Led · Seed · Aug 2026

Swish Basket builds sensor-equipped basketball hoops using video and LiDAR to track ball movement, player biomechanics and shot statistics, and employs facial recognition to associate data with individual athlete accounts. The company leases its installations to schools, academies and camps for $2,000 per year while offering a free athlete app. Co-founder and CEO Joel Bar-El leads the company with Asaf Ronat as chief product officer. Swish was part of the 2026 NBA Launchpad cohort and recently closed a $3.2M pre-seed round led by Aristagora Venture Capital with participation from Péter Kádas, NIKA CAPITAL NPC and RGE Group. The startup is targeting 750 installations in 2027 and is concurrently pursuing an $8M seed round expected to close in October.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2025

Faireez provides an AI-powered housekeeping platform that pairs dedicated building housekeepers—called “fairies”—with technology to deliver consistent, hotel-quality service to multifamily residents. The company operates a subscription model that assigns a designated fairy to each building and enables short daily visits focused on specific chores rather than infrequent deep cleans. Its proprietary AI features include an upcoming "auto scan" video analysis to generate tailored cleaning plans and an AI quality-assurance system that analyzes time-stamped before-and-after photos and sends real-time notifications. Faireez also combines human staff with robotic companions and teleoperations, allowing professional housekeepers in locations such as Mexico to remotely assist or operate robots in U.S. homes. The platform emphasizes transparency and customization through mobile app controls and documented visits. Faireez has formed partnerships with property managers and landlords including Silverstein Properties, First Service Residential, BNE, Ironstate and Charney Companies, and launched from stealth with $7.5M in funding as it targets servicing one million multifamily units by 2030.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2022

Lynxight provides a cloud-based AI service that links to standard onsite security cameras and Wi‑Fi to deliver real-time smartwatch alerts for swimmer distress, drowning risk, and pool overcrowding while tracking swimmer count, location, and density. Its analytics feed risk‑management programs and collaboration with insurance companies, offering visibility into aquatic exposures for operators and insurers. The company serves prominent commercial pool operators across 10 countries including the U.S., Europe, Australia, Asia and Israel, and has formed partnerships with global insurance companies. Led by CEO Omer Bar‑Ilan and COO Eyal Amit, Lynxight targets the $20bn aquatic risk management market. The company raised $6M to accelerate growth, expand operations, and broaden its business reach.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2022

ReturnGO offers a post-purchase operating system that automates returns and exchanges and integrates with any e-commerce tech stack to cut reverse-logistics costs and improve sustainability. Its solution gives customers more return options and an easier product-exchange flow to reduce full refunds. The company has an agreement with Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment to power returns for Amazon’s 300,000 merchants on that platform. ReturnGO serves more than 2,700 Shopify merchants and processes over 283,000 returns per month; it reports about $1.8M in annual recurring revenue and 2.5x growth year-over-year. Founded in 2020, it employs 45 people across Israel, the New York area and the Philippines and says the recent funding extends runway through April 2025. The company is beta-testing a tracking solution, plans to sell bundled returns-and-tracking offerings, is expanding into mid-market and enterprise, and plans a Series A early next year. ReturnGO has developed a machine-learning-based platform that enables efficient management of returns and exchanges for products purchased online. The platform is positioned to help e-commerce merchants address the high return rates set by marketplaces such as Amazon, which the article identifies as a major challenge to profitability. The company describes its software as an AI-driven returns management solution for online stores. ReturnGO is Israeli-based and completed a material seed financing in June 2022. The article does not disclose operating metrics such as revenue or user counts.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2022

CADY develops AI-powered software for automatic inspection and verification of electrical schematics and automotive PCB designs, parsing component datasheets and cross-checking connections to detect errors early. The company says early error detection shortens the design process, reduces spending and Time to Market, and improves product quality and reliability. CADY was founded in 2020 by Shapira, Tal Ben Porath (CTO), and Or Shabtai (Head of Research) and is based in Israel. In January 2022 the company raised $3.0M to further develop its automatic PCB inspection capabilities. The product focuses on parsing datasheets of chips and electrical components and cross-checking them against designs to surface issues at early stages. CADY positions its solution to save money and resources for PCB designers and to increase the safety and reliability of final products.