# Hanaco Venture Capital

> Hanaco Venture Capital is a VC fund in Tel Aviv backing Software and FinTech. See 101 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Total investments: 101
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last fund: Dec 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanacoventures/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/hanacovc
- Website: http://hanacovc.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hanacoventures

Hanaco Venture Capital is a technology company with visionary and passionate entrepreneurs. Hanaco was founded by Alon Lifshitz, Lior Prosor, and Pasha Romanovski in 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$11M |
| Series A | $6M–$35M |
| Series B | $15M–$56M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 12% |
| FinTech | 10 | 10% |
| Financial Services | 10 | 10% |
| SaaS | 8 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 7% |

127 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 18 | 18% |
| Seed | 17 | 17% |
| Series B | 14 | 14% |
| Series C | 11 | 11% |
| Series D | 9 | 9% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 28% |
| Israel | 22 | 22% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alon Lifshitz | Founding Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alon-lifshitz |
| Lior Prosor | Founding Partner | 25 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lior-prosor |
| Pasha Romanovski | Founding Partner | 27 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pasha-romanovski |
| Allison Stoloff | Senior Associate | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allison-stoloff |
| David Frankel | VP | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-frankel-4 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hemispheric | Hemispheric develops fundamental AI technologies aimed at deciphering brain activity for innovative applications. | $52M | Series A | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Milestone | Milestone ensures your GenAI tools are fully integrated, optimized, and aligned with your business goals, driving measurable ROI and sustained innovation. | $10M | Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Quack | We turn support tickets into opportunities | $7M | Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| Guardz | In a world that lives on digital, every business is at risk. That has been a problem for small and growing businesses, because most solutions are too cumbersome, too complicated and far too costly. That’s why we created Guardz. We curated and re-engineered the cutting-edge technology and tools that small businesses need into one, to make anaccessible, affordable way for small businesses to protect their business. We also added the ability to use their new security posture to access affordable cyber insurance. The right protection. The right price. Cybersecurity Peace of Mind. Guardz protects your business, so you can focus on building it. | $56M | Series B | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Carbyne | Carbyne is a provider of a real-time emergency communication platform used to provide public safety technology for emergency infrastructure. Its focus is on enhancing communications with emergency services, acting as a gateway for delivering rich and smart data from the citizens to the Public Safety Answering Points.The company was founded in2014 and is based in New York. | $100M |  | Jun 08, 2025 |  |
| Speedata - The Analytics Processing Unit (APU) | Speedata is the creator of the Analytics Processing Unit (APU), the first processor purpose-built for Apache Spark SQL, batch ETL, and AI data preparation workloads. By executing Spark operations natively in silicon rather than memory, the APU delivers up to 100x faster performance and 90% lower total cost of ownership compared to general-purposecompute - with zero code changes required. In one enterprise AI data preprocessing deployment, customers replaced 38 servers with just 3. Speedata integrates directly into existing data pipelines, accelerating the most demanding analytics and AI data layer workloads at scale. Try our Workload Analyzer to see the APU in action —> https://www.speedata.io/workload-analyzer | $44M | Series B | Jun 03, 2025 |  |
| SpotitEarly | SpotitEarly offers a pre-screening test for various cancers using a single breath sample. This innovative approach allows individuals to conduct cancer screenings conveniently at home. The test accurately identifies four major cancer types: Breast, Lung, Colon, and Prostate. By simplifying the detection process, SpotitEarly aims to enhance earlydiagnosis, which is crucial for effective treatment. The company focuses on making cancer detection accessible and non-invasive, catering to the needs of patients and healthcare providers alike. Through its unique method, SpotitEarly contributes to advancing health management and early intervention strategies. | $20.3M |  | May 17, 2025 |  |
| SpotitEarly | SpotitEarly offers a pre-screening test for various cancers using a single breath sample. This innovative approach allows individuals to conduct cancer screenings conveniently at home. The test accurately identifies four major cancer types: Breast, Lung, Colon, and Prostate. By simplifying the detection process, SpotitEarly aims to enhance earlydiagnosis, which is crucial for effective treatment. The company focuses on making cancer detection accessible and non-invasive, catering to the needs of patients and healthcare providers alike. Through its unique method, SpotitEarly contributes to advancing health management and early intervention strategies. | $20.3M |  | May 17, 2025 |  |
| Zeno Power | Zeno Power is a company that creates advanced power systems that use radioisotopes. The company intends to increase the production of small-scale nuclear batteries capable of powering spacecraft and undersea technologies for years.Zeno, founded in 2018 by three Vanderbilt University students, intends to be the first to enter the commercial marketwith a novel new combination of affordability and lightweight. | $50M | Series B | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Curve | Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015. | $47.9M | Series D | Mar 14, 2025 |  |

10 of 101 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Hanaco Venture Capital invest in?

Hanaco Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 101 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 Hanaco Venture Capital's check size?

Hanaco Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $3M–$11M at Seed, $6M–$35M at Series A and $15M–$56M 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 Hanaco Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Hanaco Venture Capital?

Public channels for Hanaco 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 Hanaco Venture Capital?

The team at Hanaco Venture Capital includes Alon Lifshitz (Founding Partner), Lior Prosor (Founding Partner) and Pasha Romanovski (Founding Partner), among 8 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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