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Bank Mizrahi

633 West 5th Street, Suite 5700, Los Angeles, CA, 90071, United States

Overview

Mizrahi Tefahot Bank operates as a financial institution, offering a range of banking services. The bank specializes in business and commercial real estate financing. It also provides personal banking services, treating each client as an exclusive customer who has the right to expect personal service and treatment. Mizrahi Tefahot Bank is the third-largest bank in Israel with around 140 branches. It also operates in the United States through its domestic branch, UMTB-LA.

Total investments
9
Lead investments
4
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
1

Sector focus

  • Banking
  • Commercial Lending
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
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Investment portfolio

  • TULU

    Participated · Series A · Sep 2022

    Founded in 2020, New-York-based TULU installs plug-and-play, IoT-enabled cabinets in multifamily buildings that dispense items such as vacuums, VR headsets, e-scooters, projectors, and household essentials. Residents reserve and pay through the TULU app, while the company’s proprietary “TULU Brain” analyzes real-time usage data to personalize offers and supply landlords and brand partners with consumer insights. The platform is active in more than 60 cities across North America and Europe and has served over 500,000 residents to date. Major property owners including Greystar, Brookfield, and Blackstone deploy TULU to boost leasing performance and retention, while brands like Bosch and Philips use it to reach Gen Z and millennial consumers and advance circularity initiatives. Revenue details were not disclosed, but management highlights “exceptional unit economics” and “impressive revenue momentum.” The company plans to use new capital to accelerate global expansion, deploy thousands of additional in-building touchpoints, and further develop its AI capabilities. Across its Seed and Series A rounds, TULU has raised a total of $42 million.

  • CYREBRO

    Participated · Series C · Sep 2022

    Cyrebro runs a cloud-based security operations center that combines its automation tools with in-house cybersecurity specialists to provide threat hunting, threat intelligence, forensic investigations, incident response, SIEM optimization and strategic monitoring. The platform can be used as a complete SOC solution or to complement existing security operations for organizations of varying sizes. The company emphasizes both automated defenses (including AI-driven tools) and human judgment, reflecting its roots in offensive red-team experience. Cyrebro plans to expand product functionality—such as deeper remediation integrations—and to grow into additional geographies. The company is based in Israel and operates across North and South America, EMEA and Asia. Cyrebro has been profitable for several years and now manages security for 400 customers, up from 38 three years ago; it has raised $60 million to date and is not disclosing a valuation. CyberHat offers CYREBRO, a technology-agnostic cloud-based security operations center platform for strategic monitoring, proactive threat hunting, accelerated incident response, and enhanced compliance. The platform is backed by a team of advanced cyber analysts and forensic investigators available 24×7. CYREBRO integrates with existing security systems, cloud platforms and internal network devices. Hundreds of globally established companies have used the platform, including SMBs as well as critical infrastructure and industries such as casinos, global retailers, banks, insurance companies and other Fortune 500 firms. The company secured a $15M Series B in 2021, bringing total funding to $22M. CyberHat intends to use the new funds to expand adoption of its SOC-as-a-Platform. CyberHat develops and operates a Security Operations Center (SOC) platform called CYREBRO that monitors, locates, and responds to cyber events in real time and specializes in attack fields, investigative systems, and forensics. The company also offers advanced hacking simulations, cyber readiness assessments, and other cybersecurity services to a broad set of clients. Its customers include Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, technology firms, national power and gas infrastructures, hedge funds, private offices, and small businesses. CyberHat currently employs 60 people across Israel and the United States, with teams composed of cyber experts from law enforcement, military units, private sector organizations, experienced hackers, and computer crime investigators. With the new funding the company plans to expand overseas operations and increase its team of cyber experts in Israel while investing in further SOC product development.

  • LocalizeOS

    Participated · Series C · Aug 2021

    Localize develops AI-powered real estate technologies that collate billions of data points into hundreds of selectable attributes, including proximity to stores, future construction, building violations, complaints, pests, and a proprietary natural light insight. The platform pairs its data and machine learning with human expertise through Hunter, a hybrid human-AI concierge that delivers personalized, daily curated listings refined by user feedback. The company serves New York City and has 130 employees. Founded in Israel in 2012 and described as NYC-based, Localize is led by CEO and founder Asaf Rubin, COO and President Omer Granot, and CTO Ilan Fraiman. The company plans to use the new funding to further develop existing services, create complementary services to support its ecosystem, and expand sales and marketing operations. Financially, Localize raised $25M in a Series C, bringing total funding to date to $70M. Localize.city offers an AI-driven platform that lets users search any New York City address to see what it’s like to live there today and to learn about future changes. The platform gathers and analyzes data from public and commercial databases, social networks, and proprietary datasets to help home-seekers make informed decisions. It is led by founder and CEO Asaf Rubin and Steve Kalifowitz, president and director of US operations, and operates as a subsidiary of Madlan. The company is based in New York City and Tel Aviv and currently employs 110 people, with 90 at its Tel Aviv R&D center and 20 in New York. Localize.city recently closed an $8M Series A financing. The company intends to use the funds to develop and market its website and to increase staff by about 20% across Tel Aviv and New York, hiring designers, data scientists, software developers, and product managers.

  • AnyClip

    Participated · Equity · May 2021

    AnyClip combines deep learning (computer vision), NLP, speech-to-text, OCR, patented key‑frame detection and closed captioning to "read," index and build taxonomies for video content. Its platform recognizes people, brands, products, actions and millions of keywords to enable discovery, brand safety and monetization. Videos are hosted on AnyClip’s AWS infrastructure and the company says its indexing runs "10x faster than real time." Customers include Samsung, Microsoft, AT&T, Amazon (Prime Video), Heineken, Discovery, Warner Media, Tencent, Internet Brands and Google. AnyClip reported 600% growth in the last year and will use the new funding to build out its platform. The company began in 2009 in Tel Aviv and is now co‑headquartered in New York.

  • Jeeng

    Led · Debt Financing · Apr 2021

    Jeeng provides a publisher-focused AI-powered messaging platform (Jeengage) that personalizes and automates cross-channel content delivery including email, push and newsreader messages. The platform indexes publishers' content with an artificial neural network to match and deliver personalized recommendations without requiring paywalls or third-party cookies. Jeeng reported over 20% year-over-year growth in 2020, more than 700 publishers using the platform, and support for 150 million unique users per month across over 650 leading publishers. The company has grown headcount by 40% in the prior year and says it has demonstrated solid profitability and growth. Recent hires (a new CTO and Chief Data Scientist) and a fresh financing line are intended to accelerate R&D, scale engineering and expand the Jeengage AI capabilities to meet rising publisher demand.

Team

  • Shai Avital

    Head of High-Tech Banking

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