# Yigal Jacoby

> Yigal Jacoby is a seed investor at LiveU backing Beauty, Mobile and Analytics. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LiveU](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liveu)
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yigal-jacoby-8569235/

Yigal Jacoby is a seed investor at LiveU focused on Beauty and Mobile. Yigal Yacoby is an angel investor.Yigal Jacoby co-founded Allot Communications in 1996 and served as both the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors until 2006, when he retired as CEO.Jacoby continued as Chariman of the Board until November 2008.In 1992, Jacoby founded Armon Networking, a manufacturer ofRMON-based network management solutions, which was sold to Bay Networks in 1996. Following this acquisition, Jacoby continued on as General Manager of Bay Network’s Network Management Division from 1996-1997.Prior to this, he held a variety of engineering and marketing management positions at Tekelec, a manufacturer of telecommunication monitoring and diagnostic equipment. Throughout his career, Jacoby has founded several start-ups in the communications field, serving on their board of directors and taking an active role in guiding the companies.Jacoby has a B.A. cum laude in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Southern California.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Beauty | 1 | 25% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |
| Analytics | 1 | 25% |
| Automotive | 1 | 25% |
| Advertising | 1 | 25% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nimble Beauty | Nimble develops a machine that offers an automatic manicure for nails based on 3D image processing technologies. The company was founded in 2016 by Avichay Mor-Yosef and Omri Moran and is based in Brooklyn, New York, United States. | $10M | Seed | May 11, 2021 |  |
| DriveU.auto | The DriveU.auto connectivity platform enables teleoperation of autonomous vehicles using cellular bonding and dynamic encoding. The platform is already deployed and used live on public roads. It provides high speed, low latency, and ultra-reliable transmission of 4k video, audio streams, high-speed data, and control channels, and is available withhardware, or as a software-only implementation. The platform’s SDK and APIs enable quick and straightforward integration. | $4M | Seed | Jun 23, 2020 |  |
| KitLocate | Power you app with location smarts! KitLocate is a mobile location cloud app platform for iOS and android. KitLocate makes mobile apps location aware. Offering developers and brands effective user engagement and services based on their users real-time location; exactly at the right place and time they need it. The KitLocate locationplatform combines the power of always-on, battery efficient location tracking SDK for your app, big data smarts and robust messaging capabilities. Together, your mobile app users have your brand at their side as they commute, work, shop and dine – enabling you to send relevant offers, at the exact time and place, they need your advice and are ready act on it. Developers love their easy to implement SDK that is super battery efficient (consuming less than 1% / hr) and provides error free geo data and simple to deploy geo location tools like geo-fencing… Marketers loves their game changing Consumer Location Intelligence platform that drives sales and brand loyalty through location based insights. | $750K | Seed | May 01, 2013 |  |
| Appforma | Appforma is the world’s best local marketing agency, and it’s virtual. Founded in 2011 by a team of experienced entrepreneurs and marketers, Appforma’s mission is to help small businesses grow by providing the most effective, easy to use, affordable and aesthetic marketing solution out there. As a result, and after thousands of man hours,Appforma has designed the world’s best virtual marketing assistant. The combination of Appforma's Artificial Marketing Intelligence with creative ideas and amazing content helps local businesses achieve amazing results with limited budgets and minimal time. They made it so easy, that business owners can approve and manage their entire marketing program from their smartphones. Appforma will: Create a 12 month program with 50 marketing activities Run Facebook advertising Post on Facebook and Twitter Create and execute email marketing Run social contests, promotions and polls Manage and run loyalty program and retention activities So you’re sure to get: relevant fans, leads and sales Appforma - The world’s best local marketing agency for local businesses! | $1.7M | Seed | Feb 01, 2013 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aristagora VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aristagora-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IBI Tech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibi-tech-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kaedan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaedan-capital-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LionBird](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lionbird) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Müller Medien](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m-ller-medien) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About LiveU

VC Fund · Kfar Saba, Israel

LiveU creates, develops and markets real-time video technologies and solutions that enable video broadcasters to uplink and transmit live instantly, anywhere, and at anytime.

5 contacts available at LiveU.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yigal Jacoby | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yigal-jacoby |
| Avi Cohen | Founder, COO & GM | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avichai-cohen |
| Daniel Pisarski | VP of Engineering, North America | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-pisarski |
| Ronen Artman | Vice President, Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ronen-artman |
| Samuel Wasserman | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samuel-wasserman |

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## FAQ

### What does Yigal Jacoby invest in?

Yigal Jacoby invests primarily in Beauty, Mobile and Analytics startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yigal Jacoby's check size?

Yigal Jacoby typically joins rounds of $750k–$10M 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 Yigal Jacoby participates in.

### When did Yigal Jacoby last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yigal Jacoby closed in May 2021. Shizune tracks 4 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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