelPerk was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 01, 2016 |  |
| KIDOZ | KIDOZ is a Kid's Mobile Environment that allows children to safely swatch videos, play games and apps in an easy-to-use, protected environment.KIDOZ brings kids between the ages of 1-10 the best and most relevant children's content that is available while keeping both them, and the mobile device they are using, safe. KIDOZ is ahub of both KIDOZ-generated and parent-generated content (in over 160 languages). KIDOZ comes pre-loaded with access to a wide selection of relevant and appropriate online content for kids and incorporates an automated system that provides an immediate plug-and-play experience from the moment that KIDOZ is activated. The KIDOZ APP browser will automatically recognize the kid-friendly content installed on the mobile device and display it in the child's KIDOZ environment. KIDOZ enables parents to easily hand over their device to their child with no worries and no effort. At the same time, KIDOZ allows parents, through the password-protected Control Panel, to personalize all content according to differing variables pertaining to their child, such as age, language, and gender. Parents can add their own content to their child's KIDOZ, as well as block content from their child's account.Parents also have the option to share their content, creating a sense of community. All content is moderated and pre-approved by the KIDO'Z Team prior to going public. The graphical, interactive user interface is designed to be used by young children, who can navigate the environment without needing to know how to read or write.The KIDOZ application is available in 20 different languages.New content and features are being added all the time. | $1.2M | Series A | Oct 08, 2013 |  |
| Start A Fire | start A FIRE enables individuals and brands to promote their social presence and content over any link they share. start A FIRE is fully automated, signup, connect your social media management account and it will take care of all the rest. It automatically adds a badge with your content and brand to every link you share. | $1.1M | Seed | May 01, 2013 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [lool ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lool-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [91 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/91-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angular Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angular-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Benhamou Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benhamou-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pliops

VC Fund · Abba Hillel, Israel

Today’s explosive data growth and rapidly expanding application workloads threaten to overwhelm datacenters, preventing organizations from harnessing AI/ML, 5G, big data analytics, IoT, and other modern applications they need to achieve their business goals.Accelerating these data-hungry, storage-intensive applications requires moreapplication speed, storage capacity, data efficiency, and scalability than most organizations can afford, no matter how many CPUs and SSDs they add, or how much they expand their datacenter footprint.Just as GPUs overcome processing inefficiencies to accelerate artificial intelligence and advanced analytics performance, the breakthrough Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP) overcomes storage inefficiencies to massively accelerate performance and dramatically reduce overall infrastructure costs for databases, analytics, and machine learning. Delivered on an easy-to-deploy, low-profile PCIe card, the Pliops XDP radically simplifies the way data is processed and flash storage is managed.The result is an exponential increase in performance, reliability, capacity, and efficiency— multiplying the effectiveness of organizations’ infrastructure investments.

4 contacts available at Pliops.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aryeh Mergi | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aryeh-mergi |
| Mark Mokryn | VP Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-mokryn |
| Steve Fingerhut | President & Chief Business Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-fingerhut |
| Uri Beitler | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uri-beitler-1293 |

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## FAQ

### What does Aryeh Mergi invest in?

Aryeh Mergi invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Aryeh Mergi's check size?

Aryeh Mergi typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$13M at Seed and $1.2M–$9M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Aryeh Mergi participates in.

### When did Aryeh Mergi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aryeh Mergi closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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