Led · Seed · Oct 2025

CyberRidge is a Tel Aviv–based deep-tech cybersecurity company focused on safeguarding fiber-optic communications through patented photonic encryption. Its plug-and-play transmission system integrates with existing fiber infrastructure and converts every data packet into encrypted optical noise, rendering traffic immune to traditional tapping tools, quantum analysis, and post-processing attacks. The technology is already being deployed by telecom operators, defense organizations, and intelligence agencies, with early rollouts in Europe, Singapore, Australia, and within Israel’s military intelligence unit. Led by founder and CEO Professor Dan Sadot, the company employs about 30 people and collaborates with partners in Israel, Switzerland, and the United States. With $26 million in external funding secured to date, CyberRidge is positioned to scale global deployments and harden critical networks against emerging quantum threats.

Led · Equity · Mar 2018

MinerEye builds an AI-powered data classification and governance product called DataTracker™ (Data Tracker) that uses computer vision and machine learning to automatically categorize, classify and track large volumes of data at the byte level. The solution is designed to discover dark and unstructured data and tag sensitive content including PII, contracts, patents, designs, photos and video to support secure cloud and hybrid environments. The company positions its technology as a way to help organizations meet GDPR and other privacy regulations while reducing the time and resources required by manual data discovery. MinerEye says its offering brings complete data visibility to chief data protection officers and CISOs, enabling ongoing sensitive-data protection. The article quotes CEO Yaniv Avidan emphasizing the grant as validation of MinerEye’s proprietary approach and vision. MinerEye offers AI-powered information governance that automates identification and tracking of non-compliant data in enterprise-scale repositories and storage platforms. Led by founder and CEO Yaniv Avidan, the company's patent-pending technology merges computer vision and machine learning to identify sensitive data patterns based on learning sets of exemplar files. Its Data Tracker™ product scans and clusters large on‑premises and cloud repositories, tracks data behavior, and alerts or triggers policy enforcement tools while reporting on non-compliant data. The product is commercially available and has been installed in several large financial institutions in the US and Europe. Financially, the company completed its first financing round totaling US$3.6 million, including a US$3.0 million investment reported in this article.

Led · Equity · Oct 2017

Nanolock Security has developed a hardware-and-software platform designed to protect tens of billions of connected and IoT devices from cyber and functional attacks. The platform is built to operate on resource-constrained devices with limited power and latency budgets and to continue protecting devices during local and infrastructure attacks. Its patent-protected, end-to-end solution prevents malware from being written to the operating system and supports highly secure software updates for privileged entities. The company was founded in 2016 by Eran Fine (CEO) and Shlomo Oren (Chairman) and is based in Israel. In January 2017 Nanolock raised $4.5M in funding from the Awz Homeland Security Fund. The funding underscores the company’s focus on IoT device protection for high-risk environments.