# Phoenix

> Phoenix is a VC fund in Giv'atayim backing Financial Services, FinTech and Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Giv'atayim, Israel
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Phoenix is a VC fund in Giv'atayim focused on Financial Services and FinTech. The Phoenix Holdings Limited writes business in all lines of insurance, both in the life, health and long-term care branches.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5.3M–$10M |
| Series A | $10M–$30M |
| Series B | $20M–$44M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 5 | 42% |
| FinTech | 4 | 33% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Internet | 2 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Series B | 3 | 25% |
| Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 3 | 25% |
| United States | 2 | 17% |
| India | 1 | 8% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AI Hay | AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community. | $10M | Series A | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| AI Hay | AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community. | $5.3M | Seed | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| Spiral | Spiral is the award-winning personalized banking platform that enables banks and credit unions to grow deposits and attract new account holders through financial wellness and community impact. With Spiral, financial institutions can positively impact the lives of their account holders and their communities through any online bank account, debitcard, or credit card. Thus, Spiral makes it simple for financial institutions to drive positive change and empower millions of people to build better lives and positively impact their communities.Spiral is spearheaded by fintech serial entrepreneur Shawn Melamed, a former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley's Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. Their mission-driven team has deep banking, nonprofit, and fintech expertise, including Jim Rosenthal, the former COO of Morgan Stanley, who is part of Spiral's board. | $28M | Series A | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| Qashio | Qashio is a spend management platform that allows people to monitor costs, make payments with app credit cards, and handle payables. Founded in 2021 and is based in Dubai. | $10M | Seed | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| Classiq Technologies | Classiq Technologies, the leading quantum software company, provides an all-encompassing software platform (IDE, compiler and OS) with a single point of entry into quantum computing, from algorithm design to execution. Tailored to all levels of developer proficiency, Classiq aims to democratize access to quantum computing with software that equipscustomers to take full advantage of the quantum computing revolution. A low-code development environment that automates quantum programming ensures that a broader range of talents, including those with backgrounds in AI, ML and linear algebra, can harness quantum computing without requiring deep, specialized knowledge of how to program quantum computer hardware. Classiq also works closely with advanced computation hardware providers providing software for use with quantum computers, HPC and quantum simulators. Backed by powerful investors such as HPE, HSBC, Samsung, Intesa Sanpaolo and NTT, Classiq’s world-class team of scientists and engineers has distilled decades of quantum expertise into its groundbreaking software development platform. | $33M | Series B | Jun 17, 2022 |  |
| AI Hay | AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 04, 2022 |  |
| accessiBe | accessiBe is the market leader in web accessibility solutions and technologies. Our mission is simple - to develop technological solutions that will help businesses, regardless of their size, resources, developers, and budget, to do the absolute best they can to take on web accessibility. Enabling businesses to participate in the global effortsto achieve online inclusion is one of our main goals | $30M | Series A | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Air Doctor | Air Doctor is a developer of an online doctor marketplace designed to connect travelers to local practitioners while abroad. The company's marketplace connects travelers with medical professionals consisting of thousands of verified and trusted practitioners ranging in all specialties while abroad and it also presents doctors and clinics withthe possibility to expand their web presence, grows their clientele and increase revenue, enabling travelers to find doctors easily and doctors and clinics to achieve growth. | $20M | Series B | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Air Doctor | Air Doctor is a developer of an online doctor marketplace designed to connect travelers to local practitioners while abroad. The company's marketplace connects travelers with medical professionals consisting of thousands of verified and trusted practitioners ranging in all specialties while abroad and it also presents doctors and clinics withthe possibility to expand their web presence, grows their clientele and increase revenue, enabling travelers to find doctors easily and doctors and clinics to achieve growth. | $20M |  | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Freetrade | Freetrade is a brokerage application that offers free share dealing services. They believe investing should be accessible to everyone that's why they aims to make it accessible to everyone. Its app received Best Share Trading Platform at the British Bank Awards 2019. Freetrade was started in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom. | $37.5M | Debt Financing | May 20, 2022 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Phoenix Financial](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phoenix-insurance-company) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AppWorks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/appworks-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Munich Re Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/munich-re-hsb-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Square Peg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/square-peg-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Team8](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/team8) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Phoenix invest in?

Phoenix invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Phoenix's check size?

Phoenix typically joins rounds of $5.3M–$10M at Seed, $10M–$30M at Series A and $20M–$44M 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 Phoenix participates in.

### When did Phoenix last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Phoenix closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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?

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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