# Top 50 Biotech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Israel in October 2023

## Pontifax
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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

## Trendlines Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Misgav, HaZafon, Israel
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device

Trendlines Group invents, discovers, invests in, and incubates innovation-based medical and agrifood technologies. Trendlines invests principally through medical and agrifood incubators in Israel and in Singapore, its in-house innovation center, Trendlines Labs, and its Funds - the Trendlines Agrifood Fund and the Bayer Trendlines Ag InnovationFund.The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Misgav, Israel.

## OurCrowd
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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## Israel Innovation Authority
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Software

The Israeli innovation agency, the Innovation Authority, was established in 1965 as the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and was designed as a body that supports R & D conducted in the framework of government research institutes. Industrial development in order to increase industrial exports of high-techproducts. The Chief Scientist focused on reducing the risk by participating in financing the project, which the private companies chose and led.

## OrbiMed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

Leading Global Healthcare Platform with Deep Proprietary Resources and Global Industry Coverage.

## Docor International Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series C, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical

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.

## Arkin Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device

Arkin Holdings is dedicated to empowering companies that create breakthrough pharma, biotech, medical device, and digital health technologies. Our synergistic healthcare investments are focused on creating innovations that benefit humanity and enhance medical care. We offer extensive experience, with a track record of successful healthcareinvestments. Experts in the dynamic world of healthcare development, we provide the know-how and close accompaniment that helps our portfolio investments achieve substantial value and growth. Arkin Holdings currently has a healthcare portfolio of $1.5 billion through its 5 investment arms. Its investors include a substantial amount of Israel’s top-tier institutional investors.

## HBL Hadasit Bio Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care

Hadasit Bio-Holdings Ltd. ("HBL") was founded and floated on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE : HDST ) and recently on the OTC (OTCBB : HADSY ) in order to allow public participation in the highly promising field of biotechnology.It serves as a precedent in biotech financing - for the first time, public investment is allowed toparticipate in a holding entity including companies based on IP generated by Israel’s foremost medical research center – Hadassah University Hospital ("HU").In addition to the public holdings (54%) – including major Israeli institutional investors, HBL is held by Hadasit (www.hadasit.co.il) (36%) and Consensus Business Group (http://www.consensusbusiness.com) (10%). The traded stock, as a unique investment vehicle, provides investment exposure to a select cluster of 6 biotech companies - all based on inventions developed and owned by HU.HBL is a publicly traded subsidiary of Hadasit Ltd. – the technology transfer company of the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. Hadasit was established for the purpose of promoting and commercializing the intellectual property (IP) and R&D capabilities generated by Hadassah, aimed at finding solutions to problems faced by modern medicine.

## aMoon Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ra'anana, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

aMoon is a leading healthtech & life sciences venture capital firm.

## Johnson & Johnson Robotics and Digital Solutions
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Healthcare innovation wherever it originates.

## Clal Biotechnology Industries
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Clal Biotechnology Industries is a leading Israeli life sciences investment company traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: CBI)

## Integra Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wallisellen, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series F
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Life Science

Our expert team is the first to examine and evaluate the Hebrew University's biomedical breakthroughs. We then capitalize decades of experience - transforming the inventions into pioneering companies.  
Our golden eggs    
Ayana Pharma
A late stage company with

## Accelmed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Aventura, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series D, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Accelmed is a venture capital firm that funds private and public medical device companies with significant market potential and proven clinical data.Concentrating on medical device companies that have already reached the revenue stage enables the firm to assist companies in benefiting from its managerial capabilities and financial resources.Together with the management teams of their portfolio companies, the Accelmed can steer the way from the clinical-stage to a profitable business with a clear commercial plan, thereby accelerating the path to a successful exit.In 2009, Mori Arkin and Uri Geiger, the co-founders of Accelmed, established the firm in Herzliya, Tel Aviv.

## iAngels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

iAngels is a VC and angel investment platform that leverages due diligence and analytics to enable accredited investors around the world the ability to invest in early-stage technology deals in Israel.

## Takeda Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Takeda Ventures, Inc. (TVI) is the corporate investment arm of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TPC). TVI was founded in 2001 and invests in current and future areas of interest for TPC. They are based alongside Takeda’s R&D sites in Cambridge, MA, and San Diego, CA. As a strategic investor, TVI aims to provide support and guidance toentrepreneurs and early-stage companies driving concepts through clinical proof of concept. They also strive to forge active, collaborative interactions that result in synergies with Takeda's considerable R&D resources. Their goal is to build a portfolio of strategic investments, with an immediate emphasis on oncology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, and rare diseases.

## ZORA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Internet

Impact investing in Israeli technology. ZORA is an impact investing fund investing in early-stage Israeli companies solving global challenges in health, education, economic inclusion and the environment.

## Pitango VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Sapir Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Machine Learning

Early Stage VC

## Ziegler Meditech Equity Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series C, Series E, Series F
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Mobile

ZMEP is a limited partnership focusing on equity and equity-like investments in emerging medical device technologies. ZMEP invests globally drawing on the years of investing experience of its management team. With over 50 years of experience in medical device development and commercialization, the ZMEP management team has the ability to seek outand partner with leading entrepreneurs in the medical device field. With offices in the United States and Israel, ZMEP is positioned globally to partner with middle to late stage medical device companies showing great promise for success through commercialization.

## Triventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

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.

## S2G Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Biotechnology

S2G Ventures is is a multi-stage venture fund investing in food and agriculture.  We're harnessing the power of food innovation to create better outcomes for people and the planet.

## Millenium Food-Tech
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Agriculture

Millennium Food-Tech is an R&D partnership traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that specializes in investment in and betterment of companies in food-tech sectors,. Millennium seeks to invest in companies that specialize in identifying and developing innovative, and transformative ideas in the food, drinks, and nutrition industry. Millenniumhas experienced management, proven solutions, and a supportive network to develop ideas and start-ups from early-stage to maturity to exit.

## FutuRx
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ness Ziona, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical

FutuRx is the Israeli biotechnology accelerator that was established in 2014 by OrbiMed Israel Partners, Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) and Takeda Ventures Inc. following winning the tender of the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS), Ministry of Economy, in Israel.The incubator willadvance new biotechnology products by identifying and nurturing early-stage life science innovation.FutuRx is located in the Weizmann Science Park in Ness Ziona (near the Weizmann Institute), Israel.

## SciSparc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Giv'atayim, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Corporate Round
- Focus: Pharmaceutical, Cannabis, Biopharma

SciSparc Ltd. is a specialty clinical-stage pharmaceutical company led by an experienced team of senior executives and scientists. Our focus is creating and enhancing a portfolio of technologies and assets based on cannabinoid pharmaceuticals. With this focus, the company is currently engaged in the following drug development programs based ontetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and/or non-psychoactive cannabidiol (CBD): THX-110 for the treatment of Tourette syndrome and for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea; THX-160 for the treatment of pain; and THX-210 for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy.

## Binder & Partners Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Binder & Partners Ventures is the investments' capital arm of Binder & Partners multi-family office. The ambition of BPV is to connect our investors with the most promising startup companies.

## Office of the Chief Scientist
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Hardware

The Office of the Chief Scientist [OCS] in the Ministry of Economy is charged with execution of government policy for support of industrial R&D. The goal of the OCS is to assist in the development of technology in Israel as a means of fostering economic growth, encouraging technological innovation and entrepreneurship, leveraging Israel’sscientific potential, enhancing the knowledge base of industry in Israel, stimulating high value-added R&D and encouraging R&D collaboration both nationally and internationally. A variety of ongoing support programs developed and offered by the OCS play a major role in enabling Israel to be a key center for high tech entrepreneurship.

## Welltech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: mHealth, Health Care, Biotechnology

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.

## Neo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace

Neo Ventures is the first open-ended early stage investor, based in Eastern Europe. The founders have backed more than 30 startups and exited 10 successfully. We invest in game-changing businesses, without geographic limitations. We partner with exceptional founder teams to challenge incumbents in markets ripe for change or to create entirely newmarkets. Neo Ventures funds and then supports the founders in business planning, scaling operations, follow-on investments, making the best of each opportunity and dealing with hard situations. Our investment focus is on data analytics, computer vision and remote sensing addressing disruptive opportunities across the high-growth SpaceTech, BioTech and Security verticals.

## Amplifyher Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Fashion

Venture capital fund investing in female founders and women leaders

## Cancer Focus Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Life Science

Cancer Focus Fund is an investment firm that is dedicated to providing financial services to its clients.
The company was founded by Ross Barrett.

## Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

JJDC, Inc. is the strategic venture capital arm of Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Learn more about our equity investment strategy.

## Fortissimo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rosh Ha'ayin, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology

Fortissimo Capital is a leading private equity fund in Israel investing primarily in technology and industrial companies. We take a unique, hands-on approach to ...

## Chartered Opus
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Wellness, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

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.

## NFX Bio
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Medical

NFX Bio is a fund initiative that seeks to invest in scientist-founders at the seed stage with a technology platform approach.Led by Omri Amirav Drory, a venture partner with NFX, who founded Genome Compiler, it helps scientists learn to be founders and guides biology companies with information technology to be a critical distinction with massiveimplications.

## RMGP Biopharma Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

RMGP Biopharma Investment Fund is an investment Fund

## Siddhi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

Siddhi Capital is the growth equity partner for convention-crushing food and beverage companies. 

## M Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Merck Ventures is the strategic, corporate venture capital arm of Merck. Its mandate is to invest in innovative technologies and products with the potential to significantly impact Merck‘s core business areas. From its headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in the US and Israel we invest globally in transformational ideas driven by greatentrepreneurs. Merck Ventures takes an active role in its portfolio companies and teams up with entrepreneurs and co-investors to translate innovation towards commercial success. Merck Ventures has a significant focus on early-stage investing and company creation including the creation of spin-offs to leverage Merck‘s science and technology base.

## HealthpointCapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Medical, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

HealthpointCapital, LLC is a values-based, research-driven private equity firm that is differentiated by its focus on the musculoskeletal industry. HealthpointCapital has over $800 million of assets under management, including co-investments, resulting in 24 corporate acquisitions for HealthpointCapital's seven platform businesses. The sevenplatform companies, Alphatec Spine, Inc., BioHorizons Implant Systems, Inc., Blue Belt Technologies, Inc., China Rehabilitation Ltd., MicroDental, Inc., Nexa Orthopedics, Inc. and OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc., represent outstanding platforms in some of the key high-growth segments of the orthopedic industry: Robotics, Spine, Dental, Extremities and Emerging Markets.

## NextLeap Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Big Data, Health Care

NextLeap Ventures offers investors the opportunity to invest in early stage, Israeli high-tech startups, selected through its unique, highly vetted process.

## Tal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

TAL Ventures (TAL) is an Israel based Venture Capital group with deep ties to the Israel high-tech ecosystem.

## Elron Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Software

Elron Ventures is an early-stage investor committed to turning promising ideas into global industry leaders, with a proven track record of investments and successful M&As worldwide. Elron invests in cyber security and B2B software. Since its establishment in 1962, Elron stands on the forefront of Israeli innovation both as a founder and earlyinvestor in companies across various industries such as Elbit, Medingo, Given Imaging, Cloudyn, Cyber Secdo, and Alcide.

## Flerie Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Flerie is an active long-term life science investor, focusing on biotech and pharmaceutical investments globally.

## Tyson Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Springdale, Arkansas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Biotechnology

Tyson Ventures is the investment arm of Tyson Foods. We aim to be the strategic partner of choice for disruptive innovators transforming the food industry, and provide sustainable nutrition to a growing global population. Our current areas of interest focus on emerging proteins, technology enablers and sustainability. Let’s build the future offood... together.

## Milk & Honey Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, AgTech

Tel-Aviv based investment firm, focused on the effective acceleration of disruptive New Protein technologies

## NFX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace

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

## OTV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Artificial Intelligence

OTV focuses on round A+ startups that aim to make a significant impact on people's lives. Our focus is on entrepreneurs with innovative ideas who are advancing the global state of well-being. Come join the digital health revolution, and be a part of transforming the healthcare industry.

## ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology

ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund is a pioneer mid-to-late stage HealthTech fund leveraging an exclusive ecosystem.

## Yozma Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software

Yozma earned worldwide recognition as the founder of Israel's VC industry. 

## The Chartered Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Biopharma, Agriculture, Health Care

The Chartered Group is an investment platform.

## Smith & Nephew
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Medical Device, Medical, Health Care

Smith & Nephew PLC designs, manufactures and markets orthopedic devices, sports medicine and ENT technologies, and wound-care solutions. Slightly more than 40% of the U.K.-based firm's revenue comes from orthopedic products, and another 30% is a sports medicine and ENT. The remaining 27% of revenue is from the advanced wound therapysegment. Roughly half of Smith & Nephew's total revenue comes from the United States, just over 30% is from other developed markets, and emerging markets account for the remainder.

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