# Eli Barkat

> Eli Barkat is a Series B investor at BRM Capital backing Advertising and Information Technology. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BRM Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brm-capital)
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eli-barkat/0/35/528

Eli Barkat is a Series B investor at BRM Capital focused on Advertising and Information Technology. Eli Barkat is the Board Director of SupportSpace Ltd.He is also a Chairman and Co - Founder of BRM Group, is a recognized figure in the Israeli business community, with more than 20 years of entrepreneurial, investment and business management experience. Eli excels at growing companies – providing hands-on strategic and management guidance fromfounding to exit. In 1988, Eli co-founded BRM Technologies, an anti-virus software startup sold to Symantec. Leveraging early-on experience and accumulated self-capital, Eli led the transformation of BRM into a reputable private Israeli investment group, later expanding its initial technology focus to include non hi-tech industries as well. Under Eli’s leadership, the Group has been involved, either directly or via venture capital funds under its control, in some of the most prominent exits in the industry. These include Checkpoint (NASDAQ:CHKP); Backweb (NASDAQ: BWEB); Passave (sold to PMC-Sierra); Oplus Technologies (sold to Intel); Whale Communications (sold to Microsoft) and Fraud Sciences (sold to eBay). These successes have reinforced both BRM’s and Eli’s status as a leading and important investment player in the Israeli business arena. Eli currently sits on the board of Eyeblaster, GigaSpaces, SupportSpace, Pudding Media and Pando Networks. Together with his wife, Alona, he founded the BRM Institute of Technology and Society at Tel Aviv University, and serves on the University’s Board of Governors.Eli holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 4 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 22% |
| Marketing | 3 | 17% |
| Social Media | 3 | 17% |
| Video | 2 | 11% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 8 | 44% |
| Series C | 3 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 39% |
| Israel | 2 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GigaSpaces Technologies | GigaSpaces provides the leading in-memory computing platform for fast data analytics and extreme transaction processing. With GigaSpaces InsightEdge Platform, and its core engine XAP, organizations can overcome the complex obstacles of big data and advanced analytics to deliver real-time business impact. Hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listedorganizations worldwide leverage GigaSpaces across financial services, retail, transportation, telecom, healthcare, and others.GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Asia. | $13.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| GigaSpaces Technologies | GigaSpaces provides the leading in-memory computing platform for fast data analytics and extreme transaction processing. With GigaSpaces InsightEdge Platform, and its core engine XAP, organizations can overcome the complex obstacles of big data and advanced analytics to deliver real-time business impact. Hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listedorganizations worldwide leverage GigaSpaces across financial services, retail, transportation, telecom, healthcare, and others.GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Asia. | $12M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 05, 2020 |  |
| Meta Networks | With applications, storage and workloads migrating to the cloud, and employees on the move, the conventional LAN/WAN paradigm is breaking down. Enterprise networks are increasingly fragmented, vulnerable, and expensive to operate.Meta Networks is rebuilding the enterprise WAN for the cloud age, with a new paradigm that is secure, simple andcloud-native. Now, forward-leaning IT organizations can connect employees, private clouds, data centers, SaaS applications and offices over a secure, zero-trust network that provides the agility and performance you need. | $10M | Seed | Apr 03, 2018 |  |
| eToro | EToro is a social trading and investment network that allows users to trade currencies, commodities, indices, crypto assets, and stocks. It is a multi-asset investment platform that empowers people to grow their knowledge and wealth as part of a global community. | $15M |  | Mar 12, 2012 |  |
| Support Space | SupportSpace was a leader in developing the Virtual Expert Network as the most effective and attractive means of delivery remote services. Virtual expert networks are the wave of the future, empowering expert service providers to work on their own terms and providing numerous benefits to our partners and users. It is a fundamental shift in thesocio-economic and business environment, dramatically affecting the way service organizations are built and managed and the way services are delivered. | $12M | Series C | Jul 15, 2011 |  |
| eToro | EToro is a social trading and investment network that allows users to trade currencies, commodities, indices, crypto assets, and stocks. It is a multi-asset investment platform that empowers people to grow their knowledge and wealth as part of a global community. | $2.4M | Series C | Jun 08, 2010 |  |
| Support Space | SupportSpace was a leader in developing the Virtual Expert Network as the most effective and attractive means of delivery remote services. Virtual expert networks are the wave of the future, empowering expert service providers to work on their own terms and providing numerous benefits to our partners and users. It is a fundamental shift in thesocio-economic and business environment, dramatically affecting the way service organizations are built and managed and the way services are delivered. | $10M | Series B | Nov 25, 2009 |  |
| Pudding Media | Pudding Media provides turnkey mobile advertising solutions that enable mobile carriers to rapidly build and expand their advertising business. Pudding Media’s solutions include an advertising platform that delivers ads on all mobile channels, a global ad sales force and an ad network with a reach of hundreds of millions consumers. For furtherinformation, visit | $3M | Series B | Jul 20, 2009 |  |
| eToro | EToro is a social trading and investment network that allows users to trade currencies, commodities, indices, crypto assets, and stocks. It is a multi-asset investment platform that empowers people to grow their knowledge and wealth as part of a global community. | $6.3M | Series B | Mar 31, 2009 |  |
| Support Space | SupportSpace was a leader in developing the Virtual Expert Network as the most effective and attractive means of delivery remote services. Virtual expert networks are the wave of the future, empowering expert service providers to work on their own terms and providing numerous benefits to our partners and users. It is a fundamental shift in thesocio-economic and business environment, dramatically affecting the way service organizations are built and managed and the way services are delivered. | $10M | Series B | Jun 01, 2008 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cubit Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cubit-investments) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Fortissimo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fortissimo-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Gemini Israel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gemini-israel-funds) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Claridge Israel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claridge-israel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Formula Vision Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/formula-vision-technologies) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About BRM Capital

VC Fund · Herzliya, Israel

BRM Capital is a dynamic venture capital fund investing in early stage, Israel-related software, internet infrastructure, and communication companies. Their investment focus is on the Internet, mobile and mobile applications, digital media, online services, enterprise software, and medical device sectors and they also offer flexible, streamlinedinvestment decision making.BRM headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel enjoys a worldwide network of industry, strategic and financial experts.

5 contacts available at BRM Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alon Maor | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alon-maor-2 |
| Arie Nachmias | VP FINANCE & CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arie-nachmias |
| Yael Reznik Cramer | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yael-reznik-cramer |
| Yuval Rakavy | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuval-rakavy |
| Eli Barkat | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eli-barkat |

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## FAQ

### What does Eli Barkat invest in?

Eli Barkat invests primarily in Advertising, Information Technology and Marketing startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Eli Barkat last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eli Barkat closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 18 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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