# Izhar Shay > Izhar Shay is a Series A investor at The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) backing Software and Apps. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [The Israeli Knesset (Parliament)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-israeli-knesset-parliament) - Total investments: 18 - Last investment: Jun 2025 - Lead investor: 44% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: http://il.linkedin.com/in/izharshay - X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Izhars7 Izhar Shay is a Series A investor at The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) focused on Software and Apps. Izhar Shay is the Member Of The Board Of Directors of Primesense Ltd. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Software | 4 | 22% | | Apps | 2 | 11% | | Mobile | 2 | 11% | | Sensor | 2 | 11% | | Computer | 2 | 11% | 40 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Series A | 5 | 28% | | Series B | 4 | 22% | | Seed | 2 | 11% | | Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% | | Series C | 1 | 6% | 10 stages tracked in total. ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Tastewise | Tastewise fuels product, sales, and marketing innovation by helping you predict how consumers cook, order, and eat. No guesswork, no outdated reports - Tastewise AI equips exceptional food and beverage brands with real-time insights. (Customers: Nestle, Coca-Cola, Campbell's, Dole, General Mills, and dozens more!)Product: Design productsthat delight your customers and meet their specific needs Marketing: Build marketing campaigns that speak to the right audiences Sales: Identify restaurants that need your products and supplies, and build first-mover advantage | $50M | Series B | Jun 10, 2025 | | | SPIRITT | Spirit enables the development of complex applications by describing the concept to a computer without the need to write code, It is an artificial intelligence-based platform that allows you to develop complex applications such as Tinder, Instagram, or Wolt. | | Seed | Jul 05, 2022 | | | SPIRITT | Spirit enables the development of complex applications by describing the concept to a computer without the need to write code, It is an artificial intelligence-based platform that allows you to develop complex applications such as Tinder, Instagram, or Wolt. | $5.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 05, 2022 | | | Tastewise | Tastewise fuels product, sales, and marketing innovation by helping you predict how consumers cook, order, and eat. No guesswork, no outdated reports - Tastewise AI equips exceptional food and beverage brands with real-time insights. (Customers: Nestle, Coca-Cola, Campbell's, Dole, General Mills, and dozens more!)Product: Design productsthat delight your customers and meet their specific needs Marketing: Build marketing campaigns that speak to the right audiences Sales: Identify restaurants that need your products and supplies, and build first-mover advantage | $17M | Series A | Mar 02, 2022 | | | Regulus Cyber | Regulus provides affordable GNSS spoofing detection and protection to the mass markets requiring reliability and low-cost. The Pyramid Software technology defends against ever-increasing attacks and interferences.The Regulus Pyramid GNSS technology provides revolutionary tools to defend against GNSS/GPS spoofing attacks for automotive,mobile, maritime, aviation, critical infrastructure and various other applications, markets and users. *(GNSS = Global Navigation Satellite Systems: GPS, BeiDou, Galileo, Glonass, and more.) | $4M | Series B | May 18, 2020 | | | Regulus Cyber | Regulus provides affordable GNSS spoofing detection and protection to the mass markets requiring reliability and low-cost. The Pyramid Software technology defends against ever-increasing attacks and interferences.The Regulus Pyramid GNSS technology provides revolutionary tools to defend against GNSS/GPS spoofing attacks for automotive,mobile, maritime, aviation, critical infrastructure and various other applications, markets and users. *(GNSS = Global Navigation Satellite Systems: GPS, BeiDou, Galileo, Glonass, and more.) | $5.1M | Series A | Apr 26, 2018 | | | Regulus Cyber | Regulus provides affordable GNSS spoofing detection and protection to the mass markets requiring reliability and low-cost. The Pyramid Software technology defends against ever-increasing attacks and interferences.The Regulus Pyramid GNSS technology provides revolutionary tools to defend against GNSS/GPS spoofing attacks for automotive,mobile, maritime, aviation, critical infrastructure and various other applications, markets and users. *(GNSS = Global Navigation Satellite Systems: GPS, BeiDou, Galileo, Glonass, and more.) | $1.2M | Seed | Apr 26, 2018 | | | Drupe Mobile | Drupe Mobile Ltd. Is a mobile application for the Android platform, facilitating access to the functions of the smartphone.Drupe is an innovative concept application People First. This option allows you to choose the method of interaction with the contact person on the basis of an analysis of its current state (geographic location,accessibility, etc.). In addition, different algorithms are implemented grouping of users and applications, simplifying work with the device. Thus, the interaction between the user and the device is fast, intuitive, accessible at any time. | $3M | Series A | Jul 07, 2016 | | | Start A Fire | start A FIRE enables individuals and brands to promote their social presence and content over any link they share. start A FIRE is fully automated, signup, connect your social media management account and it will take care of all the rest. It automatically adds a badge with your content and brand to every link you share. | $2.5M | Series A | Mar 22, 2016 | | | Rollout.io | Rollout is an advanced feature management solution that gives engineering and product teams feature control, post-deployment. It's the most effective way to roll out new features to the right audience while protecting customers from failure and improving KPI’s. | $2M | Series A | Oct 12, 2015 | | 10 of 18 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [F2 Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f2-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Sierra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierra-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Viola Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/violaventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Duo Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duo-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Evergreen Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evergreen-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [PeakBridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peakbridge) — VC Fund, 2 deals together ## About The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) VC Fund 1 contacts available at The Israeli Knesset (Parliament). | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Izhar Shay | MK | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/izhar-shay | ## 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 - [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Izhar Shay invest in? Izhar Shay invests primarily in Software, Apps and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### When did Izhar Shay last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Izhar Shay closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 18 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. 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