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Top 50 Wellness Startup Investors in Israel in October 2024

Last updated: Oct 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Wellness startups based in Israel. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Wellness companies from Israel. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Wellness Startup Investors in Israel in October 2024

Investor	Wellness Israel investments
Pontifax	4
Triventures	3
Sanara Ventures	3
Kli Capital	2
Legziel Family	2
Arancia International	2
Genesis Park	2
LionBird	2
Minrav	2
Yaron Samid	2
Pitango VC	2
PeakBridge	2
JOINT JOURNEY	2
Assaf Wand	2
Good Seed Ventures	2
VSC Ventures	2
Docor International Management	2
Lily Sarafan	1
Breyer Capital	1
Moshe Gaon	1
Welltech Ventures	1
Romain Afflelou	1
Modgal Industries	1
Matias Ventures	1
Operator Partners	1
Chartered Opus	1
BrightEdge Fund	1
PipelBiz.com	1
LionTree	1
UnityPoint Health Ventures	1
Pereg Ventures	1
Chris Mansi	1
MS&AD Ventures	1
Providence Ventures	1
VegInvest	1
Alumot VC	1
Longevity Venture Partners	1
David Golan	1
Joshua Riff	1
Longliv Ventures	1
Disruptive Technologies Venture Capital	1
Discount Capital	1
SeedIL Ventures	1
New York Angels	1
Red Swan Ventures	1
Gandyr Group	1
Koch Disruptive Technologies	1
Asymmetry Ventures	1
Resolute Ventures	1
Terra Venture Partners	1

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Pontifax is a healthcare-dedicated venture capital firm.The fund focuses on innovative bio-pharma opportunities.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, France

Portfolio highlights

Abcuro — Precision Targeting of Highly Cytotoxic T Cells in Autoimmune Disease.
Adcytherix — Adcytherix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel antibody drug conjugates (ADC) to treat high unmet need diseases such as cancer.
AgomAb Therapeutics — AgomAb is developing molecular therapies for the regeneration of damaged tissues. Their unique agonistic monoclonal antibody molecules (“agomAbs”) stimulate molecular and cellular repair mechanisms that have the potential to restore organ function in patients with fibrotic, inflammatory, autoimmune and degenerative diseases.

Triventures is a global, early stage fund that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs. We partner with disruptive ventures with innovative breakthroughs in healthcare and beyond. Our vision is to create a better, healthier future through data driven solutions and cross industry convergence.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

FEMSelect — More than half of women over 50 are living with Pelvic Organ Prolapse. Learn about EnPlace, the minimally invasive approach to Pelvic Organ Prolapse.
Future Family — Our loans for IVF & egg freezing make it easy for you to get started quickly with fertility treatment. Learn more about our Fertility Financing & Loans today!
Brightside Health — Get anxiety and depression treatment online from licensed psychiatric providers and therapists. No need to wait, start a free consultation online today.

Sanara Ventures is an innovation-investment platform, elevating outstanding healthcare-technology companies, from early-stage to global market maturity. At Sanara, They share a vision of an integrated continuum of care supported by accessible advanced healthcare solutions for people around the world.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Israel

Portfolio highlights

QTflow Ltd. — A Micro Air Pump Technology: The Future of Thermal Management
CVAid Medical — CVAid Medical develops an innovative AI based stroke detection technological platform.
TailorMed — Moving Mountains for Patients

Kli Capital is a firm focused on investing in fearless entrepreneurs who are building foundational enterprise technologies and ubiquitous consumer brands. We partner with exceptional founders with unique insights, from inception through all phases of growth.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Israel, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vitau — Subscription model pharmacy for patients with chronic diseases in Mexico.
LexCheck — Transform your contract negotiation process with AI. Review, redline and approve contracts quickly and economically with the power of automation.
Turbodega — Turbodega provides a software management tool designed to digitize the supply chain of small grocery stores. It transforms the entire ecosystem into a digital, integrated supply chain, powered by AI, and it all simply starts with bodegas ordering through its app. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Lima, Peru.

Legziel Famliy

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zoog — Be part of their story
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.

Arancia International Inc is a part of Arancia Group in Mexico. We are long term investors in food, nutrition and biotechnology companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Life Science
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Israel, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

NextFerm — NextFerm is a science oriented industrial company, representing a new era in fermentation and fermentation-derived nutrients for supplements, food, infant nutrition and animal feed.The world is striving for better nutrition. Nutrition which is less artificial and more natural, sustainable and cost effective - with a much higher nutritional value.At Nextferm, they aim to use their capabilities to lead this new and exciting world of better nutrition.
iwi Life — Algae is the ultimate source of Omega-3s. Research has proven that Omega-3s support cardiovascular health, a balanced mood, and healthy brain development.
The Mediterranean Food Lab — The Mediterranean Food Lab merge traditional fermentation and cutting-edge science, to produce natural plant-based flavor-bases for a wide range of meat replacement needs.

Genesis Park is a Houston-based private equity firm focusing on buyouts, partnering strategies with public corporations, and growth financing. We bring capital, commercial execution capabilities and a depth of experience in mergers and acquisitions.We are opportunistic within market sectors where we have depth and exposure. Those sectors includetelecommunications, energy technology and media. Energy technology is a rapidly expanding category, and our Houston base allows us to marry traditional and alternative techniques in upstream and downstream environments. Founded in 2000, Genesis Park has used discipline and patience to build value for our investors, regardless of prevailing market conditions. We are consistently active in our portfolio companies, listening, learning and adding value by working alongside management. While our preference is to partner with an existing management team, we commonly source additional talent to optimize the existing opportunity.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Construction, Health Care
Private Equity, Debt Financing, Funding Round
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

The Good Feet Store — Good Feet has been helping people with foot problems feel better and get back to living their lives. Personally fit with the arch support that meets their needs. Contact us now to see the available Good Feet Arch Support!
WESTCO GROUNDS — Westoco Provides Landscaping is a highly competitive industry, and Westco continues to thrive because it tailor services to specific client needs and deliver complete solutions with dependability,Rainbird facilitate quick responses and ressources.
Conditioned Air — Conditioned Air is South Florida's premier air conditioning contractor with 60 years of experience. Serving Naples, Venice, Ft. Myers, Englewood, Port Charlotte, Sarasota, Bradenton & Surrounding Areas.

LionBird is a Tel Aviv- and Chicago-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage software companies operating in the healthcare, commerce, and enterprise sectors. Founded in 2012, LionBird has developed an investment strategy around early-stage startups that leverages online technology to re-imagine traditional offline business processes andmodels.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

PatientPartner — Supporting the community one surgery at a time
Heyday Health — Discover virtual and in-home primary care for seniors on Medicare Advantage. Same day appointments available
Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.

Minrav provides engineering and construction services.

Investment focus

Health Care, Hospital, Wellness
Series A, Funding Round
Israel, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

iwi Life — Algae is the ultimate source of Omega-3s. Research has proven that Omega-3s support cardiovascular health, a balanced mood, and healthy brain development.
Qualitas Health — Qualitas Health Group aims to serve patients through a network of 500 clinics by 2022 with quality healthcare services across the Asia Pacific.

Yaron Samid is an Israeli-American technology entrepreneur, investor, and startup community builder. Yaron is the founder of TechAviv, the 3K-member global Israeli startup founders club, and is the managing partner of TechAviv Founder Partners, a pre-seed venture fund, backed and powered by over 100 of the world’s most successful company builders.Previously, Yaron was the founder and CEO at BillGuard (Acq. by Prosper), founder & CPO at Pando (Acq. by Microsoft), and a founding board director at CloudLock (Acq. by Cisco) and Pond5.Yaron lives in Tel Aviv with his family and is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford and Columbia Business School. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Israel, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

bxblue — bxblue is a marketplace for personal loans in Brazil explicitly targeting pensioners and Government workers because they can they take loans secured by their guaranteed income. Because of that banks can deduct the payment directly from the paycheck, leading to an apr 10x lower than credit cards. Payroll secured loans are the most affordablepersonal loan in Brazil, and they represent 60% of the personal loans in the country. It is a 40bn dollar/year marke, completely offline. We are taking this entire market online.
Emedgene — Applying machine learning to genomics. Accelerate NGS data analysis and automate variant classification with evidence curated from the literature. From sample to report.
Lumen — Lumen is a device and app that measures your metabolism in a single breath and provides daily personalized nutrition based on your metabolic data. Through the device and app, you can achieve your fitness goals whether they be weight loss, performance optimization, or simply improving your metabolic health.As a company, we are a team ofscientists, researchers, engineers, and designers, aimed at improving the way people understand their metabolism. We believe that a healthy metabolism is a key to better health and that everyone can attain it with a little help from Lumen.At Lumen, we are all about teamwork, friendship, and family. Curious about joining? We are always looking for creative people who share our passion for health and fitness to join our team.

Pitango VC is a venture capital firm focused on health-tech (Pitango Health-tech) and growth (Pitango Growth) investments in startups around the world in domains such as vertical SaaS, digital health, deep tech, fintech and insurance technology, devops, generative AI, Web3, and food tech.With two offices in Israel, Pitango currently managesseveral venture funds totaling over $2.8 billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 250 companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Guardoc Health — Streamlining clinical compliance with AI-driven accuracy in charting to meet regulations, enhance patient care, and optimize revenue management.
Quantum Source — Quantum Source is on a clear path to the most powerful, cost-effective, practical photonic quantum computer. Learn more.
Magenta Medical — Founded in October, 2012, Magenta Medical Ltd. is a privately held company that is engaged in the development of novel device solutions for the treatment of acute and chronic heart failure.

PeakBridge is an Alternative Investment Fund Manager and Investment Services Firm specialized in FoodTech.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mondra — AI-driven environmental insights platform that supports food system players to accelerate Scope 3 progress, reduce the cost of Net Zero, and drive competitive advantage.
WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein
The Mediterranean Food Lab — The Mediterranean Food Lab merge traditional fermentation and cutting-edge science, to produce natural plant-based flavor-bases for a wide range of meat replacement needs.

Active investment firm that calling founders with a great product vision across diverse industries

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Renova — AI-driven no-code platform for insurance industry.
Altris.AI — AI for Ophthalmology & Optometry is the future of eye care. It will set high diagnostic standards for the industry and bring better patient outcome as a result. Together we will solve the preventable blindness problem.
Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.

Assaf Wand is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Hippo Insurance. He previously worked at Sabi (Sold to Urbio) as a Founder and CEO. Assaf Wand attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

Investment focus

Insurance, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, France

Portfolio highlights

RoadFlex — Start saving more on fuel. Competitive discounts. No PG needed to apply. Apply now and get your new fuel card approved in 1 day.
Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
Modern Life — Modern Life is a tech-enabled life insurance brokerage. With a focus on empowering advisors, Modern Life offers advanced technology solutions to digitally streamline advisors’ practices and expert brokerage support. With Modern Life, advisors nationwide can compare quotes from top carriers in minutes, perform data-driven underwriting assessments,manage clients from an integrated dashboard, and receive comprehensive deal support.

Good Seed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm that exclusively invests in sustainable food tech.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI
Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.

We are early-stage investors that back market-expanding companies and ambitious founders in industrial automation and climate adaptation.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Hospitality
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PaintJet — ROBOTIC PAINTING COMPANY
Pepper Bio — Pepper Bio makes it possible to develop cures with confidence. Join the transomic era of drug discovery. Contact us today.
Glacier — Glacier is the creator of the first affordable, high-performing, and space-efficient AI-enabled robot for recycling.

Docor International B.V. is a fully-owned subsidiary of Crecor B.V. Both Docor and Crecor were formed as wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Van Leer Group Foundation to promote and participate in commercial activities in Israel.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
Funding Round, Series C, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Check-Cap — The first and only patient-friendly preparation-free test to detect polyps before they may transform into cancer
Ocon Healthcare — OCON Healthcare innovates, develops, manufactures, and commercializes cutting-edge women’s health products based on our patented IUB™ (Intra Uterine Ball) proprietary platform. The IUB™, made from a super-elastic alloy Nitinol, is an ideal carrier for multiple drugs to the uterus to treat a variety of conditions.In addition to our flagshipproduct, the IUB™ Ballerine®, OCON healthcare is developing an innovative pipeline of products utilizing the IUB™ frame for indications such as abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), heavy menstrual bleeding (HMS), myomas/fibroids, and infertility.
Raziel Health — Raziel Health’s mission is to bring world-class, disruptively less expensive healthcare to everyone, in the comfort of their home. Its unique, integrated system combines easy-to-use technologies that support positive patient experience, enable timely clinical intervention, and meet individual patient goals while using data analytics to supportwellness and disease management.

Lily Sarafan is the Executive Chair of TheKey. She is also an Operating Partner at Cota Capital.An active Stanford alum, Lily serves on the Stanford Alumni Association Board of Directors, the Freeman Spogli Institute Council, and the Stanford Undergraduate Education Cabinet. She is also Founding Partner of Project BIG: The Stanford Brain ImmuneGut Initiative. Lily's board service extends to other high-impact nonprofits including the Women's Alzheimer's Movement and the BerkeleyHaas Center for Innovation Economies, where she is board chair. An appointee to the California Governor’s Alzheimer's Task Force, Lily serves in various leadership roles to advance economic development, civic engagement, and precision health.Lily holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering and B.S. in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University, where she was Eben Tisdale Fellow and Class President. She has been named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Women Health Care Executives Woman of the Year, and a Silicon Valley 40 Under 40. Lily is a Member of Young Presidents' Organization, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Enterprise Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Seniorly — Seniorly helps families and older adults find the right senior living for their needs and budget. Combining the power of machine learning with the high-touch support of a national network of local advisors, Seniorly is modernizing senior living discovery. Through its online platform, Seniorly provides access to thousands of senior livingcommunities, expert insights, and personalized recommendations based search preferences. Seniorly also has a growing marketplace of trusted companies, offering other services and products that are helpful to families at this stage of life. Founded in 2014, Seniorly currently supports over 5 million visitors every year on their senior living journey. Visit http://www.seniorly.com for more information.
January AI — January's AI health app analyzes thousands of data points to help you eat smarter and live healthier. Wear a CGM once, and January creates your "digital twin," and personalized health insights via your 24/7 AI health coach.
NeuraLight — NeuraLight is a VC-backed venture on a mission to transform the lives of the billions of people impacted by neurological disorders by digitizing evaluation and care.

Breyer Capital is an independent global venture capital and private equity investor. Founded by Jim Breyer in 2006, we make long-term, idea-driven investments.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.
Earned Wealth — Forme Financial is a platform that offers estate planning, debt management, insurance planning, and investment management services.

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 — Yoocan is a global community for people with disabilities and their families, discover empowering stories, find support, and connect with a world that understands you.
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.

Welltech Ventures is Israel’s leading fund focused exclusively on investing in the health and wellness space. We seek to partner with entrepreneurs who epitomize the Startup Nation’s ethos and are building paradigm-shattering companies that are making an impact in the wellness space. As thought leaders we work with global investors focused onaccessing and investing in the Israeli tech ecosystem’s most promising entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

mHealth, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Antidote Health — AntidoteHealth.ai offers primary care on its telehealth app on a 24/7 basis, including prescriptions & more. Book your appointment today!
Behavidence — Behavidence is a mental health application that generates a daily mental health score. It compares your digital behavior to other people with anxiety, depression and ADHD.
Quris — Quris Technologies is an artificial intelligence (AI) innovator disrupting the pharmaceutical arena.

Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security andmobility.Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people's lives.Serial investor in +50Tech companies6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts) Cityscoot Clay Inc VR Cowboy Bike Epicery Everoad (Ex Convargo) Fithouse Fré Skincare Fokoya Guillotine Vodka Klassroom Laminate Technologies MeetFabric Molotov TV Multiwave Technologies Nestor Octopus Officeriders Onoff telecom Pledg Quiqup Universal Standard Shapr Spendesk Zipdrug...(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cashbee — Cashbee is a mobile application to helps save money with budget analysis tools based on artificial intelligence. They wish to help the French to save better and more, and to provide the technological means to do this in the simplest possible way, without having to change banks. The Cashbee App allows you to put money aside with a simple swipe onyour smartphone. They alert you every time when they think you can put some more cash aside.
Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
Kubo Labs — Kubo Labs provides a suite of products to simplify your experience with Kubernetes.

Modgal Industries was added in 2010.

Investment focus

Medical, Wellness, 3D Printing
Funding Round
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Collplant — CollPlant is a regenerative medicine company that focuses on 3D bioprinting of tissues and organs and also develops and commercializes tissue repair products for orthobiologics. The company's products are based on the rhCollagen that is produced with CollPlant’s proprietary plant-based genetic engineering technology. The rhCollagen BioInk isideal for 3D bioprinting of tissues and organs, and the unique Vergenix line of rhCollagen products contains a soft tissue repair matrix for treating tendinopathy and a wound repair matrix to promote rapid optimal healing of acute and chronic wounds. CollPlant is headquartered in Rehovot, Israel.

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.

Operator, no outside LPs, just our own capital. We invest in technology companies across Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A. Most importantly, we partner with founders we can help win.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pomelo Care — Pomelo is a virtual maternity care program that supplements traditional pregnancy care with unlimited, customized support. Ask a dietitian about prenatal vitamins, speak to a therapist about labor anxiety, or join a prenatal group. Become a member today for free.
Whoosh — Modern golf operations software for private golf clubs that streamlines your workflows to improve member experiences and reduce revenue loss.
Reframe Technologies — Building an 'Organized Work Environment' that brings applications, people, and the right information together. It's how work should work.

Chartered Opus offers professional market participants (clients such as asset managers) the opportunity to realise “securitised” concepts/products for their own investment or for their customers.

Investment focus

Wellness, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

SolCold — We make the sun cool again - Solcold the new environment solutions
Trobix Bio — Trobix Bio is a company that develops and commercializes antibacterial products. It has developed platform technologies called ActiSense and GOTrap for developing high-quality products that remove the threat of antimicrobial resistance.

BrightEdge is the American Cancer Society’s donor-funded, philanthropic impact fund. The fund is led by a board comprised of the Society’s leaders and a management team with expertise in investment and venture capital. BrightEdge operates under a charitable fund model that invests in for-profit companies developing novel cancer-focused therapiesand technologies. The fund relies on the expertise of the Society’s medical and science professionals to evaluate the mission value of its investments. The fund’s goal is to accelerate delivery of promising cancer-related solutions through capital investment, market awareness and a shared commitment to eradicate cancer.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Freenome — Freenome is a biotechnology company based in South San Francisco that has pioneered the most comprehensive multiomics platform for early cancer detection with a simple blood test.
Modifi Bio — Modifying DNA toEradicate Cancer At Modifi Bio, we are changing the oncology treatment paradigm. Bypassing the conventional approach of indirectly targeting proteins in cancer cells, Modifi Bio is redefining the rules of oncology treatment: eradicating cancer via direct DNA modification. Our novel platform demonstrates powerful anti-tumor activity in glioma and many other cancers with intrinsic
Clasp Therapeutics — Clasp Therapeutics offers to reach of immuno-oncology with novel precision medicines that enable the immune system to identify and specifically destroy hard-to-treat tumors bearing common driver mutations, regardless of tumor type.

PipelBiz enables companies to raise capital from an unlimited number of investors without the need of a prospectus

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vootto — Vootto is raising the bar in air purifier technology, engineered to clear the air in your car of 99.9% of airborne contaminants and germs in under 10 minutes. The best part is that you get to pick from a selection of quality scents and choose how to refresh your space. Vootto circulates the air through the scent capsule and actively freshens,unlike passive fresheners that just sit there.Vootto performs better than any other brand because of its innovative air routing system and its unique set of blades that provide the fastest rate of filtration. Not only that, Vootto’s exclusive Active Shield technology traps and destroys bacteria and viruses without releasing harmful byproducts, such as ozone or negative ions. Simply put, Vootto is in a league of its own.
Omnistream — Omnistream offers high-quality and user friendly app that produces professional video and production suit from your smartphone Omnistream empowers content creators, enabling anyone to produce high-quality and real-time video at an affordable and easy to use way
NeuroSense Therapeutics — NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd., is a clinical-stage biotechnology company, dedicated to the discovery and development of treatments for debilitating neurodegenerative diseases. Its lead product, PrimeC, is a novel oral therapy for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The company's preclinical pipeline includes: (1) StabiliC forthe treatment of Parkinson's disease and (2) CogniC for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

LionTree is an independent investment and merchant bank that brings capital together with ideas to accelerate growth and innovation. Learn more.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Sports, E-Commerce
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Telly — The biggest thing to happen to TV since color.
Fanatics — Fanatics offers the broadest assortment of fan merchandise and memorabilia worldwide.
Kyra — Kyra is a Gen-Z entertainment company creating engaging digital content that resonates with youth culture. We represent world class digital native talent, produce digital content with the biggest and best consumer brands and develop media properties publishing daily content on platforms that matter to Gen Z. Kyra has the ability to not onlytarget but truly engage with the Gen-Z audience through content that resonates based on real-time audience data from our proprietary KyraIQ technology. Our inclusive, ahead-of-the-trend content and content creators make us the ultimate destination for the Gen-Z consumer who wants to be inspired by their own community. Our approach and creativity is based on data and insights and has proven to engage this audience better than any traditional publisher. We house a talent agency representing and collaborating with the leading Gen Z social stars such as Abby Roberts and Noen Eubanks; a global content studio creating award-winning content for youth-seeking brand partners such as Converse and HP; and a newly developed portfolio of media properties publishing daily content on Gen Z-native platforms around beauty, fashion, adventure, food, gaming and entertainment.Kyra engages Gen Z better than any traditional publisher, with an audience of 78 million social media followers racking up 750 million monthly video views in 190 countries around the globe. We know exactly where Gen Z is spending their time online and we respect their interests and passions. That result is content that is meaningful and fosters long term engagement for blue chip brands. Our team are experts on Gen Z culture, whether they are producing, managing, creating or marketing in New York, London and Los Angeles. Learn more at https://kyra.com/reel

UnityPoint Health - know how much you matter to this world.

Investment focus

Health Care, Electronic Health Record (EHR), Medical
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

OpenLoop — OpenLoop's solutions are thoughtfully designed to simplify telehealth delivery across an expansive array of services, in all 50 states.
Cardiosense — Cardiosense offers a physiological waveform AI platform to develop predictive biomarkers for the detection and treatment of disease. Its platform leverages multi-modal sensors and industry-leading AI to develop predictive biomarkers for the detection and treatment of disease.
Pathware — Pathware is creating hardware and software to simplify digital pathology workflows. The company's complete slide imaging and sample management system, Bioptic™, rapidly returns a biopsy quality determination in order to verify that a viable biopsy was collected with greater than 96% certainty.Pathware’s purpose is to develop beautiful andintuitive hardware and software to simplify these critical diagnostic workflows and enable pathologists to increase their efficiency without sacrificing the quality of care.

Pereg Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early stage U.S. and Israeli startups, focused on B2B data solutions that accelerate consumer-driven enterprises.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CB4 — Goodbye, floor execution issues. Hello, happy store teams and happier shoppers. CB4's AI tool helps retailers drive sales and enhance customer experience.
Bringg — Rapidly improve your delivery capacity, pickup services, and customer experience at scale with Bringg's data-led delivery & fulfillment cloud solution.
Engage3 — Track and optimize your Price Image. We provide the industry's most complete view of competitive pricing and optimize your Price Image

Dr Mansi is a former Neurosurgeon and the CEO of Viz.ai an Applied AI Healthcare company.They recently received FDA clearance for the first ever AI aided triage and notification platform, opening the door to AI in acute emergency healthcare. Chris is a clinician innovator, entrepreneur and optimist focused on increasing healthcare access, buildingand supporting great teams and improving provider experience. Viz.ai builds clinician facing products that enable and empower doctors, allowing them to provide the best care to patients, everytime, everywhere.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Software
Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Canopy — Canopy's intelligent care platform enables practices to improve cancer patients' experience and outcomes in an ever changing oncology environment.
HumanFirst — HumanFirst enables better integration and analysis of digital health technologies in clinical trials.
NeuraLight — NeuraLight is a VC-backed venture on a mission to transform the lives of the billions of people impacted by neurological disorders by digitizing evaluation and care.

MS&AD Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm set upby MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings as its affiliated company.

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Singapore, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
Terminal Industries — Terminal Logistics is automating the yard, one of the last great frontiers of untapped value in transportation.

Providence Ventures generally targets mid- to late-stage venture investments across Healthcare IT, MedTech, and tech-enabled services.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

DexCare — DexCare is an Access Optimization Platform that intelligently orchestrates health system capacity and digital demand across all lines of business.
Livara Health — The SpineZone solution works with the body's inherent ability to heal back and joint pain without surgery, injection, or opioids.
Wildflower Health — Wildflower Health focuses on its client's needs and integrates services into existing sustainability programs. Its team is passionate about harnessing user-centered design and technology to deliver products that drive smarter healthcare decisions. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

VegInvest provides early-stage capital and guidance to companies striving to replace the use of animals.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Seafood
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Nowadays — The Nowadays nugget is made with just 7 simple, plant-based ingredients.
Loki Foods — We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood!
Dextrous Robotics — Dextrous Robotics is a robotics company that develops AI-enabled warehouse robots. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

Early-Mid stage Venture Capital

Investment focus

Eyewear, mHealth, Wellness
Funding Round
Israel

Portfolio highlights

6over6 — 6over6 offers a digital healthcare platform that enables users to perform their own eye vision test. They have reimagined all fundamental optometric tools and fitted them into smartphone, enabling a complete and accurate measurement of the refractive error of the eye, for eyeglasses and contact lens prescription, using software.GlassesOn isregistered as a Class 1 Exempt Medical Device on the FDA Medical Device Listings. However, GlassesOn does not provide medical advice, and does not replace a full eye health exam.

Longevity Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm committed to assisting entrepreneurs in the Silvertech, Healthcare, and Wellness sectors.

Investment focus

Health Care, mHealth, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Voxela — Voxels is an AI powered platform on a mission to reinvent caregiving by making incident detection intelligent and actionable.
Behavidence — Behavidence is a mental health application that generates a daily mental health score. It compares your digital behavior to other people with anxiety, depression and ADHD.
In-House Health — In-House empowers nurse managers with predictive AI automations. Our users save hours a week on manual tasks and millions a year on labor efficiency.

David Golan is the CTO at Viz.David is a Stanford statistician, and deep learning engineer.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Health Care
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

NeuraLight — NeuraLight is a VC-backed venture on a mission to transform the lives of the billions of people impacted by neurological disorders by digitizing evaluation and care.

Josh Riff is the co-founder of Included Health.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Analytics
Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Laguna Health — Laguna is a tech company solving a huge, costly problem in US healthcare. We provide easier post-hospitalization recovery soultions.

Targeting early stage companies with the intent uncover and nourish Consumer Digital Health solutions that will augment and eventually revolutionize the way people manage their health and wellness. Such solutions – that converge healthcare with the world of retail - could benefit from the Group’s global footprint, e.g. 14,500 retail stores in 24markets

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Medical Device
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

AceAge — AceAge is a healthcare technology company, creating intuitive products to ease the aging process and improve health outcomes.AceAge is the company behind the next innovation in healthcare technology. Its upcoming product is a home health appliance designed to help people take their medication properly. Karie is a personal health companion thatorganizes, schedules, and dispenses pills with easy one-button control. The CEO of AceAge, Spencer Waugh, created Karie to increase the health and safety of medical patients, and as a way to minimize the negative consequences of missed medications or general failure to adhere to medication directions. The success of medicine is dependent on the patient’s compliance with the medical directions that accompany it, making it an integral part of healthcare. The total direct and indirect costs of nonadherence in the US annually is $290 billion. By making daily medicine routines completely automated, Karie removes the chance of human error. Karie uses common multi-dose pouch packaging that can be pre-set by pharmacists. Doses are scheduled, delivered and monitored for the user. Karie is easy to use, enables greater patient autonomy and ensures better healthcare through a highly coordinated program.
ApoWiser — Apowiser's PharmAssist focuses on the consumer's problem and presents the consumer with the most suitable OTC drugs and complementary products in the pharmacy chain inventory. The consumer can ask PharmAssist to show more information, tips, and the latest updated guidelines. PharmAssist presents over-the-counter products for addressingmore than 40 different minor ailments. PharmAssist is personal, discreet, and available 24/7; the customer is always first in line. Consumers should keep PharmAssist in mind when they have a mild health condition that they need to treat. Focusing on the consumers enables pharmacy chains to increase their conversion and sales compared to their current online e-commerce channel.
Sight Diagnostics — Combining AI and breakthrough hardware to bring lab-quality CBC results to the doctor's office.

Disruptive is a global early stage investor with operations in Israel and the US.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Cloud Computing
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bit — Bit is build system for development of composable software.
NextNav — NextNav elevates geolocation with solutions for vertical location and resilient position, navigation, and timing (PNT)
Tailor Brands — Create a logo and develop a unique brand identity in 5 minutes. Our logo maker and branding tools will get your brand noticed and help grow your business.

Discount Capital manages a portfolio estimated at USD 780 million, actively investing directly in companies and business ventures as well as in investment funds. Since 2017, Discount Capital has also been operating in mezzanine investments.Discount Capital serves dozens of Investment Banking clients every year, and is involved in the most notabletransactions within the Israeli capital market. Discount Capital provides three types of services: Debt and Equity Underwriting, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Corporate Finance Advisory.Discount Capital’s unique structure sets it apart from other players in the Israeli capital market, encompassing in-house investment activities alongside investment banking services, all empowered by the Discount Group’s platform.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

VFR — Unlock New Revenue Streams For Your Ctv Content
MediWound — MediWound is a biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes novel, cost effective, bio-therapeutic solutions for tissue repair and regeneration.
MagnusMetal — Magnus_Metal - Digital Era has arrived for Metal Casting. MagnusMetal team is taking casting, a 6000 years old technology, to the digital Industry 4.0 era, with our breakthrough patent pending, volume alloy Digital Casting System and process

SeedIL Ventures is a seed stage investment fund focusing on Israeli related companies in any sector except medtech/biotech and heavy Hardware. After investment, SeedIL is committed to ensuring that portfolio companies reach their full potential by providing on-going coaching and connections through its extensive network, including the Limitedpartner's connections and intelligence.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Israel, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Wisor — Propelling the supply chain industry into the digital age Wisor is a plug & play solution that provides a global automated quoting solution that allows freight forwarders to generate quotes and communicate with clients automatically Get a demo What took days now takes minutes Wisor is specifically designed to support and simplify the complexity of generating quotes
BlinqIO — BlinqIO developed an autonomous AI-operated virtual tester (BVT) - the BVT receives as input test scenarios, takes decisions how to perform the tests and creates in the background test automation code.
Treetoscope — The first and only commercial device that senses the internal water flow of a plant and directly measures its water consumption and real-time irrigation needs. without extrapolations based on indirect sensing technologies.Treetoscope offers a SaaS irrigation management platform, based on direct plant sensing technology. We tackle one of the mostcrucial challenges farmers face today: water scarcity and irrigation optimization. Our groundbreaking ag-tech enables the unprecedented measurement of real-time actual water use of trees (based on our patented single probe Sap Flow sensor). Through the Treetoscope solution, growers gain great value as a result of the affordability, scalability, and ease of deployment of our technology.

New York Angels is one of the largest and most active angel investment organizations.Founded in 2004 as the successor organization to the NYNMA (New York New Media Association) Angel Investor Program, New York Angels is a membership organization of over 110 active angel investors and early stage venture capital funds. The group meets monthly toscreen and present early stage technology companies, and its members have invested over $100 million since 2002 into over 90 ventures. In April of 2017, PItchbook identified New York Angels as #3 in their list of the 8 top VCs funding seed rounds of New York-based companies.Among the NYA membership are nationally known angel investors including Esther Dyson and David S. Rose. The group has one full-time staff, reporting to an 11 person Board of Directors chaired by Brian S. Cohen. Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey is currently Program Director of New York Angels. Since 2012, the membership has increased by 66% and investment activity has grown by over 215%. New York Angels concentrates on early stage investments in the range of $100,000 - $1,000,000, although it has led deals as large as $2 million. It receives over 2,200 financing applications annually, from which it selects 12-16 companies each month for an in-person screening, where all members of New York Angels are invited to attend. The group meets again for an Investment Breakfast at the end of the month, where 2-4 opportunities present to the membership with a goal to close their current investment round within two months.The group is considered a leader in the growing field of organized angel investing. It was the first member of the national Angel Capital Association, hosted the ACA Summit conference in 2006, and was the initial test group for the now-standard gust (Angelsoft) funding platform.Membership as an investor in New York Angels is by invitation only, and members are required to commit to investing at least $50,000 annually in early stage technology deals, in addition to the group's $3,500 annual membership dues.Requests for funding for entrepreneurial ventures may be self-submitted through the group's website. New York Angels charges no fees to entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Membrion — Remove Problematic Ions to Expand Capacity, Ensure Compliance, and Eliminate Costs with Electro-Ceramic Desalination
CorralData — Experience the power of AI-generated metrics and insights with CorralData. Get one month free and seamlessly integrate with 200+ data sources with no upfront costs.
Diadem Capital — Diadem Capital is a curated marketplace for venture debt and venture capital. Connecting founders with venture capital funds, family offices, & corporate VCs.

Red Swan is a seed stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs who delight customers, create culture, and disrupt industries.If Black Swans are unforeseen calamitous events, Red Swans are great companies most of us never saw coming. They are built by entrepreneurs who create joy for their customers, provide meaning to their employees,and who scare their shareholders by passing on acquisition offers. They tend to be movements as much as businesses.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
Moojo — Moojo helps freelancers and creators streamline their invoicing process and get paid instantly.
Reflex — Reflex is an online marketplace that helps brands find and connect with retail workers on-demand.

Gandyr Group owned by Judith Yoval-Recanati, combines broad financial activity & investments in over 30 companies from different fields, with familial philanthropic activity for the support of civil society organizations and young adults in Israel.Gandyr invests in industry, technology, renewable-energy and real-estate and is activelyinvolved with the various companies it invests in.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Content
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Anyword — The AI writing solution trusted by 1M marketers, built to help you scale on-brand content that drives business results.
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.
Eleos Health — Automate documentation, alleviate provider burnout, and elevate care quality with the CareOps Automation platform from Eleos Health.

Koch Disruptive Technologies is a unique investment firm partnering with principled entrepreneurs and transformative companies that are changing the world.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Alkira — The Alkira Cloud Network as-a-Service delivers enterprise networks in the cloud. No hardware to invest in, no software to configure and no cloud architecture to learn.
Celestial AI — We develop audacious AI computing platforms that elevate performance, energy and economic efficiencies, enabling our customers to rapidly deploy innovations in their AI applications.
MetOx Technologies — MetOx is a commercial manufacturer of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wire using YBCO. HTS wire transmits transmits vast amounts of electricity in small cross-sections without electrical loss and without generating heat. HTS wire is critical for upgrading transmission and distribution lines (T&D), enabling magnetic confinement fusionreactors, and building next generation MRI scanners.

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
Reforged Labs — Make every creative a hero creative.
SFA Therapeutics — SFA Therapeutics is a development-stage bio-pharmaceutical startup company focused on a new advancement in the treatment of chronic inflammatory disease - the use of microbiome-derived metabolites as drugs.

Our Mission is to build a community of Resolute Founders who: share a certain entrepreneurial spirit and energy; are driven by a need to work on things that matter; are unafraid to dream big; are founders whom we think have a better chance than most to actually achieve those dreams; and who believe being connected to a group of like-minded founders will help them succeed.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pliable — Pliable is an AI-powered SaaS platform that makes it simple for anyone to organize and leverage their data without a data team.
Lumen — Lumen is a device and app that measures your metabolism in a single breath and provides daily personalized nutrition based on your metabolic data. Through the device and app, you can achieve your fitness goals whether they be weight loss, performance optimization, or simply improving your metabolic health.As a company, we are a team ofscientists, researchers, engineers, and designers, aimed at improving the way people understand their metabolism. We believe that a healthy metabolism is a key to better health and that everyone can attain it with a little help from Lumen.At Lumen, we are all about teamwork, friendship, and family. Curious about joining? We are always looking for creative people who share our passion for health and fitness to join our team.
House Numbers — Get cash from your home, track your home equity, never miss a refinance opportunity, and more!

We are an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with inspiring entrepreneurs to build breakthrough companies

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

FieldIn — Fieldin delivers risk mitigation for high value crops, helping farmers stay competitive against shrinking prices and profits.
Arugga AI Farming — Arugga develops ground robots to treat and monitor individual plants in the greenhouse. We are proud to be the first company to commercialize a robot that successfully replicates (bumblebee) buzz pollination in tomato greenhouses.
Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults

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