# Motti Vaknin

> Motti Vaknin is a Series B investor at Cedar Fund backing Software and Analytics. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cedar Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cedar-fund)
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Sep 2014
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mottivaknin
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mottiv
- Website: http://www.cedarfund.com

Motti Vaknin is a Partner at Cedar Fund.A serial entrepreneur, Motti brings to Cedar deep knowledge of the U.S. and Israeli enterprise software arena and offers his expertise as an accomplished entrepreneur and CEO. Prior to Cedar, Mr. Vaknin served as CEO of BelnSync where he orchestrated its turnaround and acquisition by PhoenixTechnologies (PTEC). He has also served as CEO and co-founder of WebLayers, a startup company in the SOA space and one of Cedar's Pre-Seed investments. Before that, Mr. Vaknin founded and held the position of CEO at Bridges for Islands (acquired by Attunity Ltd.) and was VP Sales and Marketing at Shiron Satellite Communication. Prior to Shiron, Motti was a technology and market information specialist. Mr. Vaknin uses his expertise in the software area to focus on enterprise software, SaaS and Internet opportunities.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Analytics | 2 | 33% |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Mobile | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 67% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| Israel | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Datorama | Datorama’s marketing intelligence platform transforms the way marketers optimize their marketing performance, business impact, and customer loyalty. With Datorama, customers can automatically connect all their disparate marketing tools and reports in one centralized place; access and act on the right cross-channel KPIs, dashboards, reports, andAI-powered insights; and optimize and report on every investment, performance, and outcome across the customer journey.Datorama powers marketing intelligence for thousands of brands, agencies and publishers globally including IBM, Nike, Ticketmaster, Viacom, and Neo@Ogilvy, helping them make smarter marketing decisions everyday. Datorama has a global presence with 16 offices worldwide and was recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor and ranks #35 on the Deloitte Fast 500 list. | $15M | Series B | Sep 29, 2014 |  |
| 365Scores | 365Scores is a cross-platform application that enables users to create their own personalized sports channel. Individuals can get live scores, news form media channels, video highlights, statistics, fixtures, standings, tweets, and more. Covering over 10 major sports, the platform is available in over 20 languages. |  | Series B | Sep 29, 2014 |  |
| Curiyo | Curiyo automatically enhances the story behind publishers' content and keeps users entertained, informed and on the site. | $2M | Seed | Jun 15, 2014 |  |
| Primary Data | Primary Data develops intelligence and automation software for enterprise data management across on-premises IT infrastructure and into the cloud. Its DataSphere platform combines metadata management and machine learning to move the right data to the right place at the right time across a global namespace, automatically and without applicationdisruption. DataSphere makes heterogeneous data stores simultaneously available to all applications, enabling enterprises operating at petabyte scale to easily manage billions of files, automate data migration, integrate the cloud, and scale out NAS performance while getting the most value out of infrastructure investments on a per-client, per-file basis. To learn more, visit us at PrimaryData.com, follow us on Facebook.com/PdDataSphere, or Twitter at @Primary_Data. | $50M | Series B | Oct 30, 2013 |  |
| Datorama | Datorama’s marketing intelligence platform transforms the way marketers optimize their marketing performance, business impact, and customer loyalty. With Datorama, customers can automatically connect all their disparate marketing tools and reports in one centralized place; access and act on the right cross-channel KPIs, dashboards, reports, andAI-powered insights; and optimize and report on every investment, performance, and outcome across the customer journey.Datorama powers marketing intelligence for thousands of brands, agencies and publishers globally including IBM, Nike, Ticketmaster, Viacom, and Neo@Ogilvy, helping them make smarter marketing decisions everyday. Datorama has a global presence with 16 offices worldwide and was recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor and ranks #35 on the Deloitte Fast 500 list. | $3M | Series A | Aug 02, 2013 |  |
| ScaleBase | ScaleBase enables next generation applications that require big data transactional processing, without changing the existing infrastructure.The ScaleBase Data Traffic Manager dynamically manages and scales standard relational databases to meet changing business demands. ScaleBase virtualizes a distributed database environment, removingcomplexity, delivering real-time elasticity and increasing availability – all without requiring any changes to the existing infrastructure. |  | Series B | Oct 17, 2012 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ascent Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascent-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dell Technologies Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dell-technologies-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Innovation Endeavors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-endeavors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LETA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leta-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cedar Fund

VC Fund · Herzliya, Israel

Cedar Fund specializes in early stage, Israel-related investments, including Pre-Seed, seed and first round, where its strategy and capabilities offer the greatest potential. With its quality investment track record and over $225 million under management, the Cedar Fund is among the world's largest and most notable venture capital firmsfocusing on Israel-related, early stage investments.

5 contacts available at Cedar Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amnon Shoham | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amnon-shoham |
| Dorin Miller | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dorin-miller |
| Gal Israely | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gal-israely |
| Motti Vaknin | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motti-vaknin |
| Eyal Ziv | Controller | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eyal-ziv |

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## FAQ

### What does Motti Vaknin invest in?

Motti Vaknin invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Apps startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Motti Vaknin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Motti Vaknin closed in Sep 2014. Shizune tracks 6 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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