# Miri Polachek

> Miri Polachek is a seed investor at Joy Ventures backing Software and Wellness. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Joy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joy-ventures)
- Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Mar 2021
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miripolachek/

Miri Polachek is a seed investor at Joy Ventures in Tel Aviv focused on Software and Wellness. Miri Polachek is the CEO at Joy Ventures.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Wellness | 2 | 67% |
| Wearables | 2 | 67% |
| Health Care | 2 | 67% |
| Consumer Electronics | 2 | 67% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 2 | 67% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reflect Innovation | 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 | https://meetreflect.com |
| Embr Labs | 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 | http://www.embrlabs.com |
| Wisdo Health | 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 | http://www.wisdo.com |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [WuXi AppTec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wuxi-apptec) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Joy Ventures

VC Fund · Herzliya, Israel

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.

4 contacts available at Joy Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Ben-Ami | Co-Founder and Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-ben-ami |
| Gilad Peleg Lorberbaum | Founder & Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gilad-peleg-lorberbaum |
| Miri Polachek | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miri-polachek |
| Tami Dvir | Head of People Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tami-dvir |

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## FAQ

### What does Miri Polachek invest in?

Miri Polachek invests primarily in Software, Wellness and Wearables startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Miri Polachek?

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### When did Miri Polachek last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Miri Polachek closed in Mar 2021. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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