# Gemini Israel Ventures

> Gemini Israel Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 117 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Israel
- Total investments: 117
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 19%
- Fund size: $150M
- Last fund: Jan 2008
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gemini-israel-ventures/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/GeminiVC
- Website: http://www.gemini.co.il
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Sermo

Gemini Israel Ventures is a VC fund in Herzliya focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Since 1993, Gemini Israel Funds has helped many of Israel's most talented entrepreneurs to build innovative and world-changing companies.With over $700M under management, Gemini invests in early stage and growth-stage companies across a range of industries including communications, consumer electronics, enterprise software, Internetsoftware and services, semiconductors, and environmental technologies. The companies backed by their investment professionals include Allot Communications, Ceragon Networks, Commtouch, Diligent Technologies, Mellanox Technologies, Outbrain, Passave, Precise Software Solutions, PrimeSense, Saifun Semiconductors, Traiana, Takadu, Verisity, and many others.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3M–$12M |
| Series B | $5.5M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 17% |
| Enterprise Software | 10 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 7% |
| Mobile | 7 | 6% |
| SaaS | 6 | 5% |

110 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 25 | 21% |
| Series B | 25 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 17 | 15% |
| Series C | 16 | 14% |
| Series D | 13 | 11% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 26% |
| Israel | 20 | 17% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Menashe Ezra | Managing Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menashe-ezra |
| Yossi Sela | Founder & Managing Partner | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yossi-sela |
| Anat Shukhman | VP Human Capital | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anat-shukhman |
| Ed Mlavsky | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-mlavsky |
| Moran Shemesh | Legal Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moran-shemesh |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WEKA | WekaIO has built the world's fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenges in AI deep learning and technical computing. Matrix, WekaIO’s flagship product, leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering the highest performance, lowest latency storage at a fraction of the cost or traditional NAS.WekaIO's software provides a seamless hybrid cloud solution between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. WekaIO has customers in several high performance markets including autonomous vehicle AI training, genomics, financial modeling, EDA, software development, satellite imaging and media and entertainment. | $135M | Series D | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Minute Media | Minute Media is a global technology and content company specializing in sports and culture. Minute Media’s proprietary tech platform enables the creation, distribution and monetization of digital short-form content experiences. They own leading sports content brands, The Players' Tribune, FanSided, 90min and STN Video, while also providingcontent creation tools for leagues, athletes and professional creators. The company reaches 200M monthly users, powering 1,500+ content creators and 250+ distribution partners across 14 global markets in 10 languages. Minute Media has offices in New York, London, Tel-Aviv, São Paulo and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.MinuteMedia.com. | $40M | Series I | Feb 26, 2020 |  |
| Minute Media | Minute Media is a global technology and content company specializing in sports and culture. Minute Media’s proprietary tech platform enables the creation, distribution and monetization of digital short-form content experiences. They own leading sports content brands, The Players' Tribune, FanSided, 90min and STN Video, while also providingcontent creation tools for leagues, athletes and professional creators. The company reaches 200M monthly users, powering 1,500+ content creators and 250+ distribution partners across 14 global markets in 10 languages. Minute Media has offices in New York, London, Tel-Aviv, São Paulo and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.MinuteMedia.com. | $40M | Series I | Feb 26, 2020 |  |
| Minute Media | Minute Media is a global technology and content company specializing in sports and culture. Minute Media’s proprietary tech platform enables the creation, distribution and monetization of digital short-form content experiences. They own leading sports content brands, The Players' Tribune, FanSided, 90min and STN Video, while also providingcontent creation tools for leagues, athletes and professional creators. The company reaches 200M monthly users, powering 1,500+ content creators and 250+ distribution partners across 14 global markets in 10 languages. Minute Media has offices in New York, London, Tel-Aviv, São Paulo and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.MinuteMedia.com. | $39.2M | Series G | Jun 12, 2019 |  |
| Quali | QualiSystems develops and markets software test automation solutions for telecom equipment, network services, and embedded system testing. Its TestShell software framework optimizes device and systems testing while reducing testing time and overhead efforts. The framework covers the entire testing cycle with GUI based test editor, automatedparallel test execution, vendor agnostic integration to existing test equipment, automated topology set up, resources scheduling, lab management, and reporting and analysis capabilities. It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California.The company headquarters and expert R&D team are located in Israel. Direct Sales and Customer Support centers are held in United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, China, Germany, Korea and Taiwan. Partner representatives are held across EMEA, APAC and North America. The company was founded in 2004 as Nibea Quality Management Solutions and changed its name to QualiSystems Ltd. in March 2007. | $22.5M | Series C | Dec 11, 2018 |  |
| Samanage | Samanage is the Service Success Company, enabling organizations worldwide to deliver a smarter service experience to their employees. Samanage’s service management software gives users solutions that allow them to deliver fast and repeatable services across an organization -- simplifying complex tasks and automating basic ones. As the mostreviewed and highest rated service desk, Samanage solutions deliver insights to its users and empower them to increase productivity across their organization.The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Cary, North Carolina. In 2019. Samanage was acquired by | $30M | Series D | Nov 08, 2018 |  |
| Eyeview | Eyeview is a video advertising technology company providing brands with ROI on their video advertising spend. The company’s VideoIQ platform infuses consumer, brand, and retail data into a results-driven decision engine to programmatically deliver 1-to-1 personalized video. VideoIQ provides access to highly viewable and guaranteed fraud-freeinventory across television, desktop, tablet, and mobile.Eyeview's platform can be provided as a managed service by Eyeview’s team of analysts, video producers, and campaign experts or through a self-service interface.Headquartered in New York City, with offices in LA, Detroit, Seattle, Chicago, and London, Eyeview serves the nation’s top brands, including P&G, Walgreens, Lowes, Honda, BMW, and Priceline. Eyeview was ranked as the second-fastest growing company in the Tri-State Area by Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500. | $20M |  | Jul 16, 2018 |  |
| Sckipio Technologies | Sckipio Technologies specializes in Gfast technologies. The company is passionate about delivering ultra broadband access for the masses. It is the first semiconductor company focused on the exciting new ITU standard.Sckipio is the first company to deliver Gfast modems and the only company with award-winning Gfast technology. More than 20% of theGfast standard came from Sckipio technical contributions.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel. | $10M | Series D | May 08, 2018 |  |
| Moovit | Moovit is a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) provider and the world’s #1 transit app. Moovit simplifies your urban mobility in +2700 cities all around the world, making getting around town via mass transit easier and more convenient. Moovit has more than 300 million users, and was named Best Local App of 2016 by Google and Best of 2017 app by Apple.By combining information from public transit operators and authorities with live information from the user community, Moovit offers travelers a real-time picture, including the best route for their journey. The Moovit community sends active reports about their travel experience, such as bus congestion levels, cleanliness, and more to help others have a better travel experience.Moovit generates up to four billion anonymous data points a day that comprise the world's largest repository of transit data. The Big Data gathering is aided by Moovit’s network of more than 500,000 local editors, called “Mooviters”, who help map out and maintain local transit information in cities that would otherwise be unserved.Moovit is available for free on iOS, Android & Web in over 2,700 cities, across 86 countries worldwide, and can be used in 44 languages. | $50M | Series D | Feb 21, 2018 |  |
| Autotalks | Autotalks is a fabless semiconductor company. Founded in 2008, Autotalks is a privately held company, with strong financial backing by leading venture capital funds from Israel, Japan and the US including Gemini Israel Funds, Magma Venture Partners, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment and Amiti Ventures. The company’s headquarter is in Israel withlocal offices in North America, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Japan and Korea.Autotalks enables the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication revolution by providing OEMs, Tier1 and Tier2s comprehensive, automotive and commercial grade, standard-compliant V2X VLSI solutions at the highest performance and reliability. Autotalks brings strong expertise in semiconductor, system and software with diverse experience in areas of communications, signal processing, security and positioning. | $30M | Series D | Mar 22, 2017 |  |

10 of 117 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Gemini Israel Ventures invest in?

Gemini Israel Ventures invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 117 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 Gemini Israel Ventures's check size?

Gemini Israel Ventures typically joins rounds of $3M–$12M at Series A and $5.5M–$22M 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 Gemini Israel Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Gemini Israel Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Gemini Israel Ventures?

The team at Gemini Israel Ventures includes Menashe Ezra (Managing Partner), Yossi Sela (Founder & Managing Partner) and Anat Shukhman (VP Human Capital). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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