Yanki Margalit
Investor @ Zeekit (a Walmart company)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Yanki Margalit is an Israeli entrepreneur, investor, and speaker best known for starting the Internet security company Aladdin Knowledge Systems, which was sold in 2009. He is a partner in the seed investment fund Innodo Ventures and a chairman of several technology startup companies, including SpaceIL. SpaceIL is a non-profit space technologyorganization that plans to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon by 2015 and is currently competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.Yanki is also engaged with several non-profit organizations, including Idealist.org, Latet, College4all.org, Meet.mit.edu, Adama.org.il, and SpaceIL.com He has appeared as a professional speaker on technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and human evolution, while studying and working in his more recent interests of biotechnology, clean energy, and space exploration.Described as the Israeli Singularity prophet, Yanki took a key role in introducing Singularity University in Israel. He lectures on such topics as Israel as a startup nation, the future of silicon and carbon, the maker movement, entrepreneurship and innovation, and SpaceIL’s goal to land a spaceship on the moon.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Yanki Margalit invests in
Stages Yanki Margalit invests in
Countries Yanki Margalit invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $100k–$2.3M
Investment Focus
Stage
- Seed 4 (67%)
- Angel 1 (17%)
- Series A 1 (17%)
Country
- Israel 3 (50%)
- United States 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Digital Layers
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An intuitive, social music platform enabling music lovers at any level of expertise to take part in music creation using a multi-track format.discover, create, remix, collaborate & play music with studio like sound. Based on the principals of the open source concept, harnessing the wisdom of the crowd to ignite the first real open musicarena. | $2M / Seed / Oct 01, 2015 | |
Drippler
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Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology | $4.5M / Series A / Jun 29, 2015 | |
iAngels
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iAngels is a VC and angel investment platform that leverages due diligence and analytics to enable accredited investors around the world the ability to invest in early-stage technology deals in Israel. | $2.3M / Seed / Mar 24, 2015 | |
Waveit
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Waveit is a content sharing application that enables its users to upload images and videos, and create text-based content through its platform. The application eliminates the need for followers or popularity, allows its users to check virtual reach grow by tracking their content on the map, edit content with its photo editor, and more. Based in TelAviv, Israel, Waveit was launched in 2014 by Yaniv Finkelshetein and Barak Finkelshtein. | $125K / Seed / Feb 28, 2014 | |
Scoreoid
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The Ultimate Gaming Backend-as-a-Service for Game Developers! Scoreoid - developed by game developers, for game developers is a non-restrictive, reliable and easy to use Gaming Backend-as-a-Service. They help game developers to retain and engage with their players! | $100K / Seed / Feb 06, 2013 | |
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Drippler
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Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology | $250K / Angel / Jun 09, 2011 |
Co-Investors
iAngels
1 deal together
Samurai Incubate
1 deal together
Titanium Investments
1 deal together
TMT Investments
1 deal together
About Zeekit (a Walmart company)
Zeekit brings image processing, big data, e-commerce, and fun together to revolutionize the shopping experience. With Zeekit you can upload your own photo and virtually try on clothing while shopping online.
Zeekit (a Walmart company) Contacts
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Alon Kristal
Co-Founder & CTO
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Yael Vizel
CEO & Co-founder
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Yanki Margalit
Investor
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FAQ
What does Yanki Margalit invest in?
Yanki Margalit invests primarily in B2B, iOS and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Yanki Margalit's check size?
Yanki Margalit typically joins rounds of $100k–$2.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yanki Margalit participates in.
When did Yanki Margalit last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Yanki Margalit closed in Oct 2015. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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