# Itamar Novick

> Itamar Novick is a seed investor at Recursive Ventures backing Software. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Recursive Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/recursive-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itamarnovick/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/itamar_novick
- Website: https://www.recursiveventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itamarnovick

Itamar Novick is a seed investor at Recursive Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Itamar is a Solo Capitalist and the Founder of Recursive Ventures, a Silicon Valley based Pre-Seed fund, supporting AI and Emerging tech startups. Itamar has been on all sides of the startup table - a founder and executive, an institutional VC, and an Angel investor.As an investor, Itamar has supported over 50 successful startups, including Deel,Honeybook, Placer, Credible, MileIQ, Automatic Labs, Tile, SafeGraph, and Armory. Itamar was recognized by Business Insider as a Top 100 global seed investor in 2021 & 2022.Previously Itamar was a Founder and Operator, and spent over a decade in senior engineering, product, and business development roles. Itamar helped take Life360 from Seed to IPO and beyond, scaling the business to over $250m in revenue and led the company’s initial public offering. Before that Itamar was a founding team member and head of Product at Gigya.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 21% |
| Internet | 5 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 12% |
| SaaS | 4 | 10% |

82 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 52% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 12% |
| Series A | 5 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 74% |
| Israel | 2 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blazel | Blazel is an AI-powered enterprise platform automating executive communications, personal branding, and B2B thought leadership content. | $10.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Afternoon | Afternoon.co empowers founders with real-time financial metrics and automated bookkeeping, reducing administrative tasks for brands. |  | Pre-Seed | May 22, 2025 |  |
| Perspective AI | Perspective AI uses artificial intelligence to moderate interviews and analysis to gather quality customer feedback. | $4M | Seed | Jan 31, 2025 |  |
| Dono | Dono provides a platform to search public records making it easy to control and verify homeownership and title data. | $3.7M | Seed | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| Mesh Security | Mesh Security is the industry’s first complete Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM) SaaS platform, a single source of truth that enables companies to implement a unified Zero Trust Architecture on top of their existing stack. Without using agents, Mesh effortlessly and seamlessly maps a company’s entire cloud XaaS estate in minutes, providing fullcontextual visibility, control, and protection of the Everywhere Enterprise. | $1.5M |  | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Mesh Security | Mesh Security is the industry’s first complete Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM) SaaS platform, a single source of truth that enables companies to implement a unified Zero Trust Architecture on top of their existing stack. Without using agents, Mesh effortlessly and seamlessly maps a company’s entire cloud XaaS estate in minutes, providing fullcontextual visibility, control, and protection of the Everywhere Enterprise. | $2M | Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Clarity | Clarity is an AI cybersecurity company that's fighting AI-based misinformation and deepfakes. We help organizations and individuals protect themselves from deepfake attacks. | $16M | Seed | Feb 15, 2024 |  |
| Perspective AI | Perspective AI uses artificial intelligence to moderate interviews and analysis to gather quality customer feedback. |  | Seed | Nov 23, 2023 |  |
| Clarity | Clarity is an AI cybersecurity company that's fighting AI-based misinformation and deepfakes. We help organizations and individuals protect themselves from deepfake attacks. |  | Angel | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Clarity | Clarity is an AI cybersecurity company that's fighting AI-based misinformation and deepfakes. We help organizations and individuals protect themselves from deepfake attacks. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Carthona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carthona-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Fusion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fusion-la) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Array Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/array-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Ascend](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascend-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Flying Fish Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flying-fish-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Honeystone Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/honeystone-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Recursive Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Recursive Ventures is a San Francisco based Micro VC fund investing in US and Israeli Pre-seed and Seed Tech Startups disrupting industries through use of Data and Artificial Intelligence.Recursive is a Solo Capitalist fund managed by Itamar Novick with support from a seasoned group of Founders, Operators, and go-to-market experts. We arefounders ourselves and partner with you to build momentum and find smart capital to scale your business. As a Solo Capitalist – a VC operating like an Angel – we make decision in days, not weeks, and dedicate our time to support founders.

1 contacts available at Recursive Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Itamar Novick | Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itamar-novick |

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [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

## FAQ

### What does Itamar Novick invest in?

Itamar Novick invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Itamar Novick last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Itamar Novick closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 42 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co