Joy Ventures
VC Fund
Herzliya, Israel
Joy Ventures is a VC fund in Herzliya focused on Health Care and Software. Joy Ventures partners with entrepreneurs, companies, and innovators who are passionate about creating a new generation of consumer products that bring wellbeing and joy into our everyday life. The studio’s singular focus allows it to provide deep domain expertise, guidance and a global network of strategic industry and academic partners to foundersfrom the ideation phase all the way to round A & beyond.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
- Fund size:
- $50M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Joy Ventures invests in
Stages Joy Ventures invests in
Countries Joy Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $6M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 9 (75%)
- Software 5 (42%)
- Wellness 5 (42%)
- Fitness 3 (25%)
- Wearables 3 (25%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (42%)
- Seed 3 (25%)
- Grant 1 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Convertible Note 1 (8%)
Country
- Israel 6 (50%)
- United States 4 (33%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Ben-Ami
Co-Founder and Director
|
Co-Founder and Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Gilad Peleg Lorberbaum
Founder & Director
|
Founder & Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Miri Polachek
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Tami Dvir
Head of People Strategy
|
Head of People Strategy | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| NextSense unlocks brain health with real-world data insights and practical, scientific wisdom for daily living. It aims to catalyze brain health in science and culture. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $16.3M / Series A / Nov 11, 2025 | ||
| GrayMatters Health delivers beyond the pill digital therapeutics for mental disorders through self-neuromodulation of brain processes. | $10M / Series A / Jan 11, 2022 | ||
| Reflect Innovation is a health and wellness company that offers a portable interactive textile product that utilizes biofeedback to helps people achieve relaxation. It utilizes stress management, smart textile, and wearable technology. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $3M / Seed / Mar 02, 2021 | ||
| Embr Labs is the first thermal wellness technology company that has harnessed the body’s natural response to temperature to enhance human wellbeing. Embr technology leverages temperature as a new pathway to the brain to balance the autonomic nervous system and helps individuals manage hot flashes, sleep disturbances, and anxiety. Embr Labs has tensof thousands of customers in 170 countries. Our customers have logged over 100M minutes and 6M sessions of thermal interventions. A mobile app and cloud infrastructure augment our wearable, forming a unique technology platform that combines thermal stimulation, digital interventions, and data to manage symptoms and treat disease. The technology was invented by the company’s founders while they were engineering students MIT. Embr Labs is backed by DigiTx Partners, Safar Partners, Joy Ventures, Bose Ventures, Intel Capital and others, and been awarded over $2.5M in grant funding from the NIH, DOD, and Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. | Convertible Note / Dec 03, 2020 | ||
| Myndlift combines neurotechnology, behavioral psychology and human care to offer a better mental care solution. Used by 10's of thousands of individuals through hundreds of mental health providers, it has positioned itself as the leading solution combining EEG brain metrics and behavioral health. | Seed / Nov 01, 2020 | ||
| Anicca is a mental health company that develops a smart respiration sensor and intervention device for balancing stress levels. | $50K / Grant / Jun 01, 2020 | ||
| Wisdo is an AI-powered Social Health platform harnessing the power of data and meaningful connections to improve health. | $6M / Series A / Jan 15, 2020 | ||
| NYX develops Cognyx, a wearable device to help users improve their sleep and reduce stress. The device is a wearable brain-tech headset that stimulates and monitors the user's brain activity. The platform combines specially designed algorithms, software, and hardware to provide an accessible and engaging experience to the consumer. It designsthe device to help users fall asleep faster, optimize sleep cycles, analyze their sleep, and wake with increased energy. Wearers can also use it during the day to enable users to get into a meditative mode for relaxation and stress reduction. It connects the Cognyx device to a companion app that it designs to make controlling Cognyx and understanding the users' sleep stats simple and fun. NYX is an alumnus of the 8200 Entrepreneurship Program. | Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| VI is the leading Enterprise-AI platform in the health sector. Vi helps health enterprises leverage Data & AI to maximize member health outcomes and financial returns | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 24, 2018 | ||
| Reflect Innovation is a health and wellness company that offers a portable interactive textile product that utilizes biofeedback to helps people achieve relaxation. It utilizes stress management, smart textile, and wearable technology. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Jun 05, 2018 | ||
| See all 12 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Joy Ventures invest in?
Joy Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Wellness startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 Joy Ventures invest in?
Joy Ventures typically joins rounds of $6M–$20M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Joy Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Joy Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Joy Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Joy Ventures?
The team at Joy Ventures includes David Ben-Ami (Co-Founder and Director), Gilad Peleg Lorberbaum (Founder & Director) and Miri Polachek (CEO). 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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