# Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Israel in May 2026

## 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

## Firstime Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

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

Triventures is a global, early stage fund that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs. We partner with disruptive ventures with innovative breakthroughs in healthcare and beyond. Our vision is to create a better, healthier future through data driven solutions and cross industry convergence.

## PICO Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Big Data

Pico Venture Partners invests in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs building future-defining technologies. We seek the leaders who are relentless in their quest to disrupt existing markets, industries, business processes, and consumer experiences.

## Cardumen Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## HYPE - Sports Innovation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Internet

Impacting people's lives through the power of sports and innovation.

## BITKRAFT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.

## Axel Springer
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Internet

Axel Springer is a media company engaged in publishing newspapers, magazines, and digital sales channels.Axel Springer founded the publishing house in Hamburg in 1946; the editors spent the first year working above a warehouse for tea and spices, often without electricity, and using borrowed typewriters. As a result of consistentinternationalization and digitization, Axel Springer SE today is not only market leader in the German print business, but is also active in more than 40 countries through subsidiaries, joint ventures and licenses. Now it is a question of pressing ahead with digitization even faster and more vigorously. For Axel Springer SE, informative and entertaining journalism is a viable business model also in future on the Internet, along with marketing and classifieds, the other two business segments in which the company is traditionally strong.In the tradition of its founder, who fostered journalistic and technological innovations in his time, Axel Springer SE is breaking new ground. The company is consistently pursuing the objective of building up a fast-growing and profitable digital portfolio and for this reason is networking today more than ever before with the current generation of founders: digital start-ups. Along with the transformation of their established strong media brands, their own new developments online and strategically-oriented acquisitions of web companies, this network is one of the building blocks of the company's international digitization strategy: Axel Springer SE wants to become the leading digital publisher.

## Uri Levine
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Travel

Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit

## InMotion Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Transportation, Travel, Software

POWERED BY JLR The Venture Capital team invest in early stage businesses,from Seed to Series B Venture Capital InMotion Venture Studio is a venture development studiothat builds new business and services. Venture Studio

## Yaron Samid
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ramat Hasharon, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Cyber Security

Yaron Samid is an Israeli-American technology entrepreneur, investor, and startup community builder. Yaron is the founder of TechAviv, the 3K-member global Israeli startup founders club, and is the managing partner of TechAviv Founder Partners, a pre-seed venture fund, backed and powered by over 100 of the world’s most successful company builders.Previously, Yaron was the founder and CEO at BillGuard (Acq. by Prosper), founder & CPO at Pando (Acq. by Microsoft), and a founding board director at CloudLock (Acq. by Cisco) and Pond5.Yaron lives in Tel Aviv with his family and is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford and Columbia Business School. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland.

## Sanara Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ra'anana, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device

Sanara Ventures is an innovation-investment platform, elevating outstanding healthcare-technology companies, from early-stage to global market maturity. At Sanara, They share a vision of an integrated continuum of care supported by accessible advanced healthcare solutions for people around the world.

## WPP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Corporate Round, Series B
- Focus: Advertising, Software, Marketing

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities.

## Orbita Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Advertising

We bring into focus the most disruptive technologies which radically change human's life.

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

Wellborn is seeking companies and game-changing ideas to invest in that will shake up the industry and brighten our technological future. By teaming up with innovative and passionate entrepreneurs Wellborn's mission is to facilitate the transformation of seed and early stage companies into category global leaders. Through collaboration,professional guidance and strategic support our team is dedicated to converting visionary ideas into mature successful brands in order to transform existing markets as well as enabling the creation of new ones. Wellborn is focused on investing in the sectors of:
Information technology
Software / Cloud / Big Data
Cyber Security / Internet / Mobile
If you strive to be an industry leader and are seeking financial aid and company backing, contact us and let the revolution begin.

## ADvantage
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Sports, PaaS, Mobile Apps

ADvantage Sports Tech Fund invests in early-stage technology companies aimed at shaping the future of sports. ADvantage is backed by leAD Sports, an initiative spearheaded by the grandchildren of Adi Dassler to further sports innovation, and global hybrid venture capital platform, OurCrowd. ADvantage is leveraging a strong global network to sourceleading opportunities in the spaces of fan engagement and experience, connected athletes and communities, and derivative sports (eSports, fantasy, and new sports).

## Almeda Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Fitness

Almeda Ventures is the first HealthTech focused public R&D partnership. 

We invest on a global basis while focusing on: Medical devices, Digital health and Bio-convergence. 

Almeda Ventures drives medical device and digital health companies for success.

## Terra Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

We are an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with inspiring entrepreneurs to build breakthrough companies

## Roger Flynn
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Tourism

Roger is a Chairman and investor in travel, media and technology businesses that have the potential to disrupt their markets. He is also a recognised public speaker on transformational change, disruption, leadership, culture and innovation. Roger is Chairman at Luxtripper, D R Communications, Clearvac Group, Decisive Media and NED at CookeOptics. Roger was Chairman of Loveholidays from 2011 to 2018, during which the business grew from launch to £500m in revenues and was sold to private equity investor Livingbridge for £180m. Roger was Chairman of Olive Communications which was sold in February 2021
to OneCom backed by LDC and Masstech Innovations Inc., which was sold in March 2021 to Telestream.Previous roles have included Chief Executive at BBC Ventures Group, Commercial Director at Virgin Communications, Head of World Sales and Distribution at British Airways, Managing Director of Prudential Retail and President International at SDI Media Group, a Warburg Pincus backed management buyout.

## Start Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Start Capital is a global seed and early stage investment company. They are looking for fast-growth companies with visionary entrepreneurs looking to create and serve tomorrow’s needs.Start Capital is an active investor and assists startups in their fundraising.Beyond capital, early-stage companies need guidance and support. They provide itwith their expertise and a strong network to assist their startups.From consumer internet and digital media to biotechnology, they are looking for opportunities that will improve and disrupt their industries.

## Noam Hachmon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Sports, E-Learning

Noam Hachmon

## UnityPoint Health Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Des Moines, Iowa, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Electronic Health Record (EHR), Medical

At UnityPoint Health, they’re committed to investing in ideas and partners that provide an easier, more personal experience for their patients and providers. That’s why they founded their Innovation Venture Fund in 2019, which manages financial and strategic investment opportunities.

## Techstars Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Techstars Ventures (formerly Bullet Time Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Techstars. Bullet Time Ventures is a $150 million fund based in Boulder, Colorado.

## Discount Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Cloud Data Services

Discount Capital they provide services to investment funds and private investors. Their team specializes in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory, and has played a key role in some of the most notable transactions in markets.

## Danny Grander
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Developer Tools

Co-founder of Snyk; Investor attended The Open University of Israel.

## Cornerstone Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Sensor, Sports

Cornerstone Venture Partners is an early stage technology  venture capital firm focused on supporting companies with passionate founders and market driven products. At Cornerstone, we build strong and collaborative relationships with our entrepreneurs to help scale their businesses and become global

## Accelmed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Aventura, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series D, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

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

## Citi Impact Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care

We make equity investments in double bottom line companies developing innovative solutions to society's most pressing challenges.

## PipelBiz.com
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing

PipelBiz enables companies to raise capital from an unlimited number of investors without the need of a prospectus

## Playtika
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Online Games

We smash art together with science to bring the most engaging and fully customized game experiences. Our diverse portfolio of games is synchronized across platforms and devices.

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

## Moshe Gaon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Advertising, Association, Social Media Marketing

Business entrepreneur and investor in startups. For the past 20 years developer of new initiatives and ideas. CEO, Chairman of companies, political strategist and advertising expert. Lead public opinion campaigns for people and issues from breast cancer, to national elections to the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Founding Partner atmybulb.vcOwner of the Gaon Holding Group; Executive Director in the group's companies, focusing on development and marketing products and services for the global Water Smart Grid. Member of the AquaAgro Fund Investment committee, a 50 Million dollar Israeli Venture Capital Fund, focused only on developing innovative water and agriculture technologies, as well as other innovative clean technologies.

## Gal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: AgTech, Recruiting, Information Technology

 Identify innovation, harness the energy of the founders and provide the commitment and support required for an epic ride

## Kaedan Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

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

## Surgery Center Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software, Health Care

Healthcare, Sports, Medicine

## Moshe Rafiah
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Tourism

Moshe Rafiah is CEO & Founder at Travelfusion. He attended his education at Boston University.

## Disruptive Technologies Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Advertising, Cloud Computing

Disruptive is a global early stage investor with operations in Israel and the US.

## Danny Leshem
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, B2B, Small and Medium Businesses

INT3 (Managing Partner); Kidaro (co-founder, acq. MSFT); OpenRest (co-founder, acq. WIX); angel investor.

## Aaron Stone
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Mobile, Sports

Aaron Stone is a Senior Partner of Apollo Global Management, LLC having joined the firm in 1997. He oversees the firm's investments in the media and entertainment sectors. Prior to 1997, Mr. Stone was employed by Smith Barney Inc. in its Investment Banking division. Mr. Stone currently is a member of the board of directors of Endemol ShineGroup, AMC Entertainment, Audish, CORE Media Group, Great Wolf Resorts, and Open Road Films; and has previously served on the boards of Connections Academy, Educate, Hughes Communications, Hughes Telematics, Intelsat, Mobile Satellite Ventures, Parallel Petroleum, SkyTerra Communications, and Telemundo Group. Mr. Stone is also involved in several non-profit organizations and is a member of the board of directors of The Jewish Community Project Downtown and The Civilians, and is a trustee of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Mr. Stone graduated with an AB in Social Studies from Harvard College.

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

## Avi Meir
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Mobile

Avi Meir is the Co-Founder & CEO of TravelPerk, a
ground-breaking business travel platform offering
companies of any size a one-stop-shop to book &
manage all their travel in one place. TravelPerk is one
and one of the fastest-growing tech startups in Europe
and raised $14m from some of the world's leading
investors including SparkCapital, famous for Twitter,
Trello and Slack• Prior to founding TravelPerk, Avi was Co-Founder of
Hotel Ninjas, which was acquired by Booking.com in
2014, and VP Product at Budgetplaces.com, which
was acquired by Palamon in 2011• Avi is started writing code when he was 12 years old,
holds an MBA from IESE, and is a frequent speaker
about travel technology in industry events• He lived in three countries and speaks English,
French, Spanish, Hebrew and Klingon

## Remagine Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming

Remagine Ventures is an early stage venture capital investing at the intersection of tech, entertainment, data and commerce.

## Binder & Partners Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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

## NaHCO3
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Biotechnology, Education

Helping people rise to their potential.

## Asymmetry Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

## Alchimia Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology

Alchimia is an investment company primarily operating in the Venture Capital Sector. Leveraging the expertise of our team and a wide network of international advisors, we invest and co-invest in high growth potential opportunities offering capital, as well as dedicated strategic and operational resources.

## The Founders Kitchen
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Crowdsourcing, Internet, Personal Finance

The Founders Kitchen is an investment fund, led by Uri Levine, with the goal of building startups.

## Grupo Globo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series D
- Focus: Video, Apps, Consumer Electronics

Grupo Globo is a group of companies that creates, produces, and distributes quality content. Its mission is to inform, entertain, and contribute to the country's education.
The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

## Red Swan Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

Red Swan is a seed stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs who delight customers, create culture, and disrupt industries.If Black Swans are unforeseen calamitous events, Red Swans are great companies most of us never saw coming. They are built by entrepreneurs who create joy for their customers, provide meaning to their employees,and who scare their shareholders by passing on acquisition offers. They tend to be movements as much as businesses.

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