# VentureIsrael — Comprehensive Public Brief > **Privacy notice**: This document contains only public information. > LP/investor portal content, the Future Partners brief, founder portal data, > and all gated materials are intentionally excluded. ## Overview VentureIsrael is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Tel Aviv, Israel, investing exclusively in Israeli founders building the infrastructure of the next industrial era. ## Investment thesis We back companies in deep technology sectors where Israel has structural advantages: AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, quantum computing, space technology, robotics, synthetic biology, and semiconductors. We invest from pre-seed through Series A. Typical first check is up to $500K. ## Fund facts - **Stage**: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - **Check size**: up to $500K - **Ownership target**: ~2.5% - **Sectors**: AI Infrastructure, Vertical AI, Physical AI, Cybersecurity, Quantum, Space, Robotics, Synthetic Biology, Semiconductors, New Energy, Mental Health, Digital Health, Neuroscience, Industrial, Enterprise Solutions - **Location**: Tel Aviv, Israel - **Founded**: 2020 - **Website**: https://ventureisrael.com - **Contact**: info@ventureisrael.com ## Team ### Gadi Isaev **Managing Partner** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gadi-isaev/ ### Rafael (Roman) Gold **Managing Partner** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romangold/ ### Gil Don **Venture Partner** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gil-don-0744907/ ### Ran Bar-Yosef **Venture Partner** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ran-bar-yosef-b8a42114/ ### Miriam Grant **Venture Partner** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miriam-parfenov/ ### Arkady Karpman **Venture Partner** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arkady-karpman-4904406/ ### Prof. Shlomi Dolev **Scientific Advisor** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shlomi-dolev-a848644/ ### Prof. Simon Litsyn **Scientific Advisor** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/litsyn/ ### Dr. Eugene Buff **Scientific Advisor** ## Portfolio — 31 public companies The following companies are public portfolio investments. Financial details (investment amount, valuation, ownership, IRR/MOIC) are not included here. ### Bex Robotics Autonomy. Vision. Speed. **Sectors**: Physical AI, Robotics **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2026 **Website**: https://bexrobotics.com The company is officially flying under the radar. It's in stealth mode for a little while longer, but this section will light up the second they decide to go public. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/bex --- ### NetOp AI-Driven Network Intelligence. **Sectors**: Enterprise, Vertical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: Jerusalem | **Founded**: 2019 **Website**: https://netop.ai/ Bye-bye complexity. Hello Agentic AI for networks. NetOp AI brings intelligence on top of existing network environments - so teams can understand, prioritize, and act without drowning in dashboards, alerts, or manual analysis. NetOp AI doesn't replace your tools. It makes them work together, make sense, and deliver outcomes. From proactive operations to data-driven assessments, NetOp AI turns network complexity into clarity. **Why we invested**: Netop.ai is transforming network management from reactive troubleshooting to proactive, AI-driven automation. We are excited to back a team that is making 'self-healing' networks a reality for the modern enterprise. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/netop --- ### Statehub Managed K8s Data Fabric that assures data availability across public cloud regions, turning data into an always available, global declarative resource. **Sectors**: Enterprise **Status**: Write-Off **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2017 Statehub is a Managed K8s Data Fabric that assures data availability across public cloud regions, turning data into an always available, global declarative resource. With Statehub's App Warping technology, you can extend your cluster state across any infrastructure and distance. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/statehub --- ### TenureX Redefining correspondent banking services. **Sectors**: Fintech, Enterprise **Status**: Write-Off **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2020 TenureX's vision is to democratize correspondent banking by moving away from subjective, rigid, bilateral, relationship banking. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/tenurex --- ### flexiWAN The world's first Open Source SD-WAN & SASE. **Sectors**: Enterprise **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2018 **Website**: https://flexiwan.com/ flexiWAN is on a mission to disrupt and democratize the SD-WAN & SASE markets. With its "3 World Firsts": First open source SD-WAN & SASE; First SD-WAN & SASE applications store; First SD-WAN & SASE SaaS business model, flexiWAN offers a different and open approach to networking. **Why we invested**: The $13.8B SD-WAN market is currently trapped in proprietary 'black box' silos that stifle innovation and inflate costs. flexiWAN is the first to bring the open-source revolution to networking, decoupling software from hardware. We invested because flexiWAN provides the essential 'open-standard' architecture that allows enterprises to break free from vendor lock-in. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/flexiwan --- ### Gaia The first Synthetic Biology platform focused on environment and sustainability. **Sectors**: Synthetic Biology, Vertical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: Herzliya | **Founded**: 2021 **Website**: https://gaiabiotechnologies.com/ Gaia Bio developed revolutionary technology that enables working directly with bacteria sourced from the natural environment. This direct link with nature significantly shortens the development time from years to months, providing endless application possibilities. **Why we invested**: By sourcing and training bacteria directly from their natural environments, Gaia achieves a 90% reduction in time-to-market for mission-critical bio-tasks. We are backing a team that has already integrated into a national infrastructure with 3 industrial giants and 3 academic teams. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/gaia --- ### Revuze AI unified intelligence platform that fuels product innovation, marketing, sales, and operations. **Sectors**: Vertical AI, Enterprise **Status**: Exited **HQ**: Netanya | **Founded**: 2013 **Website**: https://www.revuze.it/ Revuze empowers brands with next-step actions, from the category down to the SKU level, to streamline research across all products, drive product innovation, enhance marketing effectiveness, and optimize eCommerce performance. **Why we invested**: We see Revuze as much more than a sentiment tool; it is a Predictive Product R&D engine. By quantifying the 'Customer Satisfaction Gap' across entire categories, Revuze allows brands to identify unmet needs before their competitors do. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/revuze --- ### NeuroBrave Providing personalized mental healthcare to everyone, everywhere. **Sectors**: Neuro, Mental Health, Digital Health, Vertical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: Beer Sheva | **Founded**: 2020 **Website**: https://neurobrave.com NeuroBrave empowers people all over the world to improve their mental health status by connecting the markets of wearable devices and digital mental health services, delivering in scale, real-time recommendations, personalized therapies and insights. **Why we invested**: Neurobrave's moat is its ability to extract clinical-grade cognitive insights from consumer-grade hardware. Their strategic positioning on the Garmin Israel platform is just the beginning; it serves as a powerful validator for their AI engine. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/neurobrave --- ### MAOLAC Pioneering Bioactive Solutions for Precision Nutrition. **Sectors**: FoodTech, Vertical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tirat Carmel | **Founded**: 2021 **Website**: https://maolac.com/ Maolac is a pioneering startup creating unique ingredients for the nutraceutical sector using AI and proteomic technology to develop clinically-tested protein blends for health concerns. Their technology upcycles bovine colostrum — a nutrient-rich resource — into high-value functional proteins. **Why we invested**: Maolac has built a formidable moat by combining advanced proteomics with sustainable sourcing. Their technology upcycles bovine colostrum — a nutrient-rich resource where 5 billion liters are wasted annually — into high-value functional proteins. This circular economy model ensures a stable supply chain and a significant cost advantage. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/maolac --- ### infiniDome End-to-end GPS jamming protection solutions for drone, fleet and critical infrastructure assets. **Sectors**: HLS **Status**: Active **HQ**: Caesarea & New York | **Founded**: 2016 **Website**: https://infinidome.com/ infiniDome develops innovative GPS (GNSS) protection solutions and resilience navigation tailored for defending UAVs and ground vehicles from jamming attacks. With disruptive C-SWaP features, infiniDome's solutions bring highest grade of protection, even to sUAS (class-1 tactical UAVs). **Why we invested**: GNSS is the invisible backbone of a $14 trillion global trade network, yet it remains dangerously fragile. With a recorded 500% surge in GPS spoofing and jamming incidents in 2024-2025 alone, the threat has spilled over from conflict zones into commercial aviation and maritime logistics. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/infinidome --- ### Cyngular Security AI SOC and IR as a Platform Built to Enhance, Not Replace Your Current Cloud Security Stack. **Sectors**: Cybersecurity, Vertical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2021 **Website**: https://www.cyngular.com/ Introducing THIRDhub: Threat hunting, Investigation, Response, and Deception. Significantly reduces the Mean Time to Detect (MTTD), Uncover (MTTU), Investigate (MTTI), and Respond (MTTR) to cloud threats. **Why we invested**: The efficiency gap in cloud incident response represents a multi-million dollar risk for modern enterprises. Cyngular provides a high-performance solution that automates the entire investigation lifecycle — from uncovering threats to generating audit-ready IR reports. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/cyngular --- ### CorrActions The first Driver NeuroMonitoring System. **Sectors**: Vertical AI, Physical AI, Neuro, Mental Health **Status**: Active **HQ**: Jerusalem | **Founded**: 2019 **Website**: https://corractions.com/ Multi-symptom, software-only, highly accurate, privacy centric, market validated. Detecting mind off driving, even with hands on wheel and eyes on road. **Why we invested**: CorrActions' moat is built on a unique discovery in neuroscience: the ability to decode EEG-level brain signals through muscle micro-motions. This proprietary AI-driven approach delivers a close-to-zero false positive rate without requiring any hardware changes or personal data. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/corractions --- ### Fincom Modernizing Banking Technologies: Real Time AML Sanction Screening & Multilingual Entity Resolution. **Sectors**: Vertical AI, RegTech, Enterprise, Fintech **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2017 **Website**: https://fincom.co/ Fincom offers the best AML Screening Solution to date, proven in US banks to reduce Wire/SWIFT screening operational cost and False Positive Alert rate by 90%. **Why we invested**: AML compliance is currently a massive operational bottleneck, with legacy systems producing up to 95% false positives. Fincom provides the essential 'precision layer' for financial institutions, reducing alert rates from 30-50% down to just 5%. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/fincom --- ### POLYN Technology Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processor (NASP): enabling new range of on-device Edge AI products. **Sectors**: Semiconductors, Physical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: Bristol & Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2019 **Website**: https://polyn.ai/ The company's unique NASP technology provides fast and easy conversion of trained Neural Networks into Tiny AI silicon chips with ultra-low power consumption, low latency and small size. **Why we invested**: We are hitting the 'digital wall' in Edge AI, where power consumption and latency prevent always-on intelligence. POLYN Technology shatters this limit with its Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing (NASP), achieving a 1,000x efficiency gain over traditional digital processors. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/polyn --- ### Honeydew The semantic layer for AI & BI. **Sectors**: AI Infrastructure, Enterprise **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2022 **Website**: https://honeydew.ai/ Trust AI with your enterprise data. Honeydew makes sure every AI interaction or BI query is correct, by unifying the layers of business logic and context governing your enterprise data. The same semantic layer powers BI like Tableau or Power BI — and AI like autonomous MCP agents or Slack chatbots. **Why we invested**: We've moved beyond the era of simple RAG; the next frontier is Agentic Data Analysis. Honeydew provides the 'business brain' that translates raw data into governed metrics, ensuring every query runs on a single version of the truth. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/honeydew --- ### Cydome The world's most advanced built-for-maritime cyber security and risk management solution. **Sectors**: Cybersecurity, Vertical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv & London | **Founded**: 2019 **Website**: https://cydome.io/ Cydome is a pioneer of maritime-specific cyber protection and risk management. Its class-endorsed, ISO-certified, and award-winning solutions secure and simplify maritime cyber protection. **Why we invested**: Maritime transport is the backbone of the global economy, moving 90% of the world's trade. Yet this $14 trillion supply chain is anchored by legacy OT systems never designed for hyper-connectivity. Cydome provides the only specialized defense layer that can protect both the data and the physical integrity of ships at sea. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/cydome --- ### Nuvo FDA-cleared AI-driven remote pregnancy monitoring platform. **Sectors**: Digital Health, Vertical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: USA & Israel | **Founded**: 2024 **Website**: https://www.nuvocares.com Nuvo is a healthcare technology leader advancing prenatal care with INVU by Nuvo, an FDA and CE-approved, AI-driven remote monitoring platform. INVU, recognized among TIME's Best Inventions of 2024, collects vital maternal and fetal biometric data. **Why we invested**: Nuvo is moving prenatal care from reactive monitoring to predictive intelligence. By amassing the world's largest proprietary dataset of maternal and fetal heart rate signals, Nuvo has created an insurmountable lead in pregnancy analytics. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/nuvo --- ### SaolaAI Autonomous Quality for Engineering Teams. **Sectors**: Vertical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2024 **Website**: https://saola.ai/ Releasing and maintaining high-quality applications is harder than ever. SaolaAI is the first truly self-evolving autonomous platform that transforms how engineering teams work. **Why we invested**: The only way to verify non-deterministic, AI-generated code is through autonomous, AI-driven testing. Saola's moat is its ability to use 250 billion+ events to automatically 'understand' the intended business logic of code it didn't write. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/saola --- ### Sweetch The first behavioral science company to leverage AI & EI (emotional intelligence) through its digital therapeutics solutions. **Sectors**: Digital Health, Vertical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2013 **Website**: https://www.sweetch.com/ Sweetch combines behavioral science with AI & EI, automatically adapting to each individual's behavior and progress to achieve their health goals. Engaging every individual with hyper-personalized recommendations in the right tone, timing and real-world context. **Why we invested**: Sweetch's moat is its proprietary JITAI (Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention) engine, which processes real-world data to identify the exact 'moment of influence' for each patient. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/sweetch --- ### Axia Security Insider risk isn't just a detection problem. It's a judgment problem. **Sectors**: Cybersecurity, Vertical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2025 **Website**: https://axiasecurity.io/ Your tools generate thousands of alerts. But the decision layer is missing: who to involve, what actually matters, and what to do next. Axia solves the judgment gap in insider risk management. **Why we invested**: The industry is drowning in noise, not threats. While legacy DLP tools focus on 'detect and block,' Axia solves the judgment gap — the critical moment where intent is separated from error. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/axia --- ### Pattern The AI-Native Automation Platform. **Sectors**: Vertical AI, Enterprise **Status**: Active **HQ**: New York & Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2025 **Website**: https://www.teampattern.com/ Every Account Covered. At Any Scale. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/pattern --- ### Genrate Autonomous intelligence engine that transforms fragmented web signals into a continuous event knowledge graph to deliver deep, context-first business understanding. **Sectors**: Vertical AI, Enterprise **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2022 **Website**: https://genrate.ai/ Sellers don't need more dashboards. They need one place where understanding lives. Where real signals are surfaced and prioritized. Where context compounds. Genrate prepares the future. **Why we invested**: Genrate has built a proprietary, causally aware Event Knowledge Graph that solves the 'Quiet Zone' problem — the critical gap where deals are lost between CRM updates. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/genrate --- ### Arithmo Fine tune once. Scale forever. **Sectors**: AI Infrastructure, Enterprise **Status**: Active **HQ**: Herzliya | **Founded**: 2025 **Website**: https://arithmo.io/ Arithmo changes how AI scales. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/arithmo --- ### Adversa AI Tailored AI Security for AI Agents, Applications, Models, MCP and Beyond. **Sectors**: Cybersecurity, Vertical AI **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2021 **Website**: https://adversa.ai/ Adversa AI combines an autonomous red teaming platform and threat intelligence from 3,000+ sources to help enterprises ship AI at scale without shipping risk. Whether you're deploying your first AI copilot or hardening a fleet of autonomous systems, Adversa AI meets you where you are. **Why we invested**: The industry has spent $200B+ on AI compute, yet less than 2% on securing it. This massive 'security debt' is Adversa's opportunity. Adversa AI addresses this gap by providing patented protection for the model's internal logic. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/adversa --- ### ClearML The Infrastructure Platform for AI builders: maximize AI potential at enterprise scale. **Sectors**: AI Infrastructure, Enterprise **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2022 **Website**: https://clear.ml/ As the leading infrastructure platform for unleashing AI in organizations worldwide, ClearML is used by more than 2,100 customers to manage GPU clusters and optimize utilization, streamline AI/ML workflows, and deploy GenAI models effortlessly. Trusted by more than 300,000 AI builders worldwide. **Why we invested**: The industry is shifting from 'AI experiments' to 'AI factories.' ClearML provides the unified OS that makes this transition possible, integrating experiment tracking, orchestration, and deployment into a single System of Record. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/clearml --- ### HEQA Security World's most cost-effective, easy-to-integrate, and secure Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) solution. **Sectors**: Quantum, Cybersecurity **Status**: Active **HQ**: Modiin | **Founded**: 2018 **Website**: https://heqa-sec.com/ HEQA delivers production-grade quantum-safe appliances integrating Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) with a NIST-aligned Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) overlay — providing layered security in depth for real-world networks. **Why we invested**: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) has historically been too bulky and expensive for enterprise scale. HEQA shattered this bottleneck with the industry's first 1U integrated system, delivering a 50% lower TCO. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/heqa --- ### NovaLink Space NovaLink's optical satellite technology redefines what's possible in space communications. **Sectors**: Space, Semiconductors, Robotics **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2025 **Website**: https://novalink.space Powering novel capabilities for New Space communications. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/novalink --- ### Remondo High-quality space imagery. Nano-sized cost. Real-time intelligence. **Sectors**: Space, Robotics, Vertical AI, HLS, Enterprise **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv, Israel & Space Coast, Florida | **Founded**: 2022 **Website**: https://remondo.com/ Remondo develops ultra-high-resolution earth imaging payloads and geospatial intelligence solutions for government and commercial customers. The company focuses on sub-30cm resolution imaging from nanosatellites to support real-time situational awareness. **Why we invested**: We are moving from the era of 'satellite sampling' to 'continuous global custody.' Remondo's PAIS architecture shatters the mass-to-resolution bottleneck, delivering sovereign-grade intelligence at nanosatellite economics. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/remondo --- ### TangosAI The first Autonomous Financial Crime Investigation Workforce. **Sectors**: Vertical AI, RegTech, Fintech, Enterprise **Status**: Active **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2025 **Website**: https://tangos.ai/ The first Autonomous Financial Crime Investigation Workforce. Close more cases, faster. Every outcome defensible. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/tangos --- ### Wib Holistic API security platform. Acquired by F5 Networks. **Sectors**: Cybersecurity, Vertical AI **Status**: Exited **HQ**: Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2021 **Website**: https://wib.com/ Wib is pioneering a new era in advanced API security with its industry first holistic API security platform. Providing continuous and complete visibility and control across the entire API ecosystem. **Why we invested**: Legacy security fails in an API-first world. Wib's native intelligence platform creates a unique moat by securing the logic, not just the perimeter. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/wib --- ### SSI Safe Superintelligence. **Sectors**: AI Infrastructure **Status**: Active **HQ**: Palo Alto & Tel Aviv | **Founded**: 2024 **Website**: https://ssi.inc Superintelligence is within reach. Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time. SSI is the world's first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence. **Why we invested**: Ilya Sutskever is the world's ultimate talent magnet. In the 'compute wars,' the only real moat is the 0.01% of researchers who can solve the alignment problem. **Detail page**: https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio/ssi --- ## Contact - **General**: info@ventureisrael.com - **Press**: press@ventureisrael.com - **Website**: https://ventureisrael.com ## Public page index - [Home](https://ventureisrael.com/) - [Portfolio](https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio) - [Portfolio Markdown](https://ventureisrael.com/portfolio.md) - [Our Story](https://ventureisrael.com/our-story) - [What Matters](https://ventureisrael.com/what-matters) - [News](https://ventureisrael.com/news) - [Apply](https://ventureisrael.com/apply) - [Careers](https://ventureisrael.com/careers) - [Media Kit](https://ventureisrael.com/media) - [Sitemap](https://ventureisrael.com/sitemap.xml) - [Concise brief](https://ventureisrael.com/llms.txt)