Top 20 Social Network Startup Investors in Israel in December 2024

Investor	Social Network Israel investments
Viola Ventures	2
StageOne Ventures	2
Legziel Family	2
Stardom Ventures	1
Proxima Ventures Ltd	1
WR Hambrecht	1
Benny Schnaider	1
M-Systems	1
Spinach Angels	1
Daniel Eskapa	1
Bill Tai	1
Spark Capital	1
Evergreen Venture Partners	1
Vertex Ventures Israel	1
Draper Associates	1
NFX	1
Cipio Partners	1
Avishai Abrahami	1
Vertex Ventures	1
Verizon Ventures	1

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

Portfolio highlights

Panjaya — Panjaya offers generative-AI dubbing technology to localize any video content. The company's AI replicates original content in a variety of languages with engaging results. Video content creators from a variety of industries can easily and accurately recreate videos that appeal to a global audience using Panjaya.
Ember — Find everything you need to run your business in one app, with qualified accountants on hand whenever you need.
PayZen — Trusted by hospitals and healthcare systems, PayZen simplifies patient payments and provider collections using custom payment plans and AI-driven financial services.

StageOne Ventures, leads investments in exceptional Israel-related entrepreneurs. We focus on early-stage transformative deep tech startups solving complex enterprise challenges.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

definity — definity is a Data Application Observability & Remediation platform, helping Spark-heavy data engineering teams to seamlessly monitor data applications health + data quality + performance in-motion, detect anomalies in run-time, resolve incidents in minutes, optimize applications’ performance, and cut infrastructure cost – with zero codechanges.
Sedric.ai — Sedric is a compliance excellence platform for next-gen fintech companies. With AI-based real-time monitoring, detection and analysis of all customer interactions, Sedric ensures customer protection, minimizes risks, and expedites business growth. Sedric empowers compliance teams to quickly apply new laws and regulations across their growingbusinesses and enables them to focus on the events with the highest dollar value across all channels: voice, chat, email, social, and more.
Siit — Siit is a modern IT service management platform. Conversational, integrated and AI-powered service desk for IT and internal operation teams. Simplify internal operations today!

Legziel Famliy

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Israel, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Next Dim — Next Dim is a revolutionary, proprietary, high performance network analysis solution.
Pelles.ai — Pells.ai is leveraging generative AI and path-planning algorithms to create a new way to design and produce mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) building systems to save time, money, and materials.
Atlas Invest — A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk.

We're looking for stars that want to change the universe. Our network of media professionals is here to make any bold dream come alive.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Gaming, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
Piggy — create awesome interactive content on your smartphone - no design skills or coding are needed
Astrid Entertainment — Astrid Entertainment is a brand-new gaming company that is developing its first interactive universe.

Proxima Ventures is focused on the management of investment portfolios for its customers. It offers them with financial products and consulting services. Proxima Ventures was acquired by Soluto in October 2013. Proxima Ventures was founded by Chaim Venezia and Uri Ra'anan and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

VerImmune — Located in Baltimore, Maryland, VerImmune is an Immuno-Oncology company developing a first-in-class cancer therapy known as Anti-tumor Immune Redirection. This strategy utilizes a proprietary tumor-specific, tumor type agnostic, virus-inspired platform termed Anti-tumor Immune Redirection Virus-inspired Particles (AIR-ViPs) that redirectspre-existing pathogenic or childhood vaccine immune memory towards tumors.
Yidianling — Yidianling is a psychological counselling platform that provides free mental health services such as free questions and answers, psychological tests, expert services, and training lectures.
Immune-Onc Therapeutics — Immune-Onc Therapeutics is a newly established bio-pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing innovative therapeutic antibodies for cancer treatment. The company applies the latest scientific insights and expertise in drug development to advance novel immuno-oncology products and bring new treatment options to cancer patients.

WR Hambrecht + Co provides venture capital and early growth funding for disruptive companies worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
Series A, Funding Round, Series C
United States, Israel, China

Portfolio highlights

Gabbi — Your breast specialist. Assessing risk and navigating you to an early detection.
Buoy Health — Check your symptoms and clarify your options for care. The Buoy A.I. health assistant guides you on your way to well, the moment you feel sick.
PatientsLikeMe — PatientsLikeMe is a personalized health network of an integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform.It helps people find new options for treatments, connect with others, and take action to improve their outcomes. The company has worked with every major pharmaceutical company and a range of government organizations to bringthe patient voice to research, development, and public policy. With more than 600,000 members, PatientsLikeMe is a trusted source for real-world disease information and a clinically robust resource that has published more than 100 research studies.The Boston, Massachusetts-located company was founded by Ben Heywood, James Heywood, and Jeff Cole in 2004

Benny Schnaider is the Chairman of Brinker. He previously worked at Oracle as a VP SW Development. Benny Schnaider attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Cloud Security, Developer Tools
Seed, Series A, Angel
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Raftt — Raftt provides easy-to-use developer environments which run in the cloud, enabling advanced collaboration while using existing local IDEs and other tools and workflows. No more "it works on my machine"!!
Wing Cloud — Wing Cloud tames cloud complexity through a unified programming and operational model that works across all providers and services.
Helios — Helios is developing a reactor that can process lunar soil and Martian soil to oxygen and metals. The company solution is unique as its output yields two highly crucial materials at the same time, and it doesn’t require earth brought consumables. They seek to enable the establishment of a permanent base on the Moon. Another potential use of ourreactor can be to supply oxygen from the lunar surface to earth orbit, as it requires 26 times less energy than launching it from Earth. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Israel.

M-Systems provides flash memory storage products for individuals and enterprises. It creates True Flash Filing System which presents the flash memory as a disk drive to the computer. The products of the company are DiskOnKey, DiskOnChip, and TrueFFS.M-Systems is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2008 and the company was acquired bySanDisk on July 30, 2006.

Investment focus

B2B, Electronics, Social Media
Funding Round
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Saifun Semiconductors Ltd. — Semiconductor With the B2B website www.semiconductor-scout.com we create for you as a company a sustainable advantage through use of new media to everyday processes. Cause semiconductor-scout.com occupied a central position in the daily workflow between the semiconductor and microelectronic market operating companies.

Spinach is a group of angel investors focused on Israeli Pre-Seed tech investments. Spinach was established in 2014 with the goal of supporting and financing innovative Israeli companies with early-stage funding.Spinach is not a classic VC or fund. It’s a pool of experienced angel investors, with collective net worth of over $2bn, who decidedto act together and provide financial and managerial support to entrepreneurs in the earliest stages of realizing their dreams and building their companies.We believe in super-simple deals, and move extremely fast so that the founders can focus on developing their products and businesses. We see ourselves as the founders’ ‘friends-and-family’ initial support.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lightico — AI-Powered Intelligent Document Processing, IDP, Document Collection, eSignatures, ID Verification for Secure and Compliant Customer Processes
RapidSec — Orca Security provides agentless, workload-deep, context-aware cloud infrastructure security and compliance through our comprehensive cloud security solution all in a single platform.
PickyStory — PickyStory is an e-commerce conversion platform. It uplifts the revenue of e-commerce merchants by converting more visitors into buyers.

Daniel is not as well known in the Tech Investing world, but he’s quietly been investing in the tech space and been making some really incredibly smart investments. We were introduced through a mutual friend and before we knew it, we had spent hours upon hours together hanging out, talking about Tout, talking about life, spirituality, and doinggood in the world. I’m super excited to have Daniel on as an Investor and an Advisor, and most importantly a good friend.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Consumr — Consumr is an unbiased, democratic platform that allows its users to make informed decisions and express their opinions. The platform was created for ratings and reviews of consumer products. Its app lets users instantly see the opinions of people just like them by scanning a barcode.Consumr supports its users in taking decisions related toeverything from buying a stroller for the first time or purchasing a new camera to capture life’s special moments. Its community has shared over 1 million ratings to help its users.Consumr was featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, U.S.A. Today, InStyle, and more. Launched in 2011 by Ryan Charles, The platform is based in New York, N.Y.
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Juno — Juno is a fresh approach to ride sharing. By leading with its values and putting drivers first, it will pave the way for better rider experiences. Launching in New York spring 2016

Bill Tai is the Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, and Founding Investor of Treasure Data. He previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MicroTau — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
Fathom — Instantly summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.

Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
MatX — MatX, a manufacturer of computer chips, is dedicated to constructing a computing platform for artificial general intelligence (AGI). Their specialty lies in creating hardware that combines profound domain experience tailored for large language models, graphics processing units, and various machine-learning models. By doing so, MatX aims to empowerdevelopers and programmers to enhance the efficiency, speed, and affordability of AI applications.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE

Evergreen was established in 1987 by Jacob Burak as one of Israel's first Venture Capital firms, and has grown into a leader, generating successful exits with tangible rewards for investors and entrepreneurs.Evergreen's current $650 million of venture capital funds under management invested in more than 120 technology companiesrepresent one of the largest portfolios in Israel.Evergreen's investments are focused on early stage Israeli companies in three main fields: communications, software and healthcare. Their investments are positioned in different segments of each of these markets to comprise a well diversified and balanced portfolio of companies.A professional investment team with extensive field expertise guides and supports entrepreneurs and portfolio companies throughout their life cycle, helping them to build a good idea into a leading company. With each member coming from a different background and contributing distinctive benefits, the investment team delivers a unique set of technical, operational and strategic skills.Evergreen has established strong ties with technological markets, creating an eco-system, from which they extract knowledge, understanding of the market needs and at the same time creating a valuable network to support their portfolio companies.Evergreen sees its entrepreneurs as a key asset and therefore invests in the relationship to build a true partnership. Consequently many of Israel's successful serial entrepreneurs have approached Evergreen with their next venture.Evergreen team's disciplined investment strategy has been crystallized through more than 14 years of investment experience as a team and is one of the key elements responsible for Evergreen's high rate of successful exits resulting in superior returns.Evergreen is directed by deep values of shared responsibility, rich interaction and dialogue, and hard work - its guiding principles since inception. They strongly believe in the continuity of their corporate culture which emphasizes investment in human capital, disciplined processes, professionalism and true leadership.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

eASIC — eASIC, a fabless semiconductor company, manufactures eASIC platforms that reduce the cost of ownership and time to production of customized silicon devices. It develops Nextreme family of devices that reduce development cost and turn-around times compared to standard cell ASICs, while reducing power consumption and unit cost for designs,Nextreme-3, a fourth generation eASIC platform, and Nextreme-2, a third generation eASIC platform. eASIC also provides easicopy ASIC that provides OEMs with a path from Nextreme-3, Nextreme-2, or Nextreme devices to a cell-based easicopy ASIC, which thereby helps OEMs reduce device cost and power consumption further, or increase performance, and eZ-IP alliance program to bring a wealth of verified eASIC-ready IP cores to help customers get to market faster. Its products are used in various applications that span from wireless infrastructure to consumer handheld devices. eASIC serves customers worldwide. Zvi Or-Bach founded eASIC in 1999, with its headquarters in Santa Clara in California with additional offices worldwide.
N-Trig — N-Trig is a startup that develops touch screens and pen styluses. With an extensive patent portfolio, N-trig also supports a variety of applications for different market segments including consumer, education, business, healthcare, graphic and industrial design, gaming, entertainment, and multimedia.Founded in 1999, N-trig is a global operation,maintaining its: R&D facility, corporate headquarters, and management in Kfar Saba, Israel; sales, OEM, and ISV support in Austin, Texas and San Jose, California; ODM, operations, and supply chain support in Taipei, Taiwan, Tokyo, Japan and Shanghai, China.
Inneractive — Inneractive is a leading independent mobile ad exchange focused on powering native and video ads. Their mission is to empower mobile publishers to realize their properties’ full potential by providing powerful technologies for the buying and selling of mobile ads.Inneractive is headquartered in Tel Aviv with offices in San Francisco, New Yorkand London.

We partner early with global-minded entrepreneurs seeking to disrupt large markets

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
Israel, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nagish — Nagish captions your phone calls and empowers you to talk using text or voice. It's fast, private, and free.
FireDome — FireDome's revolutionary wildfire defense system takes a two-tiered strategy. First, a mechanical launcher quickly deploys a protective barrier to impede the direct route of advancing wildfires. Second, the system actively detects and promptly extinguishes spot fires created by airborne embers that bypass the primary barrier.
Seal Security — Streamline your open source vulnerability remediation without introducing the risk of breaking changes. Say goodbye to alert fatigue and start patching with Seal Security.

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Rosy Soil — Rosy Soil is a gardening solution focused on sustainable practices that support the health of soil, plants, and the environment.
CytoTronics — Visualize live cell function at scale for cell biology discovery with Pixel systems. Monitor cell viability, morphology, electrophysiology, metabolism and more.
Phaseshift Technologies — Phaseshift Technologies is developing a Computational Materials Engineering (CME) platform to help accelerate the Research and Development of High-Performance Alloys. The CME platform is driven by Quantum Chemistry calculations and aided by Machine Learning based predictive algorithms.

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

Cipio Partners is a leading European secondary direct and growth capital investment management and advisory firm. The firm makes direct investments in private growth stage technology businesses predominantly in Europe.Founded in 2003, Cipio Partners manages an international portfolio of private growth stage technology businesses in Europe fromoffices in Luxembourg and Munich.

Investment focus

Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Wire — Always-on end-to-end encrypted instant messaging, voice- and videoconferencing with up to 100 participants - future proof with MLS integration
Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.
Welcome to the Jungle — Welcome to the Jungle is the guide that walks you through your job-search: find out what it's like to work for today's top companies and find the best content to thrive in your career

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, Apps, 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.
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.
Unlimited Robotics — Unlimited Robotics empowers developers to build apps on Gary, the perfect robot for your business or office, and make any robot into a multipurpose one with Ra-Ya.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Trustero — Trustero provides solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. The Trustero Compliance as a Service (CaaS) offers, establishes, and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure all business processes and systemsremain in full compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies means their clients have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into their compliance across the extended enterprise.
Deagent AI — DeagentAI is a decentralized artificial intelligence agent network to create a decentralized network platform.
Firefly — Firefly provides the cloud infrastructure management tools missing from traditional CMDBs

Verizon Ventures links entrepreneurs to the larger Verizon ecosystem, speeding development by sharing engineering knowledge, market insights and customer relationships.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TileDB — TileDB is the foundational database designed for scientific discovery. Powered by shape-shifting arrays, TileDB resolves the complexity of multimodal data like population genomics, proteomics, single-cell and bioimaging so scientists and data teams can effectively glean biologically meaningful insights that drive drug and target discovery.
Pivotal Commware — Pivotal Commware was established in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough in electromagnetic physics, Holographic Beam Forming™ (HBF). Years ago, Pivotal’s founders recognized that wireless demand for data would outgrow the complex coding, multiplexing and modulation schemes that network operators have deployed thus far. Beamforming was theanswer, but existing high cost, size, weight and power-consuming (C-SWaP) solutions were not. That’s why Pivotal assembled a team experienced in advanced commercial antenna and RF circuit design, advanced DARPA technology programs, and, uniquely, active/nonlinear metamaterials. Beyond technology, Pivotal also offers the depth and breadth of skills to develop integrated, end-to-end solutions.
Origin AI — Origin's AI WiFi Sensing technology and products provide a solution to keeping homes safe and secure, while maintaining privacy and comfort. Home, health and automotive. Learn more today.