# Yonatan Brender

> Yonatan Brender is a seed investor at ATOORO FUND backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ATOORO FUND](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atooro-fund)
- Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonatanbrender

Yonatan Brender is a seed investor at ATOORO FUND in Tel Aviv focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Yonatan Brender - Managing General Partner @ ATOORO FUND

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 38% |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| Education | 2 | 15% |
| Internet of Things | 2 | 15% |
| B2B | 1 | 8% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 6 | 46% |
| United States | 3 | 23% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beewise | Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey. | $80M | Series C | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| CredCompare | Never lose a patient to bad credit |  | Seed | Feb 04, 2021 |  |
| Beewise | Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey. | $22M | Series B | Dec 15, 2020 |  |
| Upword | Upword is an artificial intelligence-powered reading tool for college students and learners. Their services include NLP, artificial intelligence, education, e-learning, reading comprehension, machine learning, college students, consumer products, universities, and lifelong learning. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 17, 2020 |  |
| Beewise | Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey. | $10M | Series A | Jun 18, 2020 |  |
| Kardome | Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers.​ It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel. | $2M | Seed | Feb 03, 2020 |  |
| Beewise | Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 25, 2019 |  |
| Beewise | Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey. | $700K | Pre-Seed | Jun 17, 2019 |  |
| BlueRibbon Software | BlueRibbon is an innovative marketing platform for iGaming operators that supplies powerful, customized tools to optimize user loyalty and engagement. |  | Seed | Sep 04, 2018 |  |
| Sodyo | Sodyo builds the infrastructure that gives physical objects persistent digital identity. Deterministic visual marker protocol, encrypted and unclonable, replacing QR for Physical AI systems. Scans at 10x the range of QR with greater than 99% first-scan accuracy. Protected by 30+ global patents, with priority filings reaching back to 2012.Sodyo isthe parent platform. Vertical brands include Verimark (deterministic authentication for brand protection, infrastructure platforms, and government & civic verification), Qapture (interactive engagement for broadcast, media, advertising, and OOH), and Sodyo Labs (incubation engine for new use cases). Joint venture Zimark with ZIM Integrated Shipping covers logistics.Founded 2013 in Tel Aviv. CEO Alon Raz. Co-founders Alex Alon (CTO), Rina Alon (CPO), and Eran Katz. |  |  | May 24, 2018 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [lool ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lool-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Fortissimo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fortissimo-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Arc Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arc-impact) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Corner Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corner-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Awz Ventures Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/awz-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ATOORO FUND

VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Israel

Atooro focuses on deep-technology ventures across: AI Models Optimization, Physical AI & Robotics, Food Security, Bio-Mathematics, Computational Biology, Clinical and Health Systems Platforms. The fund targets early and seed stages, typically committing $0.5–5M at initial investment, and leading or co-leading the rounds it joins.

1 contacts available at ATOORO FUND.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yonatan Brender | Managing General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yonatan-brender |

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## FAQ

### What does Yonatan Brender invest in?

Yonatan Brender invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Education startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Yonatan Brender last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yonatan Brender closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 13 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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