PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund
Jerusalem, Israel
PICO Venture Partners is an early-stage VC firm that invests in apparels, automobiles, technology, and computer security companies.
- Total investments:
- 84
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 37%
- Fund size:
- $80M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries PICO Venture Partners invests in
Stages PICO Venture Partners invests in
Countries PICO Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$7.5M
- Series A
- $2M–$20M
- Series B
- $6M–$54M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (11%)
- Information Technology 9 (11%)
- Cyber Security 7 (8%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (7%)
- Big Data 5 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (25%)
- Series A 15 (18%)
- Series B 7 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (6%)
- Series C 5 (6%)
Country
- Israel 18 (21%)
- United States 13 (15%)
- Germany 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Claudia De Antoni
Operating Partner
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Operating Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Elie Wurtman
Partner & Founder
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Partner & Founder | Total investments: 45 | Find email | |
Gina LaVersa
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sagiv Zelinger
VP of Finance and Operations
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VP of Finance and Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Tal Tochner
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Xpander.ai
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Xpander.ai delivers backend infrastructure for AI agents, managing memory, tools, state, integrations, and native deployment within Slack. | $7.5M / Seed / Aug 17, 2026 | |
ORION Security
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Orion Security redefines DLP by learning the unique DNA of your business workflows. With AI-powered mapping, monitoring and anomaly detection, Orion understands legitimate data flows and can easily spot suspicious ones. Data protection policies are then automatically created, tailored and fine-tuned to actual data behavior. Orion eliminatesmanual policies and false positives, so you can focus on risks in real-time. Discover the single source of truth for all data movement in the organization, from source to spill: Orionsec.io | $32M / Series A / Feb 03, 2026 | |
Tastewise
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Tastewise fuels product, sales, and marketing innovation by helping you predict how consumers cook, order, and eat. No guesswork, no outdated reports - Tastewise AI equips exceptional food and beverage brands with real-time insights. (Customers: Nestle, Coca-Cola, Campbell's, Dole, General Mills, and dozens more!)Product: Design productsthat delight your customers and meet their specific needs Marketing: Build marketing campaigns that speak to the right audiences Sales: Identify restaurants that need your products and supplies, and build first-mover advantage | $50M / Series B / Jun 10, 2025 | |
Zero Networks
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Zero Networks automates the development and enforcement of network access rules throughout an entire network. Its technology customizes who can access what in a network by learning how users and machines communicate. Zero Networks provides a bypass mechanism through a two-factor authentication wall on users’ mobile phones, ensuring unusual butlegitimate connections are not affected.With Zero Networks, there are no agents to deploy, no policies to configure, just airtight security for all users and machines. Zero Networks was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $55M / Series C / Jun 03, 2025 | |
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ORION Security
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Orion Security redefines DLP by learning the unique DNA of your business workflows. With AI-powered mapping, monitoring and anomaly detection, Orion understands legitimate data flows and can easily spot suspicious ones. Data protection policies are then automatically created, tailored and fine-tuned to actual data behavior. Orion eliminatesmanual policies and false positives, so you can focus on risks in real-time. Discover the single source of truth for all data movement in the organization, from source to spill: Orionsec.io | $6M / Seed / Mar 18, 2025 | |
Sepio
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Founded in 2016 by cybersecurity industry veterans, Sepio's HAC-1 is the first hardware access control platform that provides visibility, control, and mitigation to zero trust, insider threat, BYOD, IT, OT and IoT security programs. Sepio's hardware fingerprinting technology discovers all managed, unmanaged and hidden devices that areotherwise invisible to all other security tools. Sepio is a strategic partner of Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance company, and Merlin Cyber, a leading cybersecurity federal solution provider. | $11M / Series B / Aug 13, 2024 | |
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Sepio
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Founded in 2016 by cybersecurity industry veterans, Sepio's HAC-1 is the first hardware access control platform that provides visibility, control, and mitigation to zero trust, insider threat, BYOD, IT, OT and IoT security programs. Sepio's hardware fingerprinting technology discovers all managed, unmanaged and hidden devices that areotherwise invisible to all other security tools. Sepio is a strategic partner of Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance company, and Merlin Cyber, a leading cybersecurity federal solution provider. | $11M / Series B / Aug 13, 2024 | |
Salvador Technologies
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Salvador Technologies provides breakthrough technological solutions for operational continuity and cyber-attack recovery for ICS & OT, ensuring an easy validation of the backup integrity with an instant restoration test. The patented air-gap technology enables a full 30-second recovery from any scenario. The company’s expertise is based onmore than ten years of experience in the National Cyber Unit and elite intelligence corps of the IDF and on the passion for contributing to the global cyber security agenda. | $6M / Seed / Dec 18, 2023 | |
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Zero Networks
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Zero Networks automates the development and enforcement of network access rules throughout an entire network. Its technology customizes who can access what in a network by learning how users and machines communicate. Zero Networks provides a bypass mechanism through a two-factor authentication wall on users’ mobile phones, ensuring unusual butlegitimate connections are not affected.With Zero Networks, there are no agents to deploy, no policies to configure, just airtight security for all users and machines. Zero Networks was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $20M / Series B / Dec 13, 2023 | |
Wanda Fish Technologies
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Based in Israel, Wanda Fish Technologies is a cell-cultured seafood startup that offers cultivated fish filets with similar nutrition, taste, and texture to real fish, using a GMO-free platform. Wanda Fish produces its cultivated fish by growing fat and muscle cells in a bioreactor using animal-free growth media. | $7M / Seed / Oct 09, 2023 | |
| See all 84 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does PICO Venture Partners invest in?
PICO Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Cyber Security startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 84 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is PICO Venture Partners's check size?
PICO Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1M–$7.5M at Seed, $2M–$20M at Series A and $6M–$54M 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 PICO Venture Partners participates in.
How do I contact PICO Venture Partners?
Public channels for PICO Venture Partners include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at PICO Venture Partners?
The team at PICO Venture Partners includes Claudia De Antoni (Operating Partner), Elie Wurtman (Partner & Founder) and Gina LaVersa (Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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