Yuval Ariav
Founder and General Partner @ Symbol
New York, United States
Yuval Ariav is a first-check investor and an entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in growing startups from zero to one and navigating them as they mature into large, complex, successful companies. He is currently the Founder and Managing Partner of Symbol, a $50M first-check sector-agnostic venture capital fund backing exceptional Israelifounders building pre-consensus companies. Yuval is the first investor in companies such as NextSilicon, Fundguard, Assured Allies, Sightful, and Approve (acquired by Tipalty). Before founding Symbol in 2021, Yuval was a General Partner at LionBird, and the co-founder and CTO of Fundbox, a pre-IPO fintech company backed by Khosla, Spark Capital, and Jeff Bezos. Prior to Fundbox, he headed Product and Engineering for Onavo, acquired by Meta for $200M. Yuval began his career in the Israeli Military Intelligence where he became an Israel Defense Prize laureate (Israel's equivalent to the Medal of Freedom). He is an adj. Prof at Columbia University, where his course Data Driven Dollars is consistently bid top 3 in the Business faculty.Yuval spends his time between Tel Aviv, New York, and SF and has a solid view of these ecosystems. He loves being a sounding board for entrepreneurs from all backgrounds thinking through venture ideas, with a soft spot for non-conventional domains considered to be hard to crack.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Yuval Ariav invests in
Stages Yuval Ariav invests in
Countries Yuval Ariav invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.3M–$28M
- Series A
- $12M–$18M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (19%)
- B2B 2 (13%)
- FinTech 2 (13%)
- Software 2 (13%)
- Financial Services 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (69%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 7 (44%)
- Israel 4 (25%)
Investments
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Jiga
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Jiga makes it easy for companies to outsource manufacturing of parts. With Jiga, hardware engineering and procurement teams transform their supply chain, getting their parts faster than ever. From sourcing, quoting, supplier / procurement / engineering communication, order management and logistics, Jiga got you covered so you canproduce much faster. | $12.1M / Series A / Nov 18, 2025 | |
Nilus
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Nilus is a plug-and-play platform that automates reconciliation, reporting, and payment workflows to empower finance teams with financial transparency and complete control.By unifying data from your payment providers, banks, platform, and ERP, Nilus creates a single source of financial truth for all your payment activity.Nilus provides aseamless plug-and-play experience for financial operators. With our automated workflows, pre-built data connectors, and smart reconciliation algorithms, Nilus eliminates dependence on tech teams and spreadsheets to get the job done. | $10M / Jan 16, 2025 | |
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Nilus
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Nilus is a plug-and-play platform that automates reconciliation, reporting, and payment workflows to empower finance teams with financial transparency and complete control.By unifying data from your payment providers, banks, platform, and ERP, Nilus creates a single source of financial truth for all your payment activity.Nilus provides aseamless plug-and-play experience for financial operators. With our automated workflows, pre-built data connectors, and smart reconciliation algorithms, Nilus eliminates dependence on tech teams and spreadsheets to get the job done. | $8.6M / Seed / Dec 14, 2022 | |
CardinalOps
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CardinalOps is a network security company that provides AI threat detection for enterprises. The company's AI and automation are used in the SaaS platform to maximize MITRE ATT&CK coverage for the existing security stack and eliminate hidden detection gaps. Detection engineers are still using spreadsheets and lists to manage their SIEM andSOC detection tools, although they are dealing with increasing attacker sophistication and constant change in their complex IT infrastructures.The platform continuously delivers new use cases by leveraging proprietary analytics and API-driven automation, allowing your SOC team to stay ahead of constant change in the attack surface and threat landscape - as well as continuously identify and remediate broken rules and misconfigured log sources. | $17.5M / Series A / Mar 03, 2022 | |
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Jiga
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Jiga makes it easy for companies to outsource manufacturing of parts. With Jiga, hardware engineering and procurement teams transform their supply chain, getting their parts faster than ever. From sourcing, quoting, supplier / procurement / engineering communication, order management and logistics, Jiga got you covered so you canproduce much faster. | $4M / Seed / Nov 01, 2021 | |
Breeze
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Breeze is a fully automated and digital insurance solution, specifically tailored for freight forwarders and logistics companies, backed by advanced technology, big data and an industry-first machine learning platform. Breeze’s digital insurance solution fully integrates with existing systems and workflows, allowing forwarders and logisticscompanies to seamlessly offer shippers better protection for their cargo (from issuing insurance policies to end-to-end claims processing), while also generating more revenue for their business.There are no implementation costs or any operational effort to setting up Breeze’s platform, and it can take minutes to be up and running. For more information visit breezeai.com | Seed / Sep 30, 2021 | |
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Breeze
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Breeze is a fully automated and digital insurance solution, specifically tailored for freight forwarders and logistics companies, backed by advanced technology, big data and an industry-first machine learning platform. Breeze’s digital insurance solution fully integrates with existing systems and workflows, allowing forwarders and logisticscompanies to seamlessly offer shippers better protection for their cargo (from issuing insurance policies to end-to-end claims processing), while also generating more revenue for their business.There are no implementation costs or any operational effort to setting up Breeze’s platform, and it can take minutes to be up and running. For more information visit breezeai.com | Pre-Seed / Sep 30, 2021 | |
Sightful
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Sightful is reinventing Augmented Reality for mass use in order to increase human productivity. | $28M / Seed / Jun 30, 2021 | |
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CardinalOps
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CardinalOps is a network security company that provides AI threat detection for enterprises. The company's AI and automation are used in the SaaS platform to maximize MITRE ATT&CK coverage for the existing security stack and eliminate hidden detection gaps. Detection engineers are still using spreadsheets and lists to manage their SIEM andSOC detection tools, although they are dealing with increasing attacker sophistication and constant change in their complex IT infrastructures.The platform continuously delivers new use cases by leveraging proprietary analytics and API-driven automation, allowing your SOC team to stay ahead of constant change in the attack surface and threat landscape - as well as continuously identify and remediate broken rules and misconfigured log sources. | $6.5M / Seed / Jan 21, 2021 | |
NextSilicon
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Next Silicon provides a new approach to HPC architecture that drives the industry forward by solving its biggest, most fundamental problems. It believes in a smarter future and wants to create new opportunities for innovation. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $51M / Series B / Oct 05, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
About Symbol
Symbol invests $500k to $3.5M in the first funding round of exceptional Israeli entrepreneurs from all backgrounds, building pre-consensus companies. We are a generalist, sector-agnostic fund, investing in B2B, consumer, and enterprise tech startups. We’re excited about meeting founders as early as possible and accompanying them throughoutideation, validation, and team building. Post-investment, we strive to provide personalized support to help them get from zero to one. Yuval Ariav, Symbol’s founder and Managing Partner, is an early investor in companies like Fundguard, NextSilicon, Assured Allies, Sightful, and Approve (acquired by Tipalty). Priorly, he was co-founder and CTO at Fundbox and led Product at Onavo (acquired by Meta).
Symbol Contacts
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Founder and General Partner
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FAQ
What does Yuval Ariav invest in?
Yuval Ariav invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, B2B and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Yuval Ariav's check size?
Yuval Ariav typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$28M at Seed and $12M–$18M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yuval Ariav participates in.
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When did Yuval Ariav last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Yuval Ariav closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 16 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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