# Elad Kushnir

> Elad Kushnir is a seed investor in Tel Aviv backing Gaming, Software and Travel. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eladkushnir

Elad Kushnir is a seed investor in Tel Aviv focused on Gaming and Software. Elad Kushnir

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$7.4M |
| Series B | $35M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 6 | 35% |
| Software | 5 | 29% |
| Travel | 3 | 18% |
| Mobile Apps | 3 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 18% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 29% |
| Series B | 2 | 12% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 10 | 59% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Localbird | Localbird is a technology-enabled vacation rental concierge that prioritizes the needs of travelers. Localbird assists hosts in realizing the full potential of property by giving guests with exceptional local experiences. | $7.4M | Seed | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Localbird | Localbird is a technology-enabled vacation rental concierge that prioritizes the needs of travelers. Localbird assists hosts in realizing the full potential of property by giving guests with exceptional local experiences. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 27, 2024 |  |
| Celery | Celery is an internal auditing and control platform, designed to automate critical and time-consuming processes and prevent costly mistakes. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| PeerPlay | PeerPlay is a casual mobile games company. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 23, 2023 |  |
| Bookaway | Bookaway is an online ground travel platform, dedicated to creating the easiest way to book ground travel services from local transportation suppliers worldwide. We source the largest database of previously offline suppliers, so we can help travellers find the best services and easily plan trips, while helping our partners go online and expandtheir customer reach. | $35M | Series B | Jul 12, 2021 |  |
| Travelier | Travelier, formerly known as Bookaway Group, is a travel-tech company, revolutionizing land and sea transportation for travelers. Travelier's network of digital platforms allow customers to instantly buy intercity tickets to ferries, buses and trains in local markets which can be usually complex. Since 2017, Travelier has focused on bridgingthe gap between modern travelers and local transportation providers – empowering suppliers to grow their businesses, all while easing travel anxiety for the consumer. Travelier's mission to make memorable journeys powered by technology is not only at the root of their proprietary platform but stretches across their wide range of subsidiaries –Bookaway.com, Getbybus, 12Go , Plataforma10, SeatOS, and Sisorg . | $35M | Series B | Jul 12, 2021 |  |
| Bookaway | Bookaway is an online ground travel platform, dedicated to creating the easiest way to book ground travel services from local transportation suppliers worldwide. We source the largest database of previously offline suppliers, so we can help travellers find the best services and easily plan trips, while helping our partners go online and expandtheir customer reach. | $1M | Seed | Jan 01, 2018 |  |
| Travelier | Travelier, formerly known as Bookaway Group, is a travel-tech company, revolutionizing land and sea transportation for travelers. Travelier's network of digital platforms allow customers to instantly buy intercity tickets to ferries, buses and trains in local markets which can be usually complex. Since 2017, Travelier has focused on bridgingthe gap between modern travelers and local transportation providers – empowering suppliers to grow their businesses, all while easing travel anxiety for the consumer. Travelier's mission to make memorable journeys powered by technology is not only at the root of their proprietary platform but stretches across their wide range of subsidiaries –Bookaway.com, Getbybus, 12Go , Plataforma10, SeatOS, and Sisorg . | $1M | Seed | Jan 01, 2018 |  |
| Brainvivo | Rooted in decades of research and proprietary deep-neurotechnology, Brainvivo is the first company to digitize the human brain’s abilities and make them universally accessible. Brainvivo unlocks the sophisticated biological neural network of the human brain to expand people’s capabilities and automate tasks that require human judgment, emotionalinsight and intuition. With Brainvivo’s cutting edge emotional-AI platform, companies can extract human-level insights from data at scale and enrich their understanding of users.Brainvivo was founded by Assaf Horowitz and Yaniv Assaf in 2016. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2017 |  |
| Placer.ai | Placer.ai offers a traffic analytics platform that allows anyone with a stake in the physical world to instantly generate insights into any property for a deeper understanding of the factors that drive success. Its platform also empowers professionals in retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, and economic development.Placer.ai was foundedin 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aleph](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleph-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RUNI Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/runi-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [XT Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xt-hi-tech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Array Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/array-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [at.inc/](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-inc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Elad Kushnir invest in?

Elad Kushnir invests primarily in Gaming, Software and Travel startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Elad Kushnir's check size?

Elad Kushnir typically joins rounds of $1M–$7.4M at Seed and $35M–$35M 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 Elad Kushnir participates in.

### When did Elad Kushnir last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Elad Kushnir closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 17 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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