Top 10 Angel Investors in Israel in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Venture capital startups based in Israel. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from Israel. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Angel Investors in Israel in December 2024

Investor	Venture Capital Israel investments
Robert Citron	1
Marcy Simon	1
Alex Waislitz	1
David Assia	1
Yanki Margalit	1
Ilana Golan	1
Daniel Recanati	1
Steven Blumgart	1
Marc Lasry	1
Eilon Tirosh	1

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Robbie Citron brings to OurCrowd over 25 years of experience in financial management, including over a decade of working with start-ups through his role as Partner and CFO of Jerusalem Global Ventures, a leading Israeli venture capital fund. He also serves as consulting CFO for several independent Israeli biotech and medical start-ups, mostrecently with Izun Pharmaceuticals and Molecular Detection, Inc. Earlier in his career, Robbie was Financial Controller and Company Secretary of the Israeli branch of Hanson PLC and worked as a public accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Israel and BDO Stoy Hayward in London. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England & Wales. Robbie received an honors degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science and sets aside part of his spare time to work with several Jerusalem-based charitable institutions.

Investment focus

FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

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Marcy Simon is Board of Advisors at Talenthouse.

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Personal Health
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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Alex Waislitz was appointed Chairman of the Company on 21 November 2013. Alex Waislitz is the founder and Chairman of the private Thorney Investment Group, one of Australia’s most successful private investment groups. He has extensive business and capital markets experience and has been a member of several public company boards.Alex Waislitzis the current Vice President of the Collingwood Football Club Limited where he has been a director since 1998.He served on the boards of Zoos Victoria Foundation Board and the Victorian State Government Zoological Parks and Gardens between 2010 and 2012. He joined the International Advisory Board of Maccabi World Union in 2012 and is a former member of the International Advisory Board for the MBA program at Ben Gurion University School of Management.Alex Waislitz has established registered charities; the Waislitz Foundation (2013) and more recently the Waislitz Family Foundation (2015). These charities focus on community projects, education, health, indigenous programs and the arts.Alex Waislitz is a graduate of Monash University in Law and Commerce and a Graduate of the Harvard Business School OPM Program.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Australia, Israel, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

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David Assia is a Chairman at iAngels. David Assia, a member of their Board of Directors since October 2006, is a co-founder of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., and served there in various positions, including as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, from 1983 until 2007. Mr. Assia is currently the CEO of Nadyr Investments,a privately held investment company. Mr. Assia was managing director of Mashov Computers Ltd. between 1980 and 1986 and has served as the Chairman of its Board of Directors since 1989. Mr. Assia also serves as a director of the First International Bank, eToro Group Ltd., Biocatch Ltd., MobeeArt, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Yeda Research & Development Company and The Israel Association of Electronics and Software. Mr. Assia holds a B.A. degree in economics and statistics and an M.B.A. degree, both from Tel Aviv University.

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

CodiPark — CodiPark is a mobile-payment platform that focuses on parking lots. CodiPark users scan a barcode, pay, and go without waiting in lines or seeking payment machines. The process speeds up entrance and exit times, resulting in increased revenue opportunities for parking-lot owners, who also no longer have to collect cash.
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Yanki Margalit is an Israeli entrepreneur, investor, and speaker best known for starting the Internet security company Aladdin Knowledge Systems, which was sold in 2009. He is a partner in the seed investment fund Innodo Ventures and a chairman of several technology startup companies, including SpaceIL. SpaceIL is a non-profit space technologyorganization that plans to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon by 2015 and is currently competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.Yanki is also engaged with several non-profit organizations, including Idealist.org, Latet, College4all.org, Meet.mit.edu, Adama.org.il, and SpaceIL.com He has appeared as a professional speaker on technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and human evolution, while studying and working in his more recent interests of biotechnology, clean energy, and space exploration.Described as the Israeli Singularity prophet, Yanki took a key role in introducing Singularity University in Israel. He lectures on such topics as Israel as a startup nation, the future of silicon and carbon, the maker movement, entrepreneurship and innovation, and SpaceIL’s goal to land a spaceship on the moon.

Investment focus

B2B, iOS, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

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A tech executive, turned entrepreneur, board director and investor (in over 100 companies). Ilana Golan is the founder of Leap Academy, a groundbreaking platform that guides driven professionals through career transitions, leadership, personal branding, and growth.Won startup of the year for 2023 for impacting the lives of 50,000 individualsacross four continents, adding an astounding $60 million of value to the market and fostering better leaders, teams, and societies.* Selected top 40 women to watch in 2016 * Business Insider Silicon Valley Women of influence in 2017 * CEO World Award for 2020.Forbes Contributor & award-winning international keynote speaker. Featured on Yahoo Finance, Market Watch, Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, and more.Started her career as an F-16 flight instructor and the first woman to ever become a commander in her squad. Ironman, adventure races & mountaineering in the past, now love traveling with my beautiful family.

Investment focus

Sales, Analytics, Geospatial
Seed
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

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Daniel Recanati is the Founder & CEO of Rhodium. a private investment firm whose mission is to identify the most promising entrepreneurs and help them build thriving companies. focusing on Impact, digital, climate tech and space via Earth & beyond ventures. .

Investment focus

Internet, Analytics, Advertising
Seed, Series B, Series A
Israel, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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Solutum — Solutum is a Cleantech start-up that develops a unique formula for plastic bags to dissolve in water.The company's team of chemical engineers have developed a unique compound that replaces the plastic with a cost-efficient, strong and eco-friendly solution. Solutum biodegradable products are environmentally friendly. These products aim toreplace plastic which is polluting our surroundings, causing devastating harm to nature and our own health.Each year around 350M ton of plastics are being produced around the world. About half of it is single-use products - resulting in mass pollution of the land and sea.The plastic that reaches the sea kills more than 1 million marine animals a year. This plastic also comes back to us in the food and water, causing major health problems. Translated into money - $139 Billion globally is being spent on the overall social and environmental costs of plastic pollution every year.Completely dissolving in water to natural and eco-friendly components, our product is a perfect and cost efficient solution to the plastic pollution.
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Steven Blumgart is an investor in, and board member of, a number of privately-held businesses. Until January 2012, Mr. Blumgart was Co-director of the aluminum division at Glencore International plc, one of the largest commodity trading firms in the world, valued at $40bn. Mr. Blumgart joined Swiss based Glencore in October 1998, where he served inthe coal commodity department, responsible for its industrial assets, before moving to the aluminum division. Prior to joining Glencore, Mr. Blumgart worked for three years at Grant Thornton in Johannesburg. Mr. Blumgart completed his Bachelor of Commerce (Tax Honours) degree from the University of Witwatersrand, and is a South African Chartered Accountant. In addition, Mr. Blumgart holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Investment focus

FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

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Marc Lasry is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Avenue Capital Group. In addition to Avenue Capital Group, Mr. Lasry also Co-Founded Amroc Investments, LLC. Prior to that, Mr. Lasry was Co–Director of the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department at Cowen & Company. Before Amroc, Mr. Lasry served as Director of the Private DebtDepartment at Smith Vasiliou Management Company. Mr. Lasry also clerked for the Honorable Edward Ryan, former Chief Bankruptcy Judge of the Southern District of New York. In 2004 Mr. Lasry co-chaired the Penn Parent Leadership Committee, together with his wife Cathy Cohen. The following year the couple donated $5 million to Clark University, which put the donation toward building the Lasry Center for Bioscience.Lasry serves on the board of the 92nd Street Y. He is also on the board of Trustees for the Mount Sinai Hospital, and is a Trustee of Beth Israel Medical Center and Continuum Health Partners Inc. He sits on the Board of Directors of The Clinton Global Initiative and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.Lasry is married to Cathy Cohen and has five children. His son, Alexander, worked for White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett. Lasry's daughter, Samantha, was a staffer for congressman Rahm Emanuel. Lasry's hobbies include basketball, tennis and comics.