Top 40 Social Media Angel Investors in Israel

Investor	Social Media Israel investments
Will Graylin	2
Avishai Abrahami	2
Gigi Levy Weiss	2
Will Graylin	2
Farhana Rahman	1
Brian Norgard	1
Michael Granoff	1
Itzik Ben Bassat	1
Yoav Vilner	1
Tobey Maguire	1
Eitan Reisel	1
Yaron Adler	1
Shai Rephaeli	1
Shaul Olmert	1
Lior Delgo	1
Leonardo DiCaprio	1
Sagi Shorrer	1
David O. Sacks	1
Yuval Rakavy	1
Yossi Vardi	1
John Henderson	1
Nimrod Cohen	1
Hanjoo Lee	1
Isaac Applbaum	1
Rafi Gidron	1
Ron Zuckerman	1
Steve Case	1
Jeremy Yap	1
Jonathan Kolber	1
Jeremie Berrebi	1
Lior Shemesh	1
Aviv Raiz	1
Net Jacobsson	1
Tilli Kalisky-Bannett	1
Dr. Ilan Cohn	1
Shai Deljo	1
Eyal Waldman	1
Udi Netzer	1
Aviram Jenik	1
Yechiam Yemini	1

Will Graylin is the Chairman and CEO at Indigo Technologies. Will attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Information Technology, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

GoTab — GoTab's Restaurant & Hospitality Point of Sale platform optimizes experiences and efficiencies to create a better guest experience.
Cyabra — We break down social media so you can understand narratives, detect authenticity and reach true audiences.
LoginID — Strong authentication made fast and simple. Improve security, user experience, privacy and compliance in minutes using simple SDKs

Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communicationtechnology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company's sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces' elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Affogata — Affogata optimizes the digital customer journey by analyzing customer interactions and identifying customer needs in real-time.
Connecteam — Communicate, operate and train your non-desk employees with Connecteam's all-in-one employee app. Easy to use, customizable and affordable like no other!
The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.

Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kama — Kama offers sexual wellness practices that improve how you experience love, sex, and intimacy. Available on the iOS App Store.
BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Will Graylin is the Chairman and CEO at Indigo Technologies. Will attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Developer APIs, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

GoTab — GoTab's Restaurant & Hospitality Point of Sale platform optimizes experiences and efficiencies to create a better guest experience.
Cyabra — We break down social media so you can understand narratives, detect authenticity and reach true audiences.
LoginID — Strong authentication made fast and simple. Improve security, user experience, privacy and compliance in minutes using simple SDKs

Farhana Rahman

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Media
Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.

Brian Norgard is Chief Product—and team builder extraordinaire—at Tinder. Under his leadership, Tinder is the fastest growing mobile revenue company in consumer Internet history.In less than 3 years, Tinder became the top-grossing mobile app in the world, created over $11 billion dollars in market value and led to hundreds of millions ofconnections worldwide. Brian is considered one of the most authoritative voices in the dynamics surrounding subscription-based business models.As a creator of blockbuster products like Super Like, Boost, Tinder Gold, Super Likeable. Brian extinguished industry records and redefined the physics of the category. Brian's product philosophy of simple, fun and useful is utilized throughout the industry and has resulted in more than 200 million lifetime downloads. His product team is consistently lauded as world-class and best-in-industry with respect to experience design. Josh Elman of Greylock Partner stated, "Brian built the smartest business on top of an active consumer product that we have seen in ages. Maybe ever."At 25, Brian was the youngest GM/VP in the history of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp after the acquisition of his first company Newroo where he served as the GM of MySpace News and FIM Labs. In 2012 Brian built one of the fastest growing Facebook applications in history (Chill) which reached over 30MM people. Thereafter, his Kleiner Perkins funded mobile messaging application Tappy became Tinder’s first acquisition. Brian also co-founded advertising network Ad.ly which was acquired by Nestivity in 2014.A respected and savvy investor, Brian helped entrepreneurs ignite franchises from AngelList—where he was the first angel investor—to Tinder. Brian's investment vehicle, Norgard Fund, invests in startups ranging from Lyft to SpaceX. Brian graduated with honors from Brown University where he received a prestigious NCIIA Grant awarded to top collegiate innovators.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Consumer
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Maximus — Elevate energy, sex drive, and promote hair growth with our doctor-prescibed programs. Featuring enclomiphene testosterone improvement. Find your protocol.
Ottr Finance — The Wallet For Everyone
Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.

Michael Granoff is founder and Managing Partner of Maniv Mobility, a venture capital fund based in Tel Aviv which invests exclusively in the new mobility future. Founded in 2015, Maniv has a portfolio of over 25 mobility startups, in Israel, the US and beyond. They include companies developing sensors, software, simulation, localization, datamonetization, autonomous systems, over-the-air updates, automotive cyber-security, micromobility, new mobility business models and more. Aside from several startup boards, Mr. Granoff serves on the board of Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE), a Washington, DC-based policy and advocacy organization he helped establish in 2004. Past board roles included that of electric car network developer Better Place. He has been involved in three US Presidential campaigns and in 2010 received Brandeis University’s Asper Award for Global Entrepreneurship. Mr. Granoff holds a B.A. from Tufts University, an MBA and JD from Kellogg, Northwestern University. He is a veteran marathon runner and lives just outside of Tel Aviv with his wife and four children.

Investment focus

Transportation, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Israel, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Terraline — Solo AVT engages in revolutionizing the heavy truck industry.
WhoDoYou — Find trusted local service providers on WhoDoYou. Rely on advice collected from real conversations, skip the biased reviews and manipulated listings.
Revel — Electrifying cities through charging hubs, all electric rideshare, mopeds and eBikes.

Itzik Ben Bassat

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Media
Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.

Tech marketer, CEO, founder and a lame person overall. Attended Harvard University.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Media
Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.

Tobey Maguire is an American actor and film producer who began his career in the late 1980s. He is known for his role as Peter Parker / Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–2007), as well as for his roles in Pleasantville (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999), Wonder Boys (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), Brothers (2009), andThe Great Gatsby (2013). He has been nominated for Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards and received two Saturn Awards, including one for Best Actor.

Investment focus

SMS, Video, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

toot — toot is an SMS service that connects students to expert tutors for homework help. Instantly connect by texting 424-292-TOOT or visit www.toot.ustoot also supports their local students with a mobile application that connects its users with local tutors face to face to help them learn various subjects ranging from math and music to video gamesand more. The application enables its users to view profiles and resumes of qualified tooters before selecting one. Text 415-319-TOOT for more info or dowload the app www.tootapp.com/gettoot was launched in 2015 by Sophia Parsa, Shakib Zabihian, and Randy Horowitz. It is operated from Santa Monica, California.
mobli — Mobli is a real-time visual media platform made up of subject-based channels such as people, places and topics. Mobli enables users to see the world through other people's eyes!
Casper — Casper is a sleep startup that launches a comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers, eliminating commission driven, inflated prices. Casper's mattresses are developed in-house by a team of product engineers with experience from IDEO. The company developed a line of core sleep products, including the Casper pillow, sheets, foundation,bed frame, duvet, and a dog mattress. The startup was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, United States.

Eitan Reisel

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Video
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Comunix — Comunix is a social gaming company with a vision for interactive gaming experiences grounded in human connection. Formed by a team of seasoned technology and gaming professionals, Comunix aims to reinvent the current gaming experience by integrating innovative methods for human communication, such as group video chat, to create a seamless social experience for users. Our hit game Pokerface is enjoyed by millions of people from around the world.
PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
Playstream — Viewer Engagement - Stream Monetization - Thrilling Interactions. Game changing streaming tools with Playstream.gg new technology.

Yaron Adler - Founder @ We Group LTD

Investment focus

Sensor, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

eToro — eToro is a multi-asset investment platform that empowers people to grow their knowledge and wealth as part of a global community of successful investors. eToro was founded in 2007 with the vision of opening up the global markets so that everyone can trade and invest in a simple and transparent way. Today, eToro is a global community of more than 23million registered users who share their investment strategies; and anyone can follow the approaches of those who have been the most successful. Due to the simplicity of the platform users can easily buy, hold and sell assets, monitor their portfolio in real time, and transact whenever they want.
Mircod — From Sketch to Scale. MIRCOD enables rapid prototyping of IoT products and solutions

Shai Rephaeli - Co-Founder and CEO @ Tutoria Digital

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Medical
Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Myndlift — Myndlift offers a therapist-guided home neurofeedback solution for mental health, using mobile and wearable technology. Home users enjoy accessible and affordable training while neuro-therapists can grow their practices with remote supervision.
Lingua.ly — Founded by Cambridge and Stanford graduates Dr. Jan Ihmels and Dr. Orly Fuhrman, Lingua.ly is a brand new way to learn a language. Collect new words from across the web with Lingua.ly's smart dictionary. Use your new vocab as you read real articles you choose. Immersion is the ultimate way to learn a language, and Lingua.ly’s free, onlinelearning platform uses “digital immersion” to give you all the same benefits no matter where you learn. Do you like to read about science and technology in your spare time? Prefer French recipes or travel magazines? Perhaps following business updates from the Middle East is key to your company’s success? Our patent pending algorithm understands your vocabulary to fill your feed with real articles from the web to suit both your level and interests. Better still, we let you practice your new words through fun games and quizzes. So, give your vocabulary a boost, create some colorful flashcards, keep your mind engaged and explore the web in a new language with Lingua.ly! Learn English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, German and Russian. Lingua.ly’s blended learning solution can be used as a stand-alone product or to complement language classes and self-study course-ware. It is cloud synced and operable via desktop or mobile and supports 18+ dictionary languages. Website: http://lingua.ly App Store: http://bit.ly/1pyL1bb Google Play: http://bit.ly/1s04YuK

Shaul Olmert is the Co-founder and CEO of Piggy. He previously worked at Playbuzz as a Co-Founder and CEO. Shaul holds a master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Media
Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.

Lior is an entrepreneur with a proven record of building disruptive technology and new business models. He was Co-Founder and CEO of FareChase (acquired by Yahoo) and VideoSurf (acquired by Microsoft). He loves leading product and technology teams, most recently as a Partner and GPM of Microsoft’s Xbox, and holds numerous technology patents.

Investment focus

TV, SaaS, Content
Seed
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Silo — Silo is a platform for professional helpful communities. Silo allows professionals to connect, share unpublished opportunities and help others with intros, advice and more. On Silo professionals can meet their peers, discover insider opportunities, benefit from trusted networks and help others to help themselves. Silo was launched in 2013 and isbased in San Jose, California.
Karat — Karat helps companies hire top engineering talent by improving the quality, efficiency, and equity of their technical hiring process
Social Studios — SocialStudios brings the unparalleled visual impact of television to web content. Videos are the most engaging rich media format, but because video production is expensive and requires talent, publishers face obstacles to producing compelling video content at scale. SocialStudios' proprietary software platform, which combinesalgorithmic strength and crowdsourcing functionality, allows publishers to transform original web content into engaging, promotional videos viewable on all devices. These videos enrich their source web pages and extend the reach and brand of publishers via promotional placement on social and video networks. Social Studios, an edgy media start up which recently closed $3.1M investment, is looking to hire top notch developers. Join their team and be part of the movement to Televise the web. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-mati-kochavi-sets-up-120m-israel-start-up-fund-1000965107

Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and nine Golden Globe Awards. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004), and has been nominated by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Acommitted environmentalist, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for his activism. At the 2007 Oscar ceremony, DiCaprio and former Vice President Al Gore announced that the Academy Awards had incorporated environmentally intelligent practices throughout the planning and production processes, and on July 7, 2007, DiCaprio presented at the American leg of Live Earth.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Israel, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Polestar — Wir stellen Performance-Elektroautos her. Unser Ziel: eine bessere Zukunft durch Innovationen.
ID Genève — We make watches that reflect the values and principles of people who are committed to fight climate change and who wish to have a positive social and environmental impact. The materials used are circular and have a lower carbon footprint than the industry average.
NUVIEW — Explore NUVIEW's LiDAR satellite technology, revolutionizing Earth observation with annual global mapping, unrivaled coverage, and cutting-edge data.

Sagi Shorrer is an Entrepreneur, advisor and angel investor in the digital media and technology space, with 15 years of strategic and operational experience across large companies and startups (including: Google, BBDO, i-Touch, Brainbow). Strong focus on mobile apps, monetization and Internationalization.

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Series A
Singapore, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Intellect — Intellect is a modern-day mental health company with a mission to make mental healthcare & wellbeing support accessible for everyone. Today, Intellect is the largest and fastest growing mental health tech company in Asia, and serves over 2 million members and leading organisations globally through our mental health platform. Intellect wasalso selected as one of Google’s Best Apps of 2020. Intellect is backed by leading investors including Insignia Ventures Partners, Y Combinator, and an extensive list of family offices, big tech executives & renowned angel investors.
Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!

David O. Sacks is the Co-Founder and Partner of Craft Ventures. He previously worked at Zenefits as an Investor, COO, and Interim CEO. David Sacks attended the University of Chicago Law School and Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Waitroom — Rumi.ai redefines meetings with AI-synced notes and tasks, streamlining your workflow and ensuring productive action tracking
Index — Index wants companies to use its no-code dashboard builder to help visualize their KPIs and track performance. The tool boasts integration with a variety of data providers so that users aren’t forced to manually enter data into another tool. The startup hopes that building embeddable dashboards will help their solution catch fire and that startupswill turn to their tool when they want to track progress on goals.
Sandbox VR — Step inside a new dimension and experience a new reality with your friends. See, touch, and hear. VR as it was meant to be. Sandbox VR, In Here, It's Possible.

Yuval Rakavy - Founder @ BRM Capital

Investment focus

Apps, Family, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
Israel

Portfolio highlights

MyHeritage — MyHeritage is the global destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history. Our platform and DNA kits make it easy for anyone, anywhere to embark on a meaningful journey into their past and treasure their family stories for generations to come. Our powerful technology does the searching for you, revealing fascinating new detailsabout your family history — effortlessly.The company was founded in 2003 by our CEO – entrepreneur and family historian Gilad Japhet. From a humble garage startup, MyHeritage has grown into a global company with 90 million users across 196 countries.Our 370 employees work out of bright, spacious offices in Israel, North America, and Europe to deliver an exceptional user experience in 42 languages. Guided by our core values of innovation, compassion and diversity, our team undertakes many voluntary community initiatives, using our expertise and technology to reunite families. We are delighted to go the extra mile for our users, offering 24/7 support and striving to create a true sense of community in the world of family history.In October 2013 MyHeritage was named the most promising Israeli start-up for 2013-14 by "Globes" magazine.

One of Israel’s early entrepreneurs, Yossi Vardi co-founded, led, funded and helped build more than 80 high-tech, energy, natural resources, and clean-tech companies. Many of them went public, including Tekem, Alon Energy, Granite Hacarmel, answers.com, scopus, International Lasers Technologies, epals, tocows, brightcove, other were acquired :Gteko (by Microsoft), Tivella (by cisco,) Airlink (by sierra wireless), Foxytunes (by yahoo),starnet (by IAC),Gift project (by ebay).As the founding investor ofMirabilis Ltd, -the creator of iCQ - Vardi co-pioneered instant messaging. ICQ was one of the internet’s earliest successes, later sold to AOL.Vardi was chairman of the board of trustees of Jerusalem Foundation, serves on the board of trustees of the technion and served on those of Weitzman Institute. Hebrew university, open university .he was advisor to the World Bank, United Nations Development Program , CEO’s of Amazon, AOL, Siemens Albis, and Allied–signal. member of the World Economic Forum, and Co-chairman of the EU-Israel business dialogue.Vardi had an extensive government and public career, hewas the director general of Ministry of Development and Ministry of Energy. was chairman of Israel National Oil Company, and Israel Chemicals. participated in the peace talks with Egypt, Palestinians, Jordan and Syria. He received Honorary Doctorates from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and the Ben Gurion university , the Prime Minister Hi-Tech Award for life achievements (twice); Best Internet Personality by TechCrunch Europe; Entrepreneur of the Year by Tel Aviv University , Europe’s 25 top techs by Wall Street Journal; and one of the 200 Greatest Israelis of all times by Ynet. was elected by Israel 21c to the top 10 icons of Israeli high tech - the pioneers, by The Algemeiner for the "jewish 100 - the top 100 people positively influenced jewish life " and by wired magazine (uk) as number 9 of the wired 2014 top 100 influential people in EuropeYossi Vardi sits on the advisory boards of 3i and Amdocs and has served on boards of numerous state and private corporations including Bezeq, Israel Electric, and the Bank of Israel. Yossi has also been an Advisor to the CEOs of AOL, Amazon, and Allied Signal. Yossi Vardi has received many awards, including the Prime Minister of Israel Hi-Tech Award for life achievements on two occasions, the Industry Prize, the Ramniceanu Prize and CEOs Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.

Investment focus

Search Engine, Internet, Enterprise Software
Angel, Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

RoomiePics — RoomiePics is a social camera for sharing photos with people nearby. The app is currently in development.
Similarweb — All in one Website analytics & competitive traffic intelligence platform - Compare website traffic and performance, analyze strategies & grow your market share!
The Gifts Project — The Gifts Project is a social ecommerce platform for Group Gifting that helps online retailers, marketplaces and gift stores to leverage their social buying experience. This white label solution brings major ecommerce websites a Social Group Gifting Platform with a winning combination of Social Networks and Group Payment straight to theircheckout process. With Group Gifting, customers can share their special occasions with their social graph by letting friends to chip in for each others gifts while shopping at their favorite online store. The Gifts Project is a product of Appchee Applications Ltd., an Israeli startup company that is backed by

John is a Partner at Airtree Ventures. He works with the best Australian and Kiwi founders to create world class technology businesses. John was previously a Principal at White Star Capital in London and New York and also co-founded London.ai, Europe’s leading event for the AI community which is held quarterly in London. Prior to his currentroles, John was the COO of Summly (acquired by Yahoo in May 2013) and has also held roles at Facebook, The Boston Consulting Group and as a lawyer at Linklaters. John also co-founded Bush Campus whose failure perhaps taught him more than the rest of his experiences combined.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aniways — Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.
Firmable — Firmable is the definitive B2B database in Australia helping businesses drive smarter decisions by knowing more about their leads, customers, and candidates than ever before.
Sablier — Free-to-use infrastructure for token distribution. DAOs and businesses use Sablier for vesting, payroll, airdrops, and more.

Nimrod Cohen is the Managing Partner of TAU Ventures. He previously worked at Hapoel Ramat-Gan as a Chairman. Nimrod Cohen attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Swimm — Code understanding AI based on your code base and tribal knowledge all kept up to date by Swimm.
Cyabra — We break down social media so you can understand narratives, detect authenticity and reach true audiences.
XTEND — XTEND develops solutions that allow people to interact with drones and other unmanned machine technologies. The company’s technology enables humans to extend themselves into the action by allowing them to virtually sit inside the drone for various tactical missions. Designed for both indoor and outdoor uses, XTEND’s technology can also be used togamify real-life activities.

John Lee is Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures. He is also a co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea. John is a co- founder & EVP of Corporate Development and Strategy of Hostway. He serves additional responsibilities as CEO of Hostway India. John and his fellow co- founders bootstrapped Hostwayinto a top 5 web hosting company in the world with over 700 employees.Hostway is a multinational web hosting company headquartered in Chicago, and serves more than 600,000 customers worldwide. He is currently responsible for overall corporate strategy, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions. Previously, he has held positions in every department of the company, including leading global marketing and sales and overall P&L for North America.Mr. Lee was born and raised in Korea and immigrated to the United States at age 13. He holds a BA in Biology from the University of Chicago.

Investment focus

Local, Internet, Social Media
Angel
Israel

Portfolio highlights

WhoDoYou — Find trusted local service providers on WhoDoYou. Rely on advice collected from real conversations, skip the biased reviews and manipulated listings.

Isaac Applbaum joined MizMaa Ventures Limited as Founder and Partner in 2016.Isaac Applbaum is a founding General Partner of Opus Capital, a billion dollar early stage venture fund, .focusing his efforts on finding Israeli-based investments for the firm. Previously, Isaac was a Partner and Managing Director for Israel at Lightspeed Venture Partnersan early stage venture capital firm with over two billion dollars under management.Prior to joining Lightspeed, Mr. Applbaum was the founder and CEO of Concorde Solutions Inc. (CSI). In 1998 Mr. Applbaum sold CSI to Bank of America becoming a Senior Vice President at the bank with responsibility for running the bank’s E-ventures group and an advisor to the strategic investments group.Before founding Concorde Solutions, Mr. Applbaum was responsible for running US operations for Advanced Technology International, a large Israeli software development company.Mr. Applbaum currently serves as a Senior Advisor for Philanthropy to the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat. Mr. Applbaum is President of the Board of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of The Western Wall Heritage Foundation, is on the board of directors of: The Koret Israel Economic Development Funds, the Shalem Institute, the Modern Bank and is on the National Council of AIPAC. Mr. Applbaum is a member of the Young Presidents Organization.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Popsa — Popsa won the Software category and was placed 3rd overall in Deloitte’s list of the 50 fastest growing companies in the UK in 2020 (in-between Bulb and Revolut), and was also awarded a place as a "one to watch" in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100.In an increasingly digital world, it's all too easy to lose your photos to the cloudor to the depths of your camera roll, never to be seen again.So we decided to do something about it.Popsa launched in 2016 to bring your memories to life by printing them in beautiful, physical products that you can hold.However, instead of making you spend hours designing your product (like Snapfish or Photobox), we do the hard work for you in minutes.Our vision is to send you regular bundles of photos in the post without you having to think about it. Little presents to yourself. A monthly subscription to your memories.We're developing technology to make it happen:• Machine learning to curate your most sentimental photos. • Bespoke algorithms to automatically design beautiful layouts. • The fastest delivery from the best printers in the world.Customers will sign up and every month they'll unwrap a new collection of memories to keep for years to come.
Ringil — Ringil is a digital platform for the management of freight logistics and transportation.
Buying Show — Buying Show born in 2015 from fashion industry professionals who, after working for more than 20 years in the fashion industry, were frustrated by the slow and sometimes old-fashioned nature of the industry. They believe that through technology, they can help fashion industry professionals speed up sales cycles, shorten lead times, find customersand extend the buying seasons for collections, even with small teams.

Rafi Gidron is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Xperiti. He attended Columbia University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Blyp — Blyp is an AI-driven data analytics platform for e-commerce companies.
Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
GlossAI — GlossAI bridges the gap between the content created by organisations and how people consume it .Today's audiences do not have the attention span to listen to anything for an extended period of time. Even those attending events, podcasts, training sessions, and zoom calls can't keep up. At GlossAI we get smart AI video generator that canturn any single piece of content into many short videos, blog posts and more various channels and use cases.

Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.

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.

Steve Case is a Chairman, Founder, and CEO at Revolution, a Chairman at The Case Foundation, a Founding Chair at Startup America Partnership, and a Chairman at Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. He attended Williams College.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

FiscalNote — The #1 most trusted partner for managing the global issues and policy affairs that present the biggest risks and opportunities to your organization.
75F — 75F's award-winning smart sensors and controls improve indoor air quality and make commercial buildings more comfortable and energy efficient. Automatically.
Class Technologies — Class, the next generation virtual classroom. Trusted by 10M users from 1500 institutions in education and training. Make your virtual classroom feel like a real classroom.

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Paebbl — The modular technology from Paebbl may be included in any carbon capture system and is industrially scalable. As a result, Paebbl provides a raw material stream that is carbon-negative, radically altering the economics of preventing carbon from entering our environment.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future

Jonathan is a private equity veteran with over 20 years of experience in launching international investments, raising capital, achieving exits and actively running public companies. As a former manager of Claridge Israel (1986-1997), the private equity fund grew from $50 to $700 through a series of highly successful exits, including TevaPharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: TEVA), ECI Telecom (NASDAQ: ECIL), Osem (TASE:OSEM) and Optrotech. Jonathan is the former CEO of the billion-dollar company Koor Industries where he steered the holding company through a very complex boom-burst-rebound period (1998-2006). During his tenure at Koor, he weathered the telecom meltdown, implementing a comprehensive restructuring plan that helped rejuvenate Koor Industries, and led a successful exit to IDB, Israel’s largest conglomerate. Jonathan has served as Chairman, CEO and Director in over 40 public and private companies in Israel and North America. He is adept at structuring complex, cross-border and cross industry business and financial transactions with leading investors and bankers, and has an extensive global relationship network.

Investment focus

Social Media, FinTech, Financial Services
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

eToro — eToro is a multi-asset investment platform that empowers people to grow their knowledge and wealth as part of a global community of successful investors. eToro was founded in 2007 with the vision of opening up the global markets so that everyone can trade and invest in a simple and transparent way. Today, eToro is a global community of more than 23million registered users who share their investment strategies; and anyone can follow the approaches of those who have been the most successful. Due to the simplicity of the platform users can easily buy, hold and sell assets, monitor their portfolio in real time, and transact whenever they want.
Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
Atlas Invest — A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk.

Jeremie Berrebi is the CEO and Founder of MeetB. He previously worked at Fresh Planet as a Co-Founder. Jeremie Berrebi attended Yeshiva Netivot Olam.

Investment focus

Mobile, SaaS, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aniways — Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.
Optix — Optix is the leading coworking software to enable coworking owners and operators to manage, measure, and grow their business.
Immediately — Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.

Lior brings to Wix his vast 15 years of experience in shaping and leading financial strategy and operations in top technological organizations.Lior joined Wix after serving as Chief Financial Officer for two years at Alvarion Ltd.,a provider of optimized wireless broadband solutions. This followed his position as the company’s Vice President ofFinance which he held since October 2008.Prior to that, for five years, Lior served as Vice President of Finance at Veraz Networks Inc., a provider of softswitch, media gateway and digital compression solutions.Before that Lior was the Controller, and later the Associate Vice President of Finance of the Broadband division, for ECI Telecom Ltd., a network infrastructure provider.On a day off you can catch him cycling

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Media
Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.

Aviv Raiz is Member of the Board of Directors at MyHeritage.

Investment focus

Apps, Family, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
Israel

Portfolio highlights

MyHeritage — MyHeritage is the global destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history. Our platform and DNA kits make it easy for anyone, anywhere to embark on a meaningful journey into their past and treasure their family stories for generations to come. Our powerful technology does the searching for you, revealing fascinating new detailsabout your family history — effortlessly.The company was founded in 2003 by our CEO – entrepreneur and family historian Gilad Japhet. From a humble garage startup, MyHeritage has grown into a global company with 90 million users across 196 countries.Our 370 employees work out of bright, spacious offices in Israel, North America, and Europe to deliver an exceptional user experience in 42 languages. Guided by our core values of innovation, compassion and diversity, our team undertakes many voluntary community initiatives, using our expertise and technology to reunite families. We are delighted to go the extra mile for our users, offering 24/7 support and striving to create a true sense of community in the world of family history.In October 2013 MyHeritage was named the most promising Israeli start-up for 2013-14 by "Globes" magazine.

Net Jacobsson is a former early Facebook Executive, Co-founder of Sparklabs Global Ventures, entrepreneur, angel investor & passionate mountain biker.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Local, Beauty
Seed, Angel
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Hooch — HOOCH is the free app that rewards you up to 10% back plus exclusive perks when you travel, shop or dine with global partners.
WhoDoYou — Find trusted local service providers on WhoDoYou. Rely on advice collected from real conversations, skip the biased reviews and manipulated listings.
Cointopia — Cointopia is an ICO launching platform that provides a crowdfunded marketplace powered by blockchain technology.

Tilli Kalisky-Bannett is a Managing Partner at SVB Capital and the Co-Founder at at-bay company. She attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Series C, Series B, Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Aniways — Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.
AnyRoad — Brands use AnyRoad to manage, measure and scale their, live, virtual, and hybrid experiences and events with live data and unique insights
Modern Treasury — Build products that move money. Integrate payouts, direct debits, balance tracking and other payments use cases quickly and easily with Modern Treasury APIs.

Dr. Ilan Cohn - Advisor and Board Member @ Feelter

Investment focus

SEO, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Feelter — FEELTER is nothing short of an earthquake in the e-commerce market. It is an engine bridging the worlds of social networking world e-commerce in an unprecedented manner At FEELTER, they are focused on improving and maximizing the business potential embedded in traffic on e-commerce websites by providing the information and support needed byinternet surfers - the potential customers - in order to keep them on websites for longer and ultimately lead them to making purchases.

Shai Deljo is COO and Co-Founder at VideoSurf.

Investment focus

TV, SaaS, Content
Seed, Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Silo — Silo is a platform for professional helpful communities. Silo allows professionals to connect, share unpublished opportunities and help others with intros, advice and more. On Silo professionals can meet their peers, discover insider opportunities, benefit from trusted networks and help others to help themselves. Silo was launched in 2013 and isbased in San Jose, California.
Globality — Globality revolutionizes the way your company sources and buys services by utilizing artificial intelligence to unlock cost savings, efficiency gains, and drive remote collaboration from anywhere.
Social Studios — SocialStudios brings the unparalleled visual impact of television to web content. Videos are the most engaging rich media format, but because video production is expensive and requires talent, publishers face obstacles to producing compelling video content at scale. SocialStudios' proprietary software platform, which combinesalgorithmic strength and crowdsourcing functionality, allows publishers to transform original web content into engaging, promotional videos viewable on all devices. These videos enrich their source web pages and extend the reach and brand of publishers via promotional placement on social and video networks. Social Studios, an edgy media start up which recently closed $3.1M investment, is looking to hire top notch developers. Join their team and be part of the movement to Televise the web. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-mati-kochavi-sets-up-120m-israel-start-up-fund-1000965107

Eyal Waldman is a co-founder of Mellanox, and has served as Mellanox's president and chief executive officer since March 1999.From March 1993 to February 1999, Eyal served Vice President of Engineering and was a co-founder of Galileo Technology Ltd., or Galileo, a semiconductor company, which was acquired by Marvell Technology Group Ltd.in January 2001.From August 1989 to March 1993, Eyal held a number of design and architecture related positions at Intel Corporation, a manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products.Eyal holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Semiconductor, Big Data, Internet
Series A, Seed, Angel
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Blyp — Blyp is an AI-driven data analytics platform for e-commerce companies.
Anywell — anywell is a new way to work remotely. Enjoy business amenities in novel and energizing spots right in your neighborhood.
Oligo Security — Oligo detects the attackable open source libraries, thus filtering out about 85% of the noise. Watch now.

Udi Netzer is the Private Investor at Joonko.

Investment focus

EdTech, Software, Education
Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Lingua.ly — Founded by Cambridge and Stanford graduates Dr. Jan Ihmels and Dr. Orly Fuhrman, Lingua.ly is a brand new way to learn a language. Collect new words from across the web with Lingua.ly's smart dictionary. Use your new vocab as you read real articles you choose. Immersion is the ultimate way to learn a language, and Lingua.ly’s free, onlinelearning platform uses “digital immersion” to give you all the same benefits no matter where you learn. Do you like to read about science and technology in your spare time? Prefer French recipes or travel magazines? Perhaps following business updates from the Middle East is key to your company’s success? Our patent pending algorithm understands your vocabulary to fill your feed with real articles from the web to suit both your level and interests. Better still, we let you practice your new words through fun games and quizzes. So, give your vocabulary a boost, create some colorful flashcards, keep your mind engaged and explore the web in a new language with Lingua.ly! Learn English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, German and Russian. Lingua.ly’s blended learning solution can be used as a stand-alone product or to complement language classes and self-study course-ware. It is cloud synced and operable via desktop or mobile and supports 18+ dictionary languages. Website: http://lingua.ly App Store: http://bit.ly/1pyL1bb Google Play: http://bit.ly/1s04YuK

Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
Kooply — Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.
illustria — Illuminating blind spots and minimizing the exposed surface area to mitigate potential malicious activities

Yechiam Yemini is the current Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor at Turbonomic. He previously worked at Comverse Technology as a Co-founder. Yechiam Yemini attended the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Globality — Globality revolutionizes the way your company sources and buys services by utilizing artificial intelligence to unlock cost savings, efficiency gains, and drive remote collaboration from anywhere.
Pensa Systems — Learn how Pensa's syndicated data solution drives growth for CPG brands and retailers through accurate and actionable shelf visibility.
Social Studios — SocialStudios brings the unparalleled visual impact of television to web content. Videos are the most engaging rich media format, but because video production is expensive and requires talent, publishers face obstacles to producing compelling video content at scale. SocialStudios' proprietary software platform, which combinesalgorithmic strength and crowdsourcing functionality, allows publishers to transform original web content into engaging, promotional videos viewable on all devices. These videos enrich their source web pages and extend the reach and brand of publishers via promotional placement on social and video networks. Social Studios, an edgy media start up which recently closed $3.1M investment, is looking to hire top notch developers. Join their team and be part of the movement to Televise the web. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-mati-kochavi-sets-up-120m-israel-start-up-fund-1000965107