# Giora Kaplan > Giora Kaplan is a Series A investor at Nature Tech Collective backing Software and Video. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Nature Tech Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nature-tech-collective) - Total investments: 6 - Last investment: Apr 2022 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/giorakaplan Giora Kaplan is a Series A investor at Nature Tech Collective focused on Software and Video. Giora Kaplan is based out of Sebastopol, California and is the Founding Member of MRV Collective. Giora previously worked at Wix.com as a co-founder & CTO. Giora Kaplan attended Tel Aviv University. ## Round sizes | Stage | Round size | | --- | --- | | Series A | $5M–$13M | ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Software | 3 | 50% | | Video | 2 | 33% | | Internet | 2 | 33% | | Publishing | 2 | 33% | | News | 1 | 17% | 19 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Series A | 3 | 50% | | Seed | 2 | 33% | | Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 5 | 83% | | Israel | 1 | 17% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Superluminal Systems | Superluminal Systems flagship project CoreNexus™ is a 4D Social Operating System dedicated to gamification of regenerative impact. Through providing a decentralized alternative to existing social and e-commerce systems packaged in a next-gen XR/Web/Mobile dashboard interface, CoreNexus™ brings mainstream accessibility to education,vocational development, and practical action around projects which improve and sustain quality of life for all. Leveraging a regenerative economic approach, members of the platform can drive capital to impact through collaborative creative works, plan and socially connect around missions to solve local and global problems, and build their decentralized TrustGraph network, all while earning income, points, and cryptographically secure forms of accreditation. Bringing together a vast array of sophisticated organizations working to educate and unite people around planetary peace and restoration, the platform provides organizations with connectivity and collaboration around open data, research, and projects. As the flagship project of Superluminal Systems, the CoreNexus™ platform is designed from first principles to become a first generation planetary operating system with radically new tools for visualization, collaboration, action, and accountability. | $658.4K | Pre-Seed | Apr 19, 2022 | | | OpenWeb | OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning to incentivize healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create thriving, engaged communities. OpenWeb works with more than 700 top-tier publishers and hosts 100 million active users eachmonth. OpenWeb is on a mission to democratize and improve conversations online. Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 100 employees in New York City and Tel Aviv and is backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, Norma Investments, and Index Ventures. | $13M | Series A | Aug 03, 2016 | | | SHOWBOX | Showbox is a cloud-based video creation platform that enables Brands, Online Marketplaces and Websites to provide their communities with fully controlled, easy-to-use, video creation tools, ensuring high quality results. | | Series A | Jul 16, 2015 | | | Apester | The Apester Interactive Content Platform allows anyone to easily and freely create, embed and share interactive, and related content items (polls, trivia, etc.) into posts and articles, in a matter of seconds.If you wish for better engagement, virality, circulation, native advertisement campaigns and monetization results, you came to the rightplace!Serving the biggest names in the industry - Telegraph, TimeOut, AOL and many more | $5M | Series A | Jul 08, 2015 | | | Gong | GONG is a playful social news platform where stories are predictively curated based on global user engagement. People compete by contributing or consuming articles, polls, quizzes, and responding to stories with videos, GIFs and text - all to determine who are the most influential curators. | $3M | Seed | Dec 01, 2014 | | | CodersClan | CodersClan is a community-driven marketplace for getting code tasks done: making software outsourcing easy. CodersClan provides clients with an easy and streamlined process for their software development needs minimising any outsourcing overhead that exists today.Their goal is to make code outsourcing as seamless as possible for bothcustomers and coders and effectively turn it from an occasional chore to a day-to-day frequent process. CodersClan community is thousands of developers strong, consisting of top Stack Overflow and GitHub coders. | | Seed | Oct 02, 2014 | | 6 of 6 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Mangrove Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mangrove-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [boldstart ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Wellborn Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wellborn-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Nature Tech Collective VC Fund 1 contacts available at Nature Tech Collective. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Giora Kaplan | Founding Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giora-kaplan | ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [RRE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rre-ventures) — VC Fund - [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund - [1745 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertelsmann-digital-media-investments) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund - [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Publishing Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/publishing-angel-investors) - [Social Angel Investors in United States](https://shizune.co/investors/social-angel-investors-united-states) ## FAQ ### What does Giora Kaplan invest in? Giora Kaplan invests primarily in Software, Video and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 Giora Kaplan's check size? Giora Kaplan typically joins rounds of $5M–$13M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Giora Kaplan participates in. ### When did Giora Kaplan last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Giora Kaplan closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 6 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? 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