# Amnon Shashua

> Amnon Shashua is a seed investor at Mentee Robotics backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mentee Robotics](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mentee-robotics)
- Location: Jerusalem, Israel
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amnon-shashua/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/amnonshashua
- Website: https://x.com/amnonshashua
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Prof.Amnon.Shashua

Amnon Shashua is a seed investor at Mentee Robotics in Jerusalem focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Amnon Shashua is the Chairman and Co-founder of Mentee Robotics. He is also the founder of AA-I Technologies. He previously worked at Intel Corporation as a Senior Vice President. Amnon Shashua attended Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$8M |
| Series A | $5M–$750M |
| Series B | $62M–$64M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 27% |
| Software | 3 | 20% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| InsurTech | 2 | 13% |
| Insurance | 2 | 13% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 40% |
| Series A | 4 | 27% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 6 | 40% |
| United States | 4 | 27% |
| China | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Commcrete | Commcrete is a company specializing in advanced satellite communication solutions designed for critical use cases such as military, governmental operations, and emergency response. | $21M | Series A | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| AI21 Labs | AI21 Labs is a creator of generative artificial intelligence and massive language models, as well as tools for creating artificial intelligence systems with extraordinary understanding and generation of natural language. The company's tool captures real intelligence and rewrites writing to say exactly what is meant; it transforms the waypeople read and write, empowering them in the process; it is an artificial intelligence-based writing companion that understands context and meaning; and it helps people read more efficiently by providing summaries, allowing customers to understand, analyze, and visualize abstract knowledge structures. |  | Series C | Aug 30, 2023 |  |
| AI21 Labs | AI21 Labs is a creator of generative artificial intelligence and massive language models, as well as tools for creating artificial intelligence systems with extraordinary understanding and generation of natural language. The company's tool captures real intelligence and rewrites writing to say exactly what is meant; it transforms the waypeople read and write, empowering them in the process; it is an artificial intelligence-based writing companion that understands context and meaning; and it helps people read more efficiently by providing summaries, allowing customers to understand, analyze, and visualize abstract knowledge structures. | $155M | Series C | Aug 30, 2023 |  |
| Zeekr | Zeekr develops and manufactures premium electric vehicles and automobiles. It specializes in the fields of electronics, automotive and electric vehicles. | $750M | Series A | Feb 12, 2023 |  |
| ONE ZERO | FDB is Israel's first digital bank to incorporate artificial intelligence. | $62M | Series B | Feb 05, 2023 |  |
| Commcrete | Commcrete is a company specializing in advanced satellite communication solutions designed for critical use cases such as military, governmental operations, and emergency response. | $8M | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| ShopperAI | ShopperAI is a company that provides AI-powered shopper research and analytics tools to understand customer behavior and grow the business. | $5M | Series A | Aug 22, 2022 |  |
| AI21 Labs | AI21 Labs is a creator of generative artificial intelligence and massive language models, as well as tools for creating artificial intelligence systems with extraordinary understanding and generation of natural language. The company's tool captures real intelligence and rewrites writing to say exactly what is meant; it transforms the waypeople read and write, empowering them in the process; it is an artificial intelligence-based writing companion that understands context and meaning; and it helps people read more efficiently by providing summaries, allowing customers to understand, analyze, and visualize abstract knowledge structures. | $64M | Series B | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Drill | Drill has developed a technology to monitor real-time implied responses by consumers while shopping and help improve the marketing strategy. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 28, 2021 |  |
| ONE ZERO | FDB is Israel's first digital bank to incorporate artificial intelligence. | $120M | Series A | Dec 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fusion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fusion-la) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ibex Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibex-investors) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Pitango VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pitango-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Walden Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/walden-catalyst) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BRM Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brm-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [b2venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/btovpartners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Mentee Robotics

VC Fund · Herzliya, Israel

Mentee Robotics combines robotics, sensing, and artificial intelligence to create a humanoid robot with human-like dexterity and perception that can be personalized and adjusted to various surroundings and tasks through natural human contact. It aims to improve productivity and daily operations in both households and warehouses.

3 contacts available at Mentee Robotics.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amnon Shashua | Chairman and CoFounder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prof-amnon-shashua |
| Lior Wolf | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prof-lior-wolf-ph-d |
| Shai Shalev- Shwartz | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shai-shalev |

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## FAQ

### What does Amnon Shashua invest in?

Amnon Shashua invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Amnon Shashua's check size?

Amnon Shashua typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$8M at Seed, $5M–$750M at Series A and $62M–$64M 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 Amnon Shashua participates in.

### When did Amnon Shashua last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Amnon Shashua closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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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