# Yuval Baharav > Yuval Baharav is a Series A investor at ooVoo backing Machine Learning. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [ooVoo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oovoo) - Total investments: 10 - Last investment: Feb 2022 - Lead investor: 50% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuval-baharav-01a2681b Yuval Baharav is a Series A investor at ooVoo focused on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Yuval Baharav - General Partner, Founder @ State of Mind Ventures ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Machine Learning | 5 | 50% | | Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 50% | | Natural Language Processing | 4 | 40% | | SaaS | 3 | 30% | | Apps | 1 | 10% | 23 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Series A | 5 | 50% | | Series B | 3 | 30% | | Seed | 2 | 20% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Israel | 5 | 50% | | United States | 1 | 10% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vee | Vee is an AI-powered SaaS platform designed for nonprofits to streamline operations and improve impact. It provides tools for grant writing, donor communication, social media management, and fundraising support. The platform uses AI assistants to automate content creation and workflows, helping organizations manage outreach, reporting, andengagement more efficiently in one system. | $12M | Seed | Feb 15, 2022 | | | 3d Signals | 3d Signals accelerates the digital transformation of manufacturers to the Industry 4.0 era. Our solution enables immediate visibility into production floors, through the quick, non-invasive, and machine agnostic deployment of a wide range of sensors. Our AI-based Asset Performance Monitoring platform transforms this data into powerful insights,providing multiple business intelligence and analysis tools in the cloud. This solution has been proven to significantly improve machine productivity and reduce operating costs within months of installation. 3d Signals was named 2021& 2020 Red Herring top 100 Europe winner, selected from approximately 1,200 privately financed companies. For more information, please visit our website. | $12M | Series A | Apr 15, 2019 | | | Amenity Analytics | Amenity Analytics has built a leading edge text analytics platform that allows customers to identify actionable signals from unstructured data. Using our offering business professionals can extract insights from today’s information overload. | $18M | Series B | Apr 15, 2019 | | | BrandShield | BrandShield® is an innovative Digital Risk Protection and Brand Protection solution. Its robust, patented technology finds web fraud, social media impersonation, online phishing, trademark infringements, and counterfeit sales. The system analyzes content and metrics of each website, marketplace, or social platform, and uses artificial intelligenceand sophisticated algorithms for threat prioritization and remediation. BrandShield's groundbreaking pattern recognition technology finds fraud networks and major brand threats. It also includes enforcement tools and services, to form a powerful Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting solution.BrandShield's robust, patent pending technology helps fighting infringements and makes brand protection possible for all sizes of organizations. BrandShield's A-Z solution protects the brand from detection of threats to their takedown. Brandshield's proactive aproach extends any organization's assets protection outside the organization's perimeter. BrandShield detects logo usage online, fraud clusters, cross-platform connections and prioritizes online threats customized uniqely for each brand.BrandShied's technology dramatically improves the way organizations can manage and protect their digital brand. Till now online brand protection solutions were limited, based on human analysis, highly expensive, and therefore available only to the biggest companies. BrandShield's technology revolutionizes this market, and will allow every business to monitor and protect its brand online, at a reasonable cost.Brandshield's website - http://www.brandshield.com/ | $2.9M | Series A | Oct 01, 2017 | | | Twiggle | Twiggle transforms the e-commerce search and discovery experience by connecting shoppers to the products they are looking to buy faster and more accurately. Using the most advanced technologies in machine learning, natural language processing, and knowledge engineering, Twiggle’s AI-powered solutions are designed to enhance, not replace, aretailer’s existing search engine or e-commerce platform. Built on both a human-like understanding of linguistic structure and a deep retail awareness, Twiggle enables retailers to bring the best of the in-store shopping experience online. Founded in 2014, Twiggle is backed by some of the most respected global entrepreneurs and investors, including Alibaba, Naspers, Yahoo! Japan, State of Mind Ventures and Mizmaa Ventures. Twiggle's Board of Directors includes Dr. Udi Manber, former Head of Search at Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! Japan. Twiggle was named a Gartner Cool Vendor and ranked one of the top 100 AI companies by CB Insights. | $15M | Series B | May 12, 2017 | | | Twiggle | Twiggle transforms the e-commerce search and discovery experience by connecting shoppers to the products they are looking to buy faster and more accurately. Using the most advanced technologies in machine learning, natural language processing, and knowledge engineering, Twiggle’s AI-powered solutions are designed to enhance, not replace, aretailer’s existing search engine or e-commerce platform. Built on both a human-like understanding of linguistic structure and a deep retail awareness, Twiggle enables retailers to bring the best of the in-store shopping experience online. Founded in 2014, Twiggle is backed by some of the most respected global entrepreneurs and investors, including Alibaba, Naspers, Yahoo! Japan, State of Mind Ventures and Mizmaa Ventures. Twiggle's Board of Directors includes Dr. Udi Manber, former Head of Search at Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! Japan. Twiggle was named a Gartner Cool Vendor and ranked one of the top 100 AI companies by CB Insights. | $12.5M | Series A | Apr 07, 2016 | | | Twiggle | Twiggle transforms the e-commerce search and discovery experience by connecting shoppers to the products they are looking to buy faster and more accurately. Using the most advanced technologies in machine learning, natural language processing, and knowledge engineering, Twiggle’s AI-powered solutions are designed to enhance, not replace, aretailer’s existing search engine or e-commerce platform. Built on both a human-like understanding of linguistic structure and a deep retail awareness, Twiggle enables retailers to bring the best of the in-store shopping experience online. Founded in 2014, Twiggle is backed by some of the most respected global entrepreneurs and investors, including Alibaba, Naspers, Yahoo! Japan, State of Mind Ventures and Mizmaa Ventures. Twiggle's Board of Directors includes Dr. Udi Manber, former Head of Search at Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! Japan. Twiggle was named a Gartner Cool Vendor and ranked one of the top 100 AI companies by CB Insights. | $2.2M | Seed | Nov 01, 2014 | | | Skai | Skai is an AI-powered platform that offers consumer and market insights, strategic planning, omnichannel media activation, testing, and measurement services to brands and retailers.It is the go-to-market engine that enables smarter decisions and better outcomes with actionable intelligence in making customer connections. The platform includes asuite of data-driven products for market intelligence, omnichannel media activation, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make predictions, improve strategic planning and drive growth on the most important customer channels. Skai’s machine-learning algorithms and proprietary NLP enable companies to listen, predict and keep pace with the consumer journey. The company is on a mission to empower businesses with data they can trust, insights they can use, and the impact they can measure.It was founded in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel in 2006 by Yoav Izhar-Prato, Nir Cohen, Amos Talmor, and Alon Sheafer. Operating in 15 international locations and backed by Sequoia Capital, Arts Alliance, Tenaya Capital, and Bain Capital Ventures, Skai™ generates over $350 billion in annualized revenue for the world’s top brands. | $2M | Series B | Mar 03, 2009 | | | Amenity Analytics | Amenity Analytics has built a leading edge text analytics platform that allows customers to identify actionable signals from unstructured data. Using our offering business professionals can extract insights from today’s information overload. | $7.6M | Series A | | | | Skai | Skai is an AI-powered platform that offers consumer and market insights, strategic planning, omnichannel media activation, testing, and measurement services to brands and retailers.It is the go-to-market engine that enables smarter decisions and better outcomes with actionable intelligence in making customer connections. The platform includes asuite of data-driven products for market intelligence, omnichannel media activation, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make predictions, improve strategic planning and drive growth on the most important customer channels. Skai’s machine-learning algorithms and proprietary NLP enable companies to listen, predict and keep pace with the consumer journey. The company is on a mission to empower businesses with data they can trust, insights they can use, and the impact they can measure.It was founded in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel in 2006 by Yoav Izhar-Prato, Nir Cohen, Amos Talmor, and Alon Sheafer. Operating in 15 international locations and backed by Sequoia Capital, Arts Alliance, Tenaya Capital, and Bain Capital Ventures, Skai™ generates over $350 billion in annualized revenue for the world’s top brands. | $1M | Series A | | | 10 of 10 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Allstate Strategic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allstate-strategic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Arts Alliance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arts-alliance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [DIVEdigital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/german-dive-digital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Grove Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grove-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Horizon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/horizon-capitalVC) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About ooVoo VC Fund · New York, United States ooVoo offers free, 12-way social video chat for the most popular devices: PC, iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac, as well as Facebook and Web Calling apps. As the fastest-growing independent video chat service, ooVoo has an active and expressive community of more than 46 million users (as of April 2012).The company was founded on a strongvideo-delivery backbone, and the bold idea that all communication should be free, and open. ooVoo reflects the evolving nature of social communications: an open platform that augments popular social networks with group video chat — creating a connected, face-to-face experience anywhere, anytime. Behind the scenes is a cloud-based infrastructure that provides the exceptional video fidelity and high-quality audio that enables continuous connectivity. This has evolved into a unique form of organic, ambient video communications that lets users be always together, and always "on" ooVoo. Key innovations recently introduced by the company include 12-way video chat within Facebook or via a simple Web Call link; a four-way video display on iPad; and the ability to get started with ooVoo using existing social network logins. 3 contacts available at ooVoo. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Pavel Nemirovsky | VP Technical Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pavel-nemirovsky | | Rajesh Midha | VP, Head of Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rajesh-midha | | Yuval Baharav | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuval-baharav | ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [OurCrowd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ourcrowd) — VC Fund - [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund - [Pitango VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pitango-venture-capital) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Israel](https://shizune.co/investors/artificial-intelligence-angel-investors-israel) - [Machine Learning Angel Investors in Middle East](https://shizune.co/investors/machine-learning-angel-investors-middle-east) - [Machine Learning Angel Investors in Israel](https://shizune.co/investors/machine-learning-angel-investors-israel) ## FAQ ### What does Yuval Baharav invest in? Yuval Baharav invests primarily in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### When did Yuval Baharav last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Yuval Baharav closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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