Symbol
VC Fund
Tel Aviv, Israel
Symbol is a VC fund in Tel Aviv focused on Software and Supply Chain Management. Symbol invests $500k to $3.5M in the first funding round of exceptional Israeli entrepreneurs from all backgrounds, building pre-consensus companies. We are a generalist, sector-agnostic fund, investing in B2B, consumer, and enterprise tech startups. We’re excited about meeting founders as early as possible and accompanying them throughoutideation, validation, and team building. Post-investment, we strive to provide personalized support to help them get from zero to one. Yuval Ariav, Symbol’s founder and Managing Partner, is an early investor in companies like Fundguard, NextSilicon, Assured Allies, Sightful, and Approve (acquired by Tipalty). Priorly, he was co-founder and CTO at Fundbox and led Product at Onavo (acquired by Meta).
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $50M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Symbol invests in
Stages Symbol invests in
Countries Symbol invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $4M–$28M
- Series A
- $12M–$18M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (33%)
- Supply Chain Management 2 (22%)
- B2B 1 (11%)
- B2C 1 (11%)
- SaaS 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (44%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (22%)
- Series A 2 (22%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Country
- Israel 3 (33%)
- United States 3 (33%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Yuval Ariav
Founder and General Partner
|
Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jiga makes it easy for companies to outsource manufacturing of parts. With Jiga, hardware engineering and procurement teams transform their supply chain, getting their parts faster than ever. From sourcing, quoting, supplier / procurement / engineering communication, order management and logistics, Jiga got you covered so you canproduce much faster. | $12.1M / Series A / Nov 18, 2025 | ||
| Nilus is a plug-and-play platform that automates reconciliation, reporting, and payment workflows to empower finance teams with financial transparency and complete control.By unifying data from your payment providers, banks, platform, and ERP, Nilus creates a single source of financial truth for all your payment activity.Nilus provides aseamless plug-and-play experience for financial operators. With our automated workflows, pre-built data connectors, and smart reconciliation algorithms, Nilus eliminates dependence on tech teams and spreadsheets to get the job done. | $10M / Jan 16, 2025 | ||
| Cardinal is the system of record for product teams, allowing them to develop the correct items and fulfil data-driven goals. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Apr 05, 2023 | ||
| Nilus is a plug-and-play platform that automates reconciliation, reporting, and payment workflows to empower finance teams with financial transparency and complete control.By unifying data from your payment providers, banks, platform, and ERP, Nilus creates a single source of financial truth for all your payment activity.Nilus provides aseamless plug-and-play experience for financial operators. With our automated workflows, pre-built data connectors, and smart reconciliation algorithms, Nilus eliminates dependence on tech teams and spreadsheets to get the job done. | $8.6M / Seed / Dec 14, 2022 | ||
| CardinalOps is a network security company that provides AI threat detection for enterprises. The company's AI and automation are used in the SaaS platform to maximize MITRE ATT&CK coverage for the existing security stack and eliminate hidden detection gaps. Detection engineers are still using spreadsheets and lists to manage their SIEM andSOC detection tools, although they are dealing with increasing attacker sophistication and constant change in their complex IT infrastructures.The platform continuously delivers new use cases by leveraging proprietary analytics and API-driven automation, allowing your SOC team to stay ahead of constant change in the attack surface and threat landscape - as well as continuously identify and remediate broken rules and misconfigured log sources. | $17.5M / Series A / Mar 03, 2022 | ||
| Jiga makes it easy for companies to outsource manufacturing of parts. With Jiga, hardware engineering and procurement teams transform their supply chain, getting their parts faster than ever. From sourcing, quoting, supplier / procurement / engineering communication, order management and logistics, Jiga got you covered so you canproduce much faster. | $4M / Seed / Nov 01, 2021 | ||
| Breeze is a fully automated and digital insurance solution, specifically tailored for freight forwarders and logistics companies, backed by advanced technology, big data and an industry-first machine learning platform. Breeze’s digital insurance solution fully integrates with existing systems and workflows, allowing forwarders and logisticscompanies to seamlessly offer shippers better protection for their cargo (from issuing insurance policies to end-to-end claims processing), while also generating more revenue for their business.There are no implementation costs or any operational effort to setting up Breeze’s platform, and it can take minutes to be up and running. For more information visit breezeai.com | Pre-Seed / Sep 30, 2021 | ||
| Sightful is reinventing Augmented Reality for mass use in order to increase human productivity. | $28M / Seed / Jun 30, 2021 | ||
| CardinalOps is a network security company that provides AI threat detection for enterprises. The company's AI and automation are used in the SaaS platform to maximize MITRE ATT&CK coverage for the existing security stack and eliminate hidden detection gaps. Detection engineers are still using spreadsheets and lists to manage their SIEM andSOC detection tools, although they are dealing with increasing attacker sophistication and constant change in their complex IT infrastructures.The platform continuously delivers new use cases by leveraging proprietary analytics and API-driven automation, allowing your SOC team to stay ahead of constant change in the attack surface and threat landscape - as well as continuously identify and remediate broken rules and misconfigured log sources. | $6.5M / Seed / Jan 21, 2021 |
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FAQ
What does Symbol invest in?
Symbol invests primarily in Software, Supply Chain Management and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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.
What round sizes does Symbol invest in?
Symbol typically joins rounds of $4M–$28M at Seed and $12M–$18M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Symbol's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Symbol took part in.
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Who are the partners at Symbol?
The team at Symbol includes Yuval Ariav (Founder and General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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