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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Venture Capital startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pitango Venture Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia | ||
Viola Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia | ||
Gemini Israel Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia | ||
Genesis Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia | ||
StageOne Ventures | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Seed investors in Herzliya. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Herzliya)
Pitango Venture Capital
Pitango Venture Capital is a $2B venture capital firm with 3 dedicated teams focused on Early Stage (Pitango First), Health-tech (Pitango Health-tech), and Growth (Pitango Growth) investments in consumer, enterprise, and healthcare startups around the world. With offices in Israel and Silicon Valley, Pitango currently manages several venture funds totaling over $2.4 Billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 150 companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Financial Services, Health Care, Venture Capital
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Viola Ventures
Viola Ventures (formerly Carmel Ventures) is a venture capital firm that invests in Israeli-related early stage companies with significant ideas that can lead to transformational companies. Founded in 2000 by [Avi Zeevi](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/avi-zeevi) and [Shlomo Dovrat](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/shlomo-dovrat), Viola Ventures manages over $1.2B across six funds, and is the only Israel-based VC fund with seven investing partners solely dedicated to early-stage tech investments. This allows for unique depth and diversification that spans across a wide range of backgrounds and verticals. With over 20-year legacy in Israel’s vibrant technology ecosystem, Viola Ventures is known for repeatedly backing global tech companies and unicorns, such as ironSource, Payoneer, Lightricks, Redis Labs, and Outbrain. The fund holds a substantial share of Israel’s significant exits, including Actimize, RedBend, ECI, Samanage, Perfecto, Tapingo, and more. Viola Ventures invests in exceptional teams with a strong focus on AI technologies looking to transform traditional markets, the semiconductors and deeptech industries, and consumer facing products.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Gemini Israel Ventures
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, Internet software 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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Genesis Partners
Genesis Partners has one of the strongest track records in the Israeli venture capital industry. Their investment team is comprised of venture professionals with extensive experience in venture capital, technology, operational management, and entrepreneurship. They focus on seed and early stage investments in the information and communication technology (ICT) sectors. Genesis Partners was founded in 1996 by Eddy Shalev and Dr. Eyal Kishon, who were instrumental in establishing the Israeli venture capital community. Since its inception, Genesis Partners has established itself as one of Israel’s leading venture capital funds with strong ties to the Israeli entrepreneurial community and the global technology industry.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Angel Investment, Enterprise, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Venture Capital
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StageOne Ventures
StageOne leads investments in exceptional Israel-related entrepreneurs. We focus on early-stage, transformative, deep tech start-ups solving complex enterprise challenges. Committed to abiding by our 3 pillars; superb teams, market disruptions with opportunities to grow, and cutting-edge technology with high impact probability, we lead the seed round and continue backing successful portfolio companies in follow-on rounds with top tier co-investors around the globe. The firm’s investment team, management and advisors’ strong global network, support its portfolio by uniquely integrating an entrepreneurial mindset with strong investor performance. It was founded in 2001 and is based in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: B2B, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Cedar Fund
Cedar Fund specializes in early stage, Israel-related investments, including Pre-Seed, seed and first round, where its strategy and capabilities offer the greatest potential. With its quality investment track record and over $225 million under management, the Cedar Fund is among the world’s largest and most notable venture capital firms focusing on Israel-related, early stage investments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Analytics, Mobile, Venture Capital
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Glilot Capital Partners
Glilot Capital Partners is a venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs with a solid success record and with the aim of accelerating the success of those starting out. The firm’s early growth fund focuses on post-Series A startups in the enterprise software and cybersecurity sectors. They seek to provide flexible funding solutions by leading or participating in early growth rounds and offering convertible notes. Glilot+ includes a large community of industry leaders, strong financial backing, and extensive resources to drive the growth of their business. Glilot Capital Partners was founded in 2011 by Kobi Samboursky and Arik Kleinstein and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Rhodium
Rhodium is a private investment firm, focusing on high growth cutting-edge opportunities in the fields of Digital Media, Internet, Mobile, Impact, and new technologies in general. Its mission is to identify the most promising entrepreneurs and help them to build thriving companies. Rhodium supports entrepreneurs and strengthens their ventures with its resources; funding, broad management expertise and an extensive valuable network of business contacts around the globe. Rhodium looks to take an active role in most of its portfolio companies. Rhodium strategically invests in a handful of promising companies each year in order to be actively involved in creating the optimal environment for them to successfully transform into world-class business ventures. Rhodium is partnering with talented entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into industry-leading companies that will make a difference in our world.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Venture Capital
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Triventures
Triventures is a global venture capital firm that invests in startups led by exceptional entrepreneurs. The fund identifies cross-industry breakthroughs that converge the best in class in health and non-health technologies such as insurtech and fintech for healthcare, e-commerce and cyber for healthcare, community-driven genomics, health data marketplaces, and more. Triventures’ team is comprised of key opinion leaders in healthcare, entrepreneurship, venturing and corporate business development and has decades of accumulated industry experience and relationships. Triventures was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Cyber Security, FinTech, Health Care, Medical Device, mHealth, Venture Capital
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State of Mind Ventures
About State of Mind Ventures State of Mind Ventures is a seed and early growth stage venture capital fund, focusing on the people that drive our world forward. We are looking for founders that are daring, hungry, and have big ambitions. We look to partner early with innovative teams of over-achievers, and be there with them, as they shape their vision, build their teams and accelerate to hyper-growth. So we believe our role is simple. It is to find and empower the founders of the future. #AI #Cyber #Computer_Vision #NLP #Sensors #Space #Big(er)Data #Search_Analytics #Automotive
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Magenta Venture Partners
Magenta Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on Israeli and Israeli-related early stage technology startups across multiple categories including Enterprise Software, IoT, Industry 4.0, Automotive, Mobility, AI, Fintech, and Digitalization. We seek to partner with the best Israeli entrepreneurs and work with them towards building significant global companies. We do this by leveraging our unique network to open the right doors, sharing from our own and our community’s operational experience as well as helping secure further financing. Magenta Venture Partners is backed by prominent Japanese institutional investors, including Mitsui & Co. Ltd., all with strong global reach in multiple domains across a wide range of industries. The fund is led by four seasoned professionals with significant global experience in high-tech, startup investment, and corporate business development.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Venture Capital
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Startup Factory
Startup Factory is created and managed by dozens of Israel’s recognized industry and technology leaders and offers an early stage investment fund to technology entrepreneurs. They came together to provide new companies with a better starting point, promote and cultivate brilliant ideas and entrepreneurs. They do this by an investment model consisting of the following: » An industry leader will join each venture: One of their Members joins each of their portfolio companies in an active mentoring position, such as Chairman. » An open access to their network and expertise: Their entrepreneurs have access to the broad network, skill set and diverse expertise that their members offer. » Cultivation towards further investment rounds: provide sufficient financing to reach a significant milestone that will enable further financing and growth of the company.
Stages: Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Enterprise Software, Venture Capital, Video
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Joy Ventures
Joy Ventures partners with entrepreneurs, companies, and innovators who are passionate about creating a new generation of consumer products that bring wellbeing and joy into our everyday life. The studio’s singular focus allows it to provide deep domain expertise, guidance and a global network of strategic industry and academic partners to founders from the ideation phase all the way to round A & beyond.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
Industries: Venture Capital
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