# Assaf Barnea

> Assaf Barnea is a seed investor at Sanara Ventures (Tel Aviv) backing Health Care and Software. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sanara Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanara-ventures)
- Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/assaf-barnea/0/373/76b
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000170235262

Assaf Barnea is a seed investor at Sanara Ventures in Tel Aviv focused on Health Care and Software. Assaf Barnea, CEO of Sanara Ventures is a seasoned entrepreneur and venture professional with significant multidisciplinary experience in building innovation platforms and commercialization processes in healthcare and Cleantech. Sanara Ventures is a healthcare investment platform, jointly held by Teva Pharmaceuticals and Philips Healthcare. Assafis also a business consultant at the World Bank/IFC venture capital team, supporting the IFC’s investments in technologies that are relevant for developing countries. Formerly, Assaf was the CEO of Kinrot Ventures, the leading seed investor in water technologies worldwide. Kinrot is privately held by Hutchison water which acquired Kinrot Ventures in 2012. Assaf Barnea attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 4 | 100% |
| Software | 3 | 75% |
| Medical Device | 2 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| QLOG | QLOG is a creator of a healthcare management platform that provides detailed visibility and control over processes and assets. The platform of the company uses the internet of things as a data-collection grid to record the process of what happened, the individual who handled it, the position of the equipment, and the recent developments of theequipment, allowing healthcare businesses to reduce the overheads and difficulties of legacy systems. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Panacea-ml | Panacea-ml revolutionizes clinical trial design with its data-driven, explainable-AI SaaS platform. Our cutting-edge technology addresses the primary causes of clinical development failure by identifying patient profiles that maximize therapeutic efficacy, minimize safety risks, and improve participant retention. Leveraging historical clinicaltrials and millions real-world patient health records, Panacea-ml's AI model enhances patient selection criteria, reduces cohort sizes, and uncovers novel marker-endpoint interrelations, surrogate markers, and causal relationships beyond simple statistical correlations.Our platform is a game-changer for the pharmaceutical industry, facilitating seamless collaboration across drug development, data science, and clinical teams. It accelerates drug development by generating precise sub-population profiles, refining patient selection criteria, and providing informed go/no-go decisions for each phase of development. Panacea-ml is versatile, supporting small sample sizes and various therapeutic domains, including rare diseases and early development stages.At Panacea-ml, we believe in empowering innovation and fostering collaboration to drive impactful outcomes. Our mission is to shorten time to market and enable early access to innovative treatments for patients worldwide. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| CVAid Medical | CVAid Medical develops an innovative AI based stroke detection technological platform. | $4M | Series A | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Lydus Medical | Lydus Medical is a start-up company that develops a set of tools for anastomosis of small blood vessels. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Kfar Saba, Israel. | $2.7M | Seed | May 24, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [eHealth Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ehealth-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EuroUS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eurous-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GlenRock Israel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glenrock-israel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Israel Innovation Authority](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/israel-innovation-authority) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Philips](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koninklijke-philips) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mor Research Applications](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mor-research-applications) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Sanara Ventures

VC Fund · Ra'anana, Israel

Sanara Ventures is an innovation-investment platform, elevating outstanding healthcare-technology companies, from early-stage to global market maturity. At Sanara, They share a vision of an integrated continuum of care supported by accessible advanced healthcare solutions for people around the world.

1 contacts available at Sanara Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Assaf Barnea | Chief Executive Officer & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/assaf-barnea |

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## FAQ

### What does Assaf Barnea invest in?

Assaf Barnea invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Medical Device startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Assaf Barnea last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Assaf Barnea closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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