Top 15 Publishing Angel Investors in Israel in December 2024
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Publishing startups based in Israel. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Israel. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Publishing Angel Investors in Israel in December 2024
Investor | Publishing Israel investments |
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Itzhak Fisher | 2 |
Avi Fogel | 2 |
Thomas Glocer | 2 |
B. Bonin Bough | 2 |
Taj Chahal | 2 |
Jim Ramo | 2 |
Alain Bankier | 2 |
Morton Meyerson | 2 |
Bruce Hack | 1 |
Fred Langhammer | 1 |
Moshe Lichtman | 1 |
Rafi Gidron | 1 |
Shalom Meckenzie | 1 |
Brian S. Cohen | 1 |
Ron Zuckerman | 1 |
Itzhak Fisher serves as Executive Vice President, Global Business Development for Nielsen. Appointed to this role in January 2011, Itzhak holds responsibility for strategic business development initiatives and mergers and acquisitions to benefit clients and their priorities.A prominent entrepreneur in high-technology businesses for threedecades, Itzhak has led ventures through mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings. Previously, he was co-founder and chairman of Trendum, a leader in Internet search and linguistic analysis technologies, which was subsequently acquired by The Nielsen Company. In 2005, he led Trendum’s acquisition of BuzzMetrics, a market leader in online word-of-mouth research, and negotiated its 2006 acquisition of Intelliseek. Itzhak served as chairman of the combined entity, Nielsen BuzzMetrics.Previously, Itzhak founded and served as President and CEO of RSL Communications (NASDAQ: RSLC), a telecommunications firm which operated in 22 countries on four continents with over $1.5 billion in revenues.Itzhak holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in computer science from the New York Institute of Technology, and pursued advanced studies in computer science at New York University.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Aaptiv — Hyper-personalized fitness that adapts to your lifestyle.
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp helps sales teams increase sales revenue and profit with software that provides analytics and reporting and automates and optimizes pricing powered by more accurate demand forecasting.
- MutualMarkets — Easily partner with your favorite TV shows and movies to create ads that grow your brand and increase your ROI.
Avi is a principal at Majorlee Investment Corp, an asset management firm based in NYC, investing in private equity angel investment, public technology companies and income generating investments. Avi is also an active member in two angel groups - New York Angels, the largest angel group in New York, and Launchpad Venture Group of Boston.Prior to the current role Avi was an Exec-In-Residence at American Capital Strategies, the chairman and CEO at ProActivity, Inc, which he sold to EMC in mid-2006, and a Venture Partner at Infinity Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Advertising
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- CourseHorse — CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
- Boundless Mind — Thrive Global's mission is to end the burnout epidemic with sustainable, science-based solutions that unlock employee performance and enhance well-being through our behavior change technology.
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp helps sales teams increase sales revenue and profit with software that provides analytics and reporting and automates and optimizes pricing powered by more accurate demand forecasting.
Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Superlegal — Superlegal, the world's #1 contract automation platform, is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to negotiate and close deals.
- Cradle — Design better proteins
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
B. Bonin Bough is Chief Growth Officer at Triller
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Investment focus
- CRM, SaaS, Video
- Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp helps sales teams increase sales revenue and profit with software that provides analytics and reporting and automates and optimizes pricing powered by more accurate demand forecasting.
- SuperPhone — Increase engagement, drive revenue, and build better relationships with SMS / MMS marketing. Guaranteed ROI with 98% open rates for Shopify and BigCommerce stores.
Taj chahal is the Member at New York Angels.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Video, Publishing
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp helps sales teams increase sales revenue and profit with software that provides analytics and reporting and automates and optimizes pricing powered by more accurate demand forecasting.
Jim Ramo - Executive Vice-President @ DIRECTV
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Investment focus
- Baby, SaaS, Video
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tot Squad — Tot Squad is a marketplace that connects new parents with health, wellness and safety services both virtually and in person. We're a one-stop shop in the $46B "New Mom Economy" consolidating the highly fragmented providers of services like car seat installation, babyproofing, and lactation consulting. Our car seat installationservices can be found on Amazon and Walmart as an add-on with a car seat purchase.
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp helps sales teams increase sales revenue and profit with software that provides analytics and reporting and automates and optimizes pricing powered by more accurate demand forecasting.
- NationalField —
Alain Bankier is an Operating Partner to the Management Company. Mr. Bankier is a serial entrepreneur and an active early stage investor, with over 20 years of experience investing in early stage and start-up companies. Until late 2013, Mr. Bankier was Co-President and chief executive officer of The Manischewitz Company. In 2002, Mr. Bankierco-founded the Saveur Food Group (“SFG”) to create, acquire and build branded food companies and in 2008 Manischewitz was merged with SFG. In the mid 90’s, Mr. Bankier was the co-founder of a leading New York based angel investment group, which was the precursor of the New York Angels. As a leading member of the New York Angels, Mr. Bankier invests in a wide variety of technology, media and content companies, as well as companies in France and Israel. Mr. Bankier is a board member and advisor to a variety of companies and has been instrumental in achieving exit opportunities for several of these business. Combining his operating experience and his knowledge of the technology startup world, Mr. Bankier has focused on investment opportunities which leverage technology and data to disrupt, or add efficiencies, to traditional media and manufacturing industries. Before being involved as the chief executive officer of operating companies, Mr. Bankier was a founder of an international boutique investment bank, which he sold to BNP Paribas and where he remained as the head of mergers and acquisitions-corporate finance North America for over 10 years. Mr. Bankier has a has a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, a BS in economics from The Wharton School and an MBA from New York University and from HEC, Paris.
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Investment focus
- Publishing, SaaS, Video
- Seed
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Authorea — Authorea is a provider of a collaborative platform that is designed to read, write, discuss, and publish research. Its platform serves as a powerful document editor for researchers and provides collaborative editing, automatic citation formatting, tracking changes and it has the ability to make any document public or fully private that enablesresearchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. It improves how researchers work and make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important parts of the research cycle which is communication.
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp helps sales teams increase sales revenue and profit with software that provides analytics and reporting and automates and optimizes pricing powered by more accurate demand forecasting.
- Territory Foods — Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by aproprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating.Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.
Morton Meyerson is a director at ChaCha, a mobile Q&A service that enables advertisers and marketers to reach and engage with their customers in real time.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Content, Marketing
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Zula — Zula: Changing How We Communicate Enabling the exchange of knowledge by bringing people together.
- ChaCha — ChaCha is the leading, free real-time answers service that has emerged as the #1 way for advertisers and marketers to reach and engage with the audience of their choice anytime, anywhere. Through its unique "ask-a-smart-friend" platform, has answered over two billion questions since launch from more than 32 million unique users permonth, and is ranked among comScore's top 100 websites.ChaCha delivers human-powered answers via SMS text (242-242), iPhone app, Android app, and voice (1-800-2-ChaCha). Working with major brands such as Paramount, NBC Universal Digital, AT&T, Palm, Johnson & Johnson, P&G, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and presidential political campaigns, is one of the fastest growing mobile and online publishers according to Nielsen and Quantcast. ChaCha was co-founded by proven innovator and entrepreneur Scott Jones and is funded by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures, Bezos Expeditions; Morton Meyerson, former President and Vice Chairman of EDS as well as Chairman and CEO of Perot Systems; Rod Canion, founding CEO of Compaq Computer; the Simon family; and Jack Gill, Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
- Curiyo — Curiyo automatically enhances the story behind publishers' content and keeps users entertained, informed and on the site.
Bruce Hack is a Member of the Board of Directors at Overwolf since since April 2013. Bruce was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Corporate Officer of Activision Blizzard until 2009. Prior to that, Bruce was Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi Games, from 2004 to 2008, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Universal MusicGroup, from 1998 to 2001 and Chief Financial Officer of Universal Studios, from 1995 to 1998. From 1982-1994, Bruce held several positions at The Seagram Company, including: Assistant to the Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Seagram USA; Director, Strategic Planning, at The Seagram Company Ltd.; and Chief Financial Officer of Tropicana Products, Inc. Prior to this, Bruce was a trade negotiator for the U.S. Treasury. Bruce earned a B.A. degree at Cornell University and an MBA in Finance at the University of Chicago.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Video, EdTech
- Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp helps sales teams increase sales revenue and profit with software that provides analytics and reporting and automates and optimizes pricing powered by more accurate demand forecasting.
- Story2 — Revision Learning uses a unique storytelling software, interactive workshops and personalized feedback to support students with college essays.
Fred H. Langhammer, 67, is Chairman, Global Affairs, of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of cosmetics products. Prior to being named Chairman, Global Affairs, Mr. Langhammer was Chief Executive Officer of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. from 2000 to 2004, President from 1995 to 2004 and Chief Operating Officer from 1985through 1999. Langhammer joined The Estée Lauder Companies in 1975 as President of its operations in Japan. In 1982, he was appointed Managing Director of its operations in Germany. He has been a director of Central European Media Enterprises, Ltd., since December 2009 and was also a director of The Shinsei Bank Limited from 2005 to 2009 and a director of AIG from 2006 to 2008. Langhammer has been a Director of the Company since 2005.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, SaaS
- Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- PoachIt — PoachIt is an intelligent online shopping tool that provides consumers validated coupon codes while shopping online and price drop alerts for the products they want. Powered by patent-pending technology, PoachIt efficiently gathers and authenticates thousands of coupon codes behind the interface. Consumers just click to copy any valid coupon codeand capture the savings at checkout. PoachIt’s tracking feature also offers users visibility into pricing trends and merchant sale cycles, helping fuel the right purchase decision. PoachIt can be summoned across 5,000+ online and mobile sites, via extension or bookmarklet. It is also available for download on iOS and Android. PoachIt has been featured by The Today Show, Katie Couric, Queen Latifah, WIRED, Business Insider, Buzzfeed, and more.
- KIDBOX — KIDBOX delivers personalized experiences through curated premiere brands with an easy and fun way for parents and kids to shop from home. KIDBOX combines cool brands, meaningful savings, and a mission to cloth children in need.
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp helps sales teams increase sales revenue and profit with software that provides analytics and reporting and automates and optimizes pricing powered by more accurate demand forecasting.
Moshe Lichtman is an angel investor. Moshe Lichtman has spent 29 years creating software products for global markets. He's freshly retired from Microsoft where he was Corporate VP responsible for several of its consumer businesses including its MSN business in the late 90s, its TV business in the mid-2000s and most recently its IsraelR&D center, which he built into one of the 3 largest centers outside the U.S. Mr. Lichtman was also one of the leaders of the Windows 95 team and president of Softimage, a leader in media creation software. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Lichtman held software development and management positions in several high-tech startups. He is the co-author of the best-selling book "The complete guide to the C language" and holds a BSc Cum Laude in Computer Engineering from the Technion and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School. Mr. Lichtman is currently an active angel investor in Israeli startups. and is in the process of forming a private equity fund focused on growth and public tech companies in Israel
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Plannie — Mobile first scheduling platform for small businesses
- Data Blanket — Datablanket uses drone swarms and AI-driven software to empower wildfire fighters and improve the effectivity of wildfire fighting assets
- superwise.ai — Superwise gives ML practitioners fully automated, enterprise-grade model observability in a self-service SaaS platform. Start monitoring ML in production in under 5 minutes.
Rafi Gidron is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Xperiti. He attended Columbia University.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
- GlossAI — Detect, analyze, and monitor every brand-related video with GlossAi's Social Watching platform. Enhance your brand protection, get video insights, real-time marketing, and influencer selection. Monitor and analyze videos to elevate your brand's online presence today!
- The Digital Dogs Company — pay77 situs gacor yang memberikan akses lengkap dengan fitur apk mobile dapat lebih mudah menemukan dan bermain di situs pay77, ayo install aplikasunya dan manfaatkan semua fitur yang tersedia di kami
Shalom Meckenzie is the Founder of SBTech.
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Investment focus
- Art, SaaS, Video
- Seed, Series A
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Niio — One comprehensive video art platform & pro tools for artists, galleries and collection owners to manage, display and securely distribute moving image & digital artworks, 4K to VR
- CoinScan — Fastest trading history in the industry for any ETH token along with seeing pending transactions. One-of-a-kind Airdrops and Holders distribution for quick analysis and much more.
- MonkeyBall — MonkeyBall is a Solana-based play-to-earn soccer game – a kind of FIFA Street and Final Fantasy rolled into one fun monkey-themed game.
Considered one of the fathers of science & technology strategic communications - founded Technology Solutions, Inc. in 1983. Client list read like a who's who list of startup technology companies in computing, communication, software, education, and entertainment. Maintained a strategic communications partnership with Sony & IBMCorporation (10 years). Received the Gold CIPRA award in 1998 for the IBM Deep Blue/Gary Kasparov Chess Match. In 1996, TSI was recognized as the #1 fastest growing agency in the United States. Sold the company to The McCann Erickson World Group in 1997 and became the Vice Chairman. Created Focus Technology, an organization that provided qualitative research and instituted the RPM model of integrated strategic communications providing ultra-competitive technology clients the ability to quickly discover and leverage their key strengths as well as mitigate their destructive weaknesses.Brian was a pioneer in the founding of a number of the first computing publications including Computer Systems News and InformationWeek magazine. Now serves as Chairman of the New York Angels. He is very devoted to the New York City startup community.Developed the AIMS (Applied Internet Media Studies) Program, a senior/graduate level college semester program where students will be rigorously trained to use the internet professionally.Frequent speaker on strategic communication, entrepreneurism and early startup investing. Now writing a book for McGraw Hill - a new organizational product launch model.Received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, holds a Masters Degree in Science Communications from Boston University's School of Communications.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Authorea — Authorea is a provider of a collaborative platform that is designed to read, write, discuss, and publish research. Its platform serves as a powerful document editor for researchers and provides collaborative editing, automatic citation formatting, tracking changes and it has the ability to make any document public or fully private that enablesresearchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. It improves how researchers work and make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important parts of the research cycle which is communication.
- CourseHorse — CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
- Boundless Mind — Thrive Global's mission is to end the burnout epidemic with sustainable, science-based solutions that unlock employee performance and enhance well-being through our behavior change technology.
Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Video, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Cymbio — Connect to hundreds of digital sales channels via Cymbio's automated multi channel e-commerce platform to increase sales & elevate revenue.
- Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
- Safeguard Applied Innovation — Safeguard Applied Innovation provides a mobile performance management platform for construction enterprises. It designs its solution to enable decision-making for successful project planning and execution, delivering effective control regardless of project complexity or national regulations.
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