Hillel Zidel
Managing Director, London @ Kennet Partners
London, United Kingdom
Hillel Zidel is a Series A investor at Kennet Partners in London focused on Software and SaaS. Hillel works closely with the management teams of European technology companies to exploit growth opportunities such as addressing new market segments and geographies. Hillel joined Kennet as a Director from ETV Capital, where he undertook numerous transactions providing hybrid debt and equity-based capital to technology companies across Europe& the US. Prior to this Hillel worked as a Management Consultant at KPMG, advising clients on strategic, performance management and regulatory issues. Earlier, Hillel worked in Corporate Development at two internet businesses in South Africa.Hillel is a board member of SaaS based bookkeeping automation vendor Receipt Bank, mobile video language learning platform ABA English, SaaS based accounts receivable automation company Rimilia, mobile market research and analytics company RealityMine, advertising technology provider Adikteev (through the acquisition of Trademob), and online mass customisation provider Spreadshirt. Hillel was previously on the board of Rivo Software which was acquired by Sphera Solutions.Hillel is a CFA Charterholder. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Law from the University of South Africa, an Honours Degree in Economics and a Masters Degree in Economics (cum laude) from the University of Johannesburg.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 88%
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Industries Hillel Zidel invests in
Stages Hillel Zidel invests in
Countries Hillel Zidel invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (44%)
- SaaS 6 (38%)
- Big Data 2 (13%)
- Accounting 2 (13%)
- E-Commerce 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (38%)
- Series B 4 (25%)
- Series C 2 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (13%)
- Seed 1 (6%)
Country
- United Kingdom 8 (50%)
- France 2 (13%)
- Denmark 1 (6%)
- Germany 1 (6%)
- United States 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Yonda Tax
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Yonda Tax provides cutting-edge technology and global tax experience in sales tax solutions for eCommerce and digital goods businesses. | $14.7M / Seed / Dec 11, 2025 | |
Fluid Topics
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Fluid Topics is a SaaS platform that reinvents usability and accessibility by unifying all forms of technical documentation that exist for your products. You can either use the out-of-the box full-featured and highly customizable portal, or you can insert graphic and functional widgets in an existing site or extranet, and even integrate FluidTopics into your applications and information system using the rich platform APIs. | $16.3M / Series B / Apr 03, 2024 | |
Antidot
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Antidot is a software vendor that leverages 20 years of advanced research in semantic search and content enrichment to develop its content delivery platform (CDP). The company’s products multiply the value of content by delivering dynamic information in a personalized and contextualized form. Antidot helps more than 150 customers around the worldimprove their operational efficiency. | $16.3M / Series B / Feb 01, 2024 | |
Jiminny
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Jiminny is an AI-powered Revenue Intelligence platform that helps revenue teams turn customer conversations into actionable business insights. By combining conversation intelligence, revenue intelligence and CRM workflow automation, Jiminny enables sales, customer success and revenue leaders to improve win rates, forecasting accuracy, productivityand coaching effectiveness. The platform captures and analyses customer interactions across video, voice and email, using AI to identify trends, risks, opportunities and customer sentiment. Jiminny automatically enriches CRM systems with accurate activity data and delivers real-time insights directly within revenue workflows. Jiminny's AI capabilities include automated note-taking, call analysis, deal intelligence, pipeline inspection, AI coaching, executive reporting and natural language querying through its Ask Jiminny assistant. The platform integrates with leading CRM, telephony and video conferencing systems including Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and many others. Founded in 2017, Jiminny serves more than 300 customers globally and analyses over one million customer conversations every month. The company helps mid-market and enterprise organisations increase revenue performance, accelerate onboarding, improve CRM data quality and create greater visibility across the customer journey. Jiminny is headquartered in the UK and operates at the intersection of Revenue Intelligence, Conversation Intelligence and AI-powered workflow automation. | $16.5M / Series A / Aug 11, 2022 | |
eStoreMedia.com
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eStoreMedia provides an e-commerce automation suite that helps Fortune 500 Brands accelerate online sales. eStoreMedia’s suite of SaaS tools integrates Digital Shelf Analytics, Product Information Management and Al-based Research Methodologies to streamline e-commerce processes and drive Perfect Store implementation across thousands of onlinee-retailers in over 50 markets globally. | $29.9M / Series A / Jun 02, 2021 | |
Scoro
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Scoro is the most comprehensive business management solution for creative and professional services. It helps to streamline work and eliminate routine tasks to ensure business runs as smoothly and efficiently as possible – from sales right through to billing. | $16.4M / Series B / Mar 09, 2021 | |
Grip
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Grip is a market engagement platform used by conferences, trade shows, and corporate event organizers to empower professionals to achieve their business goals. Used by 13 out of 20 event organizers for both virtual and in-person events, Grip has more than 50 team members spread across Europe and the US.The company was founded in 2014 by BrentHoberman and Tim Groot and is based in London. | $13M / Series A / Feb 18, 2021 | |
eloomi
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THE TOOL eloomi combines learning management (LMS) and continuous performance management in a new and flexible cloud based software platform. The tool simplifies training and feedback-based performance improvement in organizations. Its strong user experience makes it ideal to engage different workforce generations on any device. Human Resources andOperations departments are typical stakeholders. They use the tool to train employee skills and as a framework to anchor new behavior and work with workforce performance and appraisals. Less complexity, more impact, better people outcomes. USECASE Examples of how organizations use the eloomi platform are: ongoing checkin coaching, 360 feedback, appraisals, training academies, blended learning, onboarding, compliance training and tests, communicating and anchoring strategy implementation, manager to employee coaching conversations and instant feedbacks. FACTS Today, most organizations are looking for a more effective way of working with training and employee development. If organizations do not change quickly and find better and more targeted tools for employees and managers, it will be difficult to maintain high productivity, low staff churn and continued talent development. The fact is that today's leaders have outdated and complex tools to run management with no ongoing feedback and development. And the employees demands an 2020+ tool. It’s also a fact that about 70% of executives today will renew their performance management solutions.BEHIND eloomi is the unique software tool that easily connect with existing HR/ERP solutions and immediately gives corporates access to state-of-art training and people improvement tools, to ensure high motivation, increase productivity and staff engagement. eloomi is the disrupter of the industry, with a totally different approach. Easily accessible from anywhere anytime and loved by organizations all over the world. | $7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 15, 2020 | |
Rimilia
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Rimilia creates software finance people love by enabling tight integration between the front and back office. Rimilia provides companies around the globe increased revenue per customer, clearer information and better control over cash flow. As a global solution, Rimilia works with any currency, any bank, any ERP, in any country and language.Rimilia has offices located in Bromsgrove and London in the UK, Denver, Colorado in the US, and Toronto in Canada. | $15M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 03, 2020 | |
Codility
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Codility is a remote hiring platform for engineering teams. They use our platform to predict the real-life skills of their technical candidates at all stages of the hiring process, via unbiased and relevant assessments on CodeCheck, live technical interviews on CodeLive, and virtual recruitment campaigns with CodeChallenges - all remotely and atscale. This brings faster hiring, time savings, and gives engineers more time to solve problems that matter.World-class tech hiring teams at companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla choose Codility to:· Screen candidates remotely with online code tests · Host virtual tech interviews with our shared editor · Accelerate time-to-hire by identifying top candidates faster · Reduce unconscious bias and increase objectivity to support diversity · Arm hiring managers with high-quality insights into their candidates’ skills · Minimize false negatives and false positives with fair, reliable, and unbiased scoringSince 2009, engineering hiring teams have been using Codility to attract, screen, and interview candidates based on their real-life engineering and fundamental programming skills. The Codility assessment engine provides a clear signal as to which candidates are the most promising to advance based on technical skill. Hiring managers can use Codility to run remote live coding sessions with their candidates, all recorded and shareable directly via API or direct integration with your applicant tracking system.Screen candidates accurately with CodeCheck Design role-specific remote skills assessments to screen candidates before moving them to the interview stage.Run better remote interviews with CodeLive Give your candidate a virtual whiteboard marker and discuss problems together via our shared editor using a range of technologies and problems.Engage engineers online with CodeChallenges Maximize your sourcing impact- we’ll handle the tech, you run the campaign.Empower your hiring managers with Codility for Employees Map the skills of your existing engineering teams and identify areas for L&D. Codility is a remote hiring platform for engineering teams. They use our platform to predict the real-life skills of their technical candidates at all stages of the hiring process, via unbiased and relevant assessments on CodeCheck, live technical interviews on CodeLive, and virtual recruitment campaigns with CodeChallenges - all remotely and at scale. This brings faster hiring, time savings, and gives engineers more time to solve problems that matter.World-class tech hiring teams at companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla choose Codility to:· Screen candidates remotely with online code tests · Host virtual tech interviews with our shared editor · Accelerate time-to-hire by identifying top candidates faster · Reduce unconscious bias and increase objectivity to support diversity · Arm hiring managers with high-quality insights into their candidates’ skills · Minimize false negatives and false positives with fair, reliable, and unbiased scoringSince 2009, engineering hiring teams have been using Codility to attract, screen, and interview candidates based on their real-life engineering and fundamental programming skills. The Codility assessment engine provides a clear signal as to which candidates are the most promising to advance based on technical skill. Hiring managers can use Codility to run remote live coding sessions with their candidates, all recorded and shareable directly via API or direct integration with your applicant tracking system.Screen candidates accurately with CodeCheck Design role-specific remote skills assessments to screen candidates before moving them to the interview stage.Run better remote interviews with CodeLive Give your candidate a virtual whiteboard marker and discuss problems together via our shared editor using a range of technologies and problems.Engage engineers online with CodeChallenges Maximize your sourcing impact- we’ll handle the tech, you run the campaign.Empower your hiring managers with Codility for Employees Map the skills of your existing engineering teams and identify areas for L&D. | $22M / Series A / Jan 30, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
About Kennet Partners
Kennet invests in growth companies providing information technology products and business services that leverage information technology. Kennet provides expansion capital to firms who want to accelerate growth and build exceptional shareholder value in partnership with an experienced investor.As a growth equity investor, Kennet works withmanagement teams to build shareholder value. They provide direct support to their portfolio companies, including strategy formulation, business development, executive recruitment and corporate finance initiatives.Kennet is an experienced growth equity team with a track record of building global market leaders and achieving high-value exits. Kennet is a different kind of investor. They help successful, entrepreneurial technology businesses in North America and Europe take the next big jump in growth.
Kennet Partners Contacts
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Francesco Mantica
Principal, Silicon Valley
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Hillel Zidel
Managing Director, London
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Mark A. Bradley
Executive Advisory Board Member
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Michael Elias
Managing Director, London
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Alex Taylor-Harris
Director
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FAQ
What does Hillel Zidel invest in?
Hillel Zidel invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Big Data startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Hillel Zidel last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Hillel Zidel closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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