Top 10 Angel Investors in Israel (May 2026)

Ilana Golan is the founder of Golan Ventures and Leap, the exclusive program that has been transforming thousands of lives and careers. Tech executive, turned entrepreneur, board director and investor (in over 100 companies). Selected top 40 women to watch in 2016, Business Insider Silicon Valley Women of influence in 2017 and the prestigious CEOWorld award for 2019. Forbes Contributor & award-winning international keynote speaker. Featured on Yahoo Finance, Market Watch, Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, and more. Started her career as an F-16 flight instructor and the first woman to become a commander in her squad.

Investment focus

Industry: Sales, Analytics, Geospatial
Stage:Seed
Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Homrun — Homrun helps Israeli companies go global by closing strategic deals for them in North America. Using the power of the Homrun Group - 140 business leaders based in North America - Homrun gets you in the right room with the right people
Placer.ai — Make smarter real estate decisions and close more deals with Placer.ai's location intelligence and foot traffic insights.

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Marcy Simon is Board of Advisors at Talenthouse.

Investment focus

Industry: Wellness, Health Care, Art
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Seed $2.3M–$3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Eight Sleep — The #1 Smart Mattress with bed cooling technology, designed to help you fall asleep faster and stay asleep. Try it at home for 100 nights, risk-free.
Charter — Transform every workplace.
Athletic Greens — Athletic Greens is proudly manufactured in New Zealand, using a TGA-registered facility with standards far in excess of cGMP and FDA guidelines. It is made clean and green. Athletic Greens was formulated by research doctorates and nutritionists with a 60 years' combined experimental and clinical experience.

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Yanki Margalit is an Israeli entrepreneur, investor, and speaker best known for starting the Internet security company Aladdin Knowledge Systems, which was sold in 2009. He is a partner in the seed investment fund Innodo Ventures and a chairman of several technology startup companies, including SpaceIL. SpaceIL is a non-profit space technologyorganization that plans to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon by 2015 and is currently competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.Yanki is also engaged with several non-profit organizations, including Idealist.org, Latet, College4all.org, Meet.mit.edu, Adama.org.il, and SpaceIL.com He has appeared as a professional speaker on technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and human evolution, while studying and working in his more recent interests of biotechnology, clean energy, and space exploration.Described as the Israeli Singularity prophet, Yanki took a key role in introducing Singularity University in Israel. He lectures on such topics as Israel as a startup nation, the future of silicon and carbon, the maker movement, entrepreneurship and innovation, and SpaceIL’s goal to land a spaceship on the moon.

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, iOS, Apps
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Seed $100k–$2.3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

iAngels — 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.
Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology
Digital Layers Inc. —

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Steven Blumgart is an investor in, and board member of, a number of privately-held businesses. Until January 2012, Mr. Blumgart was Co-director of the aluminum division at Glencore International plc, one of the largest commodity trading firms in the world, valued at $40bn. Mr. Blumgart joined Swiss based Glencore in October 1998, where he served inthe coal commodity department, responsible for its industrial assets, before moving to the aluminum division. Prior to joining Glencore, Mr. Blumgart worked for three years at Grant Thornton in Johannesburg. Mr. Blumgart completed his Bachelor of Commerce (Tax Honours) degree from the University of Witwatersrand, and is a South African Chartered Accountant. In addition, Mr. Blumgart holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
Stage:Series A
Geography: Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

OurCrowd — Access exclusive VC angel investment deals in pre-vetted startup companies. Join now.

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Robbie Citron brings to OurCrowd over 25 years of experience in financial management, including over a decade of working with start-ups through his role as Partner and CFO of Jerusalem Global Ventures, a leading Israeli venture capital fund. He also serves as consulting CFO for several independent Israeli biotech and medical start-ups, mostrecently with Izun Pharmaceuticals and Molecular Detection, Inc. Earlier in his career, Robbie was Financial Controller and Company Secretary of the Israeli branch of Hanson PLC and worked as a public accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Israel and BDO Stoy Hayward in London. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England & Wales. Robbie received an honors degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science and sets aside part of his spare time to work with several Jerusalem-based charitable institutions.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
Stage:Series A
Geography: Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

OurCrowd — Access exclusive VC angel investment deals in pre-vetted startup companies. Join now.

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Marc Lasry is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Avenue Capital Group. In addition to Avenue Capital Group, Mr. Lasry also Co-Founded Amroc Investments, LLC. Prior to that, Mr. Lasry was Co–Director of the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department at Cowen & Company. Before Amroc, Mr. Lasry served as Director of the Private DebtDepartment at Smith Vasiliou Management Company. Mr. Lasry also clerked for the Honorable Edward Ryan, former Chief Bankruptcy Judge of the Southern District of New York. In 2004 Mr. Lasry co-chaired the Penn Parent Leadership Committee, together with his wife Cathy Cohen. The following year the couple donated $5 million to Clark University, which put the donation toward building the Lasry Center for Bioscience.Lasry serves on the board of the 92nd Street Y. He is also on the board of Trustees for the Mount Sinai Hospital, and is a Trustee of Beth Israel Medical Center and Continuum Health Partners Inc. He sits on the Board of Directors of The Clinton Global Initiative and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.Lasry is married to Cathy Cohen and has five children. His son, Alexander, worked for White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett. Lasry's daughter, Samantha, was a staffer for congressman Rahm Emanuel. Lasry's hobbies include basketball, tennis and comics.

Investment focus

Industry: Marketing, Sports, Advertising
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 11
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.3M; Series A $10M–$35M
Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

Frontdesk — Frontdesk powers short-term stays for modern dynamic living.
OZY Media — A curated array of OZY Media's resources, content, and documentation. It is structured to serve as a documentary and evidentiary tool in the ongoing legal discussions that involve the Justice Department and OZY Media's Co-Founder, Carlos Watson
Lucra Sports — Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.

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Daniel Recanati is the Founder & CEO of Rhodium. a private investment firm whose mission is to identify the most promising entrepreneurs and help them build thriving companies. focusing on Impact, digital, climate tech and space via Earth & beyond ventures. .

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Analytics, Advertising
Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
Geography: Israel, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

Total investments: 32
Round size: Seed $102k–$5M; Series A $612k–$2M; Series B $4.3M–$12M
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

Yo! Egg — Yo! Egg is a food processing firm that produces and supplies a wide range of plant-based eggs.
Solutum — Solutum is a Cleantech start-up that develops a unique formula for plastic bags to dissolve in water.The company's team of chemical engineers have developed a unique compound that replaces the plastic with a cost-efficient, strong and eco-friendly solution. Solutum biodegradable products are environmentally friendly. These products aim toreplace plastic which is polluting our surroundings, causing devastating harm to nature and our own health.Each year around 350M ton of plastics are being produced around the world. About half of it is single-use products - resulting in mass pollution of the land and sea.The plastic that reaches the sea kills more than 1 million marine animals a year. This plastic also comes back to us in the food and water, causing major health problems. Translated into money - $139 Billion globally is being spent on the overall social and environmental costs of plastic pollution every year.Completely dissolving in water to natural and eco-friendly components, our product is a perfect and cost efficient solution to the plastic pollution.
Helios — HELIOS is developing technologies to extract and utilize metals and oxygen from martian and lunar soil, providing fuel and construction materials for future space missions.

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David Assia is a Chairman at iAngels. David Assia, a member of their Board of Directors since October 2006, is a co-founder of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., and served there in various positions, including as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, from 1983 until 2007. Mr. Assia is currently the CEO of Nadyr Investments,a privately held investment company. Mr. Assia was managing director of Mashov Computers Ltd. between 1980 and 1986 and has served as the Chairman of its Board of Directors since 1989. Mr. Assia also serves as a director of the First International Bank, eToro Group Ltd., Biocatch Ltd., MobeeArt, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Yeda Research & Development Company and The Israel Association of Electronics and Software. Mr. Assia holds a B.A. degree in economics and statistics and an M.B.A. degree, both from Tel Aviv University.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

CodiPark — CodiPark is a mobile-payment platform that focuses on parking lots. CodiPark users scan a barcode, pay, and go without waiting in lines or seeking payment machines. The process speeds up entrance and exit times, resulting in increased revenue opportunities for parking-lot owners, who also no longer have to collect cash.
Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology
BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.

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Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, FinTech, Digital Entertainment
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 11
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$4M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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