# Top 50 Mobile Startup Investors in Israel in May 2026

## Magma Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile

Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.

## BRM Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

BRM Capital is a dynamic venture capital fund investing in early stage, Israel-related software, internet infrastructure, and communication companies. Their investment focus is on the Internet, mobile and mobile applications, digital media, online services, enterprise software, and medical device sectors and they also offer flexible, streamlinedinvestment decision making.BRM headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel enjoys a worldwide network of industry, strategic and financial experts.

## Firstime Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Firstime Ventures is investing in companies who are building a sustainable & accessible future for all.

## Kaedan Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS

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.

## Entrée Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.

## OurCrowd
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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## Tal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## lool Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

lool Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage Israeli startups.

## Moshe Lichtman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Moshe Lichtman is an angel investor. Moshe Lichtman has spent 29 years creating software products for global markets. He's freshly retired from Microsoft where he was Corporate VP responsible for several of its consumer businesses including its MSN business in the late 90s, its TV business in the mid-2000s and most recently its IsraelR&D center, which he built into one of the 3 largest centers outside the U.S. Mr. Lichtman was also one of the leaders of the Windows 95 team and president of Softimage, a leader in media creation software. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Lichtman held software development and management positions in several high-tech startups. He is the co-author of the best-selling book "The complete guide to the C language" and holds a BSc Cum Laude in Computer Engineering from the Technion and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School. Mr. Lichtman is currently an active angel investor in Israeli startups. and is in the process of forming a private equity fund focused on growth and public tech companies in Israel

## Giza Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

Giza Venture Capital, established in 1992, is a pioneer investor in seed and early-stage technology companies and currently manages five funds totaling over $600 million. Giza has invested in over 90 companies in the sectors of Communications, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Life Sciences, Internet and New Media. Giza's visionin recognizing future technology leaders has led to over 30 successful exits. Giza also has a seed stage investment plan called the Ofek Program whose goal is to secure investment in high-quality seed opportunities at the earliest possible stage.

## Oryzn Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Mobile

Early Stage VC. From Seed to Revenues.

## Genesis Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile

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.

## 2B Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Cheshin Venture Capital - Beyond funding, we provide: mentorship, strategy consulting, connections, and Joyon your way to becoming a truly exceptional company.

## Founder Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

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.

## MizMaa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

MizMaa Ventures is a principal investment firm that specializes in investments in technology companies in Israel.

## Inimiti
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Glil Yam, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Photography, iOS

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.

## Bessemer Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.

## PLUS Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Video

PLUS Ventures, part of the Moldawsky Group, is the first multi-vehicle early-stage investment firm - a structure which enables the company to tailor the right investment suited for each venture's specific needs.PLUS's investment specialization is in Israeli early stage, fast growth technology and media ventures. Its mission is to takea hands-on approach and help great entrepreneurs create great companies.In addition to, and as important as, straight-up cash, PLUS puts its long-term expertise, skills, and ecosystem to work with, and for, its portfolio companies.PLUS Ventures is one of the most active early-stage investors in Israel, and plans to continue to be a dominant player in this field for years to come.

## SeedIL Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Big Data

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.

## Target Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Target Global is a venture capital firm that invests in tech companies across their lifecycles. Target Global follows a lifecycle approach, investing in tech companies. Their partners have been investing for more than 15 years in the digital technology space, backing some of the European success stories.

## Aleph
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics

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.

## Future Energy Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Future Energy Ventures is a unique venture capital fund that brings together corporate partners and world-class start-ups to shape the future energy landscape. Future Energy Ventures invests in digital and digitally enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to redefine the future energy landscape.From its operational hubsin Germany, Israel and Silicon Valley, Future Energy Ventures looks for both investments and scaling opportunities for its portfolio globally and new investment opportunities.Future Energy Ventures is the venture capital investment and collaboration platform of E.ON, one of Europe’s largest operators of energy networks and energy-related infrastructure.

## Evergreen Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Evergreen was established in 1987 by Jacob Burak as one of Israel's first Venture Capital firms, and has grown into a leader, generating successful exits with tangible rewards for investors and entrepreneurs.Evergreen's current $650 million of venture capital funds under management invested in more than 120 technology companiesrepresent one of the largest portfolios in Israel.Evergreen's investments are focused on early stage Israeli companies in three main fields: communications, software and healthcare. Their investments are positioned in different segments of each of these markets to comprise a well diversified and balanced portfolio of companies.A professional investment team with extensive field expertise guides and supports entrepreneurs and portfolio companies throughout their life cycle, helping them to build a good idea into a leading company. With each member coming from a different background and contributing distinctive benefits, the investment team delivers a unique set of technical, operational and strategic skills.Evergreen has established strong ties with technological markets, creating an eco-system, from which they extract knowledge, understanding of the market needs and at the same time creating a valuable network to support their portfolio companies.Evergreen sees its entrepreneurs as a key asset and therefore invests in the relationship to build a true partnership. Consequently many of Israel's successful serial entrepreneurs have approached Evergreen with their next venture.Evergreen team's disciplined investment strategy has been crystallized through more than 14 years of investment experience as a team and is one of the key elements responsible for Evergreen's high rate of successful exits resulting in superior returns.Evergreen is directed by deep values of shared responsibility, rich interaction and dialogue, and hard work - its guiding principles since inception. They strongly believe in the continuity of their corporate culture which emphasizes investment in human capital, disciplined processes, professionalism and true leadership.

## Cardumen Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

We are an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionary founders transforming the world through technology.

## Saar Wilf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Machine Learning, Advertising, Gaming

Saar Wilf is a serial entrepreneur and investor.Over his career, he has founded several technology ventures, his first back in 1997.
Most notably, he founded Fraud Sciences (acquired by PayPal/eBay for $169m), where he served as CEO and Chief Scientist.
He also co-founded ClarityRay (acquired by Yahoo), Trivnet (acquired by Gemalto),Pointgrab, Deep Optics, Creditstacks, Bzigo, Rootclaim, Immersix, Initiative Q, and wikiwand.com, which serves over 10M users monthly.
He was the first investor in Moon Active, Supersonic (merged with Iron Source), Crosswise (acquired by Oracle), Redhill Biopharma, and CallApp.Mr. Wilf also funded the Brain Preservation Prize, which sparked the first technique that can completely preserve an entire human brain for long-term storage.

## Elad Kushnir
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Elad Kushnir

## Gigi Levy Weiss
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.

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

Since 1993, Gemini Israel Funds has helped many of Israel's most talented entrepreneurs to build innovative and world-changing companies.With over $700M under management, Gemini invests in early stage and growth-stage companies across a range of industries including communications, consumer electronics, enterprise software, Internetsoftware and services, semiconductors, and environmental technologies. The companies backed by their investment professionals include Allot Communications, Ceragon Networks, Commtouch, Diligent Technologies, Mellanox Technologies, Outbrain, Passave, Precise Software Solutions, PrimeSense, Saifun Semiconductors, Traiana, Takadu, Verisity, and many others.

## Pereg Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Analytics, SaaS

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

## NFX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## iAngels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Marius Nacht
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Health Care

Marius Nacht, one of Check Point’s founders, has served as Chairman of our board of directors since 2015. Nacht has also served as one of our directors since we were incorporated in 1993. From 1999 through 2005, Nacht held Senior Vice President roles at Check Point.
Nacht earned a B.S. (cum laude) in Physics and Mathematics from the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem in 1983, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems from Tel Aviv University in 1987.

## Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software

Investment strategy is spearheaded by a deep expertise in identifying companies from inception and building global industry leaders.

## Nextgear Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles

Next Gear Ventures venture capital firm specializing in early stage. The firm typically invests in the Israel. Next Gear Ventures venture is based in Israel.

## StageOne Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

StageOne Ventures, leads investments in exceptional Israel-related entrepreneurs. We focus on early-stage transformative deep tech startups solving complex enterprise challenges.

## Legziel Family
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Legziel Famliy

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Maxfield Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS

Venture fund investing in global information technology companies.

## Zohar Gilon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Medical Device

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.

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

Viola Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in Israeli or Israeli-related early-stage techology companies, in key market segments including FinTech, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure & Applications, Frontier & Deep Technologies (automotive, IOT, AR/VR, drones), Robotics and AgTech.

## Battery Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Battery Ventures is a global investment firm that focuses on technology. Battery invests in potentially, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

## Horizon Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Altos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Electronics

Horizon Ventures is a California based venture capital firm specialized in early- and late-stage investments.

## Hyundai Motor Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Corporate Round, Seed
- Focus: Automotive, Software, Transportation

The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.

## Rafi Gidron
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Homeward Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Qure Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Qure Ventures is venture capital firm under OurCrowd. Qure is led by successful digital health veterans with vast experience founding, growing, and exiting companies over the last 20+ years.Qure has established strategic partnerships with key stakeholders in consumer, provider, payer, as well as pharma domains - providing fast track access tomarket and clinical trial opportunities for portfolio companies.Qure is Israel's first exclusively focused digital health fund. The fund focuses predominantly on startups located in Israel, home to world's leading tech + digital health ecosystem. OurCrowd's global network, investment leadership and in-house medical expertise provide Qure with unparalleled deal access and robust diligence.

## Canaan Partners Israel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Autonomous Vehicles, Mobile, Security

Canaan Partners Israel (CPI) is a venture capital fund focused on early stage technology investments in Israel. Started by experienced entrepreneurs and inv... 

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Rakesh K. Loonkar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Cyber Security, Network Security, Security

Rakesh is the President and Co-Founder of Transmit Security. At Transmit, Rakesh is responsible for the sales team, services, support, and pre-sales engineering.
Prior to Transmit, Rakesh was the Co-Founder of Trusteer, the market leader in fraud prevention, protecting billions of transactions per day from malware based threats. Trusteer wasacquired by IBM in 2013 and is now the basis of IBM’s risk management and anti-fraud product lines. Prior to Trusteer, Rakesh was the CEO and Co-Founder of OneSecure (co-founded with Nir Zuk, the founder of Palo Alto Networks), the first inline intrusion prevention system, which was acquired by Juniper Networks and is the basis of all application layer security in the Juniper network security product line. Rakesh is also a very active cyber security investor and was an early investor in many cyber-security leaders such as Palo Alto Networks, zScaler, Armis Security, Imperva, and many smaller companies such as Aorato (acquired by MSFT), Hyperwise (acquired by CHKP), RiskRecon (acquired by MasterCard), FireGlass (acquired by Symantec), and others. Rakesh earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

## Pitango VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

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