Hetz Ventures
VC Fund
Tel Aviv, Israel
Hetz Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on Israeli start-ups. The firm consists of a team of investment professionals, backed by some of Europe's connected investors. Hetz Ventures was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Total investments:
- 76
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
- Fund size:
- $18M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Hetz Ventures invests in
Stages Hetz Ventures invests in
Countries Hetz Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $3.6M–$20M
- Series A
- $10M–$90M
- Series B
- $15M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 22 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 22 (29%)
- Information Technology 12 (16%)
- Machine Learning 9 (12%)
- Cyber Security 8 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 40 (53%)
- Series A 16 (21%)
- Series B 10 (13%)
- Series C 3 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (4%)
Country
- Israel 23 (30%)
- United States 18 (24%)
- France 1 (1%)
- Mexico 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Judah Taub
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
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Managing Partner & Co-Founder | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Shraga Katz
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Anat Eitan
Partner & CFO
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Partner & CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andrew Feldman
Founder & General Partner
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Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Liz Cohen
Head Of Content
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Head Of Content | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keewano develops database and analytics software for machine reasoning over complete event sequences. Its KeewanoDB products store events by entity and time, while in-database computation and semantic layers support analysis across raw records. Keewano Analytics, Slack, MCP, SQL, REST, and BI interfaces let teams and agents create reports, compare sequences, investigate outcomes, and monitor event data. | $12M / Seed / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| Arrakis Security provides runtime protection for AI agent deployments, securing autonomous systems against enterprise threats. The platform defends against prompt injections, privilege escalations, tool poisoning, data exfiltration, and adversarial attacks. It leverages MITRE ATLAS for threat modeling with real-time behavioral monitoring.Least-privilege enforcement and policy-based guardrails ensure safe execution across no-code platforms like n8n, Make.com, and Salesforce AgentForce. Red-Teaming Capabilities - Built-in red-team simulation tools enable security teams to test agent resilience proactively. These mimic real-world attacks—jailbreaks, supply chain exploits, multi-stage manipulations- to uncover vulnerabilities before deployment. Advanced Protections - sandboxing for agent isolation, ML-driven anomaly detection, and comprehensive audit trails for compliance. Scales seamlessly for multi-agent orchestration in finance, healthcare, and operations. Arrakis equips enterprises to harness AI potential confidently at a production scale. It closes governance gaps in agentic workflows through rigorous red-teaming and defense-in-depth strategies. | $8M / Seed / Aug 02, 2026 | ||
| Oak is an AI-native cybersecurity startup that helps enterprises secure and manage identities for human users, non-human machines, and AI agents. | $60M / Seed / Jul 15, 2026 | ||
| Aligned provides sales teams with a customer-facing digital portal that can be used to manage and share their marketing content, conversation and sales process with prospective buyers. The Saas B2B startup is growing at a fast pace and looking for top talents to join its core team. | $60M / Series B / Jul 01, 2026 | ||
| Lama AI provides AI-native loan origination infrastructure for community and regional banks. Its platform helps automate intake, borrower assistance, document collection, underwriting preparation, decisioning workflows, closing, and portfolio monitoring, enabling banks to scale lending operations while reducing manual work. Trusted by leadingcommunity and regional banks, Lama AI helps lenders move faster, improve borrower experience, and preserve the credit discipline, oversight, and compliance standards required in regulated lending. Lama AI is on a mission to expand access to fair, profitable capital for small businesses and beyond. Headquartered in NYC with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Lama AI is reshaping the future of business lending.For more information visit us at: https://lama.ai/ | $12M / Series A / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
| Upriver is an AI-native data engineering platform that connects to an organization's data stack, understands its data environment, and uses autonomous agents to build, maintain, validate, and troubleshoot data pipelines and data operations. | $14M / Seed / Jun 08, 2026 | ||
| The AI basecamp for the enterprise.Willow (formerly Webrix) connects any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to your internal systems with the visibility security needs and the enablement teams want. SSO, RBAC, audit trail, and runtime guards, built in.You'll find: - Technical deep dives on MCP, agents, and AI governance - Enterprise AIadoption playbooks (not hype) - Real implementation walkthroughs from production deployments - Conversations with CISOs, platform leaders, and AI adoption ownersBuilt for: CISOs, VPs of Engineering, platform leads, and CTOs rolling out AI at scale. | $7M / Seed / Jun 04, 2026 | ||
| BAND is the Developer of a universal AI platform that integrates and orchestrates intelligent agents across business systems. | $17M / Seed / Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| Onit Security provides an AI-powered exposure management platform that focuses on decision-based security operations. The platform analyzes thousands of vulnerability and exposure cases, surfaces key decisions for security leaders, and turns those decisions into persistent operating rules across the environment. It uses agent-based automation tohandle triage, impact assessment, ownership assignment, and continuous remediation. Onit Security helps security teams reduce manual ticket handling, shorten remediation times, and connect findings from existing security tools to concrete fixes. It integrates with existing security stacks and targets enterprises that manage large volumes of vulnerabilities. | $11M / Seed / Mar 25, 2026 | ||
| Nimble Way optimizes data collection pipelines for continuous, stable, accurate public web data capture by using IP infrastructure and external data platforms. They provide data gathering services to company needs. The people contact through phone number, email, and application form. | $47M / Series B / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| See all 76 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Hetz Ventures invest in?
Hetz Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 76 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Hetz Ventures invest in?
Hetz Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$20M at Seed, $10M–$90M at Series A and $15M–$60M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Hetz Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Hetz Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Hetz Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Hetz Ventures?
The team at Hetz Ventures includes Judah Taub (Managing Partner & Co-Founder), Shraga Katz (Venture Partner) and Anat Eitan (Partner & CFO), 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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