# Barak Kaufman

> Barak Kaufman is a seed investor at Vine Ventures (New York) backing Software and SaaS. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Vine Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vine-cap)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barak-kaufman-a7759933/
- Website: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18WhYK8tyO9RTuMIWZ5RDolxRwCZC-bUA-NQ7ef5AQWQ/edit#gid=0

Barak Kaufman is a Partner at Vine Ventures, angel investor, and co-builder with missionary founders. He was CEO & Co-Founder of Intello (acquired by SailPoint) and was an investor at Insight Venture Partners.Full list of investments:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18WhYK8tyO9RTuMIWZ5RDolxRwCZC-bUA-NQ7ef5AQWQ/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18WhYK8tyO9RTuMIWZ5RDolxRwCZC-bUA-NQ7ef5AQWQ/edit#gid=0

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$29M |
| Series A | $8M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 44% |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| Employee Benefits | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |
| B2B | 1 | 11% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 33% |
| Israel | 2 | 22% |
| Australia | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wonderful | Platform enabling enterprises to create, test, and deploy AI agents for voice, chat, and email. | $150M | Series B | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Wonderful | Platform enabling enterprises to create, test, and deploy AI agents for voice, chat, and email. | $100M | Series A | Nov 11, 2025 |  |
| Wonderful | Platform enabling enterprises to create, test, and deploy AI agents for voice, chat, and email. | $29M | Seed | Jul 02, 2025 |  |
| QUASH.AI | QUASH is the leading Credvertising™ Platform that allows Financial Institutions to improve their Return on Prospecting to new and existing borrowers by personalizing offerings based on credit risk. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida. | $3.7M | Seed | Feb 10, 2023 |  |
| Screenloop | Screenloop is a hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyze interviews, and automate the reference process. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 02, 2021 |  |
| Confetti | Find & book corporate events and activities that match you company's culture, goals and budget. Simple Booking. Fun Guaranteed. | $1.5M | Angel | Sep 20, 2021 |  |
| FL0 | FL0 is a backend-focused cloud development and deployment platform. FL0 generates, installs, and scales the containers that execute the services. The company's contact information is by mail, phone, and physical address. | $3.8M | Seed | Jul 05, 2021 |  |
| Compete | Compete gives you an unfair advantage with immediate insights into complete compensation package data, including parental leave, work-from-home policies, and health benefits. Gain a clear view of your company's employee compensation and benefits benchmarks compared to the market. An easy-to-use Saas solution, Compete provides real-time dataand instant analysis with advanced filtering capabilities at the click of a button, tailored for tech companies. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 16, 2021 |  |
| Adalo | Adalo is the no-code app builder that pairs AI-powered generation with a visual multi-screen canvas, so entrepreneurs and business teams can design, build, and publish custom database-driven apps to the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and web from a single project — no code, no developers required.Adalo was founded in 2018 and headquarteredin Missouri, United States. | $8M | Series A | May 04, 2021 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [GTMfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gtmfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Oldslip](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oldslip-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Vine Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

Vine Ventures is an early stage, software-focused venture capital fund that invests in the U.S., Latin America, and Israel.

5 contacts available at Vine Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eric Reiner | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-reiner |
| Adam Valkin | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-valkin |
| Alex Moskowitz | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-moskowitz-bf3d |
| Barak Kaufman | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barak-kaufman |
| Daniel Povitsky | Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-povitsky |

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## FAQ

### What does Barak Kaufman invest in?

Barak Kaufman invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Employee Benefits startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Barak Kaufman's check size?

Barak Kaufman typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$29M at Seed and $8M–$100M 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 Barak Kaufman participates in.

### When did Barak Kaufman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Barak Kaufman closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 9 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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