# Maccabee Ventures

> Maccabee Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/macventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/maccabeevc?lang=en
- Website: https://www.maccabee.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maccabeeventures/

Maccabee Ventures is a NYC based, early-stage venture capital fund dedicated to investing in exceptional entrepreneurs and outstanding teams in North America and Israel.Maccabee Ventures offers a distinctive investment strategy drawing upon the decades of successful investment experience of its managing members, Moshe Bellows and Bruce Taragin,investing into B2B SaaS, Converging Technologies (AI, ML, and NLP), Cybersecurity, FinTech, PropTech, Digital Health and SilverTech™ (enhancing the lives of seniors and their caregivers).As a strategic investor, Maccabee Ventures cultivates meaningful relationships with founders, providing a "Trifecta of Added Value," including extensive networking/customer acquisition opportunities, introductions to top talent, and access to valuable co-investors.Now investing out of Fund II, notable companies from Fund I include industry disrupters such as Jiga, Gloss.ai, FundGuard, Eleos Health, Cyabra and Agora.Dedicated to educating the next generation of financial professionals with moral clarity, Moshe and Bruce developed and teach a year-long Angel and Venture Capital Investing curriculum at Yeshiva University, Sy Syms School of Business. Through the year-long, experiential venture capital curriculum, students at the Yeshiva University Sy Syms School of Business gain comprehensive exposure to the venture ecosystem.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$9M |
| Pre-Seed | $2M–$2.2M |
| Series A | $4.5M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 31% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 27% |
| Health Care | 5 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 19% |
| FinTech | 3 | 12% |

56 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 50% |
| Series A | 6 | 23% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 58% |
| Israel | 3 | 12% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Moshe Bellows | Managing Member | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moshe-bellows-2 |
| Bruce Taragin | General Partner | 23 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-taragin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Materialspace | Materialspace develops AI-driven platforms to optimize bidding for finish trade contractors. By leveraging artificial intelligence, the company aims to optimize bidding processes for finish trade contractors, enhancing efficiency and competitiveness. Currently, Materialspace is in its beta phase, inviting a limited number of companies toparticipate and benefit from its innovative solutions. | $7M | Seed | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| Dig | GlossAI bridges the gap between the content created by organisations and how people consume it .Today's audiences do not have the attention span to listen to anything for an extended period of time. Even those attending events, podcasts, training sessions, and zoom calls can't keep up. At GlossAI we get smart AI video generator that canturn any single piece of content into many short videos, blog posts and more various channels and use cases. | $14M | Series A | Feb 23, 2025 |  |
| Marqii | Marqii’s automated system removes the daily pain points associated with updating content across consumer-facing platforms. Marqii revolutionizes the way restaurants, bars, coffee shops and dispensaries publish their menus, location data, and specials to potential customers. This process creates consistent and accurate content which leads to anincrease in unbranded local search. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Tildei | Tildei is on a mission to change the way marketing happens by enabling brands to hold real conversations in a radically simple way. We believe the future of marketing is conversational, and we are building the next generation platform to support enterprise brands to have meaningful conversations with their customers, at scale.Our platform allowsenterprise brands to reach customers where they already are and conduct meaningful, AI-powered conversations to enable on-brand yet personalized conversations with all the guardrails. | $6M | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| PackageX | PackageX is revolutionizing the logistics industry with the world's first Headless Logistics Cloud. PackageX empowers retail and commercial enterprises to achieve unprecedented success by delivering unparalleled developer experiences, workflow improvements, customer loyalty, and profitability. |  | Seed | May 18, 2023 |  |
| Marqii | Marqii’s automated system removes the daily pain points associated with updating content across consumer-facing platforms. Marqii revolutionizes the way restaurants, bars, coffee shops and dispensaries publish their menus, location data, and specials to potential customers. This process creates consistent and accurate content which leads to anincrease in unbranded local search. | $4.5M | Series A | May 11, 2023 |  |
| Dig | GlossAI bridges the gap between the content created by organisations and how people consume it .Today's audiences do not have the attention span to listen to anything for an extended period of time. Even those attending events, podcasts, training sessions, and zoom calls can't keep up. At GlossAI we get smart AI video generator that canturn any single piece of content into many short videos, blog posts and more various channels and use cases. | $8M | Seed | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Yes Hearing | 80% of Americans with hearing loss do not own or use a hearing aid. This is largely due to high cost, low access and stigma. At Yes Hearing our mission is to improve the access to hearing aids for all Americans whilst reducing the average price for a premium pair of hearing aids by up to $3000. We have built the largest network of in-homeAudiologists and hearing specialists across the US to transform the accessibility to leading healthcare and hearing technologies through pioneering home visit treatment and remote care. | $10M | Series A | Nov 04, 2022 |  |
| Shabodi | Enterprise Software, SaaS, PaaS, 5G | $10.3M | Series A | May 23, 2022 |  |
| Marqii | Marqii’s automated system removes the daily pain points associated with updating content across consumer-facing platforms. Marqii revolutionizes the way restaurants, bars, coffee shops and dispensaries publish their menus, location data, and specials to potential customers. This process creates consistent and accurate content which leads to anincrease in unbranded local search. | $4.1M | Seed | Mar 08, 2022 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Green Egg Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greeneggventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [CEAS Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ceas-investments) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Maccabee Ventures invest in?

Maccabee Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Maccabee Ventures's check size?

Maccabee Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$9M at Seed, $2M–$2.2M at Pre-Seed and $4.5M–$14M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Maccabee Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Maccabee Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Maccabee Ventures?

The team at Maccabee Ventures includes Moshe Bellows (Managing Member) and Bruce Taragin (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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