# Yoav Vilner

> Yoav Vilner is a pre-seed investor at Walnut (Manhattan) backing Apps and Internet. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Walnut](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/walnut-a9f9)
- Location: Manhattan, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoav-vilner/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/YoavVilner
- Website: https://walnut.io
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yoavilner

Yoav Vilner is a pre-seed investor at Walnut in Manhattan focused on Apps and Internet. Yoav Vilner is the CEO and Co-Founder of Walnut.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $6M–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 50% |
| Internet | 1 | 50% |
| Social Media | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Enso | enso Designed for non-technical people, enso offers the world's first experience in which AI bots provide premium-quality services directly to you for a fraction of the cost. | $6M | Pre-Seed | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| The Gist | The Gist provides personalized summaries of Slack discussions. The company's tools are designed to make it easier to work together, collaborate, manage tasks and projects, and consume information. For a more fulfilling and productive employee experience, it's time to stop working for the tools and start working for them. It saves timewith summaries of insights from supported bots for Slack. | $7M | Pre-Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aleph](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleph-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Darkmode Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darkmode-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [fresh.fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fresh-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NFX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfxcapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [StageOne Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stageone-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Walnut

VC Fund · New York, United States

Walnut offers a failure-free, codeless, and 100% customizable platform that empowers every sales rep to own their successful sales demo experience. It aims to redefine inside sales in the new age. The first-of-its-kind codeless platform integrates with a company's CRMs and data sources, making the process of creating sales demos both automatedand customizable. Walnut's drag-and-drop solution eliminates the need for back-end teams and streamlines the demoing process by placing full control back in the hands of the sales team. To achieve a fail-proof experience, the demos are run live, even when the real product is offline. Founded in 2020 by serial entrepreneurs Yoav VIlner and Danni Friedland, Walnut is headquartered in New York City.

5 contacts available at Walnut.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adir Ben-Yehuda | Vice President of Sales & Founding Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adir-ben-yehuda |
| Alon Kirmayer | Head Of Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alon-kirmayer |
| Danni Friedland | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danni-friedland |
| Emmanuel Cohen | Head of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emmanuel-cohen |
| Itay Adler | Technical Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itay-adler |

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## FAQ

### What does Yoav Vilner invest in?

Yoav Vilner invests primarily in Apps, Internet and Social Media startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yoav Vilner's check size?

Yoav Vilner typically joins rounds of $6M–$7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yoav Vilner participates in.

### When did Yoav Vilner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yoav Vilner closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 2 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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