# Yahal Zilka

> Yahal Zilka is a Series A investor at Magma Venture Partners backing Software and Health Care. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Magma Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magma-venture-partners)
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yahalzilka

Yahal Zilka is a Series A investor at Magma Venture Partners focused on Software and Health Care. Yahal is the Managing Partner of 10D and the co-founder of Magma Venture Partners. Magma is positioned as the leading Venture Capital Fund in Israel, with numerous success stories that Yahal has led.Prior to Magma, Yahal served as the CFO of VocalTec Communications from 1995 to 1999, where he was part of the team that pioneered VoIP. Yahal ledthe company from seed to its public offering on Nasdaq (NASDAQ:CALL).Yahal is very active with the business development and financing-related activities of the companies that he works with. Yahal led and was on the boards of Waze (acquired by Google), Onavo (acquired by Facebook), Argus (acquired by Continental), DesignArt Networks (acquired by Qualcomm), Phonetic Systems (acquired by Nuance), and Adience (acquired by Teddy Sagi Group). Yahal currently serves as a director on the boards of Valens, Applitools, Iguaz.io, Hola, Scylla DB, Gloat, and Magisto, among others. He is also an investor in leading companies such as Vayyar, Fundbox, MeMed, and Replay (acquired by Intel). For the past several years, Yahal has been very involved in the automotive and mobility ecosystem, building strong relationships, and focusing on the automotive industry as a major investment opportunity. As a part of Magma, Yahal has invested in seven companies focused on the automotive space and autonomous driving enabling technologies, including Waze, Autotalks, Valens, Innoviz, Argus, Iguazio, and JpU.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 16% |
| Health Care | 3 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 12% |
| Apps | 2 | 8% |
| Social Media | 2 | 8% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 32% |
| Series B | 8 | 32% |
| Seed | 3 | 12% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 28% |
| Israel | 5 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vortex Imaging | Vortex Imaging develops medical imaging devices. | $12M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 18, 2026 |  |
| Safebooks AI | Safebooks AI develops a platform for enterprises to automate the quality verification of financial data. It enables enterprises to sign off on 100% of their financial data. | $15M | Seed | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| Exodigo | Exodigo is a non-intrusive subsurface imaging platform that provides a digital geolocated 3D map of buried assets. The company utilizes a combination of multi-sensor fusion and artificial intelligence to dramatically improve accuracy and time to map while reducing damages and costs associated with unnecessary excavation. It also helpstransportation, energy, utility, and construction leaders to design, dig, and build by providing accurate subsurface intelligence to derisk the underground. | $96M | Series B | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Zorro | Zorro is an insurtech company that provides health insurance and health services. It reduces health insurance costs for employers and helps them create personalized, better benefits that employees value and want. | $20M | Series A | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Obligo | Obligo rids both landlords and renters from the burden of security deposits and makes the move-in process as simple as checking into a hotel. Owners and managers use Obligo to simplify their move-in process, comply with changing regulatory landscapes, and make their listings more appealing to renters.As the only non-insurance deposit alternative,Obligo’s credit-based model keeps landlords secure and renters accountable by combining Open Banking technology and AI-based underwriting. | $35M |  | Oct 21, 2024 |  |
| Exodigo | Exodigo is a non-intrusive subsurface imaging platform that provides a digital geolocated 3D map of buried assets. The company utilizes a combination of multi-sensor fusion and artificial intelligence to dramatically improve accuracy and time to map while reducing damages and costs associated with unnecessary excavation. It also helpstransportation, energy, utility, and construction leaders to design, dig, and build by providing accurate subsurface intelligence to derisk the underground. | $75M | Series A | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| Zorro | Zorro is an insurtech company that provides health insurance and health services. It reduces health insurance costs for employers and helps them create personalized, better benefits that employees value and want. | $11.5M | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| Exodigo | Exodigo is a non-intrusive subsurface imaging platform that provides a digital geolocated 3D map of buried assets. The company utilizes a combination of multi-sensor fusion and artificial intelligence to dramatically improve accuracy and time to map while reducing damages and costs associated with unnecessary excavation. It also helpstransportation, energy, utility, and construction leaders to design, dig, and build by providing accurate subsurface intelligence to derisk the underground. | $29M | Seed | Feb 17, 2022 |  |
| Obligo | Obligo rids both landlords and renters from the burden of security deposits and makes the move-in process as simple as checking into a hotel. Owners and managers use Obligo to simplify their move-in process, comply with changing regulatory landscapes, and make their listings more appealing to renters.As the only non-insurance deposit alternative,Obligo’s credit-based model keeps landlords secure and renters accountable by combining Open Banking technology and AI-based underwriting. | $35M | Series B | Nov 04, 2021 |  |
| Gloat | Gloat is the first-ever Internal Talent Marketplace, used by the world’s leading enterprises. Gloat enables enterprises to harness the hidden potential of talent throughout the organization by matching people's skills and aspirations to internal career opportunities that are right for them and provides mission-critical organizational agility,visibility, and insights. Gloat is deployed at some of the most respected brands in the world with global deployments in over 120 countries across Unilever, PepsiCo, Standard Chartered Bank, Schneider Electric, Nestlé, HSBC, Seagate and many more. | $57M | Series C | Jun 16, 2021 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Pitango VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pitango-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [83North](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock-partners-israel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Horizons Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/horizons-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [iAngels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iangels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Jibe Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jibe-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Magma Venture Partners

VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Israel

Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.

5 contacts available at Magma Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gilad Shany | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gilad-shany |
| Modi Rosen | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/modi-rosen |
| Shraga Katz | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shraga-katz |
| Yahal Zilka | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yahal-zilka |
| Zvi Limon | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zvi-limon |

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## FAQ

### What does Yahal Zilka invest in?

Yahal Zilka invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Yahal Zilka last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yahal Zilka closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 25 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?

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