Top 10 Automotive Angel Investors in Israel (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Zohar Zisapel
Angel
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3 | Israel, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Cyber Security, Information Technology, Security | $2.6M–$18M |
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Uri Levine
Angel
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3 | Israel | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Mobile, Travel | $3M–$12M |
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Eyal Ofer
Angel
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3 | United States, Israel | Series B, Series A, Series C | Financial Services, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $10M–$60M |
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Gonzalo Martinez de Azagra
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video | $2.4M–$3M |
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Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen
Angel
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1 | United States, Denmark, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $4M–$85M |
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Christer Andersson
Angel
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1 | United States, Sweden, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Music | $150k–$12M |
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Yigal Jacoby
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed | Beauty, Mobile, Analytics | $750k–$10M |
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Rami Lipman
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Machine Learning | $1.8M–$8M |
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Peter Mertens
Angel
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1 | Germany, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Automotive, Information Technology | $1.5M–$4.6M |
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Fernando Rivera
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, Israel | Seed, Angel | Apps, Recruiting, Vending and Concessions | |
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Zohar Zisapel
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- Industry: Cyber Security, Information Technology, Security
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$8M; Series A $7M–$17M; Series B $15M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
- Nucleix — OUR TESTS AIM TO DETECT CANCER EARLIER - WHEN TREATMENT CAN BE MOST EFFECTIVE FOR PATIENTS OUR PRODUCTS
- Hailo — Hailo have developed the best performing AI processors for edge devices. Our AI accelerator chips are used for Smart City & Homes, machine learning, automotive AI, retail AI and smart factory Industry 4.0 solutions.
Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Travel
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$3.5M; Series A $3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Engie — Buy Twitch Followers and Buy Twitch Viewers from EngieApp to grow an organic following. Our Twitch followers, viewers are immensely real and authentic. Try Now!
- SeeTree — SeeTree offers you complete transparency into the health and production of each of your trees by leveraging the most powerful innovations available.
- WeSki — Experience winter's magic with WeSki. Explore, and compare endless ski holiday combinations and build your perfect ski package holiday in just few clicks.
Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating hislong-standing support for tech entrepreneurs.In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay. Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating his long-standing support for tech entrepreneurs. In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay.
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- Industry: Financial Services, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Series B $10M–$30M; Series C $60M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Home365 — Home365, Is a Property Management Company. Our Goal Is Making Renting Out More Profitable, Predictable And Hassle Free. Click Here For More Information.
- Connecteam — Communicate, operate and train your non-desk employees with Connecteam's all-in-one employee app. Easy to use, customizable and affordable like no other!
- Lightbits Labs — Software-defined NVMe/TCP storage that performs like local flash. Scalable High Performance Storage - accelerate IT operations, and reduce cost.
Investor/global strategist with a deep business/financial training and the ability to understand technology at the engineering level.Related investments:* Replay Technologies* Celeno* AudioBurst* Corephotonics* Rounds* ScyllaDB* EarlySense* Cortica* Aveni* Pitango VI, VII, VC fund (Israel) * Triventures III*StoreDot (Israel) '12 * NextIO: Datacenter IO Virtualization company (US), '12* Undisclosed Flash based storage company (US) '12* Yume, Digital Ad Network, (US,Operational DD) '11Specialties: Areas of investment focus: 1) Mobile: Comp. Vision, Imaging, Wireless Comms 2) Cloud : IAAS, PAAS, Ent. Storage, Servers, Virtualization, Big data processing/management3) Semicon: Equipment/Process Technology/MetrologyOther: Media, Digital Advertising, Online Gaming/GamblingGeographic Coverage:1) Israel2) Europe3) USSManaged Portfolio:Replay TechnologiesGirafficStoreDot (Board Member)Pitango VI LP representativePurestorage (past)FusionIO (past)PrimeSense (Past)EXPERIENCEPrincipalSamsung VenturesDecember 2011 – Present (1 year 3 months)San Francisco Bay AreaDeal sourcing, due diligence, term sheet negotiation and execution, portfolio management and exitManager - Global StrategistSamsung ElectronicsAugust 2010 – December 2011 (1 year 5 months)Founded in 1997 by Group Chairman Kun-Hee Lee the Global Strategy group is an internal strategy consulting team created to help Samsung face its globalization challenges.Project Lead and UC Berkeley School Recruiting Champion:http://gsg.samsung.com/popup/popup_Berkeley.asp(Open)1 honor or awardSenior ConsultantPwC ConsultingJuly 2005 – August 2008 (3 years 2 months)Promoted from Analyst to Senior Consultant within 7 months. Strategic plans, process re-engineering, proforma modeling and investment appraisal for multiple industries.Systems Design EngineerAEA Technology (Former Atomic Energy Authority)July 2003 – July 2005 (2 years 1 month)London, United KingdomEMI studies (C++, Matlab). High Voltage Power Supply desig. Relevant projects: West Coast Route Modernization, CTRL, etc.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IVIX — Address tax noncompliance and close the tax gap with the IVIX platform.
- StoreDot — The extreme-fast charging battery pioneers StoreDot is a battery developer and materials innovation leader, developing ground-breaking battery technologies based on the design and synthesis of both organic and inorganic compounds. Replacing known materials and technologies with enhanced electro-chemical properties, StoreDot's proprietarycompounds, combined with nano-materials, are optimized for Extreme Fast Charging - XFC of electric vehicles. Designed to replace known technologies by means of enhanced physical, chemical, electrical and optical properties, StoreDot’s technology, inspired by nature, can be optimized for multiple industries, including fast-charging batteries for mobile devices and electric vehicles. With a strong technological team of noted scientists and device engineering experts, StoreDot is positioned to reinvent the world of materials and devices as they know it.
- Loops — Loops is a no-code analytics platform that provides product and data teams with growth opportunities hidden in their data.
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Denmark, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $9.6M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products. e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
- LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
- Quantrol Ox — QuantrolOx is building automated machine learning-based control software for quantum technologies to tune, stabilize, and optimize qubits.
Christer K. Andersson is an investor in early stage angel and venture rounds. Christer's main focus is in software tech start-ups that have a certain level of disruption in their idea. The current portfolio includes start-ups based in USA, Sweden, India , Israel, and Germany and cover technologies in Crypto / BlockChain, ArtificialIntelligence, BioTech, Enterprise SaaS, MusicTech, Mobility, and Futureofwork.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Music
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Sweden, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $150k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minicircle — Minicircle develops a human genetic enhancement platform to facilitate life extension capabilities. Its platform uses expressive DNA mini circles to add genes to the human body without altering its pre-existing genome that lets healthcare practitioners to relieve suffering and enrich the condition through means of developing and delivering safe,accessible gene therapy.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
- Karbon — Karbon Card is a financial platform for Indian entrepreneurs.
- Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.
Yigal Yacoby is an angel investor.Yigal Jacoby co-founded Allot Communications in 1996 and served as both the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors until 2006, when he retired as CEO.Jacoby continued as Chariman of the Board until November 2008.In 1992, Jacoby founded Armon Networking, a manufacturer ofRMON-based network management solutions, which was sold to Bay Networks in 1996. Following this acquisition, Jacoby continued on as General Manager of Bay Network’s Network Management Division from 1996-1997.Prior to this, he held a variety of engineering and marketing management positions at Tekelec, a manufacturer of telecommunication monitoring and diagnostic equipment. Throughout his career, Jacoby has founded several start-ups in the communications field, serving on their board of directors and taking an active role in guiding the companies.Jacoby has a B.A. cum laude in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Southern California.
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- Industry: Beauty, Mobile, Analytics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $750k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KitLocate — Power you app with location smarts! KitLocate is a mobile location cloud app platform for iOS and android. KitLocate makes mobile apps location aware. Offering developers and brands effective user engagement and services based on their users real-time location; exactly at the right place and time they need it. The KitLocate locationplatform combines the power of always-on, battery efficient location tracking SDK for your app, big data smarts and robust messaging capabilities. Together, your mobile app users have your brand at their side as they commute, work, shop and dine – enabling you to send relevant offers, at the exact time and place, they need your advice and are ready act on it. Developers love their easy to implement SDK that is super battery efficient (consuming less than 1% / hr) and provides error free geo data and simple to deploy geo location tools like geo-fencing… Marketers loves their game changing Consumer Location Intelligence platform that drives sales and brand loyalty through location based insights.
- DriveU.auto — Reliable, low-latency connectivity for teleoperation: video, audio, and data. Deploy robot & autonomous vehicle fleets with confidence using.
- Nimble Beauty — Nimble develops a machine that offers an automatic manicure for nails based on 3D image processing technologies. The company was founded in 2016 by Avichay Mor-Yosef and Omri Moran and is based in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Rami Lipman is an angel investor.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8M; Series A $2.5M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Matics Manufacturing Analytics Ltd. — Matics real-time manufacturing analytics provides a digital toolbox for factories' production floor management and dramatically increases the production efficiency.
- Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
- NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
Peter Mertens
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- Industry: Software, Automotive, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Certivity — Certivity offers software to model digital regulatory twins of their products. This will ensure that current regulatory requirements are integrated in the right place in the engineering process. Product compliance will be smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and significantly cheaper.
- DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
- Moonblock — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and VC. Ex-CTO for ETF.com. Interest in LatAm startups and Fintech.
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- Industry: Apps, Recruiting, Vending and Concessions
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
- Pimes — Mission-Driven, For-Profit, Online Lender to Small Businesses in Developing MarketsPimes is focused on accelerating the success of profitable small businesses led by motivated, capable and ethical entrepreneurs in select developing markets by providing access to innovative and comprehensive debt financing. At the same time, we aim to offer ourinvestors market returns and access to a new asset class.Starting in Colombia, we will offer a hand up to growing companies who need capital to maximize their impact, create employment and open pathways for upward mobility.Learning, and adapting, from recent experiences in developed markets, we are reinventing small business lending in developing markets.Our target customer has 3 to 50 employees and requires a loan of $5,000 to $100,000. This is typically too large for the microfinance model, but too small for traditional banking approaches to be profitable.We will measure our social impact in terms of absolute employment creation, loans to women-owned and impact-focused enterprises, and loans to rural and underserved regions.
- VisIC Technologies — VisIC Technologies Ltd. is a GaN power semiconductor device leader in the fast-developing markets of Automotive, Data Centers and Industrial.
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