# Rafi Gidron

> Rafi Gidron is a seed investor at Xperiti backing Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Xperiti](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xperiti-22de)
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafi-gidron-a3855825/
- Website: https://www.precedetechnologies.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rafi.gidron.7

Rafi Gidron is a seed investor at Xperiti focused on Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security. Rafi Gidron is the Founder and Chairman of Israel Brain Technologies. He previously worked at Lucent as a VP of Optical networks. Rafi Gidron attended Columbia University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 26% |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 17% |
| Software | 3 | 13% |
| Analytics | 3 | 13% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 70% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 13% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 14 | 61% |
| United States | 5 | 22% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vyzer | A secure platform for clarity and visibility across complex investment portfolios - Making it easy to follow the money | $6.3M | Seed | Oct 04, 2023 |  |
| Dig | GlossAI bridges the gap between the content created by organisations and how people consume it .Today's audiences do not have the attention span to listen to anything for an extended period of time. Even those attending events, podcasts, training sessions, and zoom calls can't keep up. At GlossAI we get smart AI video generator that canturn any single piece of content into many short videos, blog posts and more various channels and use cases. | $8M | Seed | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| The Digital Pets Company | A cross-app personal AI Digital Dogs platform for VR worlds,Social apps,Games and more. Digital Pets are driven by powerful artificial intelligence technologies and nurtured by your voice, gestures, emotions, and a digital environment. You can train your Digital Dog to do tricks and perform in competitions, care for them and breed them. AllDigital Dogs are secured as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain and can be sold, swapped, and shared with other users. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Apr 12, 2022 |  |
| Blyp | Blyp is an AI-driven data analytics platform for e-commerce companies. | $4M | Seed | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| CADY | CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology. | $3M | Seed | Jan 10, 2022 |  |
| CADY | CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 10, 2022 |  |
| ART AI | ART AI creates and sells original AI generated art to consumers worldwide. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| ART AI | ART AI creates and sells original AI generated art to consumers worldwide. |  | Seed | Dec 04, 2020 |  |
| Cyrus Security | Cyrus is here to protect people from cybercrime. Our mission is to democratize security and make people safer. Cybercrime is an enormous threat to society, bigger than any one person or group and much harder to trace. Cyrus puts the person in the center and is here to protect you from this threat. Cyrus was founded by cybersecurity experts OrenArar, Jonathan Livneh, and Shahak Shalev combining their vast knowledge and experience to create the most accessible and world-class personal cybersecurity product. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2020 |  |
| Redefine Meat | Redefine Meat uses 3D printing technology, meat digital modeling, and food formulations to produce animal-free meat. Redefine Meat technology produces animal-free meat with the same appearance, texture, and flavor of animal meat, from natural and sustainable ingredients. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $6M | Seed | Sep 11, 2019 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Rainfall Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rainfall-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tal Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tal-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tal-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TAU Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tau-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [toDay.Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/today-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [97212 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/97212-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Xperiti

VC Fund · New York, United States

Xperiti is an expert network powered by natural language processing. The platform makes finding and engaging with the experts as simple as a Google search. Users communicate with the platform using free text, triggering an open-web expert search that identifies, on-boards, and takes experts through a tight compliance framework in real-time. Userscan view the expert profiles, and schedule times to hop on a call. Xperiti was established in 2018 in New York, USA by Yadin Soffer and Rafi Gidron

1 contacts available at Xperiti.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rafi Gidron | Chairman and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rafi-gidron |

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## FAQ

### What does Rafi Gidron invest in?

Rafi Gidron invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Rafi Gidron's check size?

Rafi Gidron typically joins rounds of $2M–$8M at Seed and $100k–$3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rafi Gidron participates in.

### When did Rafi Gidron last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rafi Gidron closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 23 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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