# Yaron Samid

> Yaron Samid is a seed investor at Novadea backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Novadea](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/novadea)
- Location: Ramat Hasharon, Israel
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yaronsamid
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/YaronSamid
- Website: http://www.yaron.io/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/yaron

Yaron Samid is an Israeli-American technology entrepreneur, investor, and startup community builder. Yaron is the founder of TechAviv, the 3K-member global Israeli startup founders club, and is the managing partner of TechAviv Founder Partners, a pre-seed venture fund, backed and powered by over 100 of the world’s most successful company builders.Previously, Yaron was the founder and CEO at BillGuard (Acq. by Prosper), founder & CPO at Pando (Acq. by Microsoft), and a founding board director at CloudLock (Acq. by Cisco) and Pond5.Yaron lives in Tel Aviv with his family and is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford and Columbia Business School. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$20M |
| Pre-Seed | $2M–$10M |
| Series A | $9M–$47M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 26% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 22% |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 17% |
| SaaS | 3 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 13% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 52% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 17% |
| Series A | 3 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 9% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 35% |
| Israel | 6 | 26% |
| Brazil | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Leo AI | Leo™ is the world's first engineering design copilot, empowering engineers and designers to turn ideas into products in seconds. Leo's generative AI platform transforms text, sketches, specs, and CAD constraints into DFMA-optimized, full-assembly 3D CAD models, saving companies up to 70% of their engineering time and cost. Leading AIresearchers and mechanical engineers from MIT, Technion, Microsoft, and Elbit Systems founded Leo in 2023. | $5M | Seed | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| Cellular Intelligence | Somite is a mission to transform the lives of millions of people by leveraging AI to produce human tissue for cell-based therapies. | $47M | Series A | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Cellular Intelligence | Somite is a mission to transform the lives of millions of people by leveraging AI to produce human tissue for cell-based therapies. | $10.3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 10, 2024 |  |
| Together AI | Together AI provides a cloud platform for developing, training, fine-tuning, and deploying generative artificial intelligence models using open-source technologies. Its services include serverless and dedicated model inference, GPU compute infrastructure, managed storage, code sandboxes, and model customization tools that support AI applicationdevelopment and production workloads. The platform also offers APIs and deployment options that enable developers and organizations to build, run, and manage language, image, audio, vision, and code models without maintaining underlying infrastructure. | $20M | Seed | May 15, 2023 |  |
| retrain.ai | Retrain AI is a talent Intelligence platform that transforms the way organizations develop, upskill and reskill their employees using AI and Machine Learning algorithms. retrain's proprietary AI models capture business growth drivers, analyze skills and skill shift cycles, and predict the Jobs-of-the-Future, allowing expiring. The platformmaps the organization's skills inventory, quantifies talent gaps, and recommends personalized training pathways. | $14M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Leo AI | Leo™ is the world's first engineering design copilot, empowering engineers and designers to turn ideas into products in seconds. Leo's generative AI platform transforms text, sketches, specs, and CAD constraints into DFMA-optimized, full-assembly 3D CAD models, saving companies up to 70% of their engineering time and cost. Leading AIresearchers and mechanical engineers from MIT, Technion, Microsoft, and Elbit Systems founded Leo in 2023. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Jit | JIT is the platform that allows dev organizations to adopt the MVS mindset and progress iteratively in a just-in-time manner | $38.5M | Seed | Jun 15, 2022 |  |
| One AI | One AI is an API-first, language AI service built for developers. Embed our API to analyze, process, and transform text in your project. | $8M | Seed | May 30, 2022 |  |
| Oshi | Alternative Protein - Stealth Mode | $12.5M | Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Aktivate | Aktivate provides a SaaS based tecnology platform for K-12 schools to manage and fund scholastic sports. The system features administration and engagement tools to bring together student-athletes, their families, schools, and valued partners. | $4.8M | Seed | Sep 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [.406 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/406-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [boldstart ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hetz Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hetz-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BackBone Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backbone-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Benhamou Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benhamou-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LAMA Partners (fka FXP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fxp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Novadea

VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Israel

Novadea is an angel investment firm supporting the world's best founders.

1 contacts available at Novadea.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yaron Samid | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yaron-samid |

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## FAQ

### What does Yaron Samid invest in?

Yaron Samid invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yaron Samid's check size?

Yaron Samid typically joins rounds of $4M–$20M at Seed, $2M–$10M at Pre-Seed and $9M–$47M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yaron Samid participates in.

### When did Yaron Samid last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yaron Samid closed in Sep 2025. 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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