Top 30 Social Impact Startup Investors in Middle East

Investor	Social Impact Middle East investments
Oryzn Capital	3
Good Company	3
Cerca Partners	2
Viola Ventures	2
Vertex Ventures	2
Emkan Capital	2
Israel Innovation Authority	2
Signal Peak Ventures	2
Moshe Gaon	1
Amir Shevat	1
Eynat Guez	1
Gil Hirsch	1
Aditum Bio	1
Olive Tree Capital	1
Matias Ventures	1
AltaIR Capital	1
Stormbreaker Ventures	1
Shayma Sharif	1
BECO Capital	1
Neome	1
Mad'a Investment Company	1
TAU Ventures	1
Sarona Ventures	1
Nir Zohar	1
State of Mind Ventures	1
Michael Eisenberg	1
Cresson Management	1
Mensch Capital Partners	1
Jeff Swartz	1
Guy Shamir	1

Early Stage VC. From Seed to Revenues.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

DataRails — Datarails is an FP&A software solution providing finance experts with an easy way to conduct FP&A, budgeting, and forecasting.
IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.
Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!

Good Company Fund is investing in early-stage companies that leverage deep technologies to solve the world’s biggest problems. The firm is constantly seeking bold entrepreneurs who are building frontier technology solutions. Good Company Fund is generally looking to invest in innovative, hyper scalable, software solutions. It is especially excitedabout: Future of Energy, Future of Work and Education, Future of Work, Circular Economy, Precision Farming, and Digital Health. However, it is constantly learning and looking for additional opportunities in other verticals and aiming to invest in the "Operating System of the New, Sustainable World".Good Company's studio brings together multinational corporations, entrepreneurs and capital, in order to solve the world’s biggest problems. Good Company Studio is a home for entrepreneurs who want to create businesses with a purpose. The Studio is a pre-seed platform that provides entrepreneurs with capital, network, go-to-market, mentoring, and support.

Investment focus

Social Impact, Recruiting, Skill Assessment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
TULU — TULU is a smart platform and amenity services provider to over 10,000 people in 50 buildings across the United States, Europe and Israel. Founded in 2019, TULU provides urban tenants with on-demand access to hundreds of brand name appliances, grocery staples, micro-mobility and entertainment devices, and more. TULU’s IoT-based modular units arecustomized to provide the most necessary and useful items, while leveraging advanced machine learning tools to analyze behavioral patterns, optimize usage, refine inventory, and create a personalized experience for our users. The outcome is a new way of living, encouraging more responsible consumption, reducing the cost of living in the city, and consistent with the trend to smaller and smaller living spaces.
ReturnGO — Easy-to-use self-service return management portal that allows customers to return and exchange products increases revenue and customer retention.

A leading follow-on VC fund with a sustainable advantage of unique insights and access to the best Israeli startup investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Descope — Add passwordless authentication, user management, and authorization to your app with a few lines of code. Choose from our drag-and-drop workflows, SDKs, or APIs.
Wing Cloud — Wing Cloud tames cloud complexity through a unified programming and operational model that works across all providers and services.

Viola Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in Israeli or Israeli-related early-stage techology companies, in key market segments including FinTech, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure & Applications, Frontier & Deep Technologies (automotive, IOT, AR/VR, drones), Robotics and AgTech.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
Volumez — Volumez is SaaS composable data infrastructure. With Volumez, you can deploy applications in your cloud with precise control of IO characteristics using a fully declarative interface.
Alive — Alive is building a globally leading decentralized artificial intelligence platform supported by a global community of developers, individuals, economists and technologists.The Alive Foundation is a steward, and will support and grow the Alive community until it becomes self-sufficient. Time51 Labs helped launch Alive, and currently serve asadvisors to the Foundation and operators.

Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

CloseFactor — CloseFactor uses machine learning to reimagine the business to business sales process, bringing the benefits of greater automation and precision targeting to sales teams.
ElevateBio — We provide the tools, time, and environment to innovate and accelerate development of life-saving Cell and gene therapies.
Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.

Emkan Capital invests primarily in early-stage technology companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Transportation, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Hubpay — Global payments for modern businesses. Pay suppliers, partners, employees using Hubpay's market leading FX, multi-currency accounts, collections, payments and more
Trukkin — Trukkin is the best logistics company within GCC and Pakistan. Contact us for cargo logistics solutions and truck transport services.
InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!

The Israeli innovation agency, the Innovation Authority, was established in 1965 as the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and was designed as a body that supports R & D conducted in the framework of government research institutes. Industrial development in order to increase industrial exports of high-techproducts. The Chief Scientist focused on reducing the risk by participating in financing the project, which the private companies chose and led.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Software
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, Mali

Portfolio highlights

Enzymit — Enzymit's platform technology can build molecular machines that enable never before seen chemistry aiming to solve humanity's greatest challenges
BloomX — Helping nature do its magic with the power of technology
MICA — MICA save lives & improve life quality. Our approach to the environmental and social dimensions is reflected in our commitment to United Nations Sustainable

Signal Peak is a venture capital firm with more than $550 million of committed capital under management. The fund invests in information technology companies and looks for entrepreneurial teams with the potential to transform markets and create lasting value. Specific areas of focus include Internet, SaaS, enterprise software, communications,security, and mobile computing—all markets in which the firm has deep expertise.Our strategy includes providing a level of operational assistance that creates additional value. We take a labor-intensive, service-oriented approach by making early introductions to key customers and strategic partners, and by helping to recruit top executives and co-investors.Collectively, the Signal Peak team has founded and served as senior officers or board members in dozens of companies. The team has a combined history of successful company leadership and private equity investments that span over 60 years. As a result, our team has the resources, decision-making experience, and strategic relationships to meet the demands of today's passionate entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
Spendflo — Let Spendflo buy and renew your SaaS for you. Get more visibility on your vendors, automate procurement and spend less on every tool.
Monarx — Automatic malware protection for PHP web hosting providers.

Business entrepreneur and investor in startups. For the past 20 years developer of new initiatives and ideas. CEO, Chairman of companies, political strategist and advertising expert. Lead public opinion campaigns for people and issues from breast cancer, to national elections to the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Founding Partner atmybulb.vcOwner of the Gaon Holding Group; Executive Director in the group's companies, focusing on development and marketing products and services for the global Water Smart Grid. Member of the AquaAgro Fund Investment committee, a 50 Million dollar Israeli Venture Capital Fund, focused only on developing innovative water and agriculture technologies, as well as other innovative clean technologies.

Investment focus

Advertising, Association, Social Media Marketing
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Apester — Supercharge your marketing and funnel with interactive content experiences that generate more leads, engage and convert users, and boost retention
Yoocan — Yooocan is an internet company developing the collaborative community-driven marketplace for people with disabilities. The company offers a global collaborative community and technology hub created for and by people with disabilities and their families to share experiences and knowledge. With Yoocan, a person with disabilities or the parent of achild with disabilities can share stories and tips easily explore and find activities, products, services, and innovations; and connect with others to make their lives easier and better.Yoocan is also an assistive technology hub, providing early-stage funding and support for start-ups in the disability-focused ecosystem, with more than 900 organizations, thousands of users from more than 100 countries, and hundreds of partners. They believe that shared experiences and knowledge from around the world can inspire people with disabilities and change their lives, so no one feels alone.Yoocan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.

Amir Shevat is the director of developer relations at Slack. Previously Amir was the global Startup Outreach lead in Google Play. Amir Led scalable programs in Developer Relations and Google Campus Tel Aviv. Amir has also founded and sold several startups. He is a developer at heart with a passion for b2c and mobile.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Israel

Portfolio highlights

daily.dev — daily.dev is the fastest growing online community for developers to stay updated on the best developer news. Together we supercharge developers' knowledge and empower better software.
Munch — Munch allows you to create once. Repurpose to Dozens of pieces on every platform. Analyze engagement. Control Monetization. All On One Platform.
Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!

Eynat Guez is a co-founder and CEO at Papaya Global.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, CRM
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hour One — Hour One AI is a next-generation video creation and management platform uniquely built for the world of work. Hour One harnesses computer-generated AI people in photo-real quality to digitize and optimize the traditional video production process, enabling a novel - and fully scalable - means of creating and deploying live-action video forprofessional use cases, the first of which is presenter-led video. All of Hour One’s video creation is located in the cloud, making it possible for any business to create and use high-quality presenter videos at a fraction of the cost, in minutes, in any language, self-serve, and at high scale. Hour One counts global market-leading companies as its customers and is backed by leading venture capital funds. Hour One is headquartered in New York City and Tel Aviv.
Walnut — Create an interactive product demo easily with Walnut demo creation software! Customize your product demonstrations without coding, collect powerful insights, save time and resources, and master your sales experience. Discover our platform today.
Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!

Gil Hirsch is an angel investor. Gil has over ten years of experience in software architecture, product and general management in computer technology. Before co-founding face.com, Gil held multiple R&D, Product and Sales executive roles at Amdocs, Xacct Technologies and Telrad Networks. Gil is also the co-founder of the garage geeks communityin Israel to drive non-commercial innovation activities.

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

InfiniGrow — InfiniGrow helps B2B marketing teams drive higher ROI by measuring, predicting, and planning marketing efforts that drive revenue growth.
Oshi — Alternative Protein - Stealth Mode
Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!

Aditum Bio is a new model of biotech venture capital, uniquely positioned to rapidly translate scientific discoveries into innovative new medicines.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Life Science, FinTech
Series A
United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Hubpay — Global payments for modern businesses. Pay suppliers, partners, employees using Hubpay's market leading FX, multi-currency accounts, collections, payments and more
Versanis Bio — Versanis Bio is advancing bimagrumab, a human monoclonal antibody to the activin type II receptors that blocks the binding of ligands including activin A and myostatin. Bimagrumab has been studied by Novartis in more than a dozen controlled clinical trials that enrolled more than 1,500 people. Across key studies bimagrumab treatment consistentlyand potently induced significant loss of fat mass without loss of lean mass, and additionally improved HbA1c and other cardiometabolic parameters.
Via Nova Therapeutics — Via Nova Therapeutics is committed to discovering novel therapies for viral diseases, especially those arising from acute & subacute infections, and to pioneer sustainable business strategies to deliver these treatments to the clinic.

Olive Tree Capital started as the foreign investment arm of the single member family office. With a diverse mandate, we are able to seek worthwhile global investment opportunities without asset class restrictions; we seek public market opportunities with discrepancies between market perception and fundamental reality, and we enjoy privatelyinvesting in and collaborating with partners who share our passion, dedication, and clarity. More philosophically, we live by the Golden Rule; thus, we especially love entrepreneurs, artists, and businesses that are positively contributing to humanity in parallel with pursuing profitability.

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
AOA — AOA based in Boston, New York, and London developing cancer diagnostics in the field of women’s health.AOA is a female-led company, is committed to bringing the first accurate early-stage liquid biopsy ovarian cancer diagnostic test to market that will improve clinical practice, help reduce patient mortality and deliver cost savings to payers.
Craniometrix — Catch Alzheimer's 3x as accurately as a doctor & 10 years before symptoms. All in 5 minutes on your computer!

Investing in early stage startups, led by Yossi Matias (VP Search, AI @ Google) and Michael Matias (Stanford CS, 8200).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Gensyn — The Gensyn protocol provides hyperscale, cost efficient, compute capacity for all deep learning workloads.
Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
Firmbase — Firmbase is the modern financial planning and analysis platform for tech companies. Our founders have strong leadership, product and software development experience from Facebook, Stanford and Unit 8200. Our group of top-tier investors include unicorn startup founders and senior executives from Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.
Hints — Taking notes is not enough
Giraffe — Giraffe develops an investment engine to help individuals and companies to improve the world. It provides an engaging learning environment about impact and investing. Giraffe is located in New York, New York.

Stormbreaker Ventures partners with the high-velocity, high-conviction companies that stand out from their peers because they are driven to build efficiently.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Frontdesk — Frontdesk powers short-term stays for modern dynamic living.
Custimy.io — Custimy.io is the most accessible Customer Data Platform software for B2C E-commerce businesses enabling longer and more profitable CLVs through better and...
Globish Academia (Thailand) — Globish Academia (Thailand) is beyond just for native English countries, it already has become global. How nice would it be if EVERY THAI can speak English with confidence a little more. Thais can befriend the whole world. When Global English meets Innovation and Change-makers, Globish Academia was established for those who are actively making aa better society through innovating EVERYDAY education. We do want to change the fact that “English Proficiency” is rank 2nd of “Thai Youth Fear Toward AEC Competitiveness”, with only 3% lower than our unfortunate political problem.

Shayma joined the NFX Israeli team as an associate. Previously Shayma worked as a Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, a top management consulting firm. During her 3 year tenure at BCG, Shayma worked closely with various companies in multiple industries including banking, agriculture, retail, and energy.Previously to BCG, Shayma worked in astartup in Israel focusing on developing a survey platform with an advanced analytical platform.

Investment focus

Other, Software, Data and Analytics
Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

GoodDeeds.AI — INTRO: An estimate of 15% of funds donated to nonprofits are wasted due to inefficiencies. This translates to $100B+ in yearly wasted donations in the U.S. alone. We want to help minimize this waste and increase philanthropy ROI by empowering nonprofits to access more relevant funding and deploy it more effectively.PROBLEM: Despite their bestintentions, many NGO teams, particularly smaller ones, lack the resources and expertise to design and execute high-impact projects effectively. Teams with limited resources also often lack the ability to access relevant funding. These gaps usually lead to NGOs underperforming, important causes unfunded, and wasted billions of dollars in donor funds. SOLUTION: GoodDeeds utilize recent advancement in AI, along with the largely publicly-accessible data on NGOs and impact projects to provide NGO teams with the “ImpactCopilots” - suite of AI-powered virtual assistants, tailored to individual roles and tasks. These copilots help increase the team’s productivity and enhance their skills, thus expanding NGOs capacities, growth and impact.SOLUTION GoodDeeds utilize recent advancement in AI, along with the largely publicly-accessible data on NGOs and impact projects to provide NGO teams with the “ImpactCopilots” - suite of AI-powered virtual assistants, tailored to individual roles and tasks. These copilots help increase the team’s productivity and enhance their skills, thus expanding NGOs capacities, growth and impact.TECHNOLOGY: We’re developing the “brain” of impact projects, with key capabilities of aggregating, structuring and analyzing impact data. Utilizing this analysis in the context of an NGO allows us to generate meaningful and personalized insights to the staff and also provide opportunities for collaboration across the sector.VISION: A prosperous world, where every organization, community and individual are empowered to expand and realize their full goodness potential.

BECO Capital provides growth capital and hands-on operational support for early-stage technology companies. It is a technology-focused venture capital that supports entrepreneurs and financial sectors to raise funds.The company helps small companies with growth capital and hands-on operational mentorship in their early stage of development. Itwas founded in 2012 and is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.BECO Capital was founded on February 1, 2014, by Dany Farha and Amir Farha, and it is headquartered in Dubai.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.
Pine Street Labs — A non-custodial API for managing wallets. Built for enterprises.

A collaborative community of women sharing experience and expertise who create their own investment portfolio of israel leading start-ups.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

buywith — buywith is an online shopping Livestream marketplace for retailers & brands, where influencers and experts can broadcast online shopping sessions with their followers & make them buy via a highly engaging experience. We help brands generate more revenues from their e-commerce activity and increase their ROI.
Better Juice — The innovative Better Juice process removes all types of sugar from freshly squeezed, pasteurized or concentrated juice. Non-GMO
Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!

Mad’a Investment Company is a Private Equity firm headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and a wholly owned subsidiary of Abdul Aziz Al Othaim & Sons Holding Company (ASO&SONS). We aim to assist businesses to reach their true potential by unlocking values which otherwise could not have been realized. We strive to create exceptional value tobusinesses through our team of investment and operating professionals working collaboratively with the management of our portfolio companies. We, as a Saudi Company, are committed to contributing to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and our Investment Strategy is aligned with the Vision 2030.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

Teeela — Teeela is the GCC’s fastest growing and most innovative gifting platform, built to provide families with the easiest, quickest and most personalized gifting and toy buying experience
RedBox — Don't wait for drivers to deliver your packages! Instead, use RedBox lockers to ship your packages and collect them at your convenient time. No human contact!
SmartCrowd — Smart Crowd is a real estate investment platform that provides you an opportunity to access the UAE real estate market with low minimum investment amount from a simple online portal.Smart Crowd’s innovative approach enables investors to treat their investment properties more like stock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation rather than dealingwith the hassles of researching and buying vacant properties that need to be leased and managed. This creates significant time and cost savings. By allowing low minimum investment you diversify your properties, allowing you to build a well-diversified investment property portfolio without taking on too much leverage and risk.

TAU Ventures is an early-stage focused venture capital fund affiliated with Tel Aviv University, investing in the next generation of impactful home-grown technology companies. At the heart of the start-up nation, TAU Ventures invests the first capital into startups and is dedicated to helping them transform their ideas into global businesses.TAU Ventures cultivates an innovation ecosystem by combining the resources and global network of Tel Aviv University, strong industry connections, and a supportive home-base for founders. Together with its world-leading team of experienced mentors, TAU Ventures empowers startups in their critical, early steps. At its 1000 sq meter co-working office space located in Tel Aviv, the team works shoulder to shoulder with their portfolio companies, nurturing their growth by drawing on the strength of its innovation ecosystem on a daily basis.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
InnerPlant — InnerPlant transforms fields into living sensors with biotech, remote sensing, and data science. We enable plants to express stress within hours of emergence.

By entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Sarona Ventures is a unique investment fund applying world-class business practices to leverage our investments and pro-actively transform promising technology driven companies into international organizations.We invest in companies to which we can significantly contribute by applying our domain expertise andbusiness execution. We identify talented entrepreneurs, match them with hyper successful Senior Peers from their industry, accommodate the company in our coworking facility and together, we pave the way to success.We work pro-actively with our companies to tackle day-to-day execution such as business model, planning, customer acquisition and recruitment. Our frequent engagement increases resilience when facing unexpected challenges throughout the entrepreneurial journey.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

buywith — buywith is an online shopping Livestream marketplace for retailers & brands, where influencers and experts can broadcast online shopping sessions with their followers & make them buy via a highly engaging experience. We help brands generate more revenues from their e-commerce activity and increase their ROI.
Cosmo Connected — Cosmo Connected is a French start-up born in 2015, whose mission is to secure all people in mobility (users of bicycles, scooters, motorcycles and scooters). Cosmo Connected has developed a unique technology, combining hardware and software, which ensures visibility and security for the urban commuter. The device integrates different ignition modes(brake light, position light, hazard warning light, turn signals) designed to make users more visible. Connected to an application, it also has a fall detector, which alerts relatives or emergency services in the event of an accident. Our technology is patented in more than 150 countries. Our vision is to put our technology at the service of as many users as possible in order to make roads safer and greener, by promoting the use of soft mobility. Our goal is to become the leader in connected safety in urban mobility, and to develop connected products and services that adapt to everyone's needs.
Depoint — By digitizing every single human action, process, and operation. depoint enables retail organizations’ innermost workings to become instantly visible, accountable, and trackable. Allow managers to operate more accurately, beating their KPIs for greater short and long-term gains.

Nir has been with Wix since 2007 and he’s been the driving force behind the successful scaling of the company's operations from a small start-up into an international company serving tens of millions of users. Nir spearheads all efforts to develop and implement Wix' strategic plans geared towards accommodating the company's growthobjectives and business goals.Prior to joining Wix, Nir was the Budget and Production Manager for two years at M.B. Contact Ltd., a private Israeli event production company. Before that, Nir worked for The Jewish Agency and the Israeli Scouts. Nir’s experience stems from his position as Lieutenant Commander and Chief Engineer in the Israeli Navy.On his day off you catch him reading or avidly following the NBA scores.

Investment focus

Software, Publishing, Social Media
Seed, Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Villiger — Villiger provides an app that unites parents and their support network within a private social network where they can share stories, recommendations, and resources, as well as book and pay for services.Users can download the app and upload friends to their Village via Facebook Connect or their address book.The platform allows parents to sharetheir support network within a “Trusted Village,” then receive recommendations, advice, requests and contacts within the Village. The platform provides direct booking and payment for a variety of support providers including sitters, tutors, music teachers, housekeepers, coaches, and more.
Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.

State of Mind Ventures is a seed and early growth stage venture capital fund, focusing on the people that drive our world forward.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ask-AI — ASK's AI & NLP analyzes text-heavy company knowledge and customer communications to reveal critical product insights and precise answers for CS teams.
Rezonate — Rezonate empowers security and IAM teams with real-time visibility, security optimization, and identity-driven threat elimination.
MOV.AI — MOV.AI gives you the freedom and control to create great robots. Quickly build, deploy and operate intelligent robots with ROS for Enterprise

Michael is a General Partner at Aleph, an early stage venture capital fund with $850M under management. Aleph focuses on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in over 50 companies (not all announced) including Lemonade (NYSE:LMND), Frank (acquired JPM), Melio, Healthy.io, JoyTunes, Fabric, Honeybook and Bringg. Prior to Aleph, Michael was a General Partner at Benchmark Capital, which he joined in July 2005, and where he continues as the partner responsible for Benchmark’s Israeli portfolio. Michael has focused on internet and software-enabled service investments since 1995. He has invested in and served on the boards of some of Israel’s leading companies and startups, such as Conduit, Gigya (Acquired SAP), Picturevison (acquired: EK), SeekingAlpha, Shopping.com (Nasdaq: SHOP, acquired: EBAY), Tradeum (acquired: VERT), and Wix (Nasdaq: WIX), and Wework (NYSE: WE). Since 2006, Michael has been writing the blog “Six Kids and a Full Time Job,” on topics ranging from politics to technology, Judaism and macroeconomics. He was a contributor to TheMarker, a Hebrew-language daily business newspaper, and is the author of the “Hummus Manifesto,” the seminal piece on Israel’s innovation scene. Michael has also published numerous books, including The Vanishing Jew, Ben Barukh, and The Tree of Life and Prosperity. He has published two additional books in Hebrew which are due out in English in the coming years: Everyone Can Be Moses and Roaring Tribe. Michael also lectures frequently on venture capital, Israel and entrepreneurship. He is the Chairman of HaShomer Hachadash and sits on the board of Yeshivat Har Etzion. Michael founded the Nevo network, a professional network organization that integrates immigrants to Israel into the high tech ecosystem and serves as the organization's active Chairman. Michael lives in Jerusalem with his wife and eight children.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series C, Series A
United States, Israel, Australia

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Beewise — Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey.
Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.

Cresson Management

Investment focus

Software, Farming, Medical
Seed, Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Proggio — Proggio - The adaptive project portfolio management platform. Drive results with complete clarity across your entire project portfolio to respond quickly when things change. Book a Demo!
Healthee — Insurights is an AI-powered digital platform that allows employees to utilize their health benefits and coverage. It provides employees on-the-spot answers to their health coverage and benefits questions, helps them find lower-cost providers, and lets them know about relevant preventive care benefits to ensure they are healthier.

Bold Early-Stage venture capital investing. First money in. Game-changing connections. Radical founder support.

Investment focus

FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wisery Labs — GenAI for the defense industry
SphereX — Experience unmatched decentralized security with SphereX, safeguarding your DeFi apps non-stop. Trust in our transparent, ML-based protection.
Statement — Statement enables businesses a real-time view into their payment status and a true cash position across all banks, accounts, geographies, and currencies.

Jeff Swartz

Investment focus

Software, Recruiting, Social Impact
Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.

Guy Shamir of Mivtach Shamir.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Mobile
Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!