Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Israel in October 2023
Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Israel in October 2023
| Investor | Education Israel investments |
|---|---|
| Israel Innovation Authority | 5 |
| Firstime Venture Capital | 4 |
| Hanaco Venture Capital | 4 |
| Aleph | 3 |
| Hillsven Capital | 3 |
| Inimiti | 3 |
| Genesis Partners | 3 |
| Good Company | 3 |
| Cerca Partners | 3 |
| Kaedan Capital | 3 |
| Rami Lipman | 2 |
| 1776 Ventures | 2 |
| Legziel Family | 2 |
| Greycroft | 2 |
| TLV Partners | 2 |
| SeedIL Ventures | 2 |
| UpWest | 2 |
| Zohar Gilon | 2 |
| Remagine Ventures | 2 |
| lool Ventures | 2 |
| Radiant Venture Capital | 2 |
| Eilon Tirosh | 2 |
| Sequoia Capital China | 1 |
| Chris DeVore | 1 |
| Shima Capital | 1 |
| at.inc/ | 1 |
| Founder Collective | 1 |
| at.inc/ | 1 |
| S Capital | 1 |
| GameFi Ventures | 1 |
| Scott Banister | 1 |
| Emerge | 1 |
| Arkin Digital Health | 1 |
| Powerhouse Capital | 1 |
| J-Ventures | 1 |
| The Longevity Fund | 1 |
| Noam Hachmon | 1 |
| Guy Gamzu | 1 |
| Liberty City Ventures | 1 |
| Craig Sherman | 1 |
| Hadi Partovi | 1 |
| AngelHub | 1 |
| Eran Shir | 1 |
| Dana Messina | 1 |
| Josh Sutton | 1 |
| Mensch Capital Partners | 1 |
| Jeff Swartz | 1 |
| Ali Partovi | 1 |
| Mensch Capital | 1 |
| Michael Eisenberg | 1 |
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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.
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- Health Care, Medical Device, Software
- Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States, Mali
Portfolio highlights
- Enzymit — Enzymit's platform technology can build molecular machines that enable never before seen chemistry aiming to solve humanity's greatest challenges
- BloomX — Helping nature do its magic with the power of technology
- MICA — MICA save lives & improve life quality. Our approach to the environmental and social dimensions is reflected in our commitment to United Nations Sustainable
Firstime Ventures is investing in companies who are building a sustainable & accessible future for all.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pixellot — Pixellot is a leading sport media company that offers automatic production solutions for the amateur and semi-professional market. Pixellot’s patented technology streamlines the production workflow by deploying an unmanned multi-camera system that covers the entire field. Advanced algorithms enable dynamic coverage of the flow of play and highlightgeneration. The company streams more than 11,000 live video hours each month to fans, players, and coaches on a variety of platforms. Founded in 2013 by seasoned video and media technology experts, Pixellot has sold over 2,000 systems around the world, deployed with minor leagues, high schools, as well as at youth academies and top league clubs. Pixellot’s partners include ESPN, PlayOn Sports, the US’ biggest high school sports media company and right holder, Sporttotal.tv, Germany’s largest amateur league media platform, global coaching solution provider STATS, SeeUPlay in Mexico and Hockey TV, North America’s largest non-NHL ice hockey streaming platform. The company also works directly with leading clubs such as Bayern Munich, Spain’s Real Sociedad, Dutch AZ Alkmaar and Maccabi Tel-Aviv.
- Securithings — Bringing IT Standards to the IoT Space.
- Maverick Medical AI — Maverick Medical AI Deep Learning Autonomous Medical Coding Platform with guaranteed 85% Direct-to-Bill rate upon go live with 97% accuracy
Hanaco Ventures backs early-stage technology companies with visionary and passionate entrepreneurs. Hanaco was founded by Alon Lifshitz, Lior Prosor, and Pasha Romanovski in 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United States, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- UVeye — UVeye is the leading automatic vehicle inspection provider, offering coverage throughout the vehicle lifecycle. Backed by GM, CarMax, Volvo, Toyota & Hyundai.
- Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.
- Hyro — A stellar customer journey starts with conversational AI. Take complex data and turn it into simple dialogue across any digital channel, for all enterprises and their customers.
Aleph is an early stage venture capital fund focused on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Founded in 2013, Aleph is a partnership of Michael Eisenberg, Eden Shochat, Yael Elad and Tomer Diari with $850M under management. Aleph has invested in over 50 companies (not allannounced) including Lemonade, Melio, Healthy.io, SparkBeyond, JoyTunes, Fabric, Freightos and Bringg. Aleph is redefining the kind of support entrepreneurs and the local high tech community can expect from a venture capital firm. We aim to service the hell out of our entrepreneurs with high-touch, partner-level service. We built a startup within our firm - Ampliphy, the Aleph Value Generation Platform - to meet the greatest startup challenges like talent recruitment, business development and follow-on funding - at scale. Ampliphy leverages our people, network, software and resources to help companies succeed on the global stage.The team at Aleph are committed to supporting startups and the entire Israeli tech ecosystem as they harness the power of new technologies to develop and grow transformational companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, China
Portfolio highlights
- Trullion — The best AI-powered accounting software for lease accounting & revenue recognition compliance. Accountants trust Trullion for automated financial software.
- SphereX — Experience unmatched decentralized security with SphereX, safeguarding your DeFi apps non-stop. Trust in our transparent, ML-based protection.
- Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.
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- Software, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Formant — Formant is a cloud platform that helps robotics companies easily deploy, scale, and manage their fleets. Request a demo today
- Stilt — Financial Services for International Students and Immigrants
- Tesorio — Tesorio is the cash flow performance platform, which Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and FP&A teams use to manage, predict, and collect cash. Its AI processes over $30 billion in transactions each year for companies ranging from 50 to 10,000 employees. Tesorio serves customers around the globe with AR automation and cash flow forecasting, acrossverticals including software, manufacturing, retail, finance, and pharmaceuticals.Customers include Box, Veeva Systems, WP Engine, Currency Cloud, Instructure and many other publicly traded and privately held companies that care about cash flow performance.
Inimiti makes seed-stage New Media investments. They bring extensive experience in fund and company management from being entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors. Their focus is Software platforms and services in the New Media space (Internet, Mobile and anything in between).Its Name Inimiti, is a derivative of “inimitable” which means “somethingthat is beyond imitation, something surpassingly excellent, unrivaled and exceptional.” We like to feel that way but more important, it keeps us on edge and reminds us every day about the high level of performance we are expected to deliver.The company is at the beginning of a revolution in the way people communicate, consume content, shop, do business and manage their lives. The usage of Internet and mobile today, and their connectivity presents a tremendous opportunity to create successful companies that bring new platforms and services to the space. Combine that with today’s rapid development and deployment technologies and our start-up companies are getting to the market faster with less capital, and grow quickly into profitable businesses.
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- Software, Photography, iOS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
- IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.
- 3D VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — 3D technology consulting and implementation services, specializing in the application of 3D printing and 3D science to all spheres of human interaction. For instance, in the field of aquaculture, 3D farms not only cultivate seaweed and shellfish for the purpose of harvesting, but they also rehabilitate ecosystems that were damaged by commercialfishing in the past. Commercial fishing is destructive in addition to being harvesting.
Genesis Partners is a leading early stage Israeli venture capital firm that manages over $600 Million across four funds, and focuses on seed and early stage investments in the ICT sectors.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Israel, China
Portfolio highlights
- K2View — K2View provides an operational data fabric, delivering a trusted, holistic, and real-time view of customer and business data, to applications and analytics
- Worthy — Sell diamond jewelry, rings & watches for the absolute most at Worthy.com. Featured in NYT, Forbes and US News. Trustworthy, fully insured online auctions.
- Sisense — Convert data into revenue by embedding AI-powered analytics with pro-code, low-code, and no-code capabilities.
Good Company Fund is investing in early-stage companies that leverage deep technologies to solve the world’s biggest problems. The firm is constantly seeking bold entrepreneurs who are building frontier technology solutions. Good Company Fund is generally looking to invest in innovative, hyper scalable, software solutions. It is especially excitedabout: Future of Energy, Future of Work and Education, Future of Work, Circular Economy, Precision Farming, and Digital Health. However, it is constantly learning and looking for additional opportunities in other verticals and aiming to invest in the "Operating System of the New, Sustainable World".Good Company's studio brings together multinational corporations, entrepreneurs and capital, in order to solve the world’s biggest problems. Good Company Studio is a home for entrepreneurs who want to create businesses with a purpose. The Studio is a pre-seed platform that provides entrepreneurs with capital, network, go-to-market, mentoring, and support.
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- Social Impact, Recruiting, Skill Assessment
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
- TULU — TULU is a smart platform and amenity services provider to over 10,000 people in 50 buildings across the United States, Europe and Israel. Founded in 2019, TULU provides urban tenants with on-demand access to hundreds of brand name appliances, grocery staples, micro-mobility and entertainment devices, and more. TULU’s IoT-based modular units arecustomized to provide the most necessary and useful items, while leveraging advanced machine learning tools to analyze behavioral patterns, optimize usage, refine inventory, and create a personalized experience for our users. The outcome is a new way of living, encouraging more responsible consumption, reducing the cost of living in the city, and consistent with the trend to smaller and smaller living spaces.
- ReturnGO — Easy-to-use self-service return management portal that allows customers to return and exchange products increases revenue and customer retention.
A leading follow-on VC fund with a sustainable advantage of unique insights and access to the best Israeli startup investment opportunities.
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- Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
- Descope — Add passwordless authentication, user management, and authorization to your app with a few lines of code. Choose from our drag-and-drop workflows, SDKs, or APIs.
- Wing Cloud — Wing Cloud tames cloud complexity through a unified programming and operational model that works across all providers and services.
Kaedan Capital is a private investment group active for over 15 years. We are entrepreneur centric investors with co-founder mentality, focused on Israeli related, seed to early stage ventures in diverse technology areas.
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- Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
- NOVOS — Hundreds of Fortnite training activities and routines in a personalized schedule that fits your needs and goals. Built for competitive Fortnite players that want to place higher and make earnings.
- Voyantis — Voyantis game-changing technology helps marketing and growth teams optimize their CAC payback by leveraging AI to acquire the most valuable users, across any platform
Rami Lipman is an angel investor.
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- SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
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...
1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.
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- Education, EdTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Kenya, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
- HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
- MPOWER Financing — Apply for international student loans through MPOWER Financing. Our student loans to study in the USA & Canada don't require a cosigner or credit history.
Legziel Famliy
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Israel, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Zoog — Be part of their story
- Next Dim — Next Dim is a revolutionary, proprietary, high performance network analysis solution.
- Pelles.ai — Pells.ai is leveraging generative AI and path-planning algorithms to create a new way to design and produce mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) building systems to save time, money, and materials.
Venture capital and technology investments
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
- Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
- Nextdata — Nextdata offers an operating system for decentralized data at scale on an AI platform.
TLV Partners is an Israeli VC firm investing in early-stage startups and partnering with innovative entrepreneurs to build category-defining companies.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CodiumAI — With CodiumAI, you get non-trivial tests suggested right inside your IDE, so you can code smart, create more value, and stay confident when you push.
- Oligo Security — Oligo detects the attackable open source libraries, thus filtering out about 85% of the noise. Watch now.
- Ariga Technologies — Ariga provides software engineering teams with the quickest and safest way to new database schema management techniques.
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.
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- 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
- Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
- myInterview — Hire the right candidates with myInterview with Video for Free. Create Your Account Today. The Video Tool Recruiters Love.
UpWest is a Silicon Valley-based seed fund investing in Israel’s most promising entrepreneurs. UpWest is focused on a hands-on approach to supercharge the growth of its startups, providing the essential ingredients for success: seed funding, proximity and access to markets and capital, and a supportive community of talented peers. For moreinformation, visit upwest.vc.
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- Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- BeeHero — BeeHero - Your precision pollination provider for almonds, berries, apples and more We raise and keep exceptional bees by combining generations of commercial beekeeping experience with cutting-edge technology. Get premium bees & pollinate your crops with precision.
- Unity SCM — Data across your entire supply chain easily collected and organized in one place
- PerfectScale — Ensure peak performance at the lowest possible cost with data-driven intelligence to optimize each layer of the K8s stack.
Mr. Zohar Gilon is a Managing Partner at Tamar Technology Ventures. He has personally invested in over 45 start-ups and has achieved 13 exits. Mr. Gilon has also served as the Transaction Manager for some of Israel's most highly recognized exits and has managed each deal from inception through completion, including pricing and distributions.He has extensive investment experience including activity as an angel investor and an Investment Advisor to the Gilon Group. Mr. Gilon is a private investor in numerous high-technology companies, including affiliates of Radcom Ltd. in Israel. From 1974 to 1993, Mr. Gilon served as the President of various companies representing major U.S. aerospace and electronics corporations. From November 1993 to August 1995, he served as the President of W.S.P. Capital Holdings Ltd. Previously he served, as the Managing Director of Shaked Technologies Ltd. He serves as a Director of HCL CleanTech Ltd., RIT, AVT Ltd., Oberon Media, Inc., Edge Medical, Exlibris, OrSense Ltd., and WisAir Ltd. He served as a Director of RAD Ventures. Mr. Gilon served as a Director of RiT Technologies Ltd. since 1995, Ceragon Networks Ltd. since June 1999, Radware Ltd. from October 2006 to July 2009 and Radcom Ltd. since June 1995. He served as Member of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) Limited. He served as an Outside Director of Silicom Ltd. since 1994.
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- Software, Internet, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
- Everafter.ai — Build personalized hubs for every customer - from POC and onboarding plans to success plan and monthly communications. And the best part - embed it inside your product.
Remagine Ventures is an early stage venture capital investing at the intersection of tech, entertainment, data and commerce.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- echo3D — echo3D is a cloud-based 3D-first content management system (CMS) and delivery network (CDN) that provides server-side solutions to help scale augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications.
- Munch — Munch allows you to create once. Repurpose to Dozens of pieces on every platform. Analyze engagement. Control Monetization. All On One Platform.
- Piggy — create awesome interactive content on your smartphone - no design skills or coding are needed
lool Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage Israeli startups.
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Beewise — Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey.
- Eleos Health — Eleos Health provides automated health tech solutions that accelerate clinicians’ decision-making via an AI-powered Speech-to-Insights system to ensure the provision of personalized and time and cost-effective care.
- Inner Cosmos — The Evolution of Medicine
Radiant Tech Ventures Ltd., based in Hong Kong and licensed with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong to carry on Type 9 (asset management) regulated activities. Radiant manages the Radiant Tech Ventures Fund LP which is a co-investment fund of HK Government's ITVF Corporation.
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- Internet of Things, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Hong Kong, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
- Springdel — Move beyond cloud and legacy MDM with an enterprise-grade EdgeOps platform purpose-built for the interactive Edge of Things.
- Geekbang Technology — Geekbang Technology is a Enterprise services company.
Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Apps, FinTech, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- zooz — Manage and optimize multiple payment providers through a single platform.
- Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
- Thumzap — Thumzap reconnects people in the digital world by making the process of paying for someone else's purchases simple, fun and safe.Sometimes we need or just want someone else to pay for our purchases, either because we don't have a credit card or enough money, or because we're just not that tech-savvy and need some help.Thumzapmakes it easy to send friends and family a request to pay for us. All they have to do is approve the payment and they can pay with their own credit card or paypal account, in just one click. Not only does that make it completely safe and secure, but also familiar. No one has to share a password, set up a digital wallet, or input their credit card information, it’s a simple way to help fulfill a digital request.
We help founders build enduring companies.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- FUE Bioscience — FUE Bioscience is a medical robot R&D business that specializes in microsurgery above the head and neck. It continues to develop a product matrix of fully intelligent, high-precision, and anthropomorphic surgical robots based on the platform of macro-micro-controlled humanoid dual-arm robots.
- Life Wilderness — Life Wilderness reimagines human-computer interaction and is linked to the transportation and travel industries.
- Xintu Heterogeneous — Xintu Heterogeneous offers data storage solutions for heterogeneous computing.
Chris DeVore has been an investor, operator and executive at both public and private companies.Prior to Founders Co-op, Chris co-founded of Judy's Book and served as the company's COO and member of the board of directors. Previously Chris was a Vice President at Sapient Corporation (NASDAQ: SAPE), where he built and led thecompany's strategy consulting practice and was also a core member of the M&A and corporate venturing teams. Chris arrived at Sapient via the 1999 acquisition of Adjacency, an e-Commerce consultancy he and his partners bootstrapped into a profitable, 50-person, $15MM revenues firm serving clients like Apple, Nordstrom, Virgin, Land Rover and Steelcase. Prior to Adjacency, Chris served as Patagonia's Director of eCommerce, building that outdoor retailer's first online retail presence, and also led and managed six of the company's product lines. Pre-Internet, Chris held senior product management and strategic planning roles at McCaw Cellular (acquired by AT&T) and at AT&T (NYSE: T).Chris is currently an investor and board / advisory board member for: Appature, AppStoreHQ, Bonanzle, Colligent, Cooler Planet, Frugal Mechanic, Nearlyweds!, LookStat and Urban Airship.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Smore — Cut through the noise and communicate effectively with Smore. Create interactive newsletters that parents and staff actually read. Get started with free school newsletter templates.
- Tindie — Tindie is a marketplace for maker made products. From Raspberry Pi to Arduino to drones, Tindie's goal is to bring innovation to the masses faster than ever before.
- Shippable — The only platform for DevOps automation that covers the complete pipeline, end-to-end, JFrog, now also with Shippable inside.
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Artela — Artela is an extensible blockchain network enabling developers to build feature rich dApps.
- Web3Go — Web3Go is a blockchain startup that provides data tools powered by artificial intelligence.
- HypeLab — HypeLab is a web3 ad network that helps clients acquire new users in a scalable way. It serves both images and video creatives and uploads assets directly on the self-service advertiser portal. HypeLab is located in San Francisco, California.
At Inc. collaborates with organizations to harness the full potential of technology and strategy. With a client-centric approach, they navigate the evolving digital landscape, offering tailored strategies and cutting-edge technologies that optimize operations, enhance customer experiences, and unlock new opportunities for success. At Inc. is yourtrusted partner on the journey to digital excellence, ensuring your business remains agile and competitive in a rapidly changing world.
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- Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Digma — Digma runtime linter lets developers quickly identify risky code, potential errors and bottlenecks in complex codebases. IntelliJ plugin.
- inCitu — The future of cities is built on embracing radical transparency and co-creation.
- GaeaStar — The zero waste disposable clay cups. GaeaStar is an engineering company developing sustainable single use products and technology.
Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Akooda — AI-powered wizard for understanding and optimizing how you deliver value as a team
- UserEvidence — UserEvidence is a SaaS platform that arms B2B vendors with verified customer evidence, proof points, and success stories to prove the value of their products. Their clients proactively capture feedback from customers, and then transform the positive feedback into an array of elegant marketing content assets (e.g. testimonials, reviews, casestudies, statistical evidence, charts).
- Zaggle — Zaggle is an award-winning digital payments, cashback and analytics company. The company help corporates and individuals enjoy gifts and experiences across multiple channels everyday; in the form of employee rewards and recognition, channel partner incentives, employee benefits, online shopping cash back and restaurant cash back.
San Francisco based Venture Capital
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- Software, Apps, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mako Aerospace — Mako Aerospace is building the technologies for fast, inspiring, and zero-emission flight. An electric propulsion system with unrivaled efficiency, reliability, and power.
- Dynamic Labs — Dynamic is your multi-chain wallet-based authentication and authorization platform.
- Pluto — Supercharge your portfolio with advanced automation, refined strategies, and big data insights, all for free.
Following decades of successful invesment experience, Aya Peterburg and Haim Sadger decided to found S Capital. We at S Capital VC, Are looking for new
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- Software, SaaS, Cyber Security
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Winn — Winn.AI handles the busywork of sales, so salespeople can focus on selling. Capture meeting notes & customer data in real-time and update your CRM in a click.
- Zesty.co — Zesty is a real-time cloud management platform that automatically optimizes companies’ cloud infrastructure.Zesty is the only platform that, using machine learning, provides a holistic virtual layer on top of the public cloud providers that seamlessly,s, leverages real-time prediction and dynamically scales the underlying cloud setup to meet theapplication needs.
- Axiom — Least Privilege, Automate and orchestrate Cloud and SaaS IAM Operations. No more tedious grunt work. See it in action =>
GameFi Ventures is investing in the most exciting blockchain games.
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- iOS, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
- Anichess — Anichess develops a decentralized chess game.
- Wanderers — Stars Fall, Legends Rise
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?
- Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
- Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
Emerge is an early stage, Tel-Aviv based Venture Capital firm, partnering with exceptional tech-innovators and helping them do whatever it takes to win.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Israel, United States
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- Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
- Rookout — Speed up the debugging process and accelerate your team's velocity with Rookout's live, remote debugging platform. Debug anything, anywhere. Effortlessly.
- 1MRobotics — Last mile delivery challenge, solved!
Located in NY and Israel, Arkin Digital Health is a venture firm investing in early stage software-based healthcare companies and seeks to leverage the Arkin group extensive cross sector exposure with $2 Bn AUM in healthcare and life sciences.
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- Health Care, Software, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series C
- United States, Israel
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- Validic — Meet the only EHR-integrated remote care solution delivering personalized care for clinicians and patients, making personal health data actionable.
- Rhino Health — Rhino Health utilizes Federated Learning to improve healthcare AI solutions by providing access to a large, continually updated, distributed dataset from a diverse group of patients, powering AI models that deliver consistent results and improve the standard of care.
- Nest Genomics (YC W22) — Nest Genomics is a lab-agnostic, comprehensive software solution for implementing genomic programs at scale.
Consumer Media & Technology Fund
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- Gaming, Media and Entertainment, Audio
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, Germany
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- GAMURS Group — GAMURS Group is a leading gaming, esports, and entertainment media network - we own and operate a network of digital publications and social media communities.
- Cineshort — #1 Short Movie App. Cineshort is created to bring award-winning unique films to you for your short moments.
- Closing Theory — Closing Theory Studios is a new mobile games studio. Our first title, House Rush, is entering playtest soon! Sign up to check it out.
J- Ventures is a Silicon Valley based group of VC funds with over $60m under management. Backed by 400+ leading Investors ( 140+ Serial founders, 100+ VCs, 170+ Fortune 500 Executives) as LPs. Our active-LP venture fund brings the power of this connected & intellectual capital to add real value to the companies we invest in and create aremarkable difference by helping our founders grow and scale to markets quicker. Based in Silicon Valley with investors from 15 communities - Tel Aviv, NYC, LA, London, Miami, Boston, and more. Since 2016 the group made over 50 investments, 4 unicorns and over 10 exits.
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- Health Care, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel
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- Joylux — We offer innovative women's intimate care products, which can be used in the comfort of home. Take the first step on your wellness journey today & shop now!
- BeeHero — BeeHero - Your precision pollination provider for almonds, berries, apples and more We raise and keep exceptional bees by combining generations of commercial beekeeping experience with cutting-edge technology. Get premium bees & pollinate your crops with precision.
- Onebeat — Onebeat is one of the most exciting retail-tech solutions today. We specialize in adaptive inventory management at scale, item by item.
We back world class entrepreneurs developing therapeutic breakthroughs for age-related disease.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel
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- EDocate — Edocate - Virtual Patient Simulation (VPS) dedicated to training and education of chronic disease workup, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up
- Loyal — Loyal is a biotechnology company developing medicines to extend dog lifespan. By developing drugs with the potential to slow the aging process, they aim to delay or prevent age-related diseases like cancer and dementia.
- Rubedo Life Sciences — Rubedo Life Sciences is the Premier Longevity Company. Rubedo discovers and develops medicines to keep you biologically young.
Noam Hachmon
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- SaaS, Sports, E-Learning
- Pre-Seed
- Israel
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- Skillset — Skillset is a game-based sports e-learning platform that offers young athletes and sports fans the opportunity to learn from leading professional athletes. Through its app, Skillset offers courses that break down techniques and tactics used by some of the world's top football players into easy-to-follow lessons. The app is designed to behighly engaging, with social and gamification elements that encourage continued viewing and sharing.
Guy Gamzu currently works as an Entrepreneur for Guy Gamzu. He previously worked at Yeloha as a Director & co-founder. Guy Gamzu attended City University London.
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- Software, Mobile, Advertising
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel
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- Zoog — Be part of their story
- Motion AI — Visually build, train, & deploy chatbots to do just about anything. We have joined the HubSpot family!
- Atlas Invest — A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk.
Liberty City Ventures is a seed-stage fund headquartered in New York City. They invest in startups that are innovating at the cross-sections of technology, media, and commerce. Liberty City Ventures began operations in the summer of 2012 and is led by experienced technology executives and investors.They start backing promising startups at anearly stage so they can provide value and resources throughout their lifetime and fuel further growth. They commit a percentage of each partner’s time to provide value-added services to their portfolio companies using our expertise in PR, marketing, management, and operations.In addition to its general fund, Liberty City Ventures also has a dedicated Digital Currency Fund with a focus on Bitcoin. They invest in and support companies that are building the infrastructure, products, and services that will become the foundation of a new digital currency.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
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- Cleary — The Cleary Employee Experience platform is purpose built to help distributed, remote, and hybrid teams to scale their culture.
- TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
- KresusLabs — Kresus allows users to connect to their bank accounts and view their transactions, balances, and budgets.It supports a wide range of banks and financial institutions also allows users to categorize their expenses and view insights into their spending habits and uses end-to-end encryption to protect users
Craig Sherman is a Partner and Managing Director at Meritech since 2011. Craig focuses primarily on digital media and consumer services. Craig has led the firm's investments in Evernote, Zulily, Lynda.com and Ariosa Diagnostics. Prior to Meritech, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Gaia Interactive, which he grew from a 1/2 millionto over a 20 million monthly visitor pioneer in social games and online communities. Prior to joining Gaia, Craig served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Previously, Craig was Chief Operating Officer of Ancestry.com (ACOM), where he helped lead the company’s pivot from a free family social network to a family history subscription service and grew the company from under $10 million to $150 million in sales and from tens of millions in losses to tens of millions in profits. Before Ancestry.com, Craig held senior positions at AIG: he was Head of Marketing and Internet for all of AIG's Japanese and Korean divisions totaling over $5 billion in sales; and the General Manager of AIG's property management software subsidiary, a $90 million sales company whose growth rate quadrupled during Craig's tenure. Previous to AIG, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Cendant Japan, a joint venture startup he founded with Cendant and Mitsubishi Corporation that he helped grow from inception to over $20 million in sales and profitability. Before that, Craig worked in product, marketing, finance and operations roles at Cendant during its growth from less than a $1 billion to over a $40 billion public company. Craig has personally invested in over a dozen startups including Ancestry, SurveyMonkey, Zillow and Zipcar. In addition, Craig has held independent board and advisory roles with Homestead (prior to its sale to Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Logoworks (Hewlett Packard), Netquote (BankRate), and Photobucket (Fox). Craig graduated magna cum laude with A.B. degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. Craig spends his 'free' time with his son and daughter - hiking, playing soccer, doing puzzles and even some musical theater. After they go to sleep, he loves to meditate and read classic (AKA “old”) novels.
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- Software, Health Care, Medical
- Series C, Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel
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- Glystn — Glystn is a reliable platform for creator analytics and insights of any scale. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in SAN FRANCISCO, California.
- GENETICA® US — Originated from San Francisco, Genetica® is a leading and the fastest growing gene testing company in Asia with leading-edge proprietary technology.
- Toya Pioneering Women — Toya is developing multilayer games for girls on a Minecraft platform. The playful learning experience enables girls to become the heroes while revealing the life stories of exceptional women.
Hadi Partovi is an entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education non-profit Code.org. In 2013 Hadi and his twin brother Ali launched the education nonprofit Code.org which Hadi continues to lead full-time as CEO. Code.org has established computer science classes in 15% of US classrooms, created the most popular curriculum platform for K-12computer science, and launched the global Hour of Code movement that has reached over 100 million students.A computer science graduate of Harvard University, Hadi began his career during the browser wars in the 1990s, when he was Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer. In a second stint at Microsoft, he was General Manager of the MSN portal, delivering its first year of profit. As an entrepreneur, Hadi was on the founding teams of Tellme Networks and iLike, which were acquired by Microsoft and MySpace, respectively. Hadi has served as an early advisor to numerous startups including Facebook and Dropbox, and as a tech investor his portfolio also includes airbnb, Uber, Zappos, IndieGogo, Change.org, and others. Aside from his investments, Hadi also serves as a Director on the boards of TASER International and Convoy.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Israel, Colombia
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- Statsig — Statsig is a modern feature management and experimentation platform that empowers teams to 10x their experimentation velocity, shipping every feature in a data-driven way.
- Clearbrief — Do Justice to the Facts. Select any sentence in your Word doc, and our AI instantly finds the best evidence you have to support your argument. 1-Click TOA.
- Saturn Technologies — The best way to share time with friends
Hong Kong's first SFC licensed startup investment platform for professional investors and global startups raising growth capital
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- FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Hong Kong, United States, Israel
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- NeoSwap — NeoSwap is a multi-party, multi-item NFT swap platform that redistributes items in a win-win-win manner, using minimal currency. It provides neo-barter solutions to unlock value within existing marketplaces and enable marketplaces where they were previously unsustainable. It was founded by John Ennis.
- Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
- Klang Games — Klang Games is an entertainment & game development studio in Berlin, developing the MMO Simulation and Virtual World, Seed. Klang is always hiring!
Eran is the CEO and co-founder of Nexar. Prior to Nexar, he was an entrepreneur in residence at Tel Aviv venture fund, Aleph and ran the global Creative Innovation Center for Yahoo!. Eran received his bachelor’s and master’s in physics from Technion-Machon Technlogi Le’ Israel and his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from TelAviv University.
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- Music, EdTech, Software
- Seed
- Israel
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- Simply (formerly JoyTunes) — Feel the joy of playing piano and guitar, or discovering your singing voice, with Simply. The best apps for learning musical instruments.
Dana Messina
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- Music, EdTech, Software
- Seed
- Israel
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- Simply (formerly JoyTunes) — Feel the joy of playing piano and guitar, or discovering your singing voice, with Simply. The best apps for learning musical instruments.
Josh Sutton is the Founder and CEO of USIL Capital is a parent company to several startups and brands. Real Estate, healthcare, Tech and Fashion.
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- SaaS, Sports, E-Learning
- Pre-Seed
- Israel
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- Skillset — Skillset is a game-based sports e-learning platform that offers young athletes and sports fans the opportunity to learn from leading professional athletes. Through its app, Skillset offers courses that break down techniques and tactics used by some of the world's top football players into easy-to-follow lessons. The app is designed to behighly engaging, with social and gamification elements that encourage continued viewing and sharing.
Bold Early-Stage venture capital investing. First money in. Game-changing connections. Radical founder support.
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- FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
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- Wisery Labs — GenAI for the defense industry
- SphereX — Experience unmatched decentralized security with SphereX, safeguarding your DeFi apps non-stop. Trust in our transparent, ML-based protection.
- Statement — Statement enables businesses a real-time view into their payment status and a true cash position across all banks, accounts, geographies, and currencies.
Jeff Swartz
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- Software, Recruiting, Social Impact
- Seed
- Israel
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- TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Ali Partovi is the CEO and Founder of Neo and was a Founding partner at linkexchange. Ali attended Harvard University.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Spain, Israel
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- Zentail — All in one SaaS platform for Multi-Channel Online Retailers.
- Expedock — Delivering Powerful Data Infrastructure for the Global Supply Chain. Experience AI technology that streamlines all logistics workflows with Expedock.
- Skiff — Everything on Skiff is end-to-end encrypted. Your most sensitive data is private, decentralized, and truly owned by you.
Mensch Capital acquires the rights to valuable Intellectual Property and executes customized monetization strategies that maximize the value of those Intellectual Assets and ensures the strongest financial return possible to the People and Institutions that deserve it most.
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- Software, Recruiting, Social Impact
- Seed
- Israel
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- TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
- Evermile — We’re Evermile, and we’re redefining the way retailers manage local deliveries. Offering a solid delivery service has always been a challenge for smaller retailers. Now that customer expectations are higher than ever, and delivery performance can make or break a store, many business owners feel like they don't stand a chance. But withEvermile, they do. The Evermile Platform empowers merchants to provide the delivery experience today's customers expect. They can offer more delivery options, streamline the delivery process, and gain the control and flexibility they need to boost revenues and customer loyalty. It's a game changer.Built by former Via and Optibus executives, we’re proud to leverage mobility-grade optimization technology and purpose-designed workflows to empower small, locally-owned businesses. Through Evermile, we’re helping them create a new standard in local retail delivery for millions of customers who want to continue buying locally.
Michael is a General Partner at Aleph, an early stage venture capital fund with $850M under management. Aleph focuses on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in over 50 companies (not all announced) including Lemonade (NYSE:LMND), Frank (acquired JPM), Melio, Healthy.io, JoyTunes, Fabric, Honeybook and Bringg. Prior to Aleph, Michael was a General Partner at Benchmark Capital, which he joined in July 2005, and where he continues as the partner responsible for Benchmark’s Israeli portfolio. Michael has focused on internet and software-enabled service investments since 1995. He has invested in and served on the boards of some of Israel’s leading companies and startups, such as Conduit, Gigya (Acquired SAP), Picturevison (acquired: EK), SeekingAlpha, Shopping.com (Nasdaq: SHOP, acquired: EBAY), Tradeum (acquired: VERT), and Wix (Nasdaq: WIX), and Wework (NYSE: WE). Since 2006, Michael has been writing the blog “Six Kids and a Full Time Job,” on topics ranging from politics to technology, Judaism and macroeconomics. He was a contributor to TheMarker, a Hebrew-language daily business newspaper, and is the author of the “Hummus Manifesto,” the seminal piece on Israel’s innovation scene. Michael has also published numerous books, including The Vanishing Jew, Ben Barukh, and The Tree of Life and Prosperity. He has published two additional books in Hebrew which are due out in English in the coming years: Everyone Can Be Moses and Roaring Tribe. Michael also lectures frequently on venture capital, Israel and entrepreneurship. He is the Chairman of HaShomer Hachadash and sits on the board of Yeshivat Har Etzion. Michael founded the Nevo network, a professional network organization that integrates immigrants to Israel into the high tech ecosystem and serves as the organization's active Chairman. Michael lives in Jerusalem with his wife and eight children.
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- Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series C, Series A
- United States, Israel, Australia
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- TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
- Beewise — Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey.
- Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.
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