Key 1 Capital
VC Fund
Herzliya, Israel
Key 1 Capital is a VC fund in Herzliya focused on Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security. Key1 Capital is a growth-stage VC fund backing Israeli and European companies. With two decades of experience in leadership roles at Goldman Sachs, their team has played a key role in the growth of top-tier technology companies scaling globally. Key1 actively seeks to partner with visionary founders who think big and are driven by strong values, helping them meaningfully expand through ultimate exit.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Key 1 Capital invests in
Stages Key 1 Capital invests in
Countries Key 1 Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $15M–$36M
- Series B
- $30M–$75M
- Series C
- $73M–$165M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (33%)
- Cyber Security 3 (20%)
- Information Technology 3 (20%)
- FinTech 2 (13%)
- Software 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series C 4 (27%)
- Series B 3 (20%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Series E 2 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (13%)
Country
- Israel 6 (40%)
- United States 5 (33%)
- Germany 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Amit Pilowsky
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder, Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Danny Akerman
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Sarel Eldor
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyte.ai develops end-to-end perception platforms for Physical AI and robotics, integrating custom silicon, sensors, compute, and software to enable safe navigation in complex environments.The company offers LyteVision, a unified 4D vision system combining RGB imaging, motion awareness, and depth sensing for robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles.This "visual brain" draws from founders' Face ID expertise, powering applications in robotic arms, quadrupeds, robotaxis, and humanoids. | $165M / Series C / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Remepy is biotechnology research pioneering hybrid drugs. The company believes that in the future, software applications will become an integral part of treatments offered by Pharma companies in the form of Hybrid Drugs. These will include both a software component and a traditional drug component - influencing patients via Hybrid Mechanisms ofAction™.It was founded in 2022 and is located in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv. | $36M / Series A / Aug 12, 2026 | ||
| Xsight Labs is an Israeli company that develops technology for accelerating the next-generation, cloud-based, data-intensive workloads such as machine learning by offering new chipset designs that enhance scalability, performance and efficiency. | $300M / Series E / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Lyte.ai develops end-to-end perception platforms for Physical AI and robotics, integrating custom silicon, sensors, compute, and software to enable safe navigation in complex environments.The company offers LyteVision, a unified 4D vision system combining RGB imaging, motion awareness, and depth sensing for robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles.This "visual brain" draws from founders' Face ID expertise, powering applications in robotic arms, quadrupeds, robotaxis, and humanoids. | $107M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 05, 2026 | ||
| Sweet’s Cloud Runtime Security Suite delivers first-to-market capabilities for defending cloud workloads, shifting cloud security right. Founded by retired, elite IDF commanders with prodigious expertise in offensive and defensive cloud security, Sweet’s approach elevates the ability of security teams to shut down cloud attacks when they occur,where they occur, with maximum precision and minimal business disruption. | $75M / Series B / Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany. | $52.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 04, 2025 | ||
| Healthee provides an AI-driven platform designed to simplify health benefits navigation for employees and employers. The platform includes a plan comparison tool that assists employees in evaluating and selecting health plans based on individual or family needs. This tool utilizes self-reported health information to provide tailoredrecommendations, streamlining the open enrollment process. Healthee also offers wellness tracking features, enabling users to monitor essential health milestones such as annual physicals, dental exams, and vision appointments. This functionality supports preventive care and encourages proactive health management. | $30M / Series B / Apr 22, 2025 | ||
| Sentra is the leader in continuous AI data readiness and governance, helping enterprises ensure their data is secure, governed, and AI-ready at all times. As organizations scale AI adoption, a critical gap emerges: most have invested in AI infrastructure and governance frameworks, but lack continuous visibility into the sensitive data AI canactually reach. Sentra closes that gap. The Sentra platform continuously discovers, classifies, governs, and protects sensitive and proprietary data — and maps who and what can access it, from employees and third parties to AI applications and autonomous agents. With AI-aware data security, automated governance, and intelligent remediation, Sentra helps enterprises reduce risk, enforce policy, and unlock the value of AI without losing control of their data. Sentra operates entirely within the customer's environment. No sensitive data is ever copied out. Trusted by global enterprises including Lyft, Expedia, and SoFi. Recognized by Gartner. Visit www.sentra.io. | $50M / Series B / Apr 22, 2025 | ||
| WekaIO has built the world's fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenges in AI deep learning and technical computing. Matrix, WekaIO’s flagship product, leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering the highest performance, lowest latency storage at a fraction of the cost or traditional NAS.WekaIO's software provides a seamless hybrid cloud solution between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. WekaIO has customers in several high performance markets including autonomous vehicle AI training, genomics, financial modeling, EDA, software development, satellite imaging and media and entertainment. | $140M / Series E / May 15, 2024 | ||
| FundGuard is the developer of an AI-powered financial platform for investment management and administration. The company's platform uses cloud technology and artificial intelligence to detect abnormalities, automatically resolve exceptions, and recommend operational changes, allowing asset managers and fund administrators to reimagine productofferings as digital experiences with real-time transparency. | $100M / Series C / Mar 25, 2024 | ||
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FAQ
What does Key 1 Capital invest in?
Key 1 Capital invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security and Information Technology startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 15 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 Key 1 Capital invest in?
Key 1 Capital typically joins rounds of $15M–$36M at Series A, $30M–$75M at Series B and $73M–$165M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Key 1 Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Key 1 Capital took part in.
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Who are the partners at Key 1 Capital?
The team at Key 1 Capital includes Amit Pilowsky (Co-Founder, Managing Partner), Danny Akerman (Co-Founder) and Sarel Eldor (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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