# Top 15 Mobile Advertising Startup Investors in Israel in May 2026

## Play Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

## Eric Seufert
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Advertising, Mobile Advertising, Digital Marketing

Eric Seufert is a quantitative marketing and user acquisition specialist with a deep appreciation for the freemium business model. He is currently the VP of User Acquisition and Engagement at Rovio Entertainment; prior to Rovio, Eric held marketing, strategy, and analytics positions at Wooga, Digital Chocolate, and Skype. In 2014, Eric published abook on the Freemium Model, Freemium Economics, through Elsevier.

## Homeward Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Mobile

Israel-based early-stage venture firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs who seek to build category-defining companies.

## Ahikam Kaufman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Ahikam brings over 16 years of experience in corporate finance and business operations, including sales operations, business analysis, M&A, financial reporting and financial systems. Prior to Pageonce, Ahikam served in an executive role in the sales operations organization in HP software. Before that, Ahikam spent 6 years in various leadershippositions in the Finance organization at Mercury Interactive. Prior to that, Ahikam served as the CFO of Conduct Software, a venture-backed start-up acquired by Mercury in 1999.Ahikam holds a bachelor degree in Economics and an LL.M. in Law from the Bar-Ilan University, Ahikam is also a certified public accountant.

## Rafi Gidron
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Analytics

Rafi Gidron is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Xperiti. He attended Columbia University.

## Elron Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Gur Shomron
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Big Data, Marketing

Gur Shomron is an angel investor. Gur is an entrepreneur and investor, and has over 35 years of experience in building and financing high-tech companies, both in Israel and the US. Gur took his first company, Quality Computers, public in Israel.He later ran Foraz R&D fund and invested in companies such as Retalix (RTLX), Optisystems, WizTecand others. Gur is also the Chairman of Fidelis Diagnostics Inc., which he co-founded in 2004 and a Director in several other hi-tech companies.Gur was an early investor in successful companies such as Riptech, Objet, Sentigo and others.

## Lior Shiff
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Travel, Audio, Gaming

Lior Shiff is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tripledot Studios. Took up Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Viola Growth
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series D, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

Viola Growth is an Israeli-based technology growth capital fund, focusing on investing in global companies at expansion phase.

## Flint Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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## Michail Katkoff
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Gaming, Ad Server

Michail Katkoff is the CEO & co-Founder of Savage Game Studios. He attended Aalto University.

## Verizon Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS

Discover how Verizon Ventures supports leading-edge technologies through early-stage strategic investors armed with ready-to-share teams, development tools and research.

## Christian Calderon
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Audio, Gaming, Ad Server

Christian Calderon is a data-minded marketer with a passion for econometrics and video games. His professional specialty lies in predictive modeling for freemium products. He is currently the Head of Marketing at Dots where he oversees all user acquisition, monetization, brand, community and support initiatives. Christian started his career as aninvestment banker at Needham & Company focusing on Internet and Digital Media, where he completed over 30 transactions totaling over $3 billion in value. After Banking, Christian joined KIXEYE to lead their revenue team. Christian has given lectures at Apple, Google I/O, Princeton, Yahoo and many other events and institutions.

## Anton Gauffin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps

Anton Gauffin is the Founder of Sumoing.

## Access Industries
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Biotechnology

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