RDC - Rafael Development Corporation
VC Fund
Tel Aviv, Israel
RDC - Rafael Development Corporation is a VC fund in Tel Aviv focused on Software and Cyber Security. RDC – Rafael Development Corporation Ltd. is a unique company, blending seemingly contradictory disciplines into viable commercial products. Their core business is the identification and development of potentially valuable commercial technologies based on hi-tech defense technologies developed within Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.(www.rafael.com), enhanced with the financial capabilities of Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (www.elron.com)RDC is an incubator, a business development and a holding company, all in one. Since established in 1993, they have leveraged the strong partnership of both Elron and Rafael to found numerous hi-tech companies in a wide range of disciplines - from medical devices to telecommunications and semiconductors, and many others. To date, RDC has established 15 companies and several projects in different stages.With their unique strategy and highly experienced management, RDC primarily identifies existing market needs, defines the technological concept of the solution, creates a valid business plan and finally establishes a new company which will develop the product or application.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
Last updated:
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Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (38%)
- Cyber Security 5 (31%)
- Information Technology 5 (31%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (19%)
- Big Data 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (44%)
- Series A 4 (25%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
Country
- United States 5 (31%)
- Israel 4 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ariel Sbdar
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Nariman Diab
Owner
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Owner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cynerio is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting healthcare environments, specifically targeting medical, clinical, IoT, and operational technology (OT) devices. Its unified platform includes three core modules: Network Detection and Response for Healthcare (NDR‑H), which offers deep packet inspection, real-time threat detection, andbehavioral anomaly responses; Medical Device Security, which automatically discovers connected devices, assesses risk, and provides mitigation strategies like micro-segmentation and patching; and Complete Asset Visibility, which delivers a centralized inventory of IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT devices with customizable dashboards and compliance reporting.The company integrates with Microsoft Sentinel and is a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), enhancing interoperability with cloud-native security operations platforms. Cynerio has received industry recognition, ranking among the top two vendors in the 2025 Best in KLAS report for Healthcare IoT Security with a score of 94 out of 100. It was also awarded Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 North American Enabling Technology Leadership Award.Cynerio's solutions are used globally, including deployments across major NHS trusts in the UK such as Barts Health and the Cheshire and Merseyside systems. These implementations helped rapidly identify unmonitored devices and apply proactive segmentation, significantly improving cybersecurity readiness in healthcare settings. | $30M / Series B / May 19, 2021 | ||
| OneView is a platform for the acceleration of remote sensing imagery analytics in a scalable and cost-effective way. The platform creates virtual synthetic datasets to be used for machine learning algorithm training. OneView enables skipping the tedious process of collecting, tagging, and validating real images from drones, airborne, andsatellites. The OneView platform is capable of generating datasets for any environment, object, and sensor. | $3.5M / Seed / Oct 22, 2019 | ||
| Cynerio is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting healthcare environments, specifically targeting medical, clinical, IoT, and operational technology (OT) devices. Its unified platform includes three core modules: Network Detection and Response for Healthcare (NDR‑H), which offers deep packet inspection, real-time threat detection, andbehavioral anomaly responses; Medical Device Security, which automatically discovers connected devices, assesses risk, and provides mitigation strategies like micro-segmentation and patching; and Complete Asset Visibility, which delivers a centralized inventory of IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT devices with customizable dashboards and compliance reporting.The company integrates with Microsoft Sentinel and is a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), enhancing interoperability with cloud-native security operations platforms. Cynerio has received industry recognition, ranking among the top two vendors in the 2025 Best in KLAS report for Healthcare IoT Security with a score of 94 out of 100. It was also awarded Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 North American Enabling Technology Leadership Award.Cynerio's solutions are used globally, including deployments across major NHS trusts in the UK such as Barts Health and the Cheshire and Merseyside systems. These implementations helped rapidly identify unmonitored devices and apply proactive segmentation, significantly improving cybersecurity readiness in healthcare settings. | $7M / Seed / Jan 09, 2019 | ||
| OpenLegacy’s Digital-Driven Integration enables organizations with legacy systems to release new digital services faster and more efficiently than ever before. It connects directly to even the most complex legacy systems, bypassing the need for extra layers of technology. It then automatically generates APIs in minutes, rapidly integrating thoseassets into exciting new innovations. Finally, it deploys them as standard microservices or serverless functions, giving organizations speed and flexibility while drastically cutting costs and resources. With OpenLegacy, industry-leading companies release new apps, features, and updates in days instead of months, enabling them to truly become digital to the core. | $30M / Series B / Nov 28, 2018 | ||
| Ozcode’s disruptive debugging platform provides development teams with the visibility and insights into their code that unleash productivity and dramatically improve software delivery by slashing debugging time by up to 80%. Through code-level observability into errors with dynamic logs and live time-travel debugging, developers can quicklyunderstand the root cause of errors, fix them fast and vastly improve efficiency and release velocity. | $3.5M / Seed / Nov 14, 2018 | ||
| In order to eliminate all cloud data leakage risks, Kindite assembled a unique set of cryptographic technologies into a single data-protection platform, which makes sure data remains encrypted end-to-end at all times, even while being processed. Furthermore, Kindite’s platform makes sure encryption keys are never available to the cloud, creating atrue zero-trust relationship with any infrastructure while maintaining full business continuity. | $4M / Seed / Oct 16, 2018 | ||
| SecuredTouch is a pioneer in behavioral biometrics for mobile, delivering continuous authentication technologies to strengthen security and reduce fraud while improving customers digital experience.SecuredTouch seamlessly collects and analyzes a dynamic set of over 100 different behavioral parameters like keyboard-typing, scroll-velocity, touchpressure and finger size to automatically create a unique user behavioral profile.Our mobile-optimized solutions require no enrollment, they are easy to implement, and provide real time alerts when suspicious activity is detected from login to logout.Application- and device-based solutions are in use at clients around the world, including major financial institutions. | $8M / Series A / Apr 23, 2018 | ||
| Cynerio is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting healthcare environments, specifically targeting medical, clinical, IoT, and operational technology (OT) devices. Its unified platform includes three core modules: Network Detection and Response for Healthcare (NDR‑H), which offers deep packet inspection, real-time threat detection, andbehavioral anomaly responses; Medical Device Security, which automatically discovers connected devices, assesses risk, and provides mitigation strategies like micro-segmentation and patching; and Complete Asset Visibility, which delivers a centralized inventory of IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT devices with customizable dashboards and compliance reporting.The company integrates with Microsoft Sentinel and is a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), enhancing interoperability with cloud-native security operations platforms. Cynerio has received industry recognition, ranking among the top two vendors in the 2025 Best in KLAS report for Healthcare IoT Security with a score of 94 out of 100. It was also awarded Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 North American Enabling Technology Leadership Award.Cynerio's solutions are used globally, including deployments across major NHS trusts in the UK such as Barts Health and the Cheshire and Merseyside systems. These implementations helped rapidly identify unmonitored devices and apply proactive segmentation, significantly improving cybersecurity readiness in healthcare settings. | Seed / Jan 01, 2018 | ||
| IRONSCALES is the leading cloud email security platform for the enterprise that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and human insights (HI) to stop advanced phishing attacks that bypass traditional security solutions. Its award-winning, self-learning platform continuously detects and remediates advanced threats like Business Email Compromise (BEC),Account Takeover (ATO), VIP impersonation, and more. As the most powerfully simple email security platform, IRONSCALES helps enterprises reduce risk, boost security team efficiency, and build a culture of cybersecurity awareness. IRONSCALES is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and is proud to serve more than 10,000 customers globally. Visit http://www.ironscales.com or @IRONSCALES to learn more. | $6.5M / Series A / Dec 05, 2017 | ||
| Lirhot develops the next generation of visual perception systems for robots. Lirhot’s range of sensors is based on innovative true optical flow and unique image-processing methods, enables robots and autonomous vehicles to see like never before. Our sensors allow robots to navigate anywhere, identify and classify objects in real-life environments.Lirhot’s single-camera system creates 3D models of the surroundings in the most | $2M / Seed / Oct 01, 2017 | ||
| See all 16 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Accelmed
3 deals together
TPY Capital
3 deals together
MTIP AG
2 deals together
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
2 deals together
Wellborn Ventures
2 deals together
ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund
1 deal together
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RDC - Rafael Development Corporation invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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