# Genesis Partners

> Genesis Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 85 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Israel
- Total investments: 85
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/genesis-partners
- Website: http://www.genesispartners.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Genesis-Partners/164667676893466

Genesis Partners is a VC fund in Herzliya focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Genesis Partners has one of the strongest track records in the Israeli venture capital industry. Their investment team is comprised of venture professionals with extensive experience in venture capital, technology, operational management, and entrepreneurship. They focus on seed and early stage investments in the information and communicationtechnology (ICT) sectors.Genesis Partners was founded in 1996 by Eddy Shalev and Dr. Eyal Kishon, who were instrumental in establishing the Israeli venture capital community. Since its inception, Genesis Partners has established itself as one of Israel's leading venture capital funds with strong ties to the Israeli entrepreneurial community and the global technology industry.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.5M–$28M |
| Series B | $8M–$20M |
| Series C | $6M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 9 | 11% |
| Mobile | 8 | 9% |
| Wireless | 5 | 6% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 6% |

97 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 22 | 26% |
| Series A | 21 | 25% |
| Series C | 13 | 15% |
| Seed | 8 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 9% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 27% |
| Israel | 19 | 22% |
| China | 2 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eddy Shalev | Founding Partner | 30 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eddy-shalev |
| Gary Gannot | General Partner | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-gannot |
| Hadar Kiriati | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hadar-kiriati |
| Irit Gold | Account Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irit-gold |
| Jonathan Saacks | Managing Partner | 27 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-saacks |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PPIO | PPIO is a distributed cloud computing project initiated by PPTV founders Bill YAO and Wayne Wang in 2018. The goal is to build a decentralized distributed cloud service platform. The mission is to gather global computing resources and serve all mankind. PPIO is based on the business model of sharing economy, combined with big data, cloud native anddistributed computing technology, and gathers professional server resources at the edge of network to build the first distributed cloud service covering all provinces, cities, districts and counties in China to serve the next generation edge computing scenarios with low-latency, high-bandwidth, reliability and security. At present, it has become the main provider of distributed cloud services for many first-line audio and video internet giants, cloud computing companies and unicorn startups at home and abroad.At present, there are micro data centers and distributed computing resources in more than 1000 cities and regions in China, which can provide eBareMetal, and eContainer at the edge of network nationwide, as well as edge computing services such as CDN, audio and video live streaming and transcoding, application performance monitoring, AI computing reasoning and cloud game rendering based on distributed cloud native architecture. | $37.5M | Series A | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Worthy | Worthy is an online marketplace for selling pre-owned luxury goods. The company accepts high-value goods ranging from jewelry to watches. | $30.4M | Series C | Sep 01, 2020 |  |
| K2view | K2View provides an operational data fabric dedicated to making every customer experience personalized and profitable. The K2View platform continually ingests all customer data from all systems, enriches it with real-time insights, and transforms it into a patented Micro-DB™ - one for every customer. To maximize performance, scale, and security,every micro-DB is compressed and individually encrypted. It is then delivered in milliseconds to fuel quick, effective, and pleasing customer interactions. Global 2000 companies – including AT&T, Vodafone, Sky, and Hertz – deploy K2View in weeks to deliver outstanding multi-channel customer service, minimize churn, achieve hyper-segmentation, and assure data compliance. | $28M | Series A | Aug 11, 2020 |  |
| Sisense | Sisense goes beyond traditional business intelligence by providing organizations with the ability to infuse analytics everywhere, embedded in both customer facing applications and employee-facing workflows. Sisense customers are breaking through the barriers of analytic adoption by going beyond the dashboard with Sisense Fusion - the highlycustomizable, AI-driven analytics cloud platform, that infuses intelligence at the right place and the right time, every time. More than 2,000 global companies such as GitLab, UiPath, Tinder, Nasdaq, GE, Rolls Royce and Philips Healthcare rely on Sisense to innovate, disrupt markets and drive meaningful change in the world. Ranked as the No. 1 Business Intelligence company in terms of customer success, Sisense has also been named one of the Forbes’ Cloud 100, The World’s Best Cloud Companies, five years in a row. | $80M | Series E | Sep 11, 2018 |  |
| Simply | JoyTunes is reinventing the way to learn, play and experience music, making it possible for anyone to learn to play a musical instrument. JoyTunes innovatively combines education methods and sound recognition with their patented MusicSense Acoustic Engine to create the world’s most popular music education apps. With more than 7 million usersworldwide and 1 million songs played every week, JoyTunes apps are used and recommended by thousands of music teachers. JoyTunes'​ proprietary app, Piano Maestro, was ranked #1 education app in over 20 countries and Simply Piano is repeatedly recognized by Apple and Google as one of the best apps in the store.JoyTunes has gained international recognition winning numerous awards including: NAMM "Best Tools for Beginners"​, "Parents'​ Choice"​ award, "World Summit Awards"​ from the United Nations, EMI Innovation Challenge Award, “Winning Startup” from SF Music Tech Summit, and many more. JoyTunes is also widely recognized as industry innovators by the world’s major piano makers - Yamaha, Casio, Kawai, and Korg. | $10M | Series B | Jun 25, 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 |  |
| Ecom Chain | Ecom Chain is a Chinese ethereum-based decentralized sales distribution platform. Through Ecom's empowerment, individuals, brands, distributors, and origin products can easily build their own communities to form a distribution matrix and automatically share commissions. Ecom Token is a digital token used in the settlement of distributioncommissions, rewards, advertisements, virtual community construction, etc.; Ecom will bring a revolution to the multi-trillion micro-business and net-red e-commerce industries, accompanied by autonomy. The community economy has grown stronger. |  | Angel | Feb 01, 2018 |  |
| Riskified | Riskified empowers businesses to realize the full potential of eCommerce by making it safe, accessible, and frictionless. We have built a next-generation platform that allows online merchants to create trusted relationships with their consumers. Leveraging machine learning that benefits from a global merchant network, our platform identifies theindividual behind each online interaction, helping merchants—our customers—eliminate risk and uncertainty from their business. We drive higher sales and reduce fraud and other operating costs for our merchants and provide superior consumer experiences, as compared to our merchants’ performance prior to onboarding us. | $33M | Series C | Jun 27, 2017 |  |
| monday.com | monday.com Work OS is an open platform that democratizes the power of software so organizations can easily build software applications and work management tools to fit their every need. The platform intuitively connects people to processes and systems, empowering teams to excel in every aspect of their work. monday.com has teams in Tel Aviv, NewYork, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, London, Kiev, and Sydney. The platform is fully customizable to suit any business vertical and is currently used by over 127,000 customers across over 200 industries in more than 190 countries. |  | Series B | Apr 06, 2017 |  |
| 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. | $6M | Series C | Sep 06, 2016 |  |

10 of 85 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Genesis Partners invest in?

Genesis Partners invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Mobile startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 85 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 Genesis Partners's check size?

Genesis Partners typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$28M at Series A, $8M–$20M at Series B and $6M–$30M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Genesis Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Genesis Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Genesis Partners?

The team at Genesis Partners includes Eddy Shalev (Founding Partner), Gary Gannot (General Partner) and Hadar Kiriati (CFO), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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