# Lion Investment Partners

> Lion Investment Partners is a VC fund backing Internet and Machine Learning. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lionsip/
- Website: https://www.lioninvestmentpartners.com/

Lion Investment Partners is a technology investment firm focused on Israeli-related opportunities. Based in both Israel and the US, Lion invests in late-stage software and internet companies that have reached critical scale and are well positioned for an inflection point. Lion was founded by Omer Cygler, a technology veteran and investment bankerwho has led more than $35B of IPOs, merges and acquisitions and private investments. For more information, visit www.lionsip.com.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 40% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 40% |
| Mobile | 1 | 20% |
| Social | 1 | 20% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 2 | 40% |
| Series F | 2 | 40% |
| Series E | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Omer Cygler | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 7 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpenWeb | OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning to incentivize healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create thriving, engaged communities. OpenWeb works with more than 700 top-tier publishers and hosts 100 million active users eachmonth. OpenWeb is on a mission to democratize and improve conversations online. Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 100 employees in New York City and Tel Aviv and is backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, Norma Investments, and Index Ventures. | $170M | Series F | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| OpenWeb | OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning to incentivize healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create thriving, engaged communities. OpenWeb works with more than 700 top-tier publishers and hosts 100 million active users eachmonth. OpenWeb is on a mission to democratize and improve conversations online. Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 100 employees in New York City and Tel Aviv and is backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, Norma Investments, and Index Ventures. | $150M | Series E | Nov 09, 2021 |  |
| Duda | Duda is a responsive website builder for digital marketing agencies, hosting companies, online directories, and all web professionals that serve small businesses. With a focus on speeding up the website-building process and providing website personalization tools for maximum customer conversions, Duda is dedicated to bringing enterprise-leveltechnology to the masses.Duda has partnered with some of the largest providers of digital marketing solutions for SMBs including 123-reg, MijnDomein, Hibu, ItaliaOnline, Sensis, and Telstra. Based in Palo Alto, California, the company was ranked 224 in Deloitte’s Fast 500 list for 2016, and currently hosts over nine million websites built on Duda’s platform.Duda has partnered with some of the biggest companies in the tech industry, including GoDaddy, AT&T, Yahoo!, Google, Homestead, OpenTable, and DreamHost.Duda was founded by Itai Sadan and Amir Glatt in 2009. It is based in Palo Alto, California with a research and development office in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $50M | Series D | Jun 15, 2021 |  |
| Verbit | Verbit.ai is an AI company that specializes in combining capturing the spoken word using artificial intelligence and supported by humans. It provides transcription and captioning solutions as well as Audio description, Translation, Dubbing and Note taking. It also offers Generative AI applications for unlocking the value of the spoken word. Thecompany was founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $157M | Series D | Jun 08, 2021 |  |
| Similarweb | SimilarWeb offers an AI-based market intelligence platform that helps monitor web and mobile app traffic. The company gives a global multi-device market intelligence to understand, track, and grow digital market share. It allows the user to gain insight into any website's statistics and strategy.SimilarWeb was founded in 2007 andheadquartered in New York, it has offices in Israel, the UK, France, Japan, and Australia. | $120M | Series F | Oct 27, 2020 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Claridge Israel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claridge-israel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Georgian](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/georgian-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Third Point Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/third-point-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ClalTech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claltech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Dentsu — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Lion Investment Partners invest in?

Lion Investment Partners invests primarily in Internet, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series D and Series F stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Lion Investment Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Lion Investment Partners?

The team at Lion Investment Partners includes Omer Cygler (Co-Founder and Managing Partner). 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 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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