# Harel Kodesh

> Harel Kodesh is a Series A investor at BiologyWorks (Seattle) backing Machine Learning and SaaS. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BiologyWorks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/biologyworks-inc)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/harel-kodesh/1/b75/259

Harel Kodesh is a Series A investor at BiologyWorks in Seattle focused on Machine Learning and SaaS. Harel Kodesh is the Founder & CEO of Decho & he attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1982.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Security | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 67% |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tignis | Tignis is an information technology company that enables hardware and software vendors to continually monitor performance data while their products are in use. Using real-time edge computing, machine learning, and customer-specific controls, vendors can quickly identify and proactively remedy performance issues and predict problems before theyoccur.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, United States. | $7.2M | Series A | May 12, 2022 |  |
| Tignis | Tignis is an information technology company that enables hardware and software vendors to continually monitor performance data while their products are in use. Using real-time edge computing, machine learning, and customer-specific controls, vendors can quickly identify and proactively remedy performance issues and predict problems before theyoccur.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, United States. | $4.7M | Seed | May 30, 2019 |  |
| BrandShield | BrandShield® is an innovative Digital Risk Protection and Brand Protection solution. Its robust, patented technology finds web fraud, social media impersonation, online phishing, trademark infringements, and counterfeit sales. The system analyzes content and metrics of each website, marketplace, or social platform, and uses artificial intelligenceand sophisticated algorithms for threat prioritization and remediation. BrandShield's groundbreaking pattern recognition technology finds fraud networks and major brand threats. It also includes enforcement tools and services, to form a powerful Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting solution.BrandShield's robust, patent pending technology helps fighting infringements and makes brand protection possible for all sizes of organizations. BrandShield's A-Z solution protects the brand from detection of threats to their takedown. Brandshield's proactive aproach extends any organization's assets protection outside the organization's perimeter. BrandShield detects logo usage online, fraud clusters, cross-platform connections and prioritizes online threats customized uniqely for each brand.BrandShied's technology dramatically improves the way organizations can manage and protect their digital brand. Till now online brand protection solutions were limited, based on human analysis, highly expensive, and therefore available only to the biggest companies. BrandShield's technology revolutionizes this market, and will allow every business to monitor and protect its brand online, at a reasonable cost.Brandshield's website - http://www.brandshield.com/ | $2.9M | Series A | Oct 01, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Clear Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clear-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About BiologyWorks

VC Fund



1 contacts available at BiologyWorks.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Harel Kodesh | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harel-kodesh |

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## FAQ

### What does Harel Kodesh invest in?

Harel Kodesh invests primarily in Machine Learning, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Harel Kodesh last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Harel Kodesh closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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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