# North First Ventures

> North First Ventures is a VC fund in Tel Aviv backing SaaS and Software. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/n1v/
- Website: http://www.n1v.com

North First Ventures is a Venture Capital Fund, partnering with seed to round A stage companies that harness innovative technologies, solve real-world problems within large existing markets or create new markets. We value people who have taken the risk and started a journey in the pursuit of opportunities; blending innovation, domain expertiseand execution abilities.We are a diverse team with extensive experience as entrepreneurs, mentors, global business and marketing strategists, coupled with deep technological expertise. We have experienced the challenges involved in achieving success. We understand the complexities and non-linear journey across stages and industries. Our investment is much more than just financial. Our commitment and focus is to work with our portfolio companies, building business engines that will lead them to scale.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$8M |
| Series A | $9M–$18M |
| Series B | $26M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 4 | 21% |
| Software | 2 | 11% |
| Analytics | 2 | 11% |
| Transportation | 2 | 11% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 11% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 42% |
| Series A | 6 | 32% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 9 | 47% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Matti Zinder | Co-founder & Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matti-zinder |
| Ronen Smooha | Founder & Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ronen-smooha |
| Yionna M. Moas | Director of Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yionna-m-moas |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cervello | Designed specifically to protect the unique needs of railways, Cervello’s railway-centered security solution passively integrates with the railway’s complex architecture and networks and applies a patented Zero-Trust authentication technology to provide unparalleled visibility, safety, and security threat detection, and efficient remediation foroperational continuity. https://cervello.security | $15.5M | Series A | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| NoTraffic | NoTraffic develops traffic management technology that coordinates signalized intersections using connected vehicle data and AI-based control systems. Its platform integrates with existing traffic infrastructure to analyze real-time road conditions, detect vehicles, and adjust signal timing to improve traffic flow. The company provides software andhardware components that enable communication between vehicles, sensors, and traffic signals. Its system supports applications such as congestion reduction, emergency-vehicle prioritization, and pedestrian-safety management. NoTraffic also offers data insights and monitoring tools that allow municipalities and transportation agencies to manage and evaluate intersection performance. | $50M | Series B | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Gaviti | Gaviti is a receivable management solution that empowers the receivable collections task owners. Gaviti helps companies to accelerate cash-flow, reduce write-offs and increase productivity X10. This is achieved via: Visualization - quickly understand your receivables with a clear dashboard and insights screen. Automation - efficiently engage allyour delinquent clients with smart, personalized workflows. Optimizatione - improve results over time with data-driven collections process optimization. | $9M | Series A | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Home365 | Home365 makes owning and renting out real estate easy, predictable, and more profitable than ever before. As the first and only company to introduce an all-inclusive, property-specific Management as a Service (PMaaS) model, Home365 is disrupting the market as a new breed of property management. By leveraging data analysis, Home365 is able topredict maintenance incidents for single family rentals (SFRs) and offer flat monthly rates for individual properties that are up to 50% more affordable. This rate includes all management, maintenance (labor and materials), vacancy insurance, innovative financial products, and more. The management and maintenance services operate on a web & mobile platform and are executed by network of reliable, constantly monitored vendors with strong relationships to the company. This system dramatically improves managerial efficiency, reduces overall handling times, and significantly increases profit margins. Home365 offers property owners full predictability of their investment’s performance, peace of mind, and a “passive investment” experience while lowering the costs of ownership and providing a superior user experience for tenants and landlords alike. | $26M | Series B | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Futora | Futora, formerly called Modelity Marketplace, aims to enable financial institutions, retail banks in particular, to provide clients from all market segments with a vast selection of tailor-made, on-the-fly financial products with notional amounts as low as 5,000 USD. With its fully digitized solution, a buy-side organization can issue its ownproducts as deposits, notes, savings plans, or other financial instrument wrappers, while automatically hedging the exposure with third-party investment banks.In order to fulfill this vision, Futora utilizes its award-winning AI-based technology, which manages the full lifecycle of the financial product, from pre-trade ideation to maturity, along with automatic connectivity to the investment banks. | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 10, 2021 |  |
| Veego | Veego is an Israeli high-tech startup committed to becoming the world leader in Visibility, Customer Experience (CX), and Insights. The company is uniquely able to apply breakthrough AI and ML capabilities, along with other cutting-edge technologies, to overcome the challenges facing CSPs, Content Providers, Device and Service Vendors, and otherData Consumers. From its vantage point in home routers, hubs, and extenders, and delivering unique, real-time services from the Cloud, Veego provides accurate fingerprinting, classification, and measurement of the performance and behavior of each connected device and service in every home, and the experience of users engaging with them. Veego’s SaaS Home Insight Platform (HIP) and innovative solutions automatically and continuously perfect each home-user’s experience while generating vast volumes of new data that enable a wealth of valuable insights and opportunities. Veego customers slash Customer Care costs, while upgrading their users’ CX and gaining incisive understanding of their installed base, internet usage, trends, markets, competition, and more. | $13M | Series A | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Cervello | Designed specifically to protect the unique needs of railways, Cervello’s railway-centered security solution passively integrates with the railway’s complex architecture and networks and applies a patented Zero-Trust authentication technology to provide unparalleled visibility, safety, and security threat detection, and efficient remediation foroperational continuity. https://cervello.security | $15M |  | Aug 01, 2021 |  |
| NoTraffic | NoTraffic develops traffic management technology that coordinates signalized intersections using connected vehicle data and AI-based control systems. Its platform integrates with existing traffic infrastructure to analyze real-time road conditions, detect vehicles, and adjust signal timing to improve traffic flow. The company provides software andhardware components that enable communication between vehicles, sensors, and traffic signals. Its system supports applications such as congestion reduction, emergency-vehicle prioritization, and pedestrian-safety management. NoTraffic also offers data insights and monitoring tools that allow municipalities and transportation agencies to manage and evaluate intersection performance. | $17.5M | Series A | Jul 13, 2021 |  |
| Home365 | Home365 makes owning and renting out real estate easy, predictable, and more profitable than ever before. As the first and only company to introduce an all-inclusive, property-specific Management as a Service (PMaaS) model, Home365 is disrupting the market as a new breed of property management. By leveraging data analysis, Home365 is able topredict maintenance incidents for single family rentals (SFRs) and offer flat monthly rates for individual properties that are up to 50% more affordable. This rate includes all management, maintenance (labor and materials), vacancy insurance, innovative financial products, and more. The management and maintenance services operate on a web & mobile platform and are executed by network of reliable, constantly monitored vendors with strong relationships to the company. This system dramatically improves managerial efficiency, reduces overall handling times, and significantly increases profit margins. Home365 offers property owners full predictability of their investment’s performance, peace of mind, and a “passive investment” experience while lowering the costs of ownership and providing a superior user experience for tenants and landlords alike. | $16.3M |  | Jun 28, 2021 |  |
| Home365 | Home365 makes owning and renting out real estate easy, predictable, and more profitable than ever before. As the first and only company to introduce an all-inclusive, property-specific Management as a Service (PMaaS) model, Home365 is disrupting the market as a new breed of property management. By leveraging data analysis, Home365 is able topredict maintenance incidents for single family rentals (SFRs) and offer flat monthly rates for individual properties that are up to 50% more affordable. This rate includes all management, maintenance (labor and materials), vacancy insurance, innovative financial products, and more. The management and maintenance services operate on a web & mobile platform and are executed by network of reliable, constantly monitored vendors with strong relationships to the company. This system dramatically improves managerial efficiency, reduces overall handling times, and significantly increases profit margins. Home365 offers property owners full predictability of their investment’s performance, peace of mind, and a “passive investment” experience while lowering the costs of ownership and providing a superior user experience for tenants and landlords alike. | $16.3M | Series A | Jun 28, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [lool ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lool-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Greensoil PropTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greensoil-proptech-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does North First Ventures invest in?

North First Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is North First Ventures's check size?

North First Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$8M at Seed, $9M–$18M at Series A and $26M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds North First Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact North First Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at North First Ventures?

The team at North First Ventures includes Matti Zinder (Co-founder & Chairman), Ronen Smooha (Founder & Managing Partner) and Yionna M. Moas (Director of Marketing). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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