# Firstime Venture Capital

> Firstime Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 92 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Total investments: 92
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Fund size: $50M
- Last fund: Feb 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstime-vc
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thetimecoil
- Website: http://www.firstime.vc/

Firstime Venture Capital is a VC fund in Tel Aviv focused on Software and Health Care. Firstime Venture Capital are a venture capital fund, investing in Pre A & A rounds, in cutting edge, disruptive technologies, based on state of the art ideas and headed by brilliant people.Firstime Venture Capital invest in 'digital life technologies' companies with a POC and initial customer base and provide them with the fundingthey need to peacefully strive to a product-market fit and generate initial revenues. This brings them to a solid KPIs achievement before seeking a proper A round.Digital Life Technologies, include: Mobile, Social, IOT, Video, E-commerce, Fintech, Ed-tech, Ad-tech, Cyber, AI, VR/AR, Digital Health, Gaming, Media, etc.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$6M |
| Series A | $1M–$10M |
| Series B | $5M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 10% |
| Health Care | 8 | 9% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 8% |
| Internet | 5 | 5% |

120 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 21% |
| Series A | 19 | 21% |
| Series B | 7 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 5 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 4% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 23 | 25% |
| United States | 15 | 16% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jonathan Benartzi | Managing Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-benartzi |
| Keren Kopilov | Partner and CFO | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keren-kopilov |
| Ilan Shiloah | Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ilan-shiloah |
| Nir Tarlovsky | Managing Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nir-tarlovsky |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| STAX Engineering, Inc. | The STAX mission is to help 1 billion people significantly through new technologies that promote health, sustainability, reduced environmental toxins, and reduced global warming. | $60M | Debt Financing | Feb 26, 2025 |  |
| Baibys | Baibys is a medical automated platform that provides AI and robotics-based autonomous sperm selection solutions for IVF. | $4.5M | Series A | Aug 08, 2024 |  |
| Remepy | Remepy is biotechnology research pioneering hybrid drugs. The company believes that in the future, software applications will become an integral part of treatments offered by Pharma companies in the form of Hybrid Drugs. These will include both a software component and a traditional drug component - influencing patients via Hybrid Mechanisms ofAction™.It was founded in 2022 and is located in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv. | $10M | Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |
| FeelBetter | FeelBetter is a healthcare optimization platform for value-based models identifying at-risk patients and interventions. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $5.9M |  | Jul 31, 2023 |  |
| Matics Manufacturing Analytics Ltd. | Matics’ digital platform empowers production teams to work smarter by connecting people, processes, systems, and machines, and providing real-time actionable insights to reduce downtime and drive productivity. The advanced Matics Real-time Operational Intelligence (RtOI) solution continuously aggregates high-resolution multi-source data inreal-time from all existing software solutions, including human experts, and analyzes it within the manufacturing production framework using advanced proprietary algorithms. Contextual analysis of all available data provides key stakeholders with decision-ready insights delivered to the right person, at the right time, in the right format.In addition to providing key insights into the state of production in real-time, manufacturers can use the Matics RtOI solution to create custom alerts based on what matters most to them, automating workflow processes based on pre-set triggers events, and setting into motion actions that directly improve shop-floor productivity. Task automation, alerts, and job communications are managed on a machine level, improving contextual relevance, shortening the time it takes to react to events in real-time, and reducing their impact on overall operations.The Matics solution is completely customizable and able to meet the complex needs of manufacturers across all industries including plastic, food and beverage, automotive, packaging, and more. | $9.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 04, 2023 |  |
| HYGIEIA | Hygieia is a developer of a diabetes insulin guidance system used to enhance and simplify insulin therapy. It works by guiding users to adjust their insulin doses based on changing blood glucose patterns every few days rather than three or four times annually. Its insulin guidance device replaces a patient's existing glucose meter and providesindividually tailored insulin dosage recommendations between physician visits to result for the patients to monitor their diabetes levels digitally and also provides personalized adjustments to enhance and simplify it, maximizing insulin effectiveness and resulting in improved glycemic control.It was founded in 2008 by Eran Bashan and Israel Hodish in Ann Arbor, Michigan. | $5M | Series B | May 02, 2023 |  |
| TripleW Group NV | TripleW developed and commercializes an industrial process for the production of lactic acid and Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) bioplastic from organic waste.TripleW R&D developed a simple and profitable proprietary bioprocess that converts renewable carbon from waste and turns it into lactic acid, used in everyday products, including homecare,cosmetics, and production of bioplastic for food packaging. A new era for our environment with goods made from renewable carbon-based lactic acid, preventing the release of greenhouse gases. | $16.5M | Series B | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| BeeHero | BeeHero is a developer of a beehive technology platform intended to maximize crop yields through pollination. The company's technology uses artificial intelligence with low-cost sensors to collect in-hive data and to stimulate full output potential during peak pollination cycles, enabling farmers to protect beehives from colony collapse andmaximize pollination efficiency for growers around the world.The company was founded in 2017 by Itai Kanot, Omer Davidi, and Yuval Regev, and operates out of Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley, employing 50 people, 30 of which in its Israeli R&D center. | $42M | Series B | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Clarifruit | Clarifruit is disrupting the $2 trillion Fresh Produce supply chain by creating the world’s first automatic QC & data analytics platform. The Fresh Produce industry is experiencing a staggering 45% waste, caused by multiple reasons and market failures along the chain, in which the common denominator is lack of objective and consistent qualitystandards as well as hard-data upon to make decisions. Clarifruit’s QC platform can automatically identify, collect, and analyze real-time data about the fresh produce external and internal attributes. Solution results in objective, consistent, and cost- effective inspection that not only increases inspector productivity by x3 and reduces customer's current waste, but also empowers the world’s Fresh Produce growers, wholesalers, and retailers to make decisions based on high-quality data, resulting in better match of quality of supply to customer demand and ultimately favorable revenue opportunities. | $12M | Series A | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| Securithings | SecuriThings is redefining the way organizations manage and secure IoT devices at scale. The Horizon platform provides real-time security and operational efficiency to improve system availability, organizational compliance, and cyber protection while reducing costs and streamlining future planning. Our advanced technology enables automation,analytics and actionable alerts so your fleet of IoT devices is fully operational and secure. The power, depth and breadth of our capabilities only take one day to deploy, remotely. The solution is trusted by Fortune 100 companies and has been deployed by numerous large enterprises such as major airports, universities, hospitals and more. SecuriThings partners with key system integrators as well as device manufacturers to provide unprecedented insights, coverage, and reliability. | $21M | Series B | Oct 13, 2022 |  |

10 of 92 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Firstime Venture Capital invest in?

Firstime Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 92 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Firstime Venture Capital's check size?

Firstime Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $600k–$6M at Seed, $1M–$10M at Series A and $5M–$42M 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 Firstime Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Firstime Venture Capital?

Public channels for Firstime Venture Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Firstime Venture Capital?

The team at Firstime Venture Capital includes Jonathan Benartzi (Managing Partner), Keren Kopilov (Partner and CFO) and Ilan Shiloah (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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