Yossi Sela
Founder & Managing Partner @ Gemini Israel Ventures
Yossi Sela is a Series C investor at Gemini Israel Ventures focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Yossi Sela has served as a director of our company since 2013.Sela is the Managing Partner of Gemini Israel Funds, a leading Venture Capital fund, which invests primarily in seed and early stage Israeli technology companies. In this capacity, Sela sits on the boards of directors of a number of Gemini portfolio companies, including JFrog Ltd.,LoyalBlocks Ltd., QualiSystems Ltd. and Xjet Solar Ltd.Sela holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from Tel Aviv University in Israel.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
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Industries Yossi Sela invests in
Stages Yossi Sela invests in
Countries Yossi Sela invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (14%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (14%)
- Internet 2 (10%)
- Advertising 2 (10%)
- CRM 1 (5%)
Stage
- Series C 5 (24%)
- Series A 4 (19%)
- Series B 4 (19%)
- Series D 2 (10%)
- Series E 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 5 (24%)
- Israel 1 (5%)
- United Kingdom 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Minute Media is a global technology and content company specializing in sports and culture. Minute Media’s proprietary tech platform enables the creation, distribution and monetization of digital short-form content experiences. They own leading sports content brands, The Players' Tribune, FanSided, 90min and STN Video, while also providingcontent creation tools for leagues, athletes and professional creators. The company reaches 200M monthly users, powering 1,500+ content creators and 250+ distribution partners across 14 global markets in 10 languages. Minute Media has offices in New York, London, Tel-Aviv, São Paulo and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.MinuteMedia.com. | $40M / Series I / Feb 26, 2020 | ||
| Minute Media is a global technology and content company specializing in sports and culture. Minute Media’s proprietary tech platform enables the creation, distribution and monetization of digital short-form content experiences. They own leading sports content brands, The Players' Tribune, FanSided, 90min and STN Video, while also providingcontent creation tools for leagues, athletes and professional creators. The company reaches 200M monthly users, powering 1,500+ content creators and 250+ distribution partners across 14 global markets in 10 languages. Minute Media has offices in New York, London, Tel-Aviv, São Paulo and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.MinuteMedia.com. | $39.2M / Series G / Jun 12, 2019 | ||
| QualiSystems develops and markets software test automation solutions for telecom equipment, network services, and embedded system testing. Its TestShell software framework optimizes device and systems testing while reducing testing time and overhead efforts. The framework covers the entire testing cycle with GUI based test editor, automatedparallel test execution, vendor agnostic integration to existing test equipment, automated topology set up, resources scheduling, lab management, and reporting and analysis capabilities. It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California.The company headquarters and expert R&D team are located in Israel. Direct Sales and Customer Support centers are held in United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, China, Germany, Korea and Taiwan. Partner representatives are held across EMEA, APAC and North America. The company was founded in 2004 as Nibea Quality Management Solutions and changed its name to QualiSystems Ltd. in March 2007. | $22.5M / Series C / Dec 11, 2018 | ||
| Samanage is the Service Success Company, enabling organizations worldwide to deliver a smarter service experience to their employees. Samanage’s service management software gives users solutions that allow them to deliver fast and repeatable services across an organization -- simplifying complex tasks and automating basic ones. As the mostreviewed and highest rated service desk, Samanage solutions deliver insights to its users and empower them to increase productivity across their organization.The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Cary, North Carolina. In 2019. Samanage was acquired by | $30M / Series D / Nov 08, 2018 | ||
| Samanage is the Service Success Company, enabling organizations worldwide to deliver a smarter service experience to their employees. Samanage’s service management software gives users solutions that allow them to deliver fast and repeatable services across an organization -- simplifying complex tasks and automating basic ones. As the mostreviewed and highest rated service desk, Samanage solutions deliver insights to its users and empower them to increase productivity across their organization.The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Cary, North Carolina. In 2019. Samanage was acquired by | $20M / Series C / Feb 14, 2017 | ||
| Minute Media is a global technology and content company specializing in sports and culture. Minute Media’s proprietary tech platform enables the creation, distribution and monetization of digital short-form content experiences. They own leading sports content brands, The Players' Tribune, FanSided, 90min and STN Video, while also providingcontent creation tools for leagues, athletes and professional creators. The company reaches 200M monthly users, powering 1,500+ content creators and 250+ distribution partners across 14 global markets in 10 languages. Minute Media has offices in New York, London, Tel-Aviv, São Paulo and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.MinuteMedia.com. | $5M / Series D / May 17, 2016 | ||
| Based in California, Israel and France and founded by longtime field-experts, JFrog is the creator of Artifactory and Bintray; the company that provided the market with the first Binary Repository solution and software distribution social platform. Through its flagship product Artifactory, JFrog has changed the way developers and DevOps teamstore and manage binary code, allowing for complete control over the full software release flow. JFrog continues to set the software industry standard with Bintray, today's leading software distribution platform which offers a developer centric, social platform for storage and distribution of software libraries.JFrog's end-to-end solution—from Development to Distribution—is a vital part of a faster, more efficient application development and release processes that leads today's Continuous Integration and Deployment space.JFrog’s audience is both software developers and DevOps teams. The company positioned itself between these two groups and managing one of their common challenges in software artifacts, JFrog is at the hub of the Devops domain where development and IT operations meet.JFrog aspires to set the world’s Software Distribution standards! | $50M / Series C / Jan 20, 2016 | ||
| Minute Media is a global technology and content company specializing in sports and culture. Minute Media’s proprietary tech platform enables the creation, distribution and monetization of digital short-form content experiences. They own leading sports content brands, The Players' Tribune, FanSided, 90min and STN Video, while also providingcontent creation tools for leagues, athletes and professional creators. The company reaches 200M monthly users, powering 1,500+ content creators and 250+ distribution partners across 14 global markets in 10 languages. Minute Media has offices in New York, London, Tel-Aviv, São Paulo and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.MinuteMedia.com. | $15M / Series C / Oct 06, 2015 | ||
| Samanage is the Service Success Company, enabling organizations worldwide to deliver a smarter service experience to their employees. Samanage’s service management software gives users solutions that allow them to deliver fast and repeatable services across an organization -- simplifying complex tasks and automating basic ones. As the mostreviewed and highest rated service desk, Samanage solutions deliver insights to its users and empower them to increase productivity across their organization.The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Cary, North Carolina. In 2019. Samanage was acquired by | $16M / Series B / May 20, 2015 | ||
| QualiSystems develops and markets software test automation solutions for telecom equipment, network services, and embedded system testing. Its TestShell software framework optimizes device and systems testing while reducing testing time and overhead efforts. The framework covers the entire testing cycle with GUI based test editor, automatedparallel test execution, vendor agnostic integration to existing test equipment, automated topology set up, resources scheduling, lab management, and reporting and analysis capabilities. It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California.The company headquarters and expert R&D team are located in Israel. Direct Sales and Customer Support centers are held in United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, China, Germany, Korea and Taiwan. Partner representatives are held across EMEA, APAC and North America. The company was founded in 2004 as Nibea Quality Management Solutions and changed its name to QualiSystems Ltd. in March 2007. | $8M / Oct 28, 2014 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Gemini Israel Ventures
Since 1993, Gemini Israel Funds has helped many of Israel's most talented entrepreneurs to build innovative and world-changing companies.With over $700M under management, Gemini invests in early stage and growth-stage companies across a range of industries including communications, consumer electronics, enterprise software, Internetsoftware and services, semiconductors, and environmental technologies. The companies backed by their investment professionals include Allot Communications, Ceragon Networks, Commtouch, Diligent Technologies, Mellanox Technologies, Outbrain, Passave, Precise Software Solutions, PrimeSense, Saifun Semiconductors, Traiana, Takadu, Verisity, and many others.
Gemini Israel Ventures Contacts
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Menashe Ezra
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Yossi Sela
Founder & Managing Partner
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Anat Shukhman
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Ed Mlavsky
Founding Partner
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Moran Shemesh
Legal Counsel
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What does Yossi Sela invest in?
Yossi Sela invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Internet startups, most often at Series C and Series A stage. Most of the 21 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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The most recent investment recorded for Yossi Sela closed in Feb 2020. Shizune tracks 21 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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