# Ranan Grobman

> Ranan Grobman is a Series C investor at Jerusalem Global Ventures backing Consumer Electronics. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Jerusalem Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerusalem-global-ventures)
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jan 2015
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://il.linkedin.com/in/ranan-grobman-4427522
- Website: http://www.shefacap.com

Ranan Grobman is a Series C investor at Jerusalem Global Ventures focused on Consumer Electronics and Mobile. Ranan Grobman - Managing Partner @ Shefa Capital

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Consumer Electronics | 3 | 33% |
| Mobile | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Wireless | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 2 | 22% |
| Series D | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Series E | 1 | 11% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 7 | 78% |
| United States | 2 | 22% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Moovit | Moovit is a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) provider and the world’s #1 transit app. Moovit simplifies your urban mobility in +2700 cities all around the world, making getting around town via mass transit easier and more convenient. Moovit has more than 300 million users, and was named Best Local App of 2016 by Google and Best of 2017 app by Apple.By combining information from public transit operators and authorities with live information from the user community, Moovit offers travelers a real-time picture, including the best route for their journey. The Moovit community sends active reports about their travel experience, such as bus congestion levels, cleanliness, and more to help others have a better travel experience.Moovit generates up to four billion anonymous data points a day that comprise the world's largest repository of transit data. The Big Data gathering is aided by Moovit’s network of more than 500,000 local editors, called “Mooviters”, who help map out and maintain local transit information in cities that would otherwise be unserved.Moovit is available for free on iOS, Android & Web in over 2,700 cities, across 86 countries worldwide, and can be used in 44 languages. | $50M | Series C | Jan 14, 2015 |  |
| SolarEdge Technologiesa | SolarEdge Technologies, a global leader in the DC power optimizer market. The company provides module-level electronics for solar power harvesting and monitoring systems for residential, commercial and utility-scale solar photovoltaic installers. The SolarEdge portfolio of products includes power optimizers and a web portal for module-leveloptimization and monitoring, as well as PV inverters, specialized to work with power optimizers. SolarEdge envisions that every solar module will be individually managed by DC-DC module-level electronics, accelerating the pace towards grid parity and making clean energy affordable.Founded in 2006, SolarEdge established the DC power optimizer segment and is leading it with over 70% market share. By Q4 2012, SolarEdge has shipped over 1,600,000 power optimizers to more than 40 countries worldwide. With strategic partnerships across the PV value-chain from module manufacturers to integrators, SolarEdge installations can be found in five continents. |  | Series E | Sep 01, 2014 |  |
| Altair Semiconductor | Altair is a fabless semiconductor company based in Israel that is developing state of the art, ultra low power mobile WiMAX silicon solutions optimized for handsets and handheld devices.Altair was founded in May 2005 by former Texas Instruments executives with extensive broadband and wireless silicon experience. Their products are thesmallest, lowest power solutions in the industry, offering superb mobility performance and enabling the migration of WiMAX from a fixed wireless PC technology to a true next generation mobile technology.Altair's management and technology executives were among the founding team of Libit Signal Processing, a fabless chip company acquired by Texas Instruments in 1999 for $365 million. The company's world class scientists, algorithm, VLSI and software engineers have in the past, jointly developed over twenty complex mixed-signal silicon products, spanning six different broadband wired and wireless technologies.Altair is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum and a member of the IEEE802.16e. | $25M | Series F | Jun 06, 2014 |  |
| Wilocity | Wilocity Ltd. develops 60 GHz wireless chipsets for the notebook and peripheral markets. Its wireless solution provides gigabit wireless networking and point-to-point connectivity. The company's gigabit wireless semiconductor solution brings a desktop experience to mobile computers. Wilocity Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Caesarea,Israel. |  | Series D | Oct 15, 2013 |  |
| Storone | Storone provides information storage system facilities for small and medium enterprises businesses. It currently develops a software platform to distribute large scale storage system. Storone is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2012 by Gal Naor. | $20M | Series A | Mar 21, 2012 |  |
| Ginger Software | Ginger specializes in developing mobile keyboard and writing enhancement apps that enable everyone to quickly write high-quality, accurate messages. Ginger has developed the NLP platform (natural language processing), which is the foundation for its advanced text analysis applications. This platform lies at the core of all of Ginger's mobile,web-based and PC products. | $6.3M | Series D | Feb 28, 2012 |  |
| Powermat Technologies | Powermat’s solutions provide a hybrid approach to wireless power, bridging the gap between magnetic induction and resonance, providing more power, freedom, and connectivity. Powermat's innovative platforms provide both standard-based (Qi®) and proprietary wireless power technology for automotive, robotics, drones, consumer electronics, medicaldevices, IoT, telecom (5G), and Industrial applications. The company's software-based end-to-end wireless power platforms, which can be integrated into any standard microcontroller, provide a unique approach that offers more flexibility in design (e.g., coil form factor) and enables our customers to tailor-fit smart power solutions with data connectivity at a lower cost. To-date, Powermat has over 200 patent submissions, 100+ granted patents dating back to 2007 (pre-standards). | $80M |  | Oct 06, 2011 |  |
| PrimeSense | Prime Sense's concept is a device, which allows a computer to perceive the world in 3D and derive an understanding of the world based on sight, just the way humans do.On March 31, 2010, PrimeSense confirmed that it was the technology behind Microsoft's much-touted "Project Natal".The device includes a sensor, which seesa user (including their complete surroundings), and a digital component, or "brain" which learns and understands user movement within those surroundings. Prime Sense's interactive device can see, track and react to user movements outside the computer, all without change of environment or wearable equipment for the end user. The closed device is plug and play and platform independent.The company envisages the following uses: -Interact with video games by using body movement and gestures. -Interact with digital devices using menus on a screen as opposed to mouse and keyboard-Improved video communication with for example virtual backgrounds and virtual drawing boards. | $10M | Series C | Jun 20, 2011 |  |
| Lumus | Lumus (www.lumus-optical.com) products enable the fusion of the digital and physical world, allowing businesses and individuals to maximize the potential of augmented reality and smart eyewear today. Lumus has developed leading technology for see-through wearable displays, via its patented Light-guide Optical Element (LOE) platform to marketleading producers of smart glasses and augmented reality eyewear. Lumus' technology enables a small natural looking form factor, wide field of view and true see-through performance. | $6M | Series B | Jan 24, 2005 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Rainfall Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rainfall-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Vintage Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vintage-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BMW i Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bmw-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BRM Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brm-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CCM Energy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ccm-energy) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Jerusalem Global Ventures

VC Fund · Jerusalem, Israel

Since the firm was founded in 1994, Jerusalem Global's goal has been to support private Israeli technology initiatives and to generate superior returns to investors. Over the last two decades, the partners of Jerusalem Global Ventures have developed strong ties with the top Israeli entrepreneurs and visionaries enabling JGV to invest in thebest of Israel's entrepreneurs and help their portfolio companies build winning management teams.

3 contacts available at Jerusalem Global Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Reich | Partner & Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-reich |
| Ranan Grobman | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ranan-grobman |
| Shlomo Kalish | Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shlomo-kalish-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ranan Grobman invest in?

Ranan Grobman invests primarily in Consumer Electronics, Mobile and Software startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ranan Grobman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ranan Grobman closed in Jan 2015. Shizune tracks 9 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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