# Yori Nelken

> Yori Nelken is a seed investor at OurCrowd backing Analytics. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [OurCrowd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ourcrowd)
- Location: Jerusalem, Israel
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2016
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelken/

Yori Nelken is a General Partner at Cognitiv Ventures, He is a serial entrepreneur and investor with over 18 years of leadership experience driving startup companies from concept to success. With his deep experience in the trenches building multiple businesses from the ground up and through their exits, Yori has emerged a highly sought-after CEOcoach, mentor, advisor and investor.Originally from Jerusalem, Yori was the founder and CEO of Banter, a pioneering natural language processing company. He successfully established the company as a leader in the call-center space, serving some of the largest US banks (including Wells Fargo and Bank of America), until its acquisition by IBM. After selling Banter in 2004, Yori joined the Mayfield Fund in Silicon Valley as entrepreneur-in-residence, where he provided deal flow and due-diligence support as well as portfolio mentoring. In 2005, Yori founded TimeBridge, a pre-cloud calendar management assistant, an early example of successful viral promotion within a corporate setting. With a corporate user base of millions of users, TimeBridge was acquired by MerchantCircle.Yori also co-founded Local Sciences, a local data-as-a-service provider, successfully engineering its pivot to become a broad data collection and analysis technology. Local Sciences quickly became the largest accurate local database for service businesses in the Health & Beauty and Automotive verticals, providing data to YP, Groupon and other industry leaders. Yori returned to Israel and joined OurCrowd as General Partner after living in the Bay Area for 14 years.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Internet of Things | 1 | 100% |
| Information Services | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Centaur Analytics, Inc. | Centaur Analytics is a industrial data and IoT analytics platform for post-harvest quality monitoring.Centaur Analytics use data science and sensors to monitor and predict product quality and safety for grains, like malting barley, wheat, and other commodities. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 28, 2016 | http://centaur.ag/ |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [PJ Tech Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pj-tech-catalyst) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About OurCrowd

VC Fund · Jerusalem, Israel

OurCrowd is a venture investing platform that enables institutions and individuals to invest and engage in emerging companies. OurCrowd was started in 2013, driven by the idea that the business of building startups grows bigger and better when the global 'crowd' gains access to VC-level investment opportunities.

5 contacts available at OurCrowd.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Shore | Vice President, Investor Relations - Canada | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-shore-2 |
| Denes Ban | Managing Director, Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denes-ban |
| Etai Kramer | Managing Director, Head Funds | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/etai-kramer |
| Lenny Roth | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lenny-roth |
| Steven Blumgart | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-blumgart |

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## FAQ

### What does Yori Nelken invest in?

Yori Nelken invests primarily in Analytics, Internet of Things and Information Services startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Yori Nelken last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yori Nelken closed in Sep 2016. Shizune tracks 1 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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