Ben Weiss
Partner @ Alicorn Venture Partners
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ben Weiss is a Series A investor at Alicorn Venture Partners in Hong Kong focused on Software and Information Technology. Has 20 years experience working globally in investment banking, asset management, private equity and corporate law. Through a diverse range of roles in Asia, including with Salomon Smith Barney, Macquarie Bank, Shinsei Bank, AXA, CLSA and Baker and McKenzie, Ben brings to both funds a broad set of analytical skills with a focus on investment duediligence and strategic business development. Ben has a BCom and LL.B from the University of NSW, is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and graduate of Sydney College of Law. Ben is a Member of the CFA Institute, and the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts and is an Associate Member of the Law Society of NSW.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
Last updated:
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Industries Ben Weiss invests in
Stages Ben Weiss invests in
Countries Ben Weiss invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$2M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$7M
- Series B
- $2M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (23%)
- Information Technology 4 (13%)
- Analytics 3 (10%)
- Biotechnology 3 (10%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (16%)
- Series B 5 (16%)
- Seed 3 (10%)
- Convertible Note 3 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (10%)
Country
- Israel 11 (35%)
- United States 2 (6%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Investments
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Zoog
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Zoog creates personalized AR based bedtime stories and starting a conversation around them. Zoog taps into both through books and video. Adapting classics to the medium of video communication, where grandparents can read to their grandkids and the kids can engage with the story and their relatives. | $2.1M / Pre-Seed / May 01, 2023 | |
DiA Imaging Analysis
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DiA Imaging Analysis provides advanced AI-based ultrasound analysis smarter and accessible. It solves the two main challenges clinicians face when using ultrasound: acquiring the right image and automatically analyzing it, to find clinical abnormalities that today they are struggling to find visually. DiA's automated tools can be easily beadded to any ultrasound device or healthcare IT system, just like an App.The company holds FDA/CE Clearances for its cardiac toolbox, generating revenues and having thousands of users around the world. | $14M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 24, 2021 | |
Panoply
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Panoply.io is an end to end data management platform for Analytics on the cloud that automatically tailor fits itself towards your end needs. Panoply automates data management from source to analysis, streamlining analysts’ and data scientists’ time to value. They optimize your time, granting up to 80% more efficiency by eliminating the time miredon complex labor of data preparation and management of unruly digital data and infrastructure. Incorporating best of breed data technologies, including Amazon's Redshift, Panoply.io utilizes machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to learn, model and automate the standard data management activities performed by data engineers, Analysts and data scientists, saving thousands of code lines and countless hours of debugging and research. | $10M / Series B / Oct 27, 2020 | |
Glassbox
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Glassbox develops an analytics platform designed to automatically record, index, and analyze digital interactions.Formerly Clarisite, it empowers organizations to manage and optimize the entire digital lifecycle of their web and mobile customers. Leveraging unparalleled big data, behavioral analytics, and record-replay capabilities, Glassboxenables enterprises to see not only what online and mobile customers are doing but also why they are doing it. Most importantly, Glassbox informs and facilitates action based on those insights that can lead to enhanced customer experience, decreased customer disputes, and improved regulatory compliance. Its solutions are used by medium to very large enterprises mostly in the financial services and insurance industries but are equally relevant to the needs of a wide range of verticals including healthcare, telecommunications, utilities, gambling, and business services.The company was founded by Yaron Gueta, Hanan Blumstein, and Yoav Schreiber in 2010 and is headquartered in London, England. | $40M / Series C / Apr 07, 2020 | |
WeedOut
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WeedOut is a biotechnology company focusing on providing weed control solutions. The company’s goal is to reduce the need for toxic herbicides and higher herbicide doses. | $4M / Series A / Feb 20, 2020 | |
Alcide
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Alcide is a Kubernetes network security leader empowering DevOps and security teams to continuously secure and protects their growing multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments. Alcide provides a single Kubernetes-native security platform for everything Kubernetes: configuration risks, network security events, and a single policy framework to enforce.Companies use Alcide to scale their Kubernetes deployments without compromising on security. The Alcide Security Platform provides code-to-production protection that automatically discovers, manages, and enforces security policies across multi-cluster environments. This enables the smooth operation of business apps while protecting cloud deployments from malicious attacks. | $7M / Series A / Nov 19, 2018 | |
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Glassbox
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Glassbox develops an analytics platform designed to automatically record, index, and analyze digital interactions.Formerly Clarisite, it empowers organizations to manage and optimize the entire digital lifecycle of their web and mobile customers. Leveraging unparalleled big data, behavioral analytics, and record-replay capabilities, Glassboxenables enterprises to see not only what online and mobile customers are doing but also why they are doing it. Most importantly, Glassbox informs and facilitates action based on those insights that can lead to enhanced customer experience, decreased customer disputes, and improved regulatory compliance. Its solutions are used by medium to very large enterprises mostly in the financial services and insurance industries but are equally relevant to the needs of a wide range of verticals including healthcare, telecommunications, utilities, gambling, and business services.The company was founded by Yaron Gueta, Hanan Blumstein, and Yoav Schreiber in 2010 and is headquartered in London, England. | $25M / Series B / Oct 04, 2018 | |
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DiA Imaging Analysis
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DiA Imaging Analysis provides advanced AI-based ultrasound analysis smarter and accessible. It solves the two main challenges clinicians face when using ultrasound: acquiring the right image and automatically analyzing it, to find clinical abnormalities that today they are struggling to find visually. DiA's automated tools can be easily beadded to any ultrasound device or healthcare IT system, just like an App.The company holds FDA/CE Clearances for its cardiac toolbox, generating revenues and having thousands of users around the world. | $5.5M / Series A / Aug 05, 2018 | |
SP Nano
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SP Nano is a nanotechnology company commercializing the use of nano-particles in the rapidly growing $106 billion composites market. The most widely-used type of composite consists of layers of fabric (carbon-fiber, glass-fiber, aramid) held together by a resin matrix. The matrix is the materials' weakest link - much weaker than the layersof fibers it binds. When composite structures and components commonly used in the aerospace, defense, automotive, marine and sporting goods industries fail, it's often because of this large discrepancy in strength between the fibers and the resin. | $2.5M / Corporate Round / Oct 12, 2017 | |
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SP Nano
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SP Nano is a nanotechnology company commercializing the use of nano-particles in the rapidly growing $106 billion composites market. The most widely-used type of composite consists of layers of fabric (carbon-fiber, glass-fiber, aramid) held together by a resin matrix. The matrix is the materials' weakest link - much weaker than the layersof fibers it binds. When composite structures and components commonly used in the aerospace, defense, automotive, marine and sporting goods industries fail, it's often because of this large discrepancy in strength between the fibers and the resin. | $2.5M / Corporate Round / Oct 12, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Alicorn Venture Partners
Alicorn is a London venture capital firm specialising in secondaries and liquidity release from technology companies in US, Israel, EMEA and APAC.
Alicorn Venture Partners Contacts
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Alexander Assim
Partner
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Ben Weiss
Partner
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Bart Engelander
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Hector Judd
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Kevin Chin
Founding Partner
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FAQ
What does Ben Weiss invest in?
Ben Weiss invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ben Weiss's check size?
Ben Weiss typically joins rounds of $2M–$2M at Seed, $3.3M–$7M at Series A and $2M–$25M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ben Weiss participates in.
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When did Ben Weiss last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ben Weiss closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 31 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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