ZORA Ventures
VC Fund
Tel Aviv, Israel
ZORA Ventures is a VC fund in Tel Aviv focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. ZORA Ventures backs Israel's leading scientists and founders designing deeptech B2B solutions to the world's most acute climate challenges. Our teams develop climate solutions innovations to be deployed by the world's largest companies across massive markets in order to ignite rapid change at unprecedented scale. Our goal? Back aportfolio of best-in-class companies who will collectively offset or remove a cumulative gigaton of CO2e by 2040.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
- Fund size:
- $740k
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries ZORA Ventures invests in
Stages ZORA Ventures invests in
Countries ZORA Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$8.6M
- Series A
- $4M–$8.1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 5 (29%)
- Health Care 4 (24%)
- Software 3 (18%)
- Food and Beverage 3 (18%)
- Internet 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (65%)
- Series A 3 (18%)
- Convertible Note 2 (12%)
Country
- Israel 10 (59%)
- United States 3 (18%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Vanessa Bartram
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newmoo makes plant-based cheeses and dairy alternatives. | $7M / Seed / May 28, 2024 | ||
| WeedOut is a biotechnology company focusing on providing weed control solutions. The company’s goal is to reduce the need for toxic herbicides and higher herbicide doses. | $8.1M / Series A / Feb 20, 2024 | ||
| Earth Force is a Vegetation Management System platform. | $8.6M / Seed / Nov 29, 2022 | ||
| Forsea is a cultivated meat company with proprietary, breakthrough technology to produce fish and seafood in a very similar way to nature. | $5.2M / Seed / Oct 26, 2022 | ||
| Operator of a facility intended to capture carbon dioxide in agricultural waste on the bottom of the black sea. The company aim's to leave a world of abundance and climate stability for future generations by storing organic carbon in anoxic water where plants decompose extremely slowly to restore the earth's carbon balance, enablingclients effective store carbon for a much longer period. | Seed / Mar 10, 2022 | ||
| Biotax is a leading provider of cutting-edge technologies and services, offering biological and genomic informatics solutions for pharma companies, hospitals, and medical centers. Founded by a group of leading researchers who's mission is to help patients by creating new diagnostics and treatments protocols. | Seed / Feb 08, 2021 | ||
| EyeControl is a pioneer of medical technology, specializing in innovative communication solutions that address unmet healthcare needs. We implement disruptive AI technologies that connect people and bridge information barriers, facilitating better medical care and decision-making. | $7.5M / Series A / Aug 12, 2020 | ||
| Amai Proteins ('Amai' is 'sweet' in Japanese) is transforming the food and beverage industry by presenting healthy and tasty protein ingredients for everyday use. The Designer Protein Company first focus is Sweet Designer Proteins as sugar substitutes. Amai is taking sweet proteins found in the equatorial belt and is applyingAgile Integrative Computational Protein Design (AI-CPD) and fermentation to make the proteins fit for the mass food market. | $1M / Seed / Apr 30, 2020 | ||
| Amai Proteins ('Amai' is 'sweet' in Japanese) is transforming the food and beverage industry by presenting healthy and tasty protein ingredients for everyday use. The Designer Protein Company first focus is Sweet Designer Proteins as sugar substitutes. Amai is taking sweet proteins found in the equatorial belt and is applyingAgile Integrative Computational Protein Design (AI-CPD) and fermentation to make the proteins fit for the mass food market. | $6M / Series A / Apr 06, 2020 | ||
| WeedOut is a biotechnology company focusing on providing weed control solutions. The company’s goal is to reduce the need for toxic herbicides and higher herbicide doses. | $4M / Series A / Feb 20, 2020 | ||
| See all 17 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does ZORA Ventures invest in?
ZORA Ventures invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does ZORA Ventures invest in?
ZORA Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$8.6M at Seed and $4M–$8.1M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not ZORA Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds ZORA Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at ZORA Ventures?
The team at ZORA Ventures includes Vanessa Bartram (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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